Remove that commandant. He is unfit. To jump to conclusions without waiting for the investigation shows he has no business there.
“Remove that commandant. He is unfit. To jump to conclusions without waiting for the investigation shows he has no business there.”
castlegreyskull must be pretty thin on familiarity with official investigations of this sort inside DoD. Senior commanders are notoriously short when it comes to patience; if they feel strongly abut some issue, or see a chance to further their ambitions (whatever those might be) by casting themselves in a favorable public-affairs light, they will shoot their mouths off early. And often. Restraining them causes never-ending headaches for their staffs. Official inquires proceed at their own pace, which rarely satisfies anyone in this postmodern age.
LtGen Silveria is the Superintendent, not the Commandant. He is in charge over the entire USAFA facility and organization; the Commandant, the Dean, and the Director of Athletics report to him.
The position of Commandant exercises more authority over cadets than any other at USAFA, and the Commandant is more closely involved in the daily lives of cadets than any other senior officer assigned there.
As public statements like this go, I don’t find LtGen Silveria’s to be terribly unusual in the modern context, though my perspective is different and my information dated (I graduated from USAFA in the 1970s and retired from active duty in 2000). The job of Superintendent was long considered an uncontroversial pre-retirement assignment. But times have changed; people who ascend to star-wearing rank are not necessarily solid citizens nor talented leaders. After serving for 24-1/2 years on active duty, I’d say they’re more a negative than a positive. Ambition for its own sake tends to make an aspiring general officer guilty until proven innocent.
If the forum finds LtGen Silveria less than satisfactory, they are in for a shock. The Commandant of Cadets is Kristin Goodwin, the first openly gay female to be assigned to that job. She is espoused to another female (presumably gay) and they have a child. I’ve no idea what the precise genetic relationships are between the three of them.
LtGen Silveria and BGen Goodwin are both graduates of USAFA: he in 1985, she in 1993.