Posted on 06/04/2020 2:16:03 PM PDT by livius
Generals WIN battle with Donald Trump as 82nd Airborne soldiers are REMOVED from D.C. after chairman of joint chiefs publicly slammed president telling troops to 'uphold the Constitution'
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne division of the Army were ordered out of Washington, D.C. and back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Thursday night
The about 200 active duty troops were kept on standby at bases near the nation's capital and were never called into the city in the midst of riots
The move is a clear reversal after Donald Trump faced backlash for calling in the military to serve as backup should the National Guard need assistance
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, former Army General John Allen and former Defense Secretary James Mattis all pushed back against Trump
Milley told troops in a Thursday memo to 'uphold the Constitution' 'We all committed our lives to the idea that is America' after he defended protesters' right to assemble,' he added in pen at at the bottom of the letter
Mattis and retired four-star General Allen both bashedTrump in separate op-eds
They specifically called out police clearing Lafayette Park with tear gas and rubber bullets so Trump could visit a church across the street for a photo-op.
'It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment,' Allen said of the church visit where Trump held up his bible for photos .
'Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try,' Mattis wrote
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How long you been in Antifa? You been here since 2004 and you just outed yourself as a fascist syndicalist? Took you long enough
Mattis is TRASH. The others are too. Mattis shot up Jason Amerine’s A Team and refused medivac. The Punk never saw war as a company grade officer. He is like a Colin Powell puke who was afraid of his own race. Powell needed an SF SGM to put his race riots down in late 73. He was the token black PUKE.I deadlined every APC he had. I listen to NCO’s.
We had no fags in 66-75. Unless they were in closet.
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