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Special Operations Leader to Report Directly to Acting Defense Secretary
The Department of Defense Official Website ^ | 11/18/2020 | Dave Vergun

Posted on 11/18/2020 11:11:42 PM PST by krogers58

The Defense Department today started the process of elevating special operations forces on par with military departments per authority from the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, according to the acting defense secretary.

Christopher C. Miller directed the assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict to report directly to him. His announcement was made today to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C.

"This reform will immediately improve agility to the department and the command and will enable us to streamline information flow, enhance decision making, and more adaptively and adeptly support our commanders and their superb soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at defense.gov ...


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KEYWORDS: dod; socom
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To: Ymani Cricket
Ok that makes sense. I guess they were just making it formal, but it still seems redundant.
21 posted on 11/19/2020 4:34:33 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yeah. Its a matter of chain of command below the Under Sec.


22 posted on 11/19/2020 4:36:53 AM PST by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: PIF

Why do so many people accept:.:

Leftist pubic school teachers?
Leftist school textbooks?
Leftists college professors?
Leftist HR Directors?
Leftist journalists?
Leftist ministers, priests, Popes?
Leftist politicians?
Leftist military leaders?
Leftist children?


23 posted on 11/19/2020 4:51:42 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: krogers58

“Am I correct in presuming that SOCOM can deploy not just the SEALS and Delta, but also 75th, 82nd, and 101st airborne divisions. I’d think the ranger qualified 10th Mountain division likely is part of the SOCOM umbrella.”

Army components

Delta
Special Forces (Green Beret)1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th (Also 2 Reserve/NG components
75th Ranger Battalions
160th SOAR Special Operations Aviation Regiment

Other units can be assigned in support of operations. 82nd ABN, 101st ABN, 10th Mountain.


24 posted on 11/19/2020 4:58:13 AM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: polymuser

Why do so many people accept

They are so poorly educated they are easy marks


25 posted on 11/19/2020 5:43:08 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“Why do so many people accept — They are so poorly educated they are easy marks.”

They’ve been well indoctrinated for many decades, since Sen. Joe McCarthy was demonized and silenced by the progressives, leftists and commies within.

Pubic schools, colleges, TV (PBS, CBS, et al), textbooks, magazines, social media, rainbow churches...the commies have indoctrination and propaganda mastered.

Know about The Frankfurt School? One big source of the cultural Marxism cancer we suffer now.


26 posted on 11/19/2020 5:50:20 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: krogers58

Dismantle the CIA, piece by piece


27 posted on 11/19/2020 5:52:23 AM PST by Steven Tyler (President Elect Steven Tyler)
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To: polymuser

I’m thinking President Trump stripped deep state of the special forces capabilities


28 posted on 11/19/2020 5:54:31 AM PST by Steven Tyler (President Elect Steven Tyler)
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To: krogers58
So they are reporting directly to Miller rather than up the specific chain of command of their specific branches?

A story I read yesterday said that it was CIVILIAN Spec Ops, which I took to mean CIA, NSA, contractors and such.

29 posted on 11/19/2020 5:55:27 AM PST by Eagles6
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