Posted on 12/07/2020 9:24:14 PM PST by rintintin
Krystal Ball @krystalball Biden has picked Retired General Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense. He went straight from the military to the board of Raytheon. https://politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479
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Gonna be a whole lot of angst when these folks find out they
won’t have a job as of 01/22/2021.
Knew a retired USMC O9 who worked for Rolls Royce. His primary responsibility was to attend parties.
LOL...on Facebook liberals are saying how he “earned” the job and not because he was a “lobbyist”...when that is exactly what he was.
Bernie Schwartz
He went straight from the military to the board of Raytheon.
= = =
They wouldn’t let me do that.
Revolving door.
Stuff like that.
Well, maybe he only was a VP.
lol
Did you work for that traitor as well? I had that misfortune.
Wish you could be correct.
I think a whole lot of folks are just going to get all wet from taking a whiz into the wind with all this legal crap. It never works out for the good guys because there is always doubt and weasel words.
Fortunately, no. But I’ll never forget the traitor’s name.
This guy is a worse pick then even Mattis was might as well just give Raytheon defense contracts like Candy
Give them monry and they furnish crap at inflated prices.
License to steal.
Agreed.
Qualifications other than protected race? The fake news will keep that very quiet, watch.
I agree pretty much. We’ll see how it goes.
Trump isn’t a lightweight at these sorts of struggles, and
I’m not ruling out him pulling this off.
On the plus side, China will be wasting its time for the next few years trying to make sense of the Raytheon secrets that they're stealing instead of working with secrets from a more competent defense contractor.
Who cares who Buy-Don has picked to from the cabal to run what,................the election is not over!
Austin was commissioned as a second lieutenant after graduation from West Point. His initial assignment was to the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) in Germany where he served as a rifle platoon leader in A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Infantry and Scout Platoon Leader in the Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Infantry. Following this assignment and attendance at the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he commanded the Combat Support Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 508th Infantry and served as the Assistant S-3 (Operations) for 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division.[3]
In 1981, Austin was assigned to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was the operations officer for the U.S. Army Indianapolis District Recruiting Command and later commanded a company in the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion. Upon completing this assignment, he attended Auburn University, where he completed studies for a master's degree in education. He was then assigned to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he served as a company tactical officer. After his selection and subsequent completion of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York, where he served as the S-3 (Operations) and later executive officer for the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry. He subsequently served as Executive Officer for 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and later as Director of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security for Fort Drum, New York.[3]
In 1993, Austin returned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he commanded the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He later served as the G-3 for the 82nd Airborne Division. Following graduation from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, he commanded the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Shortly after Brigade command, he was assigned to The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., where he served as Chief, Joint Operations Division, J-3, on the Joint Staff. His next assignment was as Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia. As the ADC-M, he helped spearhead the division's invasion of Iraq in March 2003.[3]
Austin served from September 2003 until August 2005 as the commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), with duty as Commander, Combined Joint Task Force 180, during the War in Afghanistan. His next position was chief of staff of the United States Central Command at MacDill AFB, in Tampa, Florida, from September 2005 until October 2006.[3]
On December 8, 2006, Austin was promoted to lieutenant general, and assumed command of the XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Austin handed over command of XVIII Corps to become Director of the Joint Staff in August 2009.
In February 2008, Austin became the second highest ranking commander in Iraq, taking command of the Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I). As commander of MNC-I, he directed the operations of approximately 152,000 joint and coalition forces in all sectors of Iraq.[4]
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Let’s face it. Big FedGov will be corrupt until it’s detached from Big Money and the only way that will happen is if they vote to do that. That and term limits. 0% chance
Yes, we will soon enough. Trying times to be certain. I’ve expected some form of Constitutional crisis since early in this year over this election but the fraud has exceeded my expectations.
Trump has done a remarkable job against odds that would make most men melt. He is a fighter. Aside from not doing a very good job at picking people I have nothing bad to say about him really.
It is complex but the summary is divide and conquer. No single event is “enough to change the election” and that is how they are being taken and dismissed in the courts, as single events. Not a collective of organized crime.
Foolish and as horrible as it is, I’d rather go to war. Just like you I’ve seen this death by a thousand cuts go on for all my becoming long life. I am tired and tired of it. I have lost my vote and my voice. I am not represented. I’m ready to do something else much more decisive.
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