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Ret. Army general says Trump supporters in military need to be kicked out
americanmilitarynews.com ^ | Feb. 4, 2021 | RYAN MORGAN

Posted on 02/04/2021 3:54:50 PM PST by PROCON

In a January interview with Fortune magazine, retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Kolditz said supporters of President Donald Trump who thought the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol “was a good thing” need to be kicked out of the military.

“One of my bigger concerns is that there has long been a strong Trump following in the military,” Kolditz told Fortune. “People in the military have every right to be conservative or extremely conservative. But Trump’s supporters in the military who think that what happened [on Jan. 6] was a good thing need to be managed out of the military as soon as possible. That probably won’t happen until the Trump loyalists are out, but that needs to be done.”

Kolditz said rooting out “Trump loyalists” may entail pursuing thousands of service members and Department of Defense employees.

“We’re not talking about half a dozen people. We’re probably talking about thousands across the Department of Defense,” he said. “Many of them will have already run their mouth, put things on social media. But this was an insurgency, a crime against the state. And it’s a duty obligation of the defense leadership to make sure that there are no, essentially, sleeper cells, people in the military who, for whatever reason, think an insurgency is a good idea or justifiable.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20210106; kolditz; military; purge; suckass; thomaskolditz; trumpsupporters
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To: adorno

Which means that the military would lost some 50-70% of its members,


Which to some is worth the price. and to others the goal


41 posted on 02/04/2021 4:15:45 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PLMerite
Second thing I thought of...



"So that's two eggs mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering and four Colditz salads..."
42 posted on 02/04/2021 4:16:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PROCON

Another Obama General who put career ahead of country.


43 posted on 02/04/2021 4:16:19 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: PROCON

As a Vietnam Veteran I say Generals who talk like this need to have their retirement removed!!!!!!


44 posted on 02/04/2021 4:16:42 PM PST by Balata (Structure determines Function)
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To: PROCON; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Ping


45 posted on 02/04/2021 4:17:41 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: DesertRhino

You hit the nail squarely!!!!!!!!!!


46 posted on 02/04/2021 4:18:12 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: PROCON; null and void

Only when one conforms to the official party thought directives can one truly be free to regurgitate the official party lines.


47 posted on 02/04/2021 4:19:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PROCON; null and void

Only when one conforms to the official party thought directives can one truly be free to regurgitate the official party lines.


48 posted on 02/04/2021 4:19:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stealing that for my tagline.


49 posted on 02/04/2021 4:20:19 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Fascists never think they’re the fascists.)
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To: PROCON

He’s advocating a purge to achieve ideological purity. I thought our military was ordered to fight against cleansing in other countries in the past. Now its being done right here at home.


50 posted on 02/04/2021 4:20:41 PM PST by Starboard
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To: PROCON

Another political general who never fought a day a combat in his life.


51 posted on 02/04/2021 4:20:57 PM PST by circlecity
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To: Kozak

“there goes about 80% of the military, an about 100% of the combat arms portion.”

My thoughts too.


52 posted on 02/04/2021 4:21:22 PM PST by Fai Mao (Biden is a pedophile, Kamala is a #%¥π.)
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To: PROCON
https://doerr.rice.edu/faculty/tom-kolditz
53 posted on 02/04/2021 4:22:54 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Major Matt Mason

I served with this putz in the 101st back in the 90s. He was an arrogant and ambitious dickhead then, and I see he hasn’t changed.

West Pointer. ‘Nuff said.


54 posted on 02/04/2021 4:23:58 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: PROCON

This is not the US of a few weeks ago


55 posted on 02/04/2021 4:24:00 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

They should leave.


56 posted on 02/04/2021 4:24:18 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: PROCON

NO retired POS General, we’re talking hundreds of thousands. Suck it!


57 posted on 02/04/2021 4:24:45 PM PST by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Statists and their useful idiots, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: PROCON
SOCIOLOGIST! Not a single day in or near combat. Some "general".

Kolditz led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy West Point for 12 years, where he was responsible for teaching, research, and outreach activities in Management, Leader Development Science, Psychology, and Sociology. He was also the founding director of the West Point Leadership Center.[5] General Kolditz has been a skydiving instructor since 1980 and served for 10 years as the senior instructor for the West Point Sport Parachute Team.

58 posted on 02/04/2021 4:24:58 PM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: PROCON

That’s one Kold Ditz...


59 posted on 02/04/2021 4:25:55 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: AndyJackson

The sub guys I hang with are a solid 90%.


60 posted on 02/04/2021 4:26:42 PM PST by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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