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Lloyd Austin Grilled in Congress Over Being AWOL
X ^ | 2/29/24 | C Span

Posted on 02/29/2024 11:07:45 AM PST by hardspunned

Austin attempts to explain away his incompetence.

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Brutal
1 posted on 02/29/2024 11:07:45 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

He should be fired. Lying to his boss and AWOL?

Fireable offenses.


2 posted on 02/29/2024 11:10:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: hardspunned

njp or courtmartial austin ?


3 posted on 02/29/2024 11:10:31 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: cuz1961

your choice.


4 posted on 02/29/2024 11:10:49 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: hardspunned

All theater. Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.


5 posted on 02/29/2024 11:11:30 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: hardspunned

Did anyone even notice he was gone?


6 posted on 02/29/2024 11:12:34 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: hardspunned

He is part of the chain of command and is responsible to his superior. I wonder if he ever served in uniform. We sure as hell know that The Big Guy didn’t.


7 posted on 02/29/2024 11:12:41 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: hardspunned

Reminds me of Fani Willis. And others.


8 posted on 02/29/2024 11:12:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: cuz1961

Article 15! Take half his pay for 6 months and bust him to PFC.


9 posted on 02/29/2024 11:14:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: hardspunned

I was only an E-4, but I’m pretty sure if I lied to my NCOIC and disappeared for a while there would be repercussions…
(I know SecDef is civilian)


10 posted on 02/29/2024 11:16:05 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

As was said in the replies, he’ll need another a$$ surgery to remove the good congresslady’s high heel.


11 posted on 02/29/2024 11:16:56 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

A DEI clown hire.


12 posted on 02/29/2024 11:17:18 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: hardspunned
The really damming thing is that Secretary of State Blinken was in harm's way in Israel and Gaza while Austin was AWOL.

This means that SecDef was not monitoring conditions while Blinken was overseas, and also not involved in the planning of the logistics of the trip beforehand, or we would have found it about this before Blinken left for the Middle East.

-PJ

13 posted on 02/29/2024 11:20:15 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: hardspunned

Is he wearing a pretty dress?


14 posted on 02/29/2024 11:23:26 AM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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Did anyone even notice he was gone?

That's the part I haven't heard anyone in the media talking about. Yes, Austin or someone on his staff should have informed the White House that he was in the hospital. However, shouldn't Joe Biden or other senior officials in the administration have noticed that nobody had heard from the guy in over a week? Austin is not some low level staffer, he's the Secretary of Defense. In that position, you would presume that he's communicating with the White House, the State Department, the intelligence agencies, and Homeland Security, among others on a daily basis - but nobody noticed he was missing.

15 posted on 02/29/2024 11:25:35 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: hardspunned

It’s not comforting having totally inept leadership at the highest levels of our military and agencies.


16 posted on 02/29/2024 11:26:27 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: hardspunned
"So you weren't at your desk and you didn't have a note for your absence?"


17 posted on 02/29/2024 11:26:52 AM PST by plain talk
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To: hardspunned

Oh boy, called to the Principal’s office for a scolding. But he’s still got his job like the rest of the incompetents in Washington.


18 posted on 02/29/2024 11:28:56 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: hardspunned

As he was out in public in that Star Wars outfit, he was beamed up by aliens (which were really Russians sent by Trump).

They sent him back when they asked for Princess Leia, but he offered them Admiral Rachel L. Levine.


19 posted on 02/29/2024 11:34:58 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Responsibility2nd

Apparently Lloyd Austin cannot do the honorable thing and simply resign from the position of Secretary of Defense. Thee may still be consequences for being negligent of his duties as Secretary of Defenses, but there is a long time-honored precedent.

I rather despise that this bunch of Nazis are so half-hearted. A serious Democrat Socialist regime would have had him executed by now.


20 posted on 02/29/2024 11:36:08 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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