Posted on 11/21/2024 7:52:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
During an interview with NBC News aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded to Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth calling for the firing of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. over his support of diversity initiatives by stating that “I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership.” And stating that Brown is “one of the most competent officers I’ve ever worked with.”
NBC News National Security and Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube asked, “Your likely successor has also said recently, the U.S. has to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs because of his support of diversity initiatives. How would Captain Lloyd Austin have felt about a statement like that out of the incoming secretary of defense?”
Austin answered, “Captain Lloyd Austin would be very concerned. Courtney, I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership. This is the third time that I’ve served with Gen. Brown directly. He’s one of the most competent officers I’ve ever worked with.”
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Austin gets to join the unemployment line. With CNN and MSNBC going T. U., that line is getting longer . . .
Idiot Austin will be fired and held accountable.
Secretary of DEI Lloyd Austin
Austin lacks credibility. He isn’t competent; I don’t trust his judgment as to Brown’s competence.
DEI promotions and participation trophies for the likes of these have clouded their minds. Away with them all.
It should be DIE...because that’s what it is doing to America.
And now DEI needs to die.
He really needs to quit now. Nobody will miss him.
“ “I think it’s important that young officers, young soldiers, young sergeants, be able to see themselves in our senior leadership.” Austin
No. That’s not true. What’s important is defending and protecting the constitution and anything involved in achieving that
Austin thinks…. There’s the problem. I’m sure he took effort to not say he ‘feels’. Which is all this really is. There’s no room for these opinions of his.
Out.
Coming from the ultra-incompetent Lloyd Austin, that statement rings kinda hollow.
“be able to see themselves in our senior leadership”
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Total BS. Wonder what consultant sold him that drivel? Its no wonder the military is such a mess.
Leadership is about motivating people to do things, not appealing to their personal feelings and emotions.
REMF traitors
Just like the ones running Viet Nam
How’s that recruitment working out for him?
EC
Austin’s remark is flat out racist on the face of it. Plus it assumes racism in all others.
We’re talking about a sec Def that disappeared for days and nobody knew where he was and nothing happened.....he won’t quit.....he will stay until the very last minute to do as much damage as absolutely possible.
A lot of the white ones are DEI too, along with most of the black ones.
“Austin lacks credibility.”
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He certainly didn’t set a good example of accountability with his little disappearance stunt. He’s simply not a leader.
He’s lying about everything. These are the most incompetent and evil people....Our foreign policies are de facto sabotage on America...We’re 35 trillion in debt, our lawless border are now a national security timebomb...
Everyone charged with protecting/securing our country should be FIRED!
The sad thing is, Brown was a very competent officer. But he gave into race resentment and homosexuality. If not for that he would have been a competent choice.
But whatever Austin, himself a DEI hire, thinks, the incoming President gets to choose his own people who support his direction.
Blah, blah, blah! 🙄
How can anyone interview this clown when he’s wearing three masks?
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