Posted on 12/03/2024 6:41:00 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
An Army general who oversaw the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was promoted to a four-star officer after a Republican senator dropped a hold on his nomination, according to a Senate aide.
The Senate on Monday confirmed Lt. Gen. Chris Donahue to be the commander of US Army Europe-Africa by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to his approval. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, had previously blocked the promotion, despite the Senate Armed Services Committee advancing 984 other military promotions.
It was not immediately clear why Mullin dropped his hold, and CNN is reaching out to Mullin’s office for comment.
Donahue, who currently serves as the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina, oversaw the final withdrawal from Afghanistan and was the last US soldier on the ground at Kabul’s international airport.
A night vision picture of Donahue boarding a cargo flight out of the airport became a symbolic image of the end of a 20-year war and a chaotic withdrawal that saw the deaths of 13 US troops in a suicide bombing.
In addition to his current position as the commander of a storied military corps, Donahue has also been critical in the US effort to support Ukraine, helping to establish the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine. The organization was established in November 2022 as a more long-term extension of the work of 18th Airborne Corps, which deployed to Europe to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Uh-huh. /s
cnn's attempt to play journalism isn't sufficient a smokescreen to mask the shenanigans here.
In ballistics one must rise to the Apex to begin the decent.
The Peter Principle is alive and well.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin
Committee on Armed Services
New headline:
An Army general who oversaw the single worst disaster in modern warfare, causing the abandonment and death of Americans overseas, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, was promoted to a four-star officer
Let me see if I get this right....
Leave 7 Billion Dollars in military equipment behind for the enemy and get promoted to a 4 star general?
Do I have that right?
NO senators objected?
This can’t be.
I’ve been told we have some SOLID senators that are of the MAGA ilk.
See how long before the house folds to the left’s demands.
“”advancing 984 other military promotions.””
How much time could any staff have spent reviewing those 984 for promotion?
It’s Fort Bragg.
Perhaps Donahue has promised to spill the beans in exchange for the promotion.
“The bigger they are...”
I have read, many many months ago, that in Washington D.C. it was the State Department that was in charge of running the Afghanistan withdrawal policy with DOD “2nd” in command.
Not his fault. He was ordered to do it.
No way he could have stopped it.
Trump almost certainly will replace him. That said, this ups his retirement etc.
Yeah. My first thought was they are giving him all before taking it away.
Was it 7 or 87? I’ve heard both numbers repeatedly.
Slightly modified:
Leave 7 Billion Dollars in military equipment behind for the enemy while getting a lot of our troops and Afghanis who helped us killed and get promoted to a 4 star general?
No wonder "withdrawal" is the vocabulary, because "lost" is a more pleasant sounding euphemism.
Short answer is none, none meaninful.
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