Gen. Mattis to Receive Four-Star Nomination

1. Wuterich’s commendation on hold while he’s accused of murder.

2. Defense attorney Lt Col Vokey is removed by Command Defense Counsel

3. Huck gets fried by Sec’y of the Navy.

4. Mattis gets moved and screwed to the wall.

Here ya go.

“Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot,” Mattis said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience. “It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.

“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” Mattis said. “You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force; and Commander, U. S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command

Lieutenant General James N. Mattis is currently serving as the Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command and Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

As a Lieutenant, he served as a rifle and weapons platoon Commander in the 3d Marine Division. As a Captain, he commanded a rifle company and a weapons company in the 1st Marine Brigade. As a Major, he commanded Recruiting Station Portland. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, one of Task Force Ripper's assault battalions in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. As a Colonel, he commanded 7th Marines (Reinforced). As a Brigadier General, he commanded 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade and then Task Force 58, during Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan. As a Major General, he commanded 1st Marine Division during the initial attack and subsequent stability operations in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a Lieutenant General, he commanded the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and served as the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development.

He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the National War College.

This is a good thing...

Jim Mattis is a WARRIOR. He was a battalion commander in Desert Storm and the CG of the 1st Marine Division in the March Up to Baghdad in 2003. He is the man who said in his final orders to show the Iraqi people they have “no better friend and no worse enemy than a U.S. Marine”... those words will be recorded in stone on a monument some day if they aren’t already.

He was responsible for Al Anbar in 2006 during the heaviest fighting of the insurgency and provided the leadership that helped turn the situation there around to what we see today. He also worked with General Petreous to write the new Joint Doctrine for Counterinsurgency that is being employed now in Iraq... Going to JFCOM means that General Mattis will be able to use his vision and fighting spirit to focus the warfighting doctrine for all the services on the threats posed by GWOT as well as potential conventional enemies. Again this is a good thing.

Thanks for the reminder... General Mattis also brought two Marine Expeditionary Units together at sea and executed the initial movements into Afghanistan from the sea under conditions that many people said could not be done. He pushed the staffs to develop unique plans that gained the toehold needed without upsetting the Pakistanis about their sovereignty... Discipline, aggressiveness, and risk taking in the spirit of the Old Corps... As I said This is a good (and deserved) thing

I agree it’s good for the Corps.

However, I sincerely wonder at the motive. Is this is three (I mean four) pieces of silver being forced into his hand to allow others to be sacrificed to the enemy?

Somebody here at FR recently posted a pic w/Gen Mattis together with a caption as, or similar, to what you responded with—can’t seem to find it now—maybe it was on Today’s Toons...???

Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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Most logical people would see a pattern here. The only saving grace any of us have is that so far, juries of real Marines have refused to convict.

Mattis is a well respected officer, I have fears he is just following orders on Hamdania and Haditha

Thank you for posting this letter.

I do get so sick of seeing that graphic.

I mean, for heaven’s sake, even I think it would feel good to kill someone like that! Of course, if I wanted to be PC, I would say it would feel good to be able to release another human being from the bondage of a life of pain.

But one thing I’ve never been accused of is that of being PC, so I won’t say it ; )

Here it is-

Why couldn't he just have been PC??

! )

You will have a hard time swallowing the double standard standard

Meet Our Decorated Heroes: God Bless Them!

Marine Corps Reserve Sgt. Jeff Hunter

Author: FSM Editors

Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.

Date: September 8, 2007

“I honestly don’t believe I did anything all that heroic,” Sgt. Jeff Hunter remarked, about his Silver Star citation. This is a typically modest response from those who served with Hunter during two intense fights, but you will conclude that it’s a dramatic understatement, as you read his story.

In May of 2005, then-Cpl. Hunter’s platoon planned to surprise insurgents with a dawn assault in the market district in the town of Haditha. Instead, it was the enemy who first engaged the platoon in a brazen ambush. As gunfire erupted, Hunter’s squad moved to take out insurgents firing from a nearby house. As the squad leader entered the home, an insurgent shot him in the chest.

Hunter saw the man down. He rushed inside the structure while spraying the area with his M16. Grabbing his comrade, he was able to move him out of the house – at which point he used his own body to shield his fellow Marine. Hunter, now in charge of the squad, rallied his men and led them back into the house – clearing it with bullets and grenades, killing one insurgent while capturing three more.

Two months later, Hunter found himself in another life-and-death gunfight, a battle that lasted for four hours, moving through the streets of Cykla, a village near Haditha. After enemy fire from a hostile house hit a Marine, Hunter’s platoon engaged the enemies, forcing them to flee to a second hiding place. By the time his squad cleared the second house the insurgents had already left.

Two of the Marines approached a couple of nearby cinder block buildings, and insurgents firing from a fortified position suddenly hit one Marine. Hiding behind a three-foot-high wall, Hunter returned fire and shot two insurgents. He also made two attempts to extract the wounded Marine. The shooting was too intense, so Hunter ran through the line of fire and across the street to an M1A1 tank – which he guided to strike the enemies’ position. The tank eliminated the threat and allowed the platoon to retrieve its mortally wounded comrade.

Speaking about his experiences in Al Anbar Province in Iraq, notoriously one of the most dangerous locations in the area, Hunter told the Albuquerque Tribune, “There were a lot of scumbags . . . a lot of people who had no problem hurting people, beheading people, torturing people.” To fight this kind of enemy, entrenched in the local population, coalition forces have to run foot patrols in narrow streets and close quarters – which often escalates into intense urban combat.

"Sometimes I won't think about the actual combat for weeks," he says. "Actually, that's not true. I think about it every day."

For his actions, Sgt. Hunter received the Silver Star in June 2007

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=1313431

Marines send new special-operations troops to Afghanistan after expulsion-

Sep 6, 2007 3:00 AM

The deployment marks a second chance for the 18-month-old command at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to show that its newly minted special-operations forces can conduct counter-insurgency missions on a par with the Army’s storied Green Berets.

Asked if the Marines changed training after the expulsion, the special-ops command said, “Everyone learns from past experience. We have adjusted some of our training, tactics, techniques and procedures.”

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service last month submitted a report on the expelled company to lawyers for Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, who commands Marines assigned to U.S. Central Command. Mattis will decide in the coming weeks whether to charge any of the company’s 30 Marines. The company commander was relieved of his command.

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During a Pentagon news conference, a U.S. Army colonel apologized for the deaths, triggering a rebuke from Gen. James Conway, the Marine commandant.

“I will just assume that no one at this point, in any chain of command, apologize or talk about terrible, terrible mistakes or those types of wrongdoings,” Conway said. “I think it’s just premature.”

http://www.examiner.com/a-919113~Marines_send_new_special_operations_troops_to_Afghanistan_after_expulsion.html

Hopefully we’ll get some rain from it - it’s been really dry here lately.

Rain from the hurricane-to-be or Fallout from this Perfect Storm in the Corps?

Last I know, those Marines aren’t home yet, either.

They convicted people in the Hamdania incident after scaring them into signing plea bargains

We are going to have tons of stuff released soon on that, once things happen.