Posted on 09/11/2009 2:38:33 PM PDT by plenipotentiary
A U.S. District Court hearing to determine if a Army captain fighting deployment to Afghanistan because of the challenged the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency was rescheduled for Monday.
Capt. Connie Rhodes filed the complaint last week and Judge Clay Land granted an emergency hearing Friday afternoon in the Columbus federal courthouse.
Rhodes, a medical doctor who was with her unit in Fort Riley, Kan., did not attend the hearing. That prompted Land to reschedule it for noon Monday.
Rhodes is scheduled to arrive at Fort Benning Saturday and deploy within seven days.
Rhodes’ attorney Orly Taitz — a national figure in the “birther” movement — was in Land’s court. Rhodes was ordered by her commanding officers not to leave Kansas, Taitz told the court.
“That is not the information I have from Fort Riley,” said Maj. Rebecca Ausprung, with the Department of the Army, Litigation Division in Washington. Rhodes had not informed her supervisor, Ausprung told the court.
Land made it clear he wanted to hear from Rhodes.
“I am going to require her to appear, so I can ask questions of her,” Land said.
Ausprung said the Army would make Rhodes available.
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Please try to keep a civil tongue in your head.
I never said that the the CNO, or the head of any other service, was a mere figurehead. I know full well that their job is train and equip forces for the combatant commands. They buy the equipment, recruit the troops, and conduct the training.
You are the one who said the 7th fleet doesn't move without an order from the CNO. In reality, such a movement is an operational matter, not an administrative one. Thus the CNO is not in the chain for movements. He could not prevent the movement. If the CinC PacCom says go, they go, and tell the CNO and others in the administrative chain they've done it. I don't know about such things as uniform of the day, while on operations. I suspect if the combatant commander says it's utilities, whatever that might mean for each service component, the CNO can't countermand and say it's something else. I think he's lose that particular pissing contest.
BTW, were you a National Merit Scholarship recipient? I was.
I also developed the algorithm that, using radar data and "state" information from the aircraft's other systems, flies the F-15E , the F-16, the Army special ops Chinooks and Blackhawks, and the V-22 Osprey Air Force version, at low altitude and high speed, with the pilots "hands off" for the fast movers, and following the cue from the system for the others. How low and how fast, I can't say, but the fast movers would knock you on your ass if they flew directly over you at minimum height and max speed. Come to think of it, the helicopter down wash and Osprey "prop" blast might do it too, especially considering they go even lower.
I’ll bet you know a lot of weirdos from SF.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) which consist of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff(CJCS). I present...what should be an easy to understand pertaining to the question on this thread CJCS and JCS. They are not in the chain-of-command. They do not give orders to Unified or Combined Commands on tactical war decisions. Their primary role to the President, the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF), and the National Security Council (NSC) is advisory.
A fictional setting. The date is December, 1990. An Oval office meeting between the President and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. Subject: Gulf War I war planing.
President George H.W. Bush : [General Colin Powell (CJCS)] General, the time is D-day minus 30, I would like your objective opinion about the recent changes to Schwarzkopf’s operational plans?
Chairman: We have [JCS] reviewed the changes, and it is sound strategy that seamlessly augments the time phased deployment plan. However, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has brought up concerns about the very recent ship deployment in the Gulf that are too close for comfort which are in the area of the more advanced Iraqi mines.
President: Thank you Chairman Powell. The Nation Security Council agree with your assessment. Good to hear we are all on the same page; this plan is a winner.
Later in the day...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Schwarzkopf speaking with Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense.
SECDEF: General, when are we going to receive the latest Iraqi deployment assessment?
CINC CENTCOM: Sir, the report should be on your desk within the hour. The report will further include how we are countering the more advanced Iraqi sea mines. We’ve found a way to negate the threat thanks to our local schemes and dreams people. (intelligence and war planners).
SECDEF: Good to hear general. I’m looking forward to read it and brief the president today at 1900 hours local.
For a “complete Retard” I think I have more than clue here.
LoL!
A Correction to here letter. She was denied leave not on military obligations at the time but for political ones.
here = her.
For your understanding I made it easy for you. See post 164.
El Gato and Red Steel, my thanks!
Any update on today’s proceedings?
That's: You caught that too, huh?
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