Posted on 05/30/2011 8:42:00 AM PDT by kristinn
i agree it is more likely in the Army. but, you initially said “certain”, which isn’t right or fair.
Insult Dempsey all you want. but to insult unknown officers, isn’t right.
Wesley Clark, and proven slugs, insult all you want,
and i’m happy to agree with you.
(btw, i’m a Vet, but not army or marine.)
Murtha was a Marine.
Colonel Allen West, was Army.
there are MANY brave men in both.
and ESPECIALLY this is inappropriate for TODAY!
when we should be honoring the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
...there are TOO many of them, from both the Army and the Marines.
But I'm talking about the quality of leadership at the senior levels; and if the question is confined to that issue alone, I doubt that anyone could argue that the Army for all its resources produces better generals than the Marine Corps.
Are all Army generals bad, and all Marine generals outstanding? Of course not.
But why do Army generals seem to be constantly playing politics, cozening up to political leaders, and agreeing to policies they know are bad for the armed forces?
Are Army generals trained to do this?
Do they learn it by osmosis as they climb the chain of command?
You tell me.
KMA.
He’s so bright he appears dumb. His only role in his usurped administration is to make speeches. He’s so lazy he doesn’t even bother to read them through to make sure of puctuation and pronunciation. Or maybe that’s just one more indicator of how much the man despises the proletariat.
Regardless of this general’s bona fides or no bond fides, he was picked by baraq. Don’t trust him.
Largest land battle fought by the American armed forces: Battle of the Bulge (US Army, 19,00 KIA,, inflicting >60,000 enemy KIA)
Largest Amphibious assault: Normandy (5000 US KIA on 1st day)
Longest combat assault into enemy territory: US Army -Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF-1 400 kilometers 3rd Infantry)
As to the entire USMC being "special forces"; if that's so, why does USMC now have a "special operations force" of their own? (Part of USSOC command)
Battle of Fallujha: 3 Battalions of marines, 2 battalions Army. (After the battle, the marines admitted that they had underestimated the fighting abilities of the Army.)
Times have changed my FRiend. The "old" Army might have had its problems (draftees being the most problematic) but that was then and this is now. I could go on, but you probably get the point. Marines are just about as good as Army soldiers. Since I have been through both US Army training and USMC training, I think I may be pretty well qualified to have an opinion.
Just a personal response to a shitbird who forgot to look at the calendar ;)
You are a wonderful human being, making such comments about the military on Memorial Day.
It make me want to vomit thinking about how this Marxist is monkeying with the U.S. Military. He is in an altogether different, diametrically opposed universe than this fine institution.
...selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a winding down of the war in Iraq, protracted battle in Afghanistan and American assistance to the NATO-led effort against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
How freakin' pathetic is that. He has no class so he's incapable of being embarrassed.
It would be best for everyone if that fake president skipped
going to Arlington. The soldiers there are probably turning
in their graves at the sight and sound of that moron!
How true. It’s almost a certainty that any Democrat President would chose a “go along to get along” type for that post no matter who our country and military needs.
That's just a dumb comment.
OH, yah, that raibow/green flag... this “flag” which accomplishes nothing but is more a pretty weathervane much like their sexual orientation of the day, instead of self-determining as the stars and stripes.
It’s like to them it all is as if the windmills propelled the Earth temperatures when it is the Earth Temperatures which propell it. THey got it all wrong. It’s our new Army and change... we change, don’t you know, just like the song: “we are the world, we are the losers, we are the corrupt Dempseys etc...”
OUCH!...lol...Now that's gonna leave a mark
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