Posted on 06/04/2014 10:04:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I watched the video of his turnover. Aside from this man rubbing his eyes a lot, there was nothing about him that looked ‘dire’ or ‘urgent’ or the condition that Rice attributes Obama’s headlong rush into lawlessness.
FURTHERMORE. It is TELLING, that before he was allowed to board the helicopter, he was frisked.
This tells me all I need to know. The man is a traitor.
They seem to have completely skipped 2012/2013, and going right for the 2014 promotion. I'm not totally versed on the progression of military rankings, but so as to not shortchange the guy, shouldn't he advance at least to a lower-rung General?
Then how did he get promoted if he was a PFC when he took off? There's that other case of the guy in Iraq, Matt Maupin. He was a PFC when he was captured, was later killed by his captors, and a couple of years later when his remains were recovered the media was saying he was a Staff Sergeant. Does the Army just bump them up in grade on a regular basis on the assumption they'd have made that rank if they had served the whole period?
Discussed on another thread:
For enlisted POW’s promotions are a matter of time & grade, for the most part.
For other active duty bucking for NCO you have to take the appropriate leadership courses & achieve a sufficiently high score in testing. Then you branch establishes a “cut-line” for your particular MOS based on all scores. Then the promotion board weighs “other considerations”.
POW’s get promoted along — I guess — because the assumption is that they didn’t have the opportunities to further their career while in captivity.
The whole story seems to have a slight smell of outdated milk. I kept my record unquestionable in the military & still couldn’t get promoted anywhere near on schedule.
So you think anyone who wants to desert the Army, should just be able to take off, and the Army shouldn’t even bother to go back to him?
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A deserter getting a promotion? Only in obungler’s military.
I wish I could answer your question. I was Army in the 60s. Promotions up to E-4 were pretty much automatic provided you weren’t a total screw-up. I had to go before the CO and a couple of Warrant Officers and answer questions to determine proficiency in my MOS in order to get my Spec. 5 promotion (that rank no longer exists, btw). Even then it was two more months before a slot opened up. While it’s possible to make SSGT. in one enlistment, it rarely happens. And regardless of when you are up for the promotion it’s not a gimme by any means.
Of course, that was almost fifty years ago. No doubt times have changed.
There is a PR win for our side if the White House has to respond.
Besides, the idiot liberals put me on their spam lists along time ago.
Not so bad to see their game plans ahead of time.
We have the Taliban inside of our WH yet life goes on, business as usual. The FACADE of Obamadullah being black comes off. He AIN'T BLACK, he's Middle Eastern.
Anything that can be done by the administration to shame the American people out of viewing this Traitor as a Traitor will be done.
Did I say anything like that?
People died looking for him. That’s what I said. That should figure in at his trial.
I do know that after 2010 when they Army itself had determined he went AWOL, when they considered SF missions to go in and get him becuase they knew pretty much where he was, the SF refused because they figured they would lose more people and it was not worth it.
I am glad he is back if they will put him through the Artcile 32, the court martial, and bring him to account for what he did.
So, right after he went missing, of course they were going to try and find him. But when it became clear how costly that was becoming, particularly because they pretty much knew he had deserted, they slacked up on it. Then when they determined for usre he was AWOL, the were very careful about losing more people over it. But of course they wanted him back.
I still feel the price...with the five animals they gave up...was far too high. Better to have waited until they could nab him at far less risk.,..even if that took a few more years.
I wonder if he’ll take the $300k back to Afghastan and build a school for the Afghan children he cares so much for? Oh wait, the Taliban that he has allegiance too doesn’t allow schools.
Disregard.
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Maybe Obama will dub him the new Commander in Chief./s
Obama is a "hands off" delegating kind of president.
It keeps his skirts clean.
The creep can’t do any worse. But I’d hate to see the father and mother moving into the White House.
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On hold until this settles down or until the next crisis takes its place.
What do you do when you’re Branded and you know you’re a man?!
You and I are old................
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