Posted on 07/23/2014 1:08:56 PM PDT by kristinn
It is when you can get something for nothing, at least nothing out of your own pocket.
My goodness! Doesn’t the plaque in this story show his branch as “OD” (Ordinance)? Didn’t I read that he was sporting the Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) from his tour in Iraq? I thought you had to be an Infantryman to wear that badge?
As a matter of fact, I think he’s sporting that CIB in the photo in the article.
Regardless of his branch, he commanded an infantry battalion in Iraq. It appears General Walsh took his commission as a Armor officer, and was assigned the 1st of the 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, a major unit of the Montana National Guard. The unit morphed into the 1st of the 163rd Infantry Regiment prior to deployment.
With regard to “his” masters thesis, democracy is NOT sufficient to democratize the Middle East. Freedom would be. But, freedom and democracy are not the same thing. Democracy is a form of government. Elections and purple thumbs. Freedom involves personal liberty and a private property/market-oriented economy. The “transformational” quality of democracy was a bill of goods sold by “neo-conservatives” (anti-communist liberals from the democratic party) who shifted over to the Republican Party after the Democratic Party went squish.
Why does the plaque at the US Army War College list his branch as Ordinance? How did an Ordinance Officer come to command an Infantry battalion?
Let me give you a hint. Look at what branch the Adjutant General of Montana was.
Walsh lied, cheated and stole. What kind of people would promote a man like that and select him to command a battalion and go to the War College? People just like him, I suppose.
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