Posted on 01/13/2017 9:30:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The head of the D.C. National Guard, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, said Friday that he has been ordered removed from his command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.
Schwartz’s forced departure will come in the midst of the presidential inauguration that he has spent months helping plan alongside D.C. police, the U.S. Secret Service and other top District officials. He will turn over command to an interim as power transfers from one president to the next, and just before the inaugural parade marches down Pennsylvania Avenue.
“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.
“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, 65, said. “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”
Schwartz said he would oversee duties in a command center and then depart at 12:01 p.m., retiring from the Army.
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Exactly. Glad Trumps people are on the ball.
Schwatz was appointed by Bush, not Obama.
It could be another of Obama’s last little revenges.
Whatever, he was in the job for almost 9 years - it’s time to move on.
He should have voluntarily retired years ago. He has been blocking a lot of people under him.
Do you remember what the thread title was? I’d like to read that.
How can 0bola order him fired at 12:01, when 0 is no longer prez?
Obama will be much too busy pardoning his cronies in the last hour of his presidency to worry about firing people.
A woman walking in the woods near the Boathouse at Fletcher’s Cove on Wednesday found a violin case containing at least one firearm, and police said they discovered other weapons strewn along the C&O Canal.
At least a dozen police officers descended on the area near the boathouse late Wednesday morning. Authorities called in an explosive ordnance disposal unit, or bomb squad, to help with the search as additional weapons were found.
“At this point, we don’t know how they got there, why they’re here or when they got here,” said Sgt. Anna Rose, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Park Police, which has jurisdiction over the area that runs along the Potomac River.
More here:
Throwing a weapon into the river is the classic way to get rid of it after committing a crime. Have there been any... crimes reported in DC in the last few weeks? /s
I have no idea what the weapons found are all about.
I tried search,but that’s kind of a waste of time. If I find it, I’ll let you know.
If he's any good, he knows a lot about his 18 year soldiers. I did. I walked the flight line every day when I was activated for Desert Storm, and I was only an 04. My CO wanted it that way! 'Course I was only 51, but to an E-2 I was ancient!
I was being facetious, I know, but was thinking out loud how grateful BiBi and Putin have to be that Americans, miraculously, were able to successfully give Obama and Hillary the boot! Just amazing relief for Netanyahu, and for Vlad a pleasure to have a new mouse to play with.
The mouse is gone and the lion has been given his place.
I am giddy happy! Thx, dearest DD.
Well there are leftists who are planning to riot all of the inaugural weekend
Okay, I apologize for not picking up on that.
Thanks for the nice follow-up.
I’m about as close to giddy as it gets.
My giddy high point comes when sound players and policy are in place.
Less than a week! “:^)
Jennifer Griffin-
That list of decorations is quite suggestive.
What it suggests to me is the question, “How the hell did this guy rise to flag rank?”
Thanks - monkeywrench, is dragnet’s article the incident, or something else? I haven’t clicked link yet, just intermittently on FR today.
If that werew so...Trump could promptly re-apppoint him at 12.02.
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