Posted on 02/17/2017 5:30:05 AM PST by combat_boots
Holdovers from the Obama administration in the Pentagon are hampering efforts to fix the military’s major readiness problem, leaving Secretary of Defense James Mattis alone in his efforts to properly equip U.S. forces, according to the chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services.
“I am concerned that … to fix these problems [it] is going to take a lot more money, and yet a lot of the folks who are coming up with the budget to fix them are the same people who have been fighting every step of the way against our efforts to fix these problems,” said Chairman Mac Thornberry during a Capitol Hill press gaggle Thursday.
Thornberry noted that Mattis is “alone” in his attempts to alleviate the readiness problem at the Pentagon. He added that there are some people, including “political appointees and others from the Obama administration,” who have been “trying to deny there was a problem.”
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Fire and replace these folk. Or it very difficult.
Would Obama have appointed anything but a traitor or a queer? These degenerates must all be purged. No mole can be permitted to survive.
Flush those POS’s down the bowl. Every mothers’ and daughters’ sons of them.
Get rid of those jerks or transfer them to other departments.
What the Hell are Mattis and Trump waiting for?
They’re in charge—Fire the damn pukes!
Is it obvious who they are or are they silent back stabbers?
The Obama regime managed to purge leadership on the flimsiest of charges.
If they’re the people who are supposed to be coming up with budget figures, they should be easily known, I would think.
“When I look around at young men (and women) I see, I can’t see them fighting anymore. “
You haven’t looked at my son and his friends. Just got out of the Rangers, 2nd Bat. And I just visited San Diego and saw plenty more like them training to be SEALs.
Dis-appoint them.
Exactly! I’d send them all to Benghazi to do man-in-the street-interviews with the natives, asking them if muhammad liked his bacon smoked or salted, or both.
Find these traitorous Obama appointees, try, convict, sentence, and hang them.
Why doesn’t Mattis just fire them? He’s been in office as SecDef for nearly a month.
Why are these political appointees still around?
Marine Commander Relieved of DutiesTo paraphrase Patton: Mattis is going to tear through the Pentagon faster than shiite through a goose.
Col. Joe W. Dowdy was reportedly too cautious in taking his troops to Baghdad's outskirts.
April 05, 2003|Tony Perry | Times Staff WriterWITH THE MARINES IN CENTRAL IRAQ — A Marine regimental commander was replaced Friday after being accused of showing too much caution in his drive on Baghdad. The move by Maj. Gen. James Mattis, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was highly unusual, coming just two weeks into the war and while the Marines were in the midst of a charge that sent them into unexpectedly fierce fighting.
Col. Joe W. Dowdy, who had been commander of the 1st Marine Regiment, was informed Friday that he would be reassigned to another position; he was immediately replaced by Col. John Toolan, the 1st Marine Division's operations officer. Toolan hurried to the front and immediately took charge of a speeded-up drive to Baghdad. By this morning, the troops had begun to enter the capital.
The switch was made with no formal announcement, but word was sent down the chain of command, causing some grumbling among enlisted Marines who questioned the timing. Dowdy had been a popular commander, in part because he had taken pains to protect his troops, sometimes at the expense of speed.
Give them a few weeks to ID the bad apples. And then there will be a giant flushing sound coming from the Pentagon and DC.
The FIRST battle for Mad Dog is to WIPE OUT these traitors!
Either dump liberal ‘elites’ or allow innocent soldiers to die...
Chairman Mac Thornberry there’s one answer: DRAIN THE SWAMP - dump liberal elites.
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