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Eddie Gallagher controversy: Esper fires Navy secretary amid Navy SEAL case, Pentagon says
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| November 24, 2019
| Andrew O'Reilly, Vandana Rambaran
Posted on 11/24/2019 2:48:33 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: JBW1949
Ahhh...David Hackworth remembrance....
David who? Surely the Admiralty don’t want to hear from the real war-fighters, do they? About Face! Good read... GB Colonel Hack, may he rest in peace.
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:50:03 PM PST
by
CMSMC
To: nikos1121
Fired for trying to do an end round of his immediate superior, the Sec of Def.
Not the CIC.
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:52:58 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: be-baw
I thought he claimed that he had no problem following the Presidents instruction/order. Telling your Commander in Chief that you will disregard his order unless he "puts it in writing" is insubordination in and of itself. I knew when he said that, that there was a chance he would be fired.
I have challenged the orders of my superiors many times, but I did so behind a closed door. Regardless of whether my arguments succeeded or not, when I walked out of that door, my superior and I were "on the same page".
Trying to make a deal that gives the appearance of an Admiral being insubordinate to his CINC was horrible optics.
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:53:41 PM PST
by
ETCM
To: nikos1121
..an end around the Sec of Defense, and the CIC.
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:56:18 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: Hot Tabasco
To: ETCM
Perhaps Trump should've not Tweeted about it without issuing a direct order first in writing. Twitter causes problems all the way around and lures men into engaging in 'cat fight' nonsense..
Twitter is a CAT FIGHT!
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:59:00 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: mrsmith
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posted on
11/24/2019 3:59:37 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Bull Snipe
An officer of the Armed Forces is not loyal to Trump. He is loyal to the Constitutional requirement that the President of the United States is the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. Thanks for the lesson in semantics, but I took that oath and understand what it means.
Resisters, insubordinates and others in the officer cadre seeking to thwart the will of or work against POTUS (like this a-hole, Vindman, Mattis etc.) can and should be dealt in the harshest possible terms - and there's nothing "third world" about it. People get sent to Djibouti all the time.
I can't be the first person telling you life in the military can gets difficult when you piss off or work against your commanders.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:07:32 PM PST
by
AAABEST
(NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
To: mrsmith
Adm Green caused all of this mess .
His vindictive plan against Gallagher was the spark .
Spencer should of shut it down quietly .
The recent comments by DOD on Gallagher are concerning .
89
posted on
11/24/2019 4:09:15 PM PST
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists)
To: Gay State Conservative
See Post #8
I read it and I accept it as fact just as much as the rest of the anonymous sources and insiders are leaking whatever crap the media is reporting.......
I don't believe anything anymore until it's reported as a done deal and verified.
90
posted on
11/24/2019 4:14:00 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Very true, and I’m no fan of many of his tweets. But love it or hate it, that’s Trump. In his case, I’ll take the bad with the good.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:14:01 PM PST
by
ETCM
To: sourcery
Theres no right to be an employee. Especially not one paid by taxpayers. And doubly so when one is employed "at will".
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:20:29 PM PST
by
lightman
(Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
To: ETCM
I firmly believe that Twitter leads males, especially today's boys down the path of emasculation with back-and-forth 'cat fight' nonsense. Seems the age of the stoic man is long gone.
President Trump's nature is to engage in cat fights but no other President in history has been wrongfully persecuted like he has as well as having a totally CORRUPT ANTI-TRUMP MEDIA to contend with.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:23:44 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: mrsmith
To: mrsmith
[Its not unfair for Spencer to take the fall for going behind his superiors back- and over his head.
You just cant do that.]
Esper wanted Gallagher drummed out of the military and his pension revoked. Trump wanted Gallagher’s rank restored. Spencer tried to resolve the tension between these contradictory objectives by going around Esper’s back - he made a public statement in line with Esper’s declaration, while mollifying Trump’s objections by rigging Gallagher’s review so he would be cleared.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/23/esper-milley-raise-concern-white-house-navy-seal-status-edward-gallagher-nr-vpx.cnn
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley have raised serious concerns with the White House after President Donald Trump signaled he would block the Navy from ejecting Eddie Gallagher from the SEALs, an administration official told CNN.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:27:13 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Widget Jr
To: BenLurkin
EXACTLY SO.
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:33:11 PM PST
by
TMN78247
("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Yes, as much as I hate Twitter, and dislike the way POTUS sometimes uses it, at times he has no other way to get his message to the masses. Anything he says elsewhere is hidden, filtered, distorted, edited, twisted, presented out of context, and lied about to prevent voters from hearing his actual message. Unless you actually watch or read every word of his press conferences, interviews, statements, etc, you will have no idea what he said or wrote.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:33:22 PM PST
by
ETCM
To: BenLurkin
It used to be under the Obama Admin, orders from the commander is just the opening bid to further negotiations. It appears the military has figured out that is not the case under this CIC.
To: Guenevere
Thank-you Mr.President!You betcha! He will go down in history for the correct moves he has made.
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posted on
11/24/2019 4:35:17 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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