Posted on 10/25/2025 3:09:18 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I was one of those many, many retired officers who thought it was great when Pete Hegseth walked in and told an assembly of hundreds of generals and admirals that they suck and are fat, and they needed to unsuck and get unfat. Well, he was a little more polite than that, but not much.
Of course, when their subordinates screw up in a massive way like these generals and admirals have over the last three decades, these generals and admirals would not have sugarcoated it. There would be no talk of feelings, no hugging. They would nuke their delinquent subordinates until they glowed. Some of the flag officers— the ones with a future in a military devoted to winning wars— appreciated this refreshing dose of toxic masculinity, but far too many of them channeled Margaret Dumont and are now scrambling to the press like little weasels to leak the anonymous equivalent of, “Oh, well, I never!” It’s embarrassing: “Pete Hegseth was mean to us, and we aren’t going to be friends with him anymore! We’re totally gonna write a whole page on him in the slam book!”
No, really. The Washington Times got the scoop from these feminine cowards who donned the camouflage of anonymity to slag their boss instead of pulling their stars from their epaulets and slamming them on his desk. Nobody resigns anymore; they just gossip and talk smack behind people’s backs.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Let’s review some of the achievements of the generals and admirals who are mad because Pete Hegseth doesn’t appreciate their awesome awesomeness:
• No unequivocal victories in wars in over 30 years.
• The Afghanistan rout and the utterly unnecessary death of 13 service members, plus the maiming of many more.
• A Pentagon more concerned with promoting social pathologies than promoting hard-core warfighters.
• The decline of the Navy in terms of numbers, focus, and seamanship, including ships regularly ramming into each other.
• Flat-out discrimination against people of pallor who have penises.
• DEI idiocy that took away training focus and undermined morale and unit cohesion.
• The utter betrayal of our troops over COVID, including the dismissal of thousands of service members who refused to take a vaccine that everybody now concedes doesn’t do what it promised to do.
• Recruiting numbers in the toilet because the normal young people who usually make up our military accurately sensed that they were despised and would be betrayed by their leadership.
• A veteran community so disgusted by what happened to their beloved military that they began advising young people against enlisting.
Yeah, that’s quite a résumé. Very impressive. Never have so many been so arrogant with so few accomplishments and so many unmitigated failures.
As reported by the Washington Times, they’re very upset with Pete Hegseth because he doesn’t meet their exacting standards:
“Multiple high-ranking officers point to his September 30 speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico as a turning point, calling it a ‘massive waste of time’ and ‘embarrassing.’ Critics say the former Fox News host operates with a ‘junior officer’s mentality,’ fixating on issues like facial hair standards and press access rather than broader strategic concerns.”
That’s just one paragraph, but it shows why their puny play to indict our Secretary of War is really an indictment of themselves. “Multiple high-ranking officers” participated in this whisper campaign against their boss? It goes without saying that if their own subordinate officers showed this kind of disgusting disloyalty, they would call in a napalm strike on these quislings and be right to do so. But apparently, these vital and important norms that must be protected at all costs don’t apply to the vital and important norms advocates.
That they consider a superior personally explaining the commander’s intent to his subordinates a waste of time, or even “embarrassing,” is troubling to say the least. I wasn’t trained to command by memorandum or Zoom; I was trained to command by commanding, and the people who trained me were the guys who won Desert Storm. Yes, you can actually unequivocally win a war, which these generals and admirals don’t appear to understand. They’re more concerned with their hurt feelz.
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Oh, and this “junior officer mentality” business—talk about revealing. Of course, Pete Hegseth was a major, a field-grade officer, which is not a junior officer, but these three- and four-star generals aren’t really connected to actual soldiers. Nor are they connected to basic concepts like discipline, which I guess is now to be disregarded as merely something junior officers are concerned with.
No.
Discipline is the foundation of everything the military does. We have standards, including things like no facial hair and not having your belly pouring over your belt like Niagara Falls, for a reason. An undisciplined force is a force that will fail in battle, but battle is not what these generals and admirals are concerned about. They are more concerned with their own personal power and prestige and with grasping the next rung on the ladder. This is why we lose. (Excerpt)
Good article and spot on.
It appears the war-lust haze is lifting.
Were these people complained when the Secretary of Defense disappeared for several days with no information that even Biden was not informed about it? I asked ChatGPT and even it said Lloyd Austin is the worst Sec of Def (or War) ever.
I'm also waiting for the dramatic downsizing of the senior ranks. It makes utterly no sense that we have as many senior officers now as we did at the end of WWII when we had a military TWELVE TIMES the size of our current military.
I'm also still waiting for some kind of reform that prevents retired generals and admirals from going to work for Defense contractors where they tap their personal connections with those in the military to get lucrative contracts for their current employers - and line their own pockets in the process.
And that applies to all the generals and admirals regardless of whether they are fat slobs or not. The entire lot of them needs to be thrown out and replaced with actual patriots.
• The Afghanistan rout and the utterly unnecessary death of 13 service members, plus the maiming of many more.
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That was not a military decision - they advised against it - it was a Biden Admin decision. So no blame the military for things they did not do - there are plenty of other mistakes.
DEI, anti-white sentiment, and Gays in the military were also a political decisions foisted on them.
Both Korea and Vietnam were political not military defeats.
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In fact, all of your list is the result of political decisions and funding cut backs forcing the military to adopt one thing or another or try to maintain equipment with reduced funding levels while at the same time being required to do more.
The military acquisition process is an area you did not list which is more or less without Congressional or WH politics involved.
The generals an admirals are upset because the gravy train is ending, and they will be required to actually do the jobs they are expected to perform and be held to it.
Kurt Schlichter Good bio on Amazon
You really don’t know anything about the military or its history. You also tend to exaggerate.
UC excerpted an article by a retired Army officer. Where was he wrong, Admiral?
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“• A veteran community so disgusted by what happened to their beloved military that they began advising young people against enlisting”
Did this.
Might NOW advise for the Marines (he’s still a young man).
It not being 2019 any more...(By a long shot.)
No excuses for some of that stuff done in the military, but I’m not saying who should be blamed for what. That’s something Pete Hegseth has to sort out,I guess.
Nothing in the Middle East felt like victory.
Biden's Afghanistan Debacle was nothing short of murder with a side of treason.
The Fall of Saigon still stings.
The one thing you left out was that the last two Commandants of the Marine Corps completely screwed up the organization of the Corps - shedding infantry battalions, tube artillery batteries, air assets, Combat Engineers, and Military Police so they can buy missiles to ambush Chinese ships.
The bottom line is that there are simply too many Flag officers. The ratio of commanders to commandees is skewed
Weeding out by way of physical fitness and grooming standards within the uniformed military branches of service has the salutary effect of eliminating mentally and spiritually weak officers, numb with effeminacy.
People of pallor really ought to unite.
To get their way. For a change.
Lol
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