@stillgray - Ian Miles Cheong
Please tell me she got court martialed for this. https://t.co/FOnqAiZ0Rj
@bud_cann - ༒☬ 𝔹𝕦𝕕 ☬༒
Imagine being on his staff when he starts to lie, imagine how they must cringe, imagine how much they disrespect and hate him… he’s been to Iraq and Afghanistan 7 times, the last time was in 2011.
@unusual_whales - unusual_whales
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks lost composure when pressed about government fraud, waste, and abuse this year:
@JMichaelWaller - J Michael Waller
Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office served the Iranian mullahs. She’s still on the job, with security clearances. Consider our special ops forces to be compromised.
@Poltergeist360 - Don Sanborn
Does anyone find it coincidentally strange that the Secretary of Defense goes MIA with powers transferred the same day the Military Accountability letter is issued? The letter did state that the military was going to show other Departments how to clean their respective houses... It just seems connected 🤔 Any insight?? @doqholliday@dom_lucre @boonecutler
@GenFlynn - General Mike Flynn
For all, this is a must read article by Kash Patel on the seriousness of SECDEF Austin’s period of AWOL. Quote: “The national command authority is the constitutionally mandated, congressionally required, DoD directed unbroken chain of command from the president of the United States as our commander in chief to the secretary of defense. Our entire department of defense- the brave men and women in uniform, rely on this chain of command every single day to execute the no fail mission of protecting this great nation. There is no greater national security priority than maintaining its authority, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/kash-patel-heres-how-secretary-defense-lloyd-austin/
@BuzzPatterson - Buzz Patterson
Here’s another Clinton story. This one IS in “Dereliction of Duty.” We were returning from Europe on AF-1, landed at Andrews, and helicoptered to the White House. We arrived at about midnight and, after ensuring the president was on his way upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. Shortly thereafter, the AF-1 pilot called me and said “we have a problem.” Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her. She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with a child. She didn’t want to be another “bimbo.”She only wanted an apology. “Oh, shit,” I thought. So, that morning, as a young major, I had to walk to the Oval Office and tell the commander-in-chief that he needed to apologize to the young lady. I remember on my way to talk with him thinking “I don’t get paid for this shit.” Two weeks later, we got the two together onboard AF-1 and he offered a very uncontrite “half apology.” He didn’t care. If anybody in the military had done that it would’ve been jail, expulsion, or both. Yet another in my experiences working for a man with no integrity and no moral fiber. It’s all in here: https://www.amazon.com/Dereliction-Duty-Eyewitness-Compromised-Americas/dp/0895260603/ref=la_B001IOBNIA_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339730111&sr=1-1
@CynicalPublius - Cynical Publius
@AEHarrod Look dude, I am going to stop mocking you for a few minutes and give you the straight dope, as a favor. Sincerely, I am doing this out of the goodness of my heart. I am not being sarcastic. I used to think and be like you. I was a true believer in all things USA, including our overseas escapades. For most of the time I was in uniform, I had absolute faith and confidence in the just cause of everything we did and do abroad. I was a zealot. I believed in Captain America. You could not have found a soldier more convinced that everything we did was right and just. But then I made it to the field grade ranks, up to O-6. I had a gift for speechwriting so between tactical assignments I found myself serving at the highest levels with more than one famous figure you have heard of. I saw how Congress works making the sausage. I saw how national and defense policies came into being. I saw how we negotiate with any powerful criminal thugs who would help us when we invade a country. I saw how we enter into a zone of propaganda with the national media. I was not one of the Big Dogs, but I was around the Big Dogs all the time, and I was there when they let their guards down and told the truth. I was with the Big Dogs in D.C., and I was with the Big Dogs downrange in war. I know how they think and act. And it shocked me. It shocked me to my core. Most of our national leadership are unprincipled charlatans, concerned only about what will help their reputations, their careers, and their bank accounts. They have no principles other than self-interest, and the self-interest of members of The Big Dog Club is the entire basis for all things our leaders do. All of it. 100%. (As a side note, it's why they MUST destroy Trump.) I still deeply believe in the Constitution and the American people. The Constitution is the least imperfect governing document ever invented by mankind. It is pure genius, and I love it more than any document other than The Bible. I still believe in the American people. The American people possess a maverick independent spirit and the strength of an amalgamation of all the world's cultures in one place. They are an indomitable, beautiful people. I love them. But it's their leaders I despise, and for good reason. There. This was an honest attempt to reach an educated man like you about the blind spots you may have about how we are governed. If you take it, you have my respect. If you leave it, I will go back to mocking your institutional blind spots. Finis.
@LTCTheresaLong - Theresa M Long, MD, MPH, FS
Oh I see Sam found the memo about using force for involuntary immunizations… What do you suppose the impact would be on morale and unit esprit de corps, if members were expected to assault other service members holding them down and committing medical rape against them….can anyone who claims to be a leader -honestly advocate that service members assaulting and violating other servicemembers is a good idea? Not 1 but 2 high ranking medical professionals put their name to this gem…but who are they??? Where do they work?? And out of hundreds of doctors this email was sent to- how many complained about unethical, immoral and illegal practice of using force to involuntarily immunize servicemembers with an EXPERIMENTAL drug??? Answer: 1
@kylenabecker - Kyle Becker
National Guard Captain Blows Up J6 Narrative, Accuses U.S. Govt of Lying to the American People "I'm here today to aid the subcommittee in resolving factual errors in the official record of what happened on January 6th, 2021, specifically regarding the alleged District of Columbia National Guard delayed response caused by a critical presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed Pentagon senior officials," Captain Timothy Nick testified under oath on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. [...] "First, I want to explain my role on January 6th. I was assigned as aid to camp the personal assistant to Major General William Walker, the commanding General of DC National Guard. It was my only second day on the job (!). Please focus on alleged facts found in the November 16th, 2021 Department of Defense Inspector General's multidisciplinary review into the DC National Guard response and Department of Defense's role that day." "I can say unequivocally that the Inspector General's Review is riddled with inaccuracies, misstatements, and perhaps false flags and narratives regarding how critical Pentagon senior officials responded when our republic was under great stress (!!)." "For instance, during a conference call at 2:31 PM with members of United States Army, US Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department, District of Columbia Government, and US Secret Service Uniform Division, the US Army's Lieutenant General Walter Piatt, Director of Army staff and the Army's Lieutenant General Charles Flynn, Director of Chief of Staff of Operations were on the call." Also was Colonel John Lubas, executive officer to the Secretary of the Army." "The Army FALSELEY DENIED that General Flynn was ever on the call. This is false and material on its face. Lieutenant Flynn was on the call and even participated in discussions. The defense inspector's review also rounds language papering over the fact that Lieutenant General Piatt, Lieutenant General Flynn, while on the call discussed how they did not like the OPTICS." "That is a direct quote, and they stated it would be in their best military advice to recommend to the Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, to deny the request from Command General William Walker to deploy the DC National Guard and aid US Capitol Police in restoring restoration of Order Liberty on Capitol Hill." "In addition, former [Army] Secretary Ryan McCarthy claims he was on a two three 1:00 PM call and spoke on that call. This is FALSE, unless he was in the room shadowing the call and he did not speak nor identify himself." "He was not on the call. He was en route to Washington, DC Regional office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to support that agent's concept of operations plan for January 6th." "He went on the claim that he called and spoke to Major General Walker at least twice, ordering the deployment of the DC National Guard. This is also FALSE. At no time did General Walker take any calls, nor did we ever hear from the secretary on any of the ongoing conference calls or the secure video teleconferencing throughout the day." "This I know because I was with the Command General the entire time recording events throughout the day. Major General Walker told by staff officers to stand by with respect to deploying to the Capitol Hill. Only at 5:09 PM in the early evening, which I wrote down in my wheel book, was the DC Guard given an order to deploy and move to the Capitol to assist Capitol Police." "We arrived too late. One American laid dead with other sisters and brothers injured, including federal and local law enforcement officers. We were ready and standing by. I know if we were able to deploy immediately, when General Walker made the request, the National Guard could have helped and civil disturbance and restored public order quickly." "The Army National Guard motto was always ready, always there. The DC National Guard was ready to help and assist Capitol Police, but we were NOT ALLOWED to do our job due to paralyzed decision-making by acting Secretary of Defense,Chris Miller and Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy..." "This led to a crisis in federal leadership at the Pentagon and delayed the DC response by 3 hours and 19 minutes." This is critical testimony exposing the U.S. government as perpetrating a false narrative of events for January 6 to frame Donald Trump as participating in a treasonous "insurrection" when the opposite was true. The President of the United States had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops and delegated this responsibility to the Secretary of the Army. But instead of deploying National Guard troops to secure the capitol during the election challenges in the Electoral College, the Pentagon delayed dispatching troops over an alleged concern for "optics," even as the same government would later call January 6 'an existential threat to democracy.' The U.S. government allowed the January 6 riots to happen in order to frame Donald Trump and his supporters as 'insurrectionists.' It is simple as that.
@BuzzPatterson - Buzz Patterson
I’m hearing rumors from several sources that the Democrats are planning to dump Joe Biden after the upcoming debate and replace him. It’s not going to be with Kamala Harris. It’s going to be Hillary Clinton. As some of you know, I was the Air Force Military Aide for Bill Clinton, lived in the White House, traveled everywhere they traveled, and carried the “nuclear football.” As such, I was always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill. Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it. But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone. From the very first day of my assignment. When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me. “You can get away with pissing off Bill, but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out.” I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications. I learned very quickly that the administration’s day-to-day character, whether inside or outside of DC, depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary. Her reputation preceded her. We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was “Schindler’s List.” In my first few days on the job — and remember, I essentially lived there — I realized there were different rules for Hillary. She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us. We were instructed that “Whenever Mrs. Clinton is moving through the halls, be as inconspicuous as possible.” She did not want to see “staff” and be forced to “interact” with anyone — no matter their position in the building. Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight. I’d hear whispering, “She’s coming, she’s coming!” I could be walking down a West Wing hallway, midday, busier than hell, people doing the administration’s work, whether in the press office, medical unit, wherever. She’d walk in, and they’d scatter. She was the Nazi schoolmarm, and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble. I wasn’t a kid. I was a professional officer and pilot. I said, “I’m not doing that.” There was also a period of time when she attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House. It was the reelection year of 1996, and she was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration. As a military aide, carrying the football and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security. If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander-in-chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command? She finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in. If the Democrats dump Biden, and I think they’re going to have to, good ole Hill will be on the shortlist. If she runs, I will dedicate this space to raining hell on her campaign. The Clintons are corrupt beyond words. Hillary is evil, vindictive, and profane. As a result, I wrote this: https://www.amazon.com/Dereliction-Duty-Eyewitness-Compromised-Americas/dp/0895260603/ref=la_B001IOBNIA_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339730111&sr=1-1
@HawleyMO - Josh Hawley
The Secret Service director to me today: a lot of people made a lot of mistakes but we won’t tell you who and we won’t fire anybody
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
Fox reached out to John Kirby, the National Security Communications Advisor, for comment about veterans criticizing him for covering for Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. He mistakenly hit “reply all.” His response said “Obviously no use in responding. A "handful" of vets indeed and all of one stripe.” Disgraceful.
@ted_macie - Ted
On November 27, 2023, I posted this video here on X, and within 24 hours, I was ordered by my commanding officer to remove it, so I did. It had already been saved by thousands around the world, and it was too late for the military "leadership" to put the cat back into the bag. No legitimate explanation was ever given for why they wanted it removed. By the end of the week, my computer access was taken away. It was never restored. The commanding officer, in communications that did not involve me, said that she wouldn't restore it because I wasn't trustworthy. CAPT Sharon House claimed I wasn't trustworthy but the DoD, the government, and every military leader who was given this information (including @USNavyCNO) and have chosen not to act should be trusted? These people want to hide these things from the public, and I am untrustworthy for trying to expose the data. CAPT House, ADM Franchetti, what you and your cronies and overlords wanted was for me to be loyal to all of you by hiding this damning information from the world. In that case, you are correct, you can not trust me to do that. My allegiance lies with the people, the nation, the Constitution, and, above all, God. Now, these are the only authorities fit to give me any order. Enjoy my retirement!⚖️⏳️😉
@AdamAppleXx - Adam Apple
Capt Sharon House was your CO?!? She was my XO to Capt Shelly Perkins as the CO for Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, during COVID. I was on of their lead COVID Officer… I have diiiiirt on her and was their right hand man for some things. (I ran the clinic that saw people and the drive thru tent, not the vaccine area). They ordered me to break federal laws, I told them what they asked was illegal, and if they knew that, they said yea. So I told them, “Ok”, and never did it. Perkins even moved me to an area without cameras, so the conversation wouldn’t be seen. Perkins and House are not trustworthy people. You stood up against evil brother, and you did well, just know that.
@ScottAdamsSays - Scott Adams
I saw a clips today in which an MSNBC propagandist was asking how likely it was that five generals would lie about what Trump allegedly said behind closed doors. Well... 51 Intel professionals lied about Hunter's laptop. Hundreds of government and media pros lied about Russian Collusion Thousands of government and media pros lied about the Fine People Hoax (and dozens of other Trump hoaxes). Millions of medical professionals lied during the pandemic. Millions of scientists are lying about the reliability of climate models. Five lying generals isn't even a stretch.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
Here’s a thread of anecdotes about women in the military. A peek at the actual dynamics behind the “go girl” propaganda. Enjoy. 1. It’s common for Generals to cultivate harems of female staff. Often one becomes “court mistress” and blocks out other staff she doesn’t like.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
2. Female commanders commonly become overwhelmed by routine stressful situations. I have had buddies who had to yell at their female bosses to give orders because they went catatonic at breaking down a TOC in a rainstorm.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
3. Females breaking down crying on training ruck marches in good conditions. This is common.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
4. Females crying when bullets start flying and having to be literally kicked repeatedly to get out from behind cover and advance.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
5. Females getting special treatment for basically everything. Preferential admission for schools and training, females being hand-held through Ranger School, females being prioritized for career advancement in order to satisfy diversity targets.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
6. If a female gets pregnant, she can avoid deployment. During GWOT there were thousands of women who avoided combat deployment in this way, while their units went on to multi-year extended tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was absolutely endemic.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
7. Women destroy toughness and cohesion. First, they can’t perform, so it’s impossible to hold a standard. You can’t haze them. And you can’t haze the men because young guys don’t like being hazed in front of women. Impossible to create a strict relationship environment.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
8. On deployment women are (surprise) a constant source of indiscipline. They are always getting mixed up with men and alcohol (even if disallowed). Prostitution rings are not uncommon, often being pimped by a minority NCO.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
9. Females have recourse to a whole body of discipline meant to police sexual assaults, but it’s often abused. A common situation at the service academies is for a female to be involved in a consensual relationship, but if caught having sex (which is not allowed on post) she will claim she was being assaulted to escape punishment. Many men have had their lives essentially ruined by their girlfriends in this manner.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
10. One unit that I was in had the entire chain of command relived because they had ALL slept with one E4 who had been a stripper before she enlisted. Entire chain from BN CDR on down just one-shotted before they even got to combat.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
11. Females in female-heavy units like medical support often start whisper campaigns against bosses they don’t like, filing spurious SHARP complaints in an effort to get their boss fired.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
12. This is a fun little one. Female soldiers are notorious for sneaking out the protective plates in their armored vests so they weigh less.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
13. Females often abuse the medical system to obtain “profiles” that excuse them from running or marching. One female at one of the service academies was notorious for running competitively every track season, then wearing an orthopedic boot EVERY summer training season.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
14. The presence of females in the military has to be supported by endless rounds of training. A lot of time is wasted for this. Many of the trainings bring in civilian diversity consultants which is about what you’d expect. Grad students lecturing to an auditorium of soldiers about toxic masculinity. A waste of time and completely insulting.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
15. To summarize: 1. Women can’t perform to the required physical standards, compromising performance 2. Women introduce relational problems that compromise discipline, that can never be solved 3. Women are prioritized for better treatment, which destroys cohesion Women do not belong in the military.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
There’s also a larger point to be made. This feminist boosterism rose to the level of strategic significance. We were in Afghanistan for explicitly feminist goals (educate the little girls) and American female soldiers were essentially supposed to be the template that the new Afghan female would look up to. There was a program that embedded women with SF units that was supposed to accomplish this goal. They were supposed to be like Marvel heroes to inspire afghan girls. We saw how that worked out. The afghan army folded and we pulled out in defeat. In retrospect we can see how the supposed success of Obama era girl power integration really led these people to believe they could reshape Afghanistan at will. I hope the tawdry realities of women in combat shared in this thread give you some insight into just how fake that vision always really was, and how inevitable its failure would be.
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
Bonus Round stories from friends: 16. "The FET (Female Engagement Team) attached to my platoon once wandered off during a patrol, because their E5 NCOIC fancied herself just the same as a maneuver unit, I noticed but it was too late they were inside some house of the village elder, he freaks out and starts yelling because we’d broken social decorum, patrol ends with all their men throwing rocks at us. Miracle this didn’t end up going a different way."
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
17. "You could always tell which unit was deploying at JBLM because in the morning you’d see a bunch of females with the same PT belts with their unit written on them doing “pregnant PT” around the airfield." (ie units that were about to deploy were easily identifiable because the women in those units would get pregnant all at the same time)
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
18: FET teams nothing but trouble, compromise security: "I’ve got a story. I’m ripping out with the replacement platoon. My guys have already gone back to KAF ready to go home. I stick around and go on patrols for 5 days with the incoming platoon. First day I’m showing them how we do a TCP at one of the afghan police outposts, stopping and searching civilian vehicles. This new platoon had a FET team attached to them, and in the middle of the check point, fully exposed, 3 of the 4 NCOs, instead of monitoring their brand new scared privates on the perimeter, spent the entire op gathered around and flirting with the “cute” FET team. All eyes inward in a little half circle gaggle."
@myth_pilot - 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬
20. Women getting special UCMJ treatment: "Here’s my women in the military story. When I was a CPT I PCS’d to a new duty station and was immediately put in charge of a female Puerto Rican LTC in my specialty, which is extremely unusual given that she outranked me by two ranks. It turns out this was due to the fact that she popped hot for cocaine during a UA. She was not kicked out, but did have to submit to weekly UA’s for a year. She made it to week 50 and popped hot again. She still wasn’t kicked out."
@Texas_jeep__guy - 🇺🇸𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓭🇺🇸𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷🇺🇸
If you work for the DOD and you had to do something like this you need to resign. https://t.co/jou8vX7Piu
@CortesSteve - Steve Cortes
🚨Mark “White Rage” Milley lied about Joe Biden’s mental fitness a year ago in a 60 Minutes interview because he didn’t want President Trump to win the election. This was a massive cover-up: “I meet frequently with the President and every single time I meet with [Biden] — he’s just fine. How people interpret that is up to them. But I engage with him frequently and he’s alert, sound, does his homework, reads the papers, reads all the read-ahead material. And he's very, very engaging in issues of very serious matters of war and peace and life and death. So if the American people are worried about an individual who is, you know, someone who's making decisions of war and peace and has access to, you know, makes the decisions of nuclear weapons and that sort of thing, I think they can rest easy.”
@BrandonStraka - Brandon Straka #WalkAway
General Milley: “I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights. I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety.” None of these gutless piles of shit wanted to endure what they just put thousands of us through. These people drove innocent people to suicide, and wrecked the lives of countless others- and they tremble in cowardice at the prospect of being treated the way they abused their power to destroy others.
@BradMiller1010 - Brad Miller
My phone's blowing up with many kind-hearted folks reaching out, congratulating me, even urging me to cut my hair 😎, & expressing their sincere gratitude for the president's recent remarks about military reinstatement & backpay. While I'm thankful for the genuine remarks of my friends & family, I must ask: is this enough for me to put the uniform back on? Our military is run by criminals & cowards. So is our govt. This isn't new & it hasn't changed. When will that be addressed? Let me know 👇 if you guys think I should go back. For the record, of course I support these actions (viewed independently from their possible motives). I just don't think it's nearly enough.
@BradMiller1010 - Brad Miller
Will the treason & cowardice be addressed: https://bradmiller10.substack.com/p/treason-and-cowardice
@BradMiller1010 - Brad Miller
Will the issue of moral injury be addressed? https://bradmiller10.substack.com/p/moral-injury
@SeanParnellUSA - Sean Parnell
Congresswoman, I realize this may be a foreign concept to you but here at the DoD if you disrespect the chain of command & don’t do your job, you will be replaced. Period.
@MattForVA - Matt Strickland
President Trump has bad actors working for him subverting his agenda. At the highest levels. I accepted a position at DHS HQ not because I needed a job, but because I wanted to fight for my children’s future and the future of this country from the inside. I was just fired from DHS HQ for fighting the career bureaucrats that are subverting Trump’s agenda, and moreover, hellbent on continuing the destruction of America. In the coming days I will be dropping bombs that will include specifics on how household names - people you think are “conservative” - are not who you think they are. I tried to do things the correct way and expose the corrupt anti-American agenda being pushed in our government. I was fired for it. Since I followed my chain of command and was ignored, I will now bring the issues to the ultimate boss. You, the American People.
@MattForVA - Matt Strickland
Not trying to be mellow-dramatic about “posting in the coming days.” I’m just at my real job, my restaurant - @gourmeltz - and I don’t have time to lay it out intelligently right now.
@shanaka86 - Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? https://open.substack.com/pub/shanakaanslemperera/p/the-last-molecule-standing?r=6p7b5o&utm_medium=ios
@BuzzPatterson - Buzz Patterson
Here’s another Clinton story. This one IS in “Dereliction of Duty.” We were returning from Europe on AF-1, landed at Andrews, and helicoptered to the White House. We arrived at about midnight and, after ensuring the president was on his way upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. Shortly thereafter, the AF-1 pilot called me and said “we have a problem.” Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her. She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with a child. She didn’t want to be another “bimbo.”She only wanted an apology. “Oh, shit,” I thought. So, that morning, as a young major, I had to walk to the Oval Office and tell the commander-in-chief that he needed to apologize to the young lady. I remember on my way to talk with him thinking “I don’t get paid for this shit.” Two weeks later, we got the two together onboard AF-1 and he offered a very uncontrite “half apology.” He didn’t care. If anybody in the military had done that it would’ve been jail, expulsion, or both. Yet another in my experiences working for a man with no integrity and no moral fiber. It’s all in here: https://www.amazon.com/Dereliction-Duty-Eyewitness-Compromised-Americas/dp/0895260603/ref=la_B001IOBNIA_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339730111&sr=1-1