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FWIW: Because of GOs / FOs, US mil, down to Spooks and Squids, are now target of satire, along with faux-POTUS and SecDef, of course. Last time I remember this, it was late 60s-70s.

https://babylonbee.com/news/army-and-navy-both-forfeit-football-game-leave-billions-worth-of-equipment-on-the-field

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Thank you, Commander. Very nicely said. What troubles me is: How did we get here (here being a point where we have multiple general officers of the description you provided)?

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Our Flag officers are products of the current university system. I’d never thought I’d see a West Pointer graduate wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt, meaning g nothing was taught about the man. We have returned to a post-Vietnam military where the bureaucrats who did their to

E downrange to get the badge are in charge of what is still a competent fighting force but are enacting rules and regs to destroy it

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Dec 21, 2021·edited Dec 21, 2021

Sal, Your picture of the political officer just before his demise made me laugh out loud, but there is little to be enjoyed in your laying out what was conveyed in that opinion piece. I can only hope this is the careerism we see more and more. Just for grins I read up; on the authors as you might have as well, but I only got through MGen Eaton before I had seen enough self-serving nonsense to make me ill. On his twitter account he wrote in early November that "West Point does not have the insight to select Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the Thayer Award. I cannot think of a person who has done more these past years to protect our Democracy and to support and to defend our Constitution than this noble lady." And also this..."A judge overrules Texas Governor anti mandate rule. You know. The kind of ruling Castro, Xi and Khrushchev could and did impose. But wait. Abbott is not a Communist is he? Not like DeSantis or other authoritarian thugs who decree for states that beg for decentralized government." You replied we get what we promote but I'm sure there was influence to get this politico promoted. I would put this link on linkedin but I fear it might get you in trouble given the new announcements on what is acceptable. The Senate needs to be very, very careful with flag promotions after we take back both houses in 2022. Gen Miley was a self-inflicted would by Trump.

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