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2025-04-16 -Great Cultural Revolution

Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command

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Posted by 746 2025-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10332 views ] Top

#1 Hear, hear!

Posted by RJ45ACP 2025-04-16 05:56|| 2025-04-16 05:56|| Front Page Top

#2 You hold a commission. Your promotions are predicated upon "special trust and confidence". If it is a lawful order, you are bound to carry it out. You resign or retire if you find you can not morally support the chain of command. Period.

You wonder why the commies were out to strike 'Duty, Honor, County'. You have your answer.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-16 07:41|| 2025-04-16 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 shall be punished as a court-martial may direct

"Hanged by the neck until dead"

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-16 09:28|| 2025-04-16 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 he would "wait [the Trump administration] out" the next four years.

And from where could they have gotten this idea?

Posted by alanc 2025-04-16 10:28|| 2025-04-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 You mean the political officers that worship DEI and the authoritarianism of the left?

Yeah purge them out.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-04-16 11:07|| 2025-04-16 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Won't be the 1st nation to have a Military Elite that thinks it knows what's best.

As we have seen repeatedly, Civilian Exec authority has been repeatedly circumvented by many a Elite General, in other nations around the world.

Hence, the importance of the right person in the right slot, FOLLOWING Orders, and those not, removed quickly.

BTW: Peaking behind the US Political curtains since the 1960's it likely has happened or been tried here at least 3x's.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-16 11:37|| 2025-04-16 11:37|| Front Page Top

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