Commanders are dropping like flies this year

[Lord Ratner]

7 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

It's called YouTube.  Since the show was broadcast all over Earth, live streaming is easy.

As for the content, I now christen the SoW, Pete "Mr Potato Head" Hesgeth, in honor of the "Groooooomin Standand"

As for reception, I'm sure Pete wanted to end with a mike drop, but instead he could hear a pin drop.  So it really was like talking to some TV screens.  

 

I know, I know, it's your username, if you weren't miserable about literally everything in the world, what else would you do? 

 

But it's pretty amazing to see people defending the *generals* against the first secdef in my lifetime that is telling them they have to live by the same standards they enforce. 

 

[17D_guy]

3 hours ago, O Face said:

So the shipping of a few hundred generals to DC is what finally drove the liberals to financial responsibility??  C’mon!  You all have to be able to step back here and realize your hatred may be clouding your judgement just a bit, right?  If you listened to Hegseth’s speech, what is it you are upset about?  I’m willing to bet the common sense he espoused was exactly something you muttered a thousand times during your career…”Fitness tests should be standard, opportunities should be based on merit, how is that guy still in uniform, he’s super fat, etc, stopping the weaponization of the IG process, focusing on war fighting instead of fighting for social justice. This is the shit we all were pleading for my entire career and this is the first Secretary to even bring it to light. I’m retired now and wish I had heard this kind of direction once during my career, I hope the generals in attendance are bold enough to take the charge. Had we not spent the past few decades litigating ourselves into irrelevance, and fighting our greatest threat - climate change and white supremacy perhaps the gathering would’ve been fine as an email.  Unfortunately however, I’d think you would all agree that this is an extremely large departure from years past and it might be better received coming from the horse’s mouth. 

From the dudes that bitched about Obama's golfing costing tax payers money yet silent now. GG.