Massive U.S. Military Resentment

[GURPS]

Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief for cause of Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused to hang photos of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on her headquarters’ customary “Chain of Command” board and reportedly told her subordinates in a town hall that she would “wait [the Trump administration] out” the next four years. They also include the relief for cause of Col. Sussanah Meyers, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s base in Greenland, after she openly questioned (to all of her subordinates via email) Vice President J.D. Vance’s official pronouncements regarding the United States, Greenland, and Denmark.

Since Trump’s inauguration, numerous other senior generals and admirals have been relieved by President Trump for various publicly unspecified reasons, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the commandant of the Coast Guard; and Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Each of these four-star firings is publicly shrouded in a certain degree of mystery, but rumors abound that so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) played a part in one way or another.

Admittedly, a president firing his senior generals is not a new thing. Barack Obama fired his senior general in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stan McChrystal, after a Rolling Stone article revealed derisive comments by McChrystal and his staff regarding Obama’s leadership. Harry S. Truman fired one of America’s most famous and revered military leaders, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, after MacArthur repeatedly disobeyed Truman’s orders regarding the Korean War. And Abraham Lincoln famously had no problem firing his senior Army generals in the heat of the Civil War. What made these firings so noteworthy, however, is that they were rare exceptions that proved the rule of America’s senior generals and admirals wholly respecting civilian control of the military.

The Senior Ranks of America’s Military Have A Loyalty Problem

Politics is the domain of the president, not the oath-bearing members of the uniformed services.

thefederalist.com

 

[Kyle]

You can thank Obama and HIS loyalty and litmus tests for this situation.

That was when the extreme marxist politization of the Pentagon began.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[GURPS]

You can thank Obama and HIS loyalty and litmus tests for this situation.

That was when the extreme marxist politization of the Pentagon began.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Cleaning up this mess will take a generation ... the rot is from Bottom to Top

Deep State Roaches are EVERYWHERE

 

[limblips]

Many officers aspiring to flag rank saw that there was a fork in the road when obama took over. They had to make a choice, the left or the right. Those that chose the left are now paying the price for their rhetoric and buy in to the belief in a military devoid of promotion by merit. Those that chose the right were passed over as not being "team players". Sadly many great flag leaders were never given the chance since they refused to forego their belief in military readiness and strength for a "everybody gets a trophy mentality".

 

[GURPS]

Trump Fires Insubordinate Space Force Commander; Military Officer Adherence to the U.S. Constitution in Question​

Last week I gave our loyal readers a heads up that STARRS (STAND TOGETHER Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services) was going to hold a Town Hall concerning service members who think that it is appropriate to denigrate President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth, engage in “malicious compliance,” and downright defiance of lawful orders issued by the Trump Administration, especially as regards the removal of DEI: U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern:

There is an enormous problem in our nation’s military, one that I have not seen discussed in depth elsewhere. I have heard from multiple sources that many active duty officers openly and deeply despise the Trump Administration, and they are not at all shy about expressing their opinion both in and out of uniform. One active duty major I know estimates that it’s 1 in 4 who have this problem…
This is an astonishingly bad problem. Putting aside for the moment that this is a clear violation of Article 88 of the UCMJ, this is how military coups take place. I guess I should not be surprised given Mark Milley’s traitorous actions towards his Commander-in-Chief, but the fact that this has permeated to lower levels of the officer corps surprises me and causes me great worry. [emphasis added].

Well, the STARRS Town Hall was, in fact, held Wednesday at the appointed hour (noon Eastern). It was excellent, and we will have a full recap of it this weekend.

 

[somdwatch]

Way too many flag officers anyway. It wouldn't hurt to drop down to just 10. As long as those 10 focus on the sole mission of the military

 

[dave20]

Once you reach a certain level of command things become political because of the nature of the job. But if these Flag Officers that want to be politicians, they should muster out and be politicians or remain in service, shut up and follow chain of command.