Eisenhower was a real general. Milley is a man playing a real general. Hence his putting the Army into World War II era uniforms.
There is all the difference in the world between being something and pretending you are something.
Clowns Always Have More Shinies
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Fraud.
Our military has become a cargo cult. Imitation without the core guts.
FRAUD. Very dangerous, incompetent FRAUD.
I have a suspicion that the people who made it into the flag ranks have always tended to be people with political skills. The thing is, the politicians were different, the culture of the professional-managerial set was different, and thus the incentives were different. Milley has certain accomplishments and the guy next to him does, but Milley’s more adaptable to the culture of the professional-managerial set favored by the Democratic Party. (Trump promoted him because people Trump was fed up with disliked him; bank shots aren’t always successful). The problem has been (1) that Trump’s severe shortcoming has been personnel and (2) people like the Bushes do not have well-considered and well-articulated principles of action, so they don’t shape their environment in any way. The culture deteriorates, so does any institution over which they preside. (This might be less of a problem with Mitt Romney; not sure). We’ve had only one Republican president who knew how to resist the culture, and he retired 30+ years ago.
(I have a suspicion that the difference in the number of decorations he’s received have to do with institutional factors, not anything about Milley himself).
“All the medals and decorations shown on Patton’s uniform in the opening monologue are replicas of those actually awarded to Patton. However, the general never wore all of them in public and was in any case not a four-star general at the time he made the famous speeches on which the opening is based. He wore them all on only one occasion, in his backyard in Virginia at the request of his wife, who wanted a picture of him with all his medals. The producers used a copy of this photo to help recreate this ‘look’ for the opening scene.”
– From IMDB’s Patton (1970) Trivia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/trivia
Apparently Milley does put on all that bling for things like congressional testimony and news conferences, not just formal portraits.
Generals! What they allowed Chinese Joe, Obama, and Xi do re: Afghanistan is among the stupidest things anybody has ever seen.
When the fake media criticized Milley for being seen with President Trump, he went on line to grovel and eat dirt apologizing. If you think such a gutless eunuch could be a soldier, you are part of the problem. For one: chain of command: President Trump was his commander [until we were robbed in the election.]
Brevity is the soul of wit. Evidence clearly indicates that Milley and approximately 99% of military posers above the rank of 0-3 aren’t worth the gunpowder to blow them to Hell.
Your disdain for General Milley is quite apparent senior officers do not always wear all their awards. I am sure you knew this. You need to work on your attitude. Snark does not become you.
Every time I have seen Milley testify before Congress he always seems to be wearing his I love me jewelry. The snark that I have shown towards Milley does not equal half the disdain I have for this politicized, incompetent buffoon. He is a disgrace to the uniform he wears.
As a Catholic Priest, serving in the United States Army, with 29 years of service when adding my enlisted time, I am appalled. I do not expect trash like this on this page. Yes, trash. Slamming an active, practicing, and devout Catholic and making implied misguided claims about his leadership and the uniform he wears a goes against the teachings of the Church, most especially the Commandments. What is the point of the comparison? I know why: Donald R. McClarey and what appears by many of the comments, never served a day in the Armed Forces. It is obvious you have no respect for the men and woman in uniform. Mr. McClarey, you lost all respect from me. You are not a Catholic Gentleman. The late Jack Chick has more class than you. General Milley, and all those who have worn the uniforms of the US Armed Forces, have more class than you. We defend your right to speak or write your misguided opinions, even when they do come out of your fourth point of contact. But don’t blame a General because you lacked the backbone and courage to serve this nation.
“Donald R. McClarey and what appears by many of the comments, never served a day in the Armed Forces.”
Green Machine as we called the Army then: 1975-1978. Many of the commenters on this blog also served in the military, but I will let them speak for themselves.
Father I would suggest that the next time you decide to slime someone you might find out something about them first. My family has shed blood in all the wars of this nation beginning with Major Andrew McClary, New Hampshire militia, who fell at Bunker Hill. I love the armed services of the United States, as countless posts on this blog indicate, and that is precisely why I speak out against Milley.
I know why: Donald R. McClarey and what appears by many of the comments, never served a day in the Armed Forces
Bearing false witness, detraction and calumny are all three morally wrong actions. That statement falls solidly into one of the three cases in all circumstances here.
-AT2, 9/11 era veteran
At a congressional hearing Gen. Milley stated that he wanted to know why thousands tried to “overturn the constitution” on Jan. 6th.
After all of the ballot mishandling and eyewitness reports leading up to January 6th, does the General really wonder if they were upset because of “white privilege?”
His testimony;
While Austin didn’t have much to say in direct response to Waltz, whose questions focused on the teaching of critical race theory at West Point and included concerns over a seminar entitled “Understanding Whiteness and White Rage,” Milley did have something to offer on the topic.
In fact, Milley had quite a lot to say:
“First of all, on the issue of critical race theory, etc., I will obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is, but I do think it is important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and that we understand — and I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it.”
“What is it that that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America,” said Milley, referring to the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. “What caused that? I want to find that out. I want to maintain an open mind here and I do want to analyze it. It’s important that we understand that because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and guardians, they come from the American people. So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.”
“I’ve read Mao Zedong, I’ve read Karl Marx, I’ve read Lenin, that doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country that we are here to defend? And I personally find it offensive that we are finding the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned and noncommissioned officers of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”
Becoming informed is important.
Not understanding what it is and propagating it to the troops is disconcerting.