Hattip to co-blogger Foxfier.
From Not the Bee:
The woke brass at the White House and Pentagon have zero clue what they are doing in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean your average soldier has lost his fighting edge.
A group of volunteer veterans literally flew to Afghanistan to help hundreds of Afghan allies escape the country before the Taliban could find and kill them.
Go here to read the rest. God bless them.
The State Department has apparantly told countries surrounding Afghanistan to stop allowing privately funded rescue missions because it interfers with the ones the American government are doing.
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https://beckernews.com/state-dept-order-blocks-private-flights-for-americans-conducting-unauthorized-rescue-missions-to-afghanistan-report-41186/
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/stranded-congressmen-others-accuse-biden-blocking-us-citizens-kabul-airport-leaving-beaten-taliban-terrorists/
All power to them. Big Corporate could get off their behinds and assist – surely they have a few bob to spare to help out.
An in-law of mine departed the Air Force in 2017 as a consequence of having failed to make a promotion (from E-6 to E-7 – Technical Sergeant to Master Sergeant, if I’m not mistaken). Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman departed the service for the same reason; half the Lt. Colonels do not make the promotion to full Colonel and he’s a fat guy assigned to a desk job in Washington. That dignified exit was accorded to him in spite of his scamming around. Lt. Col. Scheller of the Marine Corps was relieved of his command immediately. (Recall a clutch of flag rank officers who were abruptly relieved in re Benghazi – those were the men who made steps to effect a rescue). What Democratic pols have done to the senior ranks of the military is treason.
Truth, Art.
A field grade commissioned officer or a top sergeant instantly will be fired for, say, one misfired round in a live-fire exercise, or worse a soldier suicide. But, 669 two-, three- and four-star generals bring eternal shame on America and they are covered up on MSNBC, et al.
For example, just the Army: Obama cut nine combat brigades and cashiered thousands of newly-excess officers and NCO’s.
Great as this is, does publishing it put the operation at risk?
It is already all over the net. It also doesn’t give any operational details.
In re T. Shaw’s comment, has anyone noticed the remarkable similarities regarding the vast streak of incompetence and fecklessness between the current US military leadership and our dear beloved cardinals and bishops in the Catholic Church?
In re T. Shaw’s comment, has anyone noticed the remarkable similarities regarding the vast streak of incompetence and fecklessness between the current US military leadership and our dear beloved cardinals and bishops in the Catholic Church?
Gradually, then suddenly. What we’ve been discovering the past six years (and especially in the past two years) is that the managerial stratum of every kind of institution is chock-a-block with people unfit for the positions they hold. You expect that in the educational sectors, where scandals have been familiar fare (but are, alas, getting more egregious). You expect that among politicians, who are commonly gross and stupid. You expect that to a degree in the courts and the media. Now you discover it among ordinary corporate business and you discover it in the military and you discover it in the medical profession. Steven Sailer has identified the nub of it: we have arrived at a point historically where the management of all of our institutions is occupied by people who lie routinely. (Another wag has suggested that American elites now make decisions based on gossip, which in this age seems entirely plausible).