Posted on 12/02/2010 12:52:46 PM PST by US Navy Vet
For once, McCain gets it right. The Joint Chiefs don’t command jack squat and they are not part of the National Command Authority which runs from the President, through the SECDEF, to the combatant and specified commands, i.e. EUCOM, CENTCOM, PACOM, TRANSCOM, SOCOM, and others.
Oh, it's outright corruption. Those animals will do anything for their Democrat party and its base constituencies. Anyway, thanks for the info about the survey. Please update the thread and ping me when you complete your analysis. ...Should be interesting.
Even the heads of the military are ready to “sell out”.
I always believed there is a right and a wrong. It seems many people are not willing to stand up for what is right.
It’s not just you, and he IS a putz!
The service chiefs (CSA, CNO, CSAF, & the Commandant) are a part of the Joint Chiefs (or JCS). They most definitely will deal with the fallout.
Mullen has never seen combat action. McCain was a POW in Nam, plus he has sons in the military. I believe one is in the Marine Corps. McCain appears willing to go to the mat on this one. Thank you Senator.
Yes he served but he was definitely NOT a war fighter
Apparently Mullen is the highest ranking rear admiral in Navy history.
</punch line drum roll>
I was thinking specifically about the Chairman and should have done a little more homework and not spoken so broadly.
I just fired off an e-mail to McCain’s Senate website encouraging him to keep up the fight on this issue. For anybody that want’s to do same, here’s the address...
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Thanks for your work on this. As I have posted before, I took the survey, and it was obviously slanted to generate a benign response. Only one area for text entry, and I gave them an earfull, although I imagine I’ll be relegated to a certain “demographic.”
Also, as I’ve mentioned before, the survey was coded with a specific number attached to my name, so I didn’t have high confidence that it was truly confidential. So now I hear that there was only a 28% response, and Mullen and Gates are claiming that a majority of the military is for the repeal of DADT? These are out and out lies! Where is the press on this fraud?
I watched some of the briefing on CSPAN. Adm Mullen is claiming he has battle experience working alongside gay personnel, and he “knows in his soul” the repeal is the right thing to do. Whatever happened to logic and knowing something in your brain, especially at his level?
Also, there were a lot of questions regarding living quarters, showers, etc, but not much in the way of concrete answers. My favorite moment was when the DoD lawyer on the panel intimated that gay soldiers would have the right to designate their chosen partners, who would receive full military spousal benefits. How the hell would that work, without the legal binding of a legal marriage ceremony? Would everyone have the right to have a designated partner who would recieve health benefits, military housing, travel benefits overseas, etc? How would those costs affect operations? Obviously this is not a well thought out and planned transformation, just a weak willed go-along-to-get-along response by political officers who don’t really give a damn about the military. Whatever happened to RESIGNING if you profoundly disagree with a decision? Maybe if all the senior folks who really didn’t believe in this change resigned together something good would come of it. Most of them can retire with full benefits anyway.
Anyway, we’ve all been told that if we don’t like it, too bad, we can find another job. So much for appreciation for the small segment of our society which has actually sacrificed during this long period of war while life went along as usual for everyone else.
None of the quotes sounds supportive, although the “interpretation” by the report writers is all editorial opinion. When I have all of the report read thoroughly I'll post a critique of the report here and ping you.
Thank you for your service again. I didn't know about the number either.
If you are still interested in the topic, I wrote a long piece on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2638468/posts
If you are still interested in the topic I wrote a 4 part critique of the press by examining the report:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2638468/posts
Thanks!
I will check it out.
There are just a few lynchpins in the leftist agenda, and the removal of the ban on openly “gay” service members was one of them. Many other agenda items flowed from that one policy change. That’s why the newly leftist House, Senate and White House went after THIS instead of imposing an ENDA or repealing the Defense of Marriage Act during the 2 years they had complete power.
All of those other goals would flow from this.
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