PING!!!
Maj. Gen. John Rossi, 55, had “just arrived Redstone Arsena to take over as the commander of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command”
Article and comments, esp #16
Thanks, MarchonDC09122009 & amorphous
Army, Guard Chiefs Strive For Compromise As Subordinates Quarrel
Breaking Defense (USA) - March 13, 2014
Author/Byline: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
WASHINGTON: Poor General Ray Odierno. While the Army Chief of Staff took pains this morning to have only kind words for the National Guard (watch the video clip), one of his subordinates’ statements about the Guard’s post-9/11 performance keeps causing angry ripples across the Internet.
Those ripples started spreading after I reported what Maj. Gen. John Rossi told me: that Guard brigades couldn’t handle the most tactically complex counterinsurgency missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since we published Rossi’s remarks, our website and that of military satirist, cartoonist, and commentator Doctrine Man, who picked up the story, have been deluged with hundreds of comments pro and con. There are active-duty troops who feel relieved that someone has finally attacked a sacred cow, and there are Guard soldiers who feel personally insulted. Those comments include a fierce refutation by Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, no less a figure than the state commander of the California National Guard.
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Space and Missile Defense. Isn’t that precisely who would be responsible to protect us from NK and/or Iranian satellites set in orbit to enable an EMP attack from the south, which is currently unprotected by radar?