Posted on 06/19/2018 8:11:17 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
You make outrageous conclusions. FYI Tangney was FA. Kind of odd in SOG, but; he obviously did a good job in 67-68 with the 4th ID as well as with my old unit.
As to my PC punk comment. I call most modern day Gens like Kelly that as Kelly was assigned to Marine Corp HQ DC as a Captain in 1981-84. No Army CPT I ever knew was assigned to the Pentagon or to Infantry Branch. In 1995 he becomes the Marine Corp liaison to the US House of Reps. If you cannot see a PC a—kissing, do exactly what your boss wants type here you must be like him. Lastly,I would not serve today with fags and you name it. McMaster wrote a book criticizing our top Gen’s who were in Vietnam for not standing up to the bureaucrats in DC. When did today’s top brass stand up to the LGBT BS dumped on our military? Where was the PC PUNK then? Our military is a joke. Riding high diddle,diddle down MSR’s is exactly how the Russians got clobbered in Afghan.
Thanks. I believe all public officials are fair game. You and I will not agree 100%. Most on this site are civil.
His job from 1981-1984 was as an "assignment monitor", which is a typical shore tour assignment for company-grade officers, like being an officer recruiter, or series commander at a recruit depot. When company-grade officers are nearing the end of their tours and looking for their next assignment, they call their assigned monitor to find out what duty stations are available, to and put in their request. That's how you get assigned to your next duty station. He was just one of the guys on the other end of the phone, reading off the list of what was available.
It is a standard administrative position for a shore duty tour. Nothing particularly prestigious about it.
Now, I can speak to his assignment in Quantico in 1987. The Head of the Tactics Department at The Basic School was Lt. Col. Howard Lovingood, a decorated multi-tour Vietnam Vet who actually made first sergeant before getting a battlefield commission in Vietnam. The CO of the Basic School at the time was Col. Terry Ebbert, who'd lost a lung to a .50 cal. in Vietnam and was lucky to be alive. Oh, and he had the Navy Cross.
Both of those guys thought the world of Maj. Kelly. Out of a boatload of candidates, he was hand-picked by the two of them to run the Infantry Officers Course in Quantico, which trains all Marine Infantry Officers. Unlike the routine of being an assignment officer, being the head of IOC is extremely prestigious, because it means the entire Marine Corps is entrusting you to train every single Infanty Lt. entering the fleet.
You don't know the man, so you assume he got ahead after that through butt-kissing. He's exactly the opposite of that. He is the ultimate no bullshit, no ego, just get the damn job done regardless of who gets the credit kind of guy. And he is smart and well-read as hell. Senior officers like having someone like that working for them. Not because he kisses butt, but because he is just good as hell at his job.
Try to find anyone who served with him to say anything bad about him. You can't. All you can do is smear a man you never met.
I'm done with you and your nasty old man bitterness.
TACT.
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