[rawhide]

According to di Genova, when Pickering was told that he was going to have to deal with the “seventh floor” – aka Hillary – he was told that the General became physically ill and didn’t want to deal with it.

How did this guy ever get to be a General?

[billorites]

"he was told that the General became physically ill and didn’t want to deal with it."

Been there, done that!

[mazda77]

Pickering was never a General. Mullins was an Admiral and Chairman Joint Chiefs. Y’all make your own conclusions based off these brief snips.

Pickering entered on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1956-1959, and later served in the Naval Reserve to the grade of Lieutenant Commander. Between 1959 and 1961, he was assigned to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State Department and later to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From 1962 to 1964 Pickering served in Geneva as political adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the 18-Nation Disarmament Conference.

President Barack Obama nominated General Martin E. Dempsey as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Memorial Day. Dempsey had been sworn in as Army chief of staff the previous month. On September 30, 2011, Mullen officially retired from the military when his term as Chairman ended.

In December 2012, one year into his retirement, the Admiral was in the news again, for having been the target of a computer hacking, a situation that led to subsequent FBI investigations. In 2013, Mullen joined the board of General Motors.

[LibLieSlayer]

He becaoe a general in the same way colon powell did... it was a political choice.

LLS

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

How did this guy ever get to be a General?

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It makes you wonder. I’m trying to be charitable here ... if he acquired PTSD through his service time (not uncommon) and his anxiety etc. was never treated *properly* (because mostly, it isn’t), or if he never got good drugs (and there are some that let you get through high-anxiety periods without affecting judgment) ... then he might not be equipped any longer to deal with high-anxiety periods. Like bearding the Hildebeast in her lair. But that just means he should never have been on that committee, if he couldn’t do the work.

[vette6387]

“How did this guy ever get to be a General? “

Ditto for Mullen as an Admiral. They should both be stripped of rank and dishonorably discharged with nothing! If these “men” are what passes for “military leaders,” we are in serious trouble!