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lol. Im sure he was neck deep in the ****
Posted on: October 1, 2023 at 19:00:36 CT
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Admittedly, the charge of many critics that Milley has never seen combat or won a war is slightly exaggerated—but only slightly. He was stateside throughout the First Gulf War, the only large-scale engagement during his career in which the U.S. Armed Forces can claim anything like victory. He was deployed in support of some minor imperial adventures, including those in Panama and Haiti. Tucked among the many (mostly frivolous) medals on his hefty chest is a Combat Infantryman’s Badge with one star, suggesting the soldier engaged in two live-fire exchanges over four decades of service.
But the general point is a fair one. Mark Milley became a full-bird colonel in the first year of the War on Terror. He has spent the entirety of America’s longest war as a field-grade officer, responsible for the life and death of countless American soldiers without any serious experience of full-scale conflict as a soldier on the ground. It is a problem that has always plagued modern armies, especially the Army of the well-insulated United States: When a full generation passes between substantial military engagements, the senior-most officers in wartime are necessarily going to be men who rose through the ranks as peacetime bureaucrats. This is a systemic problem, and the worst of the in-service mismanagement in Iraq and Afghanistan can be attributed largely to the aging-out of the last brass who had served as company-grade officers in Vietnam.
Still, Mark Milley was an egregious case. The Princeton-educated general, because he was not a wartime soldier, had to become something else; he chose to become a political operative, an arm of the regime with four stars on the shoulder.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-armchair-general-takes-a-seat/
Edited by El-ahrairah at 19:02:56 on 10/01/23
But the general point is a fair one. Mark Milley became a full-bird colonel in the first year of the War on Terror. He has spent the entirety of America’s longest war as a field-grade officer, responsible for the life and death of countless American soldiers without any serious experience of full-scale conflict as a soldier on the ground. It is a problem that has always plagued modern armies, especially the Army of the well-insulated United States: When a full generation passes between substantial military engagements, the senior-most officers in wartime are necessarily going to be men who rose through the ranks as peacetime bureaucrats. This is a systemic problem, and the worst of the in-service mismanagement in Iraq and Afghanistan can be attributed largely to the aging-out of the last brass who had served as company-grade officers in Vietnam.
Still, Mark Milley was an egregious case. The Princeton-educated general, because he was not a wartime soldier, had to become something else; he chose to become a political operative, an arm of the regime with four stars on the shoulder.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-armchair-general-takes-a-seat/
Edited by El-ahrairah at 19:02:56 on 10/01/23
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lol. Im sure he was neck deep in the **** - El-ahrairah UGA - 10/1 19:00:36
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