What I meant is not his qualifications, but the Biden Administrations motives. Was he the only candidate to fit a mold? If he is as good as you say, then it's laughable to think they only looked at his color and not his character.
Merit has no place in military promotions?
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Wife is trying to retire, she says this all the time about the future of the US military.
I hear you, but none of us can pretend to know the motives of an administration’s decision on who to nominate for certain positions.
The first obvious is the limited options available for the role; there’s only five people at any one time that are even eligible. Of those five, timing makes a lot of impact; this time around there were only three people (CSAF, CSA, VCJCS) that could fill the role due to career timing.
Given those constraints, you start looking at contenders to backfill the Service Chief role…I don’t think Army really has anyone ready to fleet up to CSA, so the current Vice or the current CSAF were likely the only two realistic candidates. Brown is a warfighter who’s term as CSAF was coming to an end and would have either been renominated as CSAF or Grady who’s only midway thru the Vice term.
I've said similar things since covid started and been ridiculed for belittling the military as if I had no point of reference or sense enough to follow the signs.
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Just going on past promotions by the Biden Administration. Certainly not merit based.
If I were a minority senior officer and well deserving of a promotion to a more senior billet I would resent the current executive civilian boss from saying that diversity played a roll in promotions. I was not knocking this particular general but was thinking that no one wants to be characterized by race but perhaps by merit. You don't need to defend Brown and I suspect he is not keen for inclusion, equity and diversity if he made it based on his character and leadership ability.
Biden's selection for the Supreme Court and Press Secretary prove that merit isn't a factor only race and gender.
Funny, news tonight says military is down several hundred promotions and that hurts national defense. HOW? Same guys still have a job, just not promoted. There is always somebody temporarily 'in-charge'. Oh, scum don't get promoted to the top? Lying media again. Keep it up Tubberville.
General Zod
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To be fair, it is going on - and it's an intentional strategy. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is holding up all military promotions that require Congressional approval - and that's basically Colonel and above - until the Pentagon drops a policy of helping military personnel get around abortion laws in the states where they're stationed by flying them to other states to get the procedure done. Right now it's holding up quite a few promotions, including appointing a new Commandant of the Marine Corps as the current one is retiring.
General Zod
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Milley may have been a "man among men", but as Chairman of the JCS he's shown himself to be nothing but a political animal of the Democrat variety. He's the one on whose watch all this PC bullshit, "gender affirming" drag queen shows, and promotions based on identity politics have taken hold. He's also the Chairman who delcared he'd have called his Chinese communist counterpart to warn him if Trump had ordered any aggressive moves toward China.
Would it be wrong to wish him all he deserves in the future?
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John Sam Rayburn
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 already did this.
232 Active and Reserve Component General and Flag officer nominations.
We did affirmative action in the 90’s and learned it hurt the military and produced incompetent leaders.
But when China tells the Biden Admin to push for a weaker military leadership, Biden Admin obeys.
I spent 20 plus years serving with some great units, being on the front lines of major conflicts. Poor leadership reflects. Today I work as DoD contractor training US and foreign military with Infantry and Aviation operations. Every few weeks working with different groups. Our military is lacks leadership and decision making skills because promotions are not based on merit and good soldier’s are getting out to do better things.
I will not let my grandkids join this current military not advise friends kids to join, other than to get 3-4 years of training to get a better job outside.
We have a soldier fleeing our military to North Korea… We have high ranking Transgenders providing information to our enemies, or being relived from command they never should have had in the first place.
But when China tells the Biden Admin to push for a weaker military leadership, Biden Admin obeys.
I spent 20 plus years serving with some great units, being on the front lines of major conflicts. Poor leadership reflects. Today I work as DoD contractor training US and foreign military with Infantry and Aviation operations. Every few weeks working with different groups. Our military is lacks leadership and decision making skills because promotions are not based on merit and good soldier’s are getting out to do better things.
I will not let my grandkids join this current military not advise friends kids to join, other than to get 3-4 years of training to get a better job outside.
We have a soldier fleeing our military to North Korea… We have high ranking Transgenders providing information to our enemies, or being relived from command they never should have had in the first place.
TheMailMan
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No, we had a thug who was facing a BCD who fled to a country he thought would treat his black ass better.
