Potential military pardons

That spice brown is trash! Cant make out squat from 3 feet away...so everyone is a Major!!

 

If you were political the A/c would be fixed by now. Hope your place is asbestos free....pretty sure mine is not nor a few other chemicals and high energy radiation sources....though my A/C works bitch!

j/k hope they get you back into a/c soon.

 

When I met Chief Wright last October I was in awe but I still called out that awful decision. I joked by commenting that the Air Force must be getting rid of all its optometrists and going to real time eye tests. ;-)

 

Word on the street is they may switch to black thread. I guess the saw how much better it is when they have officers walking around with Army ranks. No clue who is 100 feet away, but is it a Captain...so arm the salute

 

They could use florescent thread and they would still look better than ABU's.

You should see what they make our people in CAP wear. There is a reason I use the "corporate" uniform.

Clown show.

 

Sniper check sir...

 

Howdy neighbor!

I'm midway through my second week here in Bahrain. I head back home on Sunday.

My son just went through the broken AC thing last week at his office at NSA here. Fortunately for him, no uniform involved. Just lightweight pants and either a polo or button-down shirt.

 

Slightly jealous...

Hope you enjoyed your time in Bahrain and have safe travels back. I have a year here, so hopefully I don't become a sundried tomato.

 

Some of the most political humans I have ever met are retired Sgt Majors. They are experts at the favors and influence games.

 

Leadership as defined by the Army: The process of providing purpose, direction and motivation to influence subordinates to accomplish a mission.

I had a squad leader who was 17 years in and an E-6. Hard as nails ball buster but fair. I asked him why he never went to A-NOC (Advanced Non Commissioned Officers Course). He stated the higher the rank, the less influence you have on young soldiers. He was often heard behind closed doors in yelling matches with his superiors, mostly over disagreements with training or the treatment of his subordinates by other NCO's. There was a couple slots that came open for air assault school in our unit. I had been practically begging to go to the school and the afternoon we found out the slot was open for me was the morning I wrecked my shoulder during training. The school was over a month out so I figured I could heal by then, but I had to pass a PT test and run the obstacle course under a certain time (can't remember the limit). I passed everything, in a gross amount of pain. 3 days later the slots were pulled from the unit. The Captain and 1SG called me and the other soldier who was accepted into the Captains office to tell us. After they broke the news and we were walking out my squad leader walked in and closed the door. Let's just say he was not pleased. Most people didn't like him, I would have followed that man into hell without thinking twice.

 

Sounds like a guy the Army really oughta try to keep around even if "just" an E-6...

but... three more years and he's out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Year_Tenure

 

You should see that sargeant network work the,local pols to get their brothers hired into position,s of influence.

 

Remi Adeleke was in BUDS with Eddie and he said it well, if you didn't do anything wrong you don't need a pardon. Let the facts shake out and if he was accused wrongly those guys should be held responsible.

Trump doesn't give a shit about any of these guys. It's just a tool for him. If he was pro vet he would have started his own Wounded Warrior foundation a decade ago. Don't be silly thinking he gives a fuck.

 

Speaking of pro vet, was I the only that noticed every time Obama put a medal on a guys neck he looked pissed? Out of the blue comment but figured it would fit here momentarily, def never sat well with me. Maybe just me idk

 

And we all know how corrupt WWP is...

 

I'm surprised at this, Joe, usually you do adequate research...the one case you reference is obviously that of U.S. Army SF Major MATTHEW GOLSTEYN, and no one convicted him of murder. What has happened so far is that the Commanding General of the U.S Army Special Operations referred the matter to a 'general court-martial' on the charge of the pre-meditated murder of a suspected (did you notice that description?) Afghan bomb maker, that is to say, there was (or so the Army has alleged) no evidence that this particular Afghan civilian was a bomb maker. GOLSTEYN then, as he himself has stated, escorted the Afghan civilian to a place outside of the base and then made the determination that the man was the bomb maker (or at least a hostile enemy) based on the direction the man walked. GOLSTEYN then shot and killed the man and then buried him, only to retrieve the body later to burn it. Now, none of this would have come to much of anything had not GOLSTEYN applied for a CIA position in 2011 and of course was subject to a polygraph exam. During that polygraph exam, no doubt the needles twitched a bit too much and GOLSTEYN made the admission that he had killed this Afghan civilian back in 2010. As is clearly written and explained in detail before anyone takes that polygraph exam, if you confess to any crimes, the appropriate authorities will be notified, and that is exactly what happened. If GOLSTEYN believed the CIA would cover for his ass, he was sadly mistaken, as the Army began an investigation as soon as they were notified, which, in turn, took the case to where it is today, i.e., waiting for a trial date for the general court-martial. I don't know where people are coming up with some of the views expressed here, but there is no doubt that if, officially, the military has adequate reason and proof that a service member killed civilians, even in a war zone, without adequate justification, then that service member will be charged with a crime and court-martialed. Cover-ups generally have a strange way of coming to the light of day.

Take a look at the case of Special Operation Chief Edward Gallagher. Or turn back the hands of time and review the case of Col. Robert Rheault in Vietnam. Guilty or innocent?

 

You provide valuable insight. I admit I knew very little about the case and I was having difficulty finding reliable information so I posted up here. There has definitely been "thread creep" in here since my original post so I hadn't chimed back in.