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Trump Nominates Air Force General For Top NATO Post In Europe
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Everyone who participates in a war crime is a war criminal. Now, of course, the lower rank and file would never be held to account for the ultimate war crime, the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, but there are myriad war crimes committed by myriad rank and file that could still be prosecuted if this was a just world, if the US was a rule of law nation.
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It's an assessment, there Lt. Wannabe.
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Why lie?
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What war crime?
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So you're saying John McCain was a war criminal. How so?
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Well this thread went into the crapper by post#2 and seldom rose above the toilet seat. Isn't anyone interested in commenting on the OP's article regarding the general's appointment?
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You first thx.
You're standing on the dock alone because that ship has already sailed and it is well underway. Gen. Wolters is the Pentagon's choice all the way. Trump as Potus/CinC makes the appointment so he signed off on it not knowing the guy. Bottom line is Trump can't find a general who agrees with him on Nato or anything else. His claims the military supports him are bs same as everything Trump says is. Come January 2021 secret service will carry him out the back door and dump him in the gutter if need be. They'll have the support of the Pentagon no problem. That's because no man is above the Constitution.
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Gen. Wolters appointment as supreme allied commander of Nato and US Forces Europe is but one of scheduled command changes across the armed forces this year. There are new commanders Pentagon is sending to Central Command, Afghanistan, USMC, CJCS, VCJCS, CSA, CNO, SK, Indo-Pacific Command, USN newly reactivated 2nd Fleet in the Arctic and North Atlantic, USAF Pacific, USArmy Pacific, Norad, US Northern Command among others.
Here's the scoop on the newly chosen CSA who will be voted into his command by the Senate which will also authorize his new pay grade.
James McConville, the Army’s No. 2 general, nominated as service’s next chief of staff
Army Gen. James McConville is to become the service’s next chief of staff, officials announced Tuesday during an Association of the United States Army event.
McConville’s nomination was sent to the Senate Armed Services Committee late Monday, retired Army Gen. Carter Ham, the president of AUSA, told an audience attending the association’s annual Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Ala. If confirmed by the Senate, McConville would become the 40th Army chief of staff, the service’s top general and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
McConville, who has served as the service’s vice chief of staff since June 2017, was widely considered the top choice of defense officials to become service chief later this year. He would replace Army Gen. Mark Milley [who will] become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford retires, which could happen by late summer.
The 59-year-old from Quincy, Mass., is a 1981 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. McConville has spent much of his career flying Army helicopters, including the AH-64 Apache, OH-58 Kiowa Warrior and the AH-1 Cobra. Before he became the Army’s No. 2 general, he served as its deputy chief of staff for personnel as a three-star general.
Earlier Army assignments sent McConville to command troops serving in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the commander of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, McConville deployed to Afghanistan in late 2012 to command U.S. and NATO forces in the country’s eastern region as the United States and its allies began drawing down their forces to move from a combat role into a mission primarily to advise and assist Afghan partners. Earlier in his career, he commanded 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division during a tour in Iraq.
James McConville, the Army’s No. 2 general, nominated as service’s next chief of staff | War Is Boring
Each Gen. McConville and Gen. Milley commanded the 101st Airborne. While McConville is from Quincy Massachusetts, Gen. Milley is from Winchester Massachusetts. And while McConville is a grad of USMA at West Point Milley is a grad of Princeton University Rotc. McConville's three adult children are career Army officers.
While McConville was deputy chief of staff for personnel he initiated Army recruiting of Generation Z focused on liberal major cities from Boston to Seattle, San Francisco, Austin Tx, Denver among others. Previous recruiting of AVF boots had always focused on the zone from the Carolinas to Texas and Arizona up through the Rocky Mountain states where recruiting will continue.
Here's the scoop on the newly chosen CSA who will be voted into his command by the Senate which will also authorize his new pay grade.
James McConville, the Army’s No. 2 general, nominated as service’s next chief of staff
Army Gen. James McConville is to become the service’s next chief of staff, officials announced Tuesday during an Association of the United States Army event.
McConville’s nomination was sent to the Senate Armed Services Committee late Monday, retired Army Gen. Carter Ham, the president of AUSA, told an audience attending the association’s annual Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Ala. If confirmed by the Senate, McConville would become the 40th Army chief of staff, the service’s top general and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
McConville, who has served as the service’s vice chief of staff since June 2017, was widely considered the top choice of defense officials to become service chief later this year. He would replace Army Gen. Mark Milley [who will] become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford retires, which could happen by late summer.
The 59-year-old from Quincy, Mass., is a 1981 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. McConville has spent much of his career flying Army helicopters, including the AH-64 Apache, OH-58 Kiowa Warrior and the AH-1 Cobra. Before he became the Army’s No. 2 general, he served as its deputy chief of staff for personnel as a three-star general.
Earlier Army assignments sent McConville to command troops serving in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the commander of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, McConville deployed to Afghanistan in late 2012 to command U.S. and NATO forces in the country’s eastern region as the United States and its allies began drawing down their forces to move from a combat role into a mission primarily to advise and assist Afghan partners. Earlier in his career, he commanded 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division during a tour in Iraq.
James McConville, the Army’s No. 2 general, nominated as service’s next chief of staff | War Is Boring
Each Gen. McConville and Gen. Milley commanded the 101st Airborne. While McConville is from Quincy Massachusetts, Gen. Milley is from Winchester Massachusetts. And while McConville is a grad of USMA at West Point Milley is a grad of Princeton University Rotc. McConville's three adult children are career Army officers.
While McConville was deputy chief of staff for personnel he initiated Army recruiting of Generation Z focused on liberal major cities from Boston to Seattle, San Francisco, Austin Tx, Denver among others. Previous recruiting of AVF boots had always focused on the zone from the Carolinas to Texas and Arizona up through the Rocky Mountain states where recruiting will continue.
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