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So Much for Keeping the Military Out of Politics

Rogue Valley

Rogue Valley

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So Much for Keeping the Military Out of Politics

Acting Navy Secretary Modly’s Trumpian approach to the military and his firing of a carrier captain has gone over like a lead anchor.

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Former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly.

4/6/20
Jim Mattis must be rolling in his political grave. The Marine general-turned-defense secretary did everything in his power to keep the military out of the spotlight and disconnected to Trump’s firebrand version of American politics. He and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford kept their peers off the airwaves, off cable news, and off public stages to prevent reporters from pressing them on Trump’s red-hot tweets and sudden policy turns. They took a lot of heat for it, but it certainly did the job. That was then, this is now.
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A timely monologue highlighting how Donald Trump has dragged the US military knee-deep into his political maelstrom.

Battle of the USS Theodore Roosevelt: a Timeline

The COVID-stricken aircraft carrier sailed out of its regular deployment and into international headlines, with repercussions from Guam to Washington. Here's what happened and when.

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USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

4/7/20
January 17: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71, or TR), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, departs Naval Base San Diego with 4,865 sailors aboard and Capt. Brett Crozier in command. TR sails in company with its strike group on a deployment to the western Pacific region.....
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The article explains the TR timeline from slipping is moorings in San Diego on January 17 to disinfection in Guam on Wednesday, 8 April 2020.
 
And once again, what should the Navy do differently? What can the Navy do now that it is not doing?

This is what I keep repeating over and over again, and amazingly nobody can say anything other than "do more!".

Complaining about a situation without providing any kind of solution is not productive, it is counter-productive. And more than that, it is simple whining.

I have largely tuned out this entire debate, because not a single individual is able to provide an answer to that very simple question. They have no idea what else to do, the Captain did not provide a single solution as to what to do, nobody can. SO I only see it as a bunch of whining, that is somehow transferring to yet more screaming of "Orange Man Bad!"

And I have no more interest in this stupidity than I did a few years ago when people were screaming "Black Man Bad!"

Or as the old saying goes, "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem."
 
Rogue Valley said:
So Much for Keeping the Military Out of Politics

Acting Navy Secretary Modly’s Trumpian approach to the military and his firing of a carrier captain has gone over like a lead anchor.

defense-large.jpg

Former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly.



A timely monologue highlighting how Donald Trump has dragged the US military knee-deep into his political maelstrom.

Battle of the USS Theodore Roosevelt: a Timeline

The COVID-stricken aircraft carrier sailed out of its regular deployment and into international headlines, with repercussions from Guam to Washington. Here's what happened and when.

defense-large.jpg

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)



The article explains the TR timeline from slipping is moorings in San Diego on January 17 to disinfection in Guam on Wednesday, 8 April 2020.
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Trump dragged the military into his political maelstrom.

Did he force the Navy into that Vietnamese port? :lamo
 
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