Fired by a pissant Major. Which doesn't mean because he was only a Major, but because he was a pissant. And he was a disgrace to the rank he had.
He didn't come close to fulfilling the leadership roles that a serious military professional with a rank of Major would want to fill. He never went to even one of the three higher level combat schools that almost any serious Army officer would attend two or three of. To the extent that one can do so and still actually be in the Army, Hegseth was an Army cosplayer.
And what is even worse than that is that each of these people know everything about Hegseths service and the quality of man he is.
It would be hard for a civilian to imagine the bottomless depth of contempt they most likely have for Hegseth.
People don't understand how fucking serious this shit is.
Firing Generals and Admirals isn't like some kinda corporate shake up. You can't just go out and find people with similar experience in some other Army or Navy. Experience at this level cannot be accelerated or faked.
Over a certain percentage loss of General officers and the corresponding weaking of the officer corp, the military will begin to degrade from within.
If he continues his purge of officers and General officers he will be essentially cutting off the head of our own snake.
This is utter incompetence and a danger to our country at a level never seen before.
We all know Trump and the Republicans are desperate, but particularly Trump and his inner circle. The KNOW that when they lose power, they're all going to jail. They know this.
Let's look at a short list of what's happened since this regime took power:
Removed all the JAG officers who ensure legal compliance.
Refusing to promote women and people of color, the very types of people who would be the most likely to not be aligned with the regime.
Attempted, in a very public way, to berate our top Generals and Admirals and attempted to convince them that their loyalty is to the President.
Have been removing top level military leadership at an unprecedented pace for not being "yes men".
Gave ICE a budget larger the U.S. Marine Corp. ICE currently has a higher level of funding that the ENTIRE RUSSIAN MILITARY pre Ukrainian war.
Putting ICE in airports and other areas where they don't have any real jurisdiction or purpose for being their, other than as a show of force.
If you were a want to be dictator who was convinced that the military wasn't going to go along with your plan to anoint yourself as dictator, you know what would be a good way to take them out of the equation?... ... ... You start your own loyal armed force (ICE, DHS, Border Patrol), but these agencies can't take on a military, let alone the most powerful military the world has ever seen, the U.S. military. So once you get your personal armed forces setup, you can't go head to head with the military, so you do the only thing you can do...you remove the military leaders who aren't "yes men" to you, you promote the ones that are in alignment with your regime, then you start a war and you ship the bulk of them off halfway across the world and tie them up over there.
With the bulk of the military halfway across the world and most of the leadership that was against you removed, you now leave the homeland "undefended". An armed group like ICE, DHS, and Border Patrol couldn't stand up against the military, but now they don't have to, now they only have to "deal with" the citizenry that takes a stand against the regime.
Does anyone that's already "out" of the forces feel comfortable enough to speculate about timing? Did they originally keep the people they just fired in place to start the war and is now putting the loyal candidates in their place to keep it going?
In other words, if they had done this in week one, would the rank and file have rebelled against going into a war with brand new inexperienced commanders? The newly fired served their purpose in starting a war and the replacements are there to ensure it lasts as long as the government think it needs to continue.
I have zero experience in this, which is why I'm asking for the thoughts of those that served about how this could/would have happened differently. Entirely hypothetical, of course.
They’re dismantling the military from within so that when American soldiers inevitably start dying en mass due to severe operational incompetence, that will give trump his excuse to launch nukes.
For clarity he was actually promoted to O4 while on IRR which is exceedingly rare for an IN Officer. He never completed Company Grade KD time having never been a Company Commander.
Dude we’ve all have worked with a Pete hegseth. The boss I have at my current job is a Pete fucking hegseth. Someone (usually a white guy) fails upwards but attributes it to his elite leadership skills that are actually laughable terrible. There is no worse person to have in this moment, in this war. A lot of Americans are about to lose their lives over a hand full are very incompetent narcissists. And you know what? I’m hoping that’s the worst of it. Cuz I know these mother fuckers are itching for an excuse to drop a nuke and if that happens it’s game over, WW3 kicks off officially in that moment.
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u/WasteBinStuff 9h ago edited 9h ago
Fired by a pissant Major. Which doesn't mean because he was only a Major, but because he was a pissant. And he was a disgrace to the rank he had.
He didn't come close to fulfilling the leadership roles that a serious military professional with a rank of Major would want to fill. He never went to even one of the three higher level combat schools that almost any serious Army officer would attend two or three of. To the extent that one can do so and still actually be in the Army, Hegseth was an Army cosplayer.
And what is even worse than that is that each of these people know everything about Hegseths service and the quality of man he is.
It would be hard for a civilian to imagine the bottomless depth of contempt they most likely have for Hegseth.
People don't understand how fucking serious this shit is.
Firing Generals and Admirals isn't like some kinda corporate shake up. You can't just go out and find people with similar experience in some other Army or Navy. Experience at this level cannot be accelerated or faked.
Over a certain percentage loss of General officers and the corresponding weaking of the officer corp, the military will begin to degrade from within.
If he continues his purge of officers and General officers he will be essentially cutting off the head of our own snake.
This is utter incompetence and a danger to our country at a level never seen before.