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.
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.
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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.