Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
5 comments:
There's a certain kind of attitude towards human frailties that a certain kind of officer has that is most unbecoming an officer, a gentleman, or a human being. What next, he goes to the hospital room of some poor sod who tried to commit suicide and slaps him and yells at him and calls him a coward?
Unfortunately, said officers also tend to be too goddamned brilliant at fighting wars to do much about, at least until the war is over... sigh.
Dear Miss Fit:
Good Lord, you just cannot make this s#!^ up! Somewhere, Joseph Heller is shaking his head and chuckling.
It strikes me that BGen. Thompson is a bit desperate. His chain of command may be telling him to get this problem under control Right F-ing Now or kiss the career goodbye. Shame that this is the best idea he can come up with.
Isn't a BG a little light for a division command billet? I always thought that was a MG's job.
Frank
He'll give them a general discharge ...
I am so glad I am not the only one who spewed my drink across the living room watching that! "The suicides have to stop RIGHT now." Uh huh, right. I could hear bullets being chambered as he spoke. Moron.
This link from a couple of weeks ago says BG Townsend is the base commander of Ft. Campbell, and is also deputy commander of the 101st AD. That's a position generally held by brigadier generals.
Interestingly, Townsend, then a colonel, was the commander of one Lt. Ehren Watada, an officer who asked to resign his commission rather than serve in Iraq.
I don't know if his speech represents an autocratic attitude or just desperation. Either way, it's the wrong way to handle a problem like this.
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