With Martin Dempsey stepping down as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ray Odierno leaving the post of the Army Chief of Staff, the Secretary of the Army, John McHugh announced that he’s leaving that post in the Fall according to the Washington Post.
McHugh, a former Republican congressman, has been the Army’s top civilian since 2009. He expressed a wish to leave his post several weeks ago, the Pentagon said in a statement, and has told the president that he would step down by Nov. 1. The Pentagon did not say why McHugh was leaving, and McHugh’s office declined to elaborate.
I was against McHugh accepting the position six years ago, and so I’m glad to see him leave. I predicted back then that he was only selected to put a bi-partisan face on the Obama Administration’s planned deep cuts in defense spending (McHugh is a Republican) and that prediction has proved true.
My experience with McHugh was as one of his constituents in Jefferson County, New York. All he knew about the Army was that the presence of Fort Drum in his district meant jobs and way for him to win elections if he could beat back the BRAC assaults on the brand new base.
Although I’m pleased to see McHugh leave, I’m more worried about which hatchet man will replace him.
We can be reasonably sure that the President will name yet another executioner, not a reformer.
McHugh is as useless as the teets on a bull. Total Obamatool douchenozzle. Good riddance.
I wonder how soon he will write his book?
When? It’s done.
Between Obama and the Clintonistas the Military has been having its balls chopped off for most of the past 23 years.
Jonn wrote, “Although I’m pleased to see McHugh leave, I’m more worried about which hatchet man will replace him.”
Don’t worry Jonn, this time Obama has no political aspirations left to acquire. It will probably be a liberal, female, black Congress Critter from some inner city shit hole. Think…Sheila Jackson Lee for instance. Yea…me too. I just shuddered and shook my head considering it but at this point, Obama knows whomever he chooses will do his bidding and he might as well give a political resume, leg up to someone in the Congressional Black Caucus. That is, if he doesn’t choose one of his MANY Muslim confidants and advisers who frequent the White House. By the way, come to think of it, Al Sharpton needs something to do! Maybe Obama will let him run the Army until January 2017. When the next President breaks his chicken bone neck having Military Police toss his ass out of the Pentagon and take the hip-hop music out of the Pentagon elevators. Sorry, was all that what they call…profiling?
Oh, and thank you for your service, General!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H94DKC6is4
Fanning is the front runner as the first openly gay sec. of the army. Also, on this historic day in pc the first active army officer has declared she or he is a transgender. Congrats.