{"id":39481,"date":"2014-01-27T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39481"},"modified":"2014-01-27T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:09:40","slug":"generals-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39481","title":{"rendered":"Generals Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hondo sends us a link to a Washington Post<\/a> article which catalogs some of the recent bad behavior by flag officers in the military services. It really is quite a shameful list, incidences from intoxicated while on duty to adulterous affairs and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

Since November 2012, when an adulterous affair felled David H. Petraeus, the CIA director and most renowned Army general of his generation, the armed forces have struggled to cope with tawdry disclosures about high-ranking commanders.<\/p>\n

The Navy has been humbled by a spiraling sex-and-bribery scandal, as well as a gambling incident involving a three-star admiral who authorities say they caught using counterfeit chips at a riverfront casino. The Air Force relieved a nuclear commander after investigators said he went on a drinking binge in Moscow. The Army fired one general for allegedly groping a woman, forced another to retire after he accepted expensive gifts from a foreigner, and demoted its top commander in Africa after an investigation found he treated himself and his wife to a $750-a-night Caribbean hotel suite at taxpayer expense. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no idea what the problems is, other than the fact that the good officers are leaving in droves, and these knuckleheads are unsupervised. That, coupled with how military justice is hamstrung by it’s own rules and there is no real punishment handed out to flag officers. “Letters of concern” somehow don’t have the same impact as loss of benefits and reduction to private. Enlisted Marines face a court martial for urinating on corpses of dead enemies, but their officers are allowed to pee on anyone they please.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Secretary of Defense issues a solution – classes for flag officers about how they should behave themselves. I’m sorry, but if you are 40 or 50 years old and you don’t know how to behave, a class isn’t going to help you. But, Hagel is a liberal and he’s doing what liberals do best; look like he’s doing “something” whether “something” works or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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