{"id":69064,"date":"2016-11-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69064"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:15:49","slug":"mattis-for-defense-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69064","title":{"rendered":"Mattis for Defense Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Well, it looks like all of your dreams are coming true – James Mattis, the 65 year-old retired Marine Corps general who most recently commanded United States Central Command (US Forces in the Middle East) in 2013, is mostly likely our next Secretary of Defense. From CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Asked by reporters if he would choose Mattis to lead the Defense Department, Trump said, “All I can say is he is the real deal. He is the real deal.”<\/p>\n

In Mattis, Trump has a candidate who was held in high regard throughout the ranks of the Marine Corps during his 44 years of service. A seasoned combat commander, he led a task force into southern Afghanistan in 2001 and a Marine division at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003.<\/p>\n

The retired four-star general, who was known as “Mad Dog,” was lauded for his leadership of Marines in the 2004 Battle of Falluja in Iraq — one of the bloodiest of the war.<\/p>\n

But he attracted controversy in 2005 when he said “it’s fun to shoot some people” while addressing service members in San Diego.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Politico<\/a> there are some hurdles involved with Mattis’ nomination however;<\/p>\n

To get the job, he\u2019ll need something highly unusual: a waiver. He\u2019s technically ineligible to be Defense secretary because the law requires retired military officers to be out of uniform for seven years before they can become the civilian head of the armed forces \u2014 a requirement meant to ensure that civilian control of the military, a bedrock of the American democratic tradition, remains inviolate. Under the law, unless Congress grants an exception, “a person may not be appointed as secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if there’s a man alive who can jerk a knot in the collective ass of flag officers, it’s Mattis. Lord knows they need it. I’m sure that he can get the Pentagon’s eye back on the ball – the fact that there’s a war they could be fighting instead of trying to please the social justice warriors who are currently controlling the purse strings of the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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