So far, so good. I've said for decades that the Liberal Deep State had reshaped the Military away from true warfighting through culling of good JO's and promoting the sycophants.
Same on the civilian side. I've long said that they need to line up the high grades and SES and have them count off by threes. Hand all the ones and threes a box and a pink slip.
But so far, I'm a big fan of what he's trying to do. And of course all the flags in the room at Q-Town were silent -- they are as nervous as cats in a room full of rocking chairs. And should be. They are the "Brain Trust" that absolutely botched the Afghanistan retreat because they have been inculcated with the Zero Defect Mentality/"Get ahead by going along" ethos since they were Lts and were more focused on implementing DEI, scheduling Trans Awareness Training and all the other social engineering nonsense that has degraded our warfighting ability over the last 30 years.
The only reason we've had any battlefield success over the last three decades because of the sheer grit of the average 18 year old volunteer and the remnants of the Reagan era Warrior ethos. Thank goodness we haven't had to face a peer enemy.
There exceptions, of course. But I can't think of any currently. And you and I will continue to politely disagree about DB.
But he illustrates my point that the really good ones can get to two stars. After that, its purely a political litmus test.
Pete has a big job and plenty of people who want to see him fail. I want to see him succeed and return to Warrior ethos to the Armed Forces of the United States.
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John
