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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox's Jen Griffin Reports Pete Hegseth Ordered Sudden Firing of Top Army Officer -- Adding to Climate of 'Fear' Among
Military BrassThere is a climate of fear, uncertainty, and unwillingness to speak up growing among military brass after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth forced out a top army officer, according to a report by Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
According to Griffins report, the ousted officer is Army Col. Dave Butler, who was serving as Chief of Army Public Affairs and chief advisor to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
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Driscoll is currently in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the Ukraine negotiating team, and Hegseth demanded that he fire Butler last Thursday, Griffin reported. The Army Secretary is viewed as a close ally to Vice President JD Vance, having attended Yale Law School with him, and resisted Hegseths pressure to fire Butler for months because of his ongoing contributions to the transformation of the Army, Griffin wrote, reporting how Butler was actually on a list to be promoted, not fired:
Butler served as the head of public affairs for the Joint Chiefs when Gen. Mark Milley was chairman, and was slated to receive his first star. His name appeared for two years in a row on an Army list of 34 officers selected for promotion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-jen-griffin-reports-pete-152524568.html
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Fox's Jen Griffin Reports Pete Hegseth Ordered Sudden Firing of Top Army Officer -- Adding to Climate of 'Fear' Among (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
13 hrs ago
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kwolf68
(8,365 posts)1. Soon to come...
Talented and qualified generals will be asked to eat cyanide tablets.
Red Mountain
(2,289 posts)2. And............
that was the point.
C_U_L8R
(49,165 posts)3. They think their problem is messaging, bwahahaha
Poor dopes cant recognize their own failing strategery and asinine policies that totally stink up the joint.
But sure, go ahead and fire the public affairs guy.
Skittles
(170,431 posts)4. only Trump whores need apply
right, Pete?