"Mark this day on your calendar because here is the moment that I admit that Barack Obama did something right.
He fired Army General Stanley McChrystal.
...Anyway, Obama fired McChrystal because McChrystal surrounded himself with a staff that included petulant and childish folks who decided it was a smart idea to run down the commander-in-chief and Veep Joe Biden to a Rolling Stone reporter, who published it.
...when you are a general, you can’t disrespect the CinC or CinC, Jr.
That doesn’t work.
And then he needs to relieve that guy’s boss for failing to relieve his subordinate.
Oh, and he also needs to relieve the chief of information, or whatever they call the head public affairs guy for the Navy, for allowing his command to issue passive aggressive statements disrespectful of the President.
And the garbage Secretary of the Navy, who allegedly told “the White House that a tweet is not an official order and if the president is ordering the Navy to end the Trident Review Board of Gallagher, he needs to do so in writing.”
Can him.
...Here’s what happened.
The president used his constitutional prerogative to pardon or otherwise restore the rank of three accused military personnel, which some of us in the military community had mixed feelings about but which some flag officers vehemently opposed.
The most clearly correct action was the restoration of the rank of SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
His shameful prosecution had been replete with JAG misconduct, including the mind boggling decision of the prosecutors to electronically spy on defense attorneys.
Beyond this outrage – and I note, incredulously, that apparently no one was prosecuted for doing it – these hacks put up on the stand an immunized witness who testified that he killed the alleged ISIS victim.
Gallagher was acquitted of everything except some piddling charge of taking a selfie with a terrorist stiff and still had the book thrown at him.
Well, after the acquittal, the JAGs decided to award each other medals.
Medals.
Not indictments for their eavesdropping antics.
Not letters of reprimand for their staggering incompetence.
Medals.
President Trump got wind of this and had to personally direct that these defective decorations be withdrawn.
Fast forward to the restoration of Gallagher’s rank and what happens next?
The Naval Special Forces commander, apparently the next day, initiated a proceeding to take Gallagher’s SEAL trident, his status as a special warfare operator.
Are you kidding me?
Let me explain how command works for those who aren’t military..."
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