dream big

Won’t last long, someone will get offended.

When Shirts and Chiefs are on about uniform standards, my assumption is that everything else in the unit including the morale and welfare of the troops is running swimmingly. If that’s not the case, those Shirts and Chiefs should lean forward and choke themselves.

Apples to oranges. As the IC director, she will have a team behind her consisting of the SMEs; as a pilot, I can’t delegate out the expertise. Same for most cabinet positions.

Pretty sure she slapped the shit out of me in RT!

Yeah F that neocon.

I for one would welcome shrinking the Joint Staff and OSD. I’m all about civilian control of the military but the number of unelected / unappointed civilian SES types running the place amok has got to end. Cut down on the number of JDAL billets as well, send those officers to the COCOMs and MAJCOMs, better yet back to the tactical level where that experience is really hurting. The Joint Staff was always supposed to be advisory and an arbitrator between COCOMs; my guess is Milley contributed to the Joint Staff’s inability to help itself and perform its function due to Milley being a micromanager and just a general POS.

Don’t speak about the future CSAF like that!

Good riddance, let’s be honest, she’s not the type of officer you would want in your units anyways.

He was my 38 IP a couple times when he was a FAIP. Phenomenal dude, recommend his book if you get a chance.

Da Fuk!? It’s no wonder we haven’t won a war in decades and pissed away Afghanistan for the world to see.

Agreed. Having worked in a COCOM staff, IMHO retired 4 stars make terrible SecDefs (aka Lloyd). They are too deep in the Pentagon bureaucracy by the time they make their 4th star and it is impossible for them not to be biased. Considering we wage military operations through Combatant Commanders who report directly to SecDef, always good to have someone with some military experience but not indoctrinated into the cesspool that is OSD and the Joint Staff. Esper was only an FGO and I think he was one of our best SecDefs.

Kristi Noem tapped for Homeland Security, arguably one of the most critical cabinet positions. My money is on Tulsi as SecDef. Man what will you tell your daughter!?!

As long as they don’t offload those budget cuts on flying hours like in 2013, or pay cuts…otherwise I’m good with that.

Can’t get rid of affirmative action Loyd Austin soon enough. Both OSD and JCS could be slashed in half. Actually let CCDRs do their job.

You win! Was just about to respond to the original prompt of this thread from 8 years ago! Still waiting for some type of shinanigans.