Comments on: McCain ODs On Koolaid

By: andante

andante — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:41:43 +0000

it is to command

….and obey orders from whatever sorry excuse calls theirselves the Secretary of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief.

If Hayden is to head up the CIA, he needs to retire.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:06:49 +0000

General officers are outside the working military. After you qualify for for that first star you job is to command whatever they give you to command. It isn’t to drive airplanes or boats, nor is it to fire weapons, it is to command.

By: Jack K.

Jack K. — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:13:31 +0000

…the simple fact is that an Air Force officer with three or four stars on his shoulders is a senior military officer, regardless of how he spent his time in service. You are correct, Bryan, that he is – in the real world – as much an Air Force officer as any fighter jock or flight crew member…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 08 May 2006 03:17:43 +0000

If a clerk doesn’t order the fuel, the aircraft doesn’t take off.

I have my aircrew wings and combat crew badge, but my specialty was linguist/analyst.

I don’t know how he thought he got targets, but it was usually some “staff weenie” who was getting shot at provided him the information.

Hayden has a Bronze Star. You don’t get a Bronze Star in the Pentagon. I don’t like the guy, but he is an Air Force officer, for better or worse.

By: phinky

phinky — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:23:03 +0000

Unfortunately, combat arms personnel believe that support personnel are not really in the military.