If Marine Corps Times is right then the Marine Corps is so screwed. An Aviator as Commandant? You're fucking kidding me right? Read the sad details here.
Gen. James Amos is expected to be named the 35th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, sources told Defense News on Monday. If nominated, Amos could become the first Marine jet aviator named to the top post, and he would alter recent custom by becoming the first assistant commandant in several decades to succeed his immediate boss.
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If the Deputy Commandant has any integrity then he would step aside. Self interest won't allow that to happen but its a punch in the face to everything that is the Marines. But onto another topic. First out of the box on this was a detractor of my beliefs on this issue.
Annonymous, left a comment wondering why this is a bad thing. I simply ask those in the know (meaning Marines) to take a look at how the Air Wing operates. Its a different beast. I once asked a pilot why they weren't as hardcore about things as the ground side and the response was...Do I want a pissed off LCpl messing my plane up?!
The Air Wing reflects different values from the rest of the Marine Corps. Marines yes...but operating on a slightly different wave length.
Just why exactly do think we are so screwed?
ReplyDelete[No, i ain't 'FUCKING KIDDING YOU!']
What? Would you prefer that a gunner or an operator being elected into the office?
There are good reasons why some never rise beyond their ranks throughout much of their careers.
no, i expect an infantry officer to rise to the position of Commandant.
ReplyDeleteits tradition and its practical.
if you don't get it then you don't get it...and i really don't give a damn.
oh and Peter G. ... stay off my site.
ReplyDeleteHeaven forbid the Corps gets a Commandant who can add.
ReplyDeleteYou don't make 2nd LT without being able to add. That's about the most MORONIC statement I've heard in a while.
ReplyDeleteFind another place on the internet. Debate I like, idiocy I won't tolerate.
The core of the Marine Corps is the infantry--the 03s. Everything else is in support of that core mission.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want someone who specialized in support running the entire organization?
It's like making a mail room manager CEO. Yes, he probably does a damn good job but he doesn't know enough or have enough experience to run the entire organization.
Marines want a Commandant who has been under fire. Who has put rounds down range in fear. A Marine who has humped it along with them, fighting the same fight, the same way.
Anyone else will be looked at as an elitest snob--just like the SECNAV (with a few exceptiosn).