General Tolley said it! Axe is vindicated.

Score one for the reporter.

Score zero for the brainless General who spoke out of turn.  This from David Axe's blog...

by DAVID AXE
Finally! Lt. Col. Jim Gregory called. This is what he said:

The bottom line is there are no U.S. boots in North Korea.
There is no attack on David Axe. I don’t want you to feel that’s what’s [Pentagon spokesman George Little] is doing.
We are in agreement that the words you heard came out of his [Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley's] mouth. I don’t believe what you wrote is inaccurate. … I heard him say those words.
They [U.S. Forces Korea] are waking up. I believe they are going to re-look [at their statement.] I can’t get into defending what U.S. Forces Korea said.
I get where you’re coming from. I heard the same words you heard. I don’t want you to be without a job. Hopefully you can hang tough. Everyone here is doing the best they can in the absence of a transcript. It is a bit of a mind-stretch. … The general may have said that and, in his mind, he was thinking hypothetically.

Wow.

They keep hiding behind the word hypothetically.

That's not much cover and darn near no concealment.

But to General Tolley.  Like was said in one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies (one of his lighter films)....Don't go away mad...just go away.