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Every initiative that Amos has passed or is proposing will be up for major review by the next Commandant.
Marines endure and we're enduring Amos. The next guy has serious cleaning to do. The real question is this. How much damage has been done to the Corps by his leadership? We won't know until fresh leadership gives us a good accounting, but I'm not optimistic.
General James Amos is your Commandant. And that should scare the shit out of you.Read the entire article...please!
This reality should induce fear and uncertainty for a variety of reasons. Like the multiple investigations for abuse of command authority; mounting evidence that he submitted false statements in legal proceedings; ongoing investigations aimed at him and his staff regarding abuse of the classification process; multiple whistleblower accusations from three-star Generals to field grade officers, and former and current JAG lawyers.
Any one of these scandals should be enough cause for alarm. Looking at the long list of accusations against him and his staff, it’s hard to ignore the pattern of abuse that is unfolding.
North Carolina Congressman (R) Walter Jones, aptly summed up the situation in a letter he wrote to the director of the US Information Security Oversight Office, regarding the open investigation into the unlawful abuse of classification authority for the purposes of covering up misconduct, “this corruption, at the highest level of the USMC, is unlike anything I have witnessed in my 20 years in Congress.”
Let that sink in. A Congressman, a career politician, considers Gen. Amos to be one of the most corrupt figures he has ever encountered.
Every initiative that Amos has passed or is proposing will be up for major review by the next Commandant.
Marines endure and we're enduring Amos. The next guy has serious cleaning to do. The real question is this. How much damage has been done to the Corps by his leadership? We won't know until fresh leadership gives us a good accounting, but I'm not optimistic.
The next Commandant will have a hell of a job... recognize and replace all Amos lackeys, check and then double and triple check all decisions of former commander, put the most tight and bloody internal audit ect. I don't think that it will have time for something else, just trying to fix all the damage Amos did, and I doubt that one Commandant can do this.
ReplyDeletewow. you're right. and to be honest if he was being extremely thorough he'd have to review discipline issued to determine whether it was fair or politically motivated.
Deletewe haven't even gotten over to the procurement side of the house but aviation is becoming unaffordable for the Marine Corps. the day of reckoning is here as far as that issue is concerned.
quite honestly the question must be asked. we can't afford the air wing that we have so how do we fix it?
I don't envy that poor SoB that will need to do all of this. That Marine is going to be tough as titanium and got balls size of A-bomb if he want to fix this. It's more easy to fight with external enemy then try to fix a corruption inside own ranks.
DeleteAviation, good question... Amos blow them up and almost change the USMC in to Aviation detachment of Navy. Screw that poor grunts, we got all those shiny new flying toys. Now, the problem is, if Amos hammer aviation ideology so hard in to structure of Corps then trying to pull it out will do a serious damage to all USMC ?
When he cross that line of no return ?
We see that damage is done, USMC was sacrifice of altar of vision of one man that don't want to walk in mud and rain like rest of grunts but fly with white scarf on his neck.
I'm hoping Gen Kelly will get the job. He will be alot like Gen Smith and bring warfighting back to the Corps.
ReplyDeletejust did some reading on him.
DeleteLets hope so.
The US Marines do not want to land on Diaoyu Islands, betting purely on air power to drive PLA out of the Diaoyu Islands.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stripes.com/news/top-marine-in-japan-if-tasked-we-could-retake-the-senkakus-from-china-1.277555
Wissler suggested that U.S. naval and air assets could take out the Chinese forces on their own, and a forcible entry probably wouldn’t be required.
“You wouldn’t maybe even necessarily have to put somebody on that island until you had eliminated the threat, so to speak. And that’s where that whole integration of our full capabilities as a Navy-Marine Corps team would be of value,” he said.
......He couldn't be more wrong.
DeleteJohn
DeleteThis has a serious implication for the Japanese government, which is taking this comment as meaning that the USMC would not land at the Diaoyu Islands, and the JGSDF must do the landing alone.
Likewise the Chinese are taking this as an understanding that there are lines that the US wouldn't cross in its confrontations with China in the East/South China Sea.
if the Japanese are going to be jumping at every word some commander says then this relationship is jacked. quite honestly i thought the Middle East was a mess but the Pacific is seriously screwy.
Deleteall the rivalries and historic bullshit is tiresome already...and i'm just an observer to it, not one of the people trying to navigate the shit.
personally i say we do what we do, let the S. Koreans, Japanese and Philippines spaz out over whatever has their panties in a bunch today and simply do what is in the US' national interests.
its time for all the Pacific nations to grow the fuck up and stop trying to involve us in all the petty bickering they're constantly involved in.
Solomon
DeleteWell, the Japanese government could use this as an execuse to expand their landing force from planned 3,000 to say 10,000, and that alone would have a distabilizing effect in the region, where Japan's neighbors accuse Japan of harboring imperialist ambitions in its expansion of "marine" troops, and there is some grain of truth to this accusation because Japanese plans for marine troops go beyond the Diaoyu Islands.
Japanese government is citing claimed 25 kidnapped Japanese citizens held in Pyongyang(North Korea disputes this number, saying its only a dozen or so) plus thousands of surviving Japanese wives who followed their husbands to North Korea during Japan's North Korean deportation program in the 60s and 70s as the reason why they must land in North Korea during the regime collapse scenario, and has asked the US to join them in the landing on North Korea, because the ROK government has threatened to attack any Japanese troops attempting to land in North Korea and the Japanese government calculates that the ROK military wouldn't be able to attack them if they were going in with the US troops. And the JGSDF wants to stay in North Korea semi-permanantly following the regime collapse, so that they could establish missile defense radar bases in North Korea to monitor Chinese airspace 24/7.
So there is a lot more to the establishment and the enlargement of Japanese "marines" than a simple retaking of a few rocks in the East China Sea.
Oh, here is the news on PM Abe's plans to land in North Korea.
Deletehttp://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140305/japan-wants-us-get-abductees-if-n-korea-faces-internal
Japan wants U.S. to get abductees if N. Korea faces internal conflict
Japan intends to seek U.S. assistance in rescuing Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the past in case North Korea falls into internal conflict, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
"It's extremely important that we seek support from the United States, our ally," Abe told the House of Councillors Budget Committee. "We've provided information on Japanese abductees (to the U.S. side), while seeking support when necessary."
Abe also underlined the limitations of Japan's current security framework, long bound by Article 9 of the U.S.-drafted Constitution that forbids the use of force to settle international disputes and only allows the minimum for self-defense.
"To send in a special unit of the Self-Defense Forces to help get (the abductees) out of the country would be difficult due to the constraints of Article 9," Abe said.
This is interesting.
ReplyDeleteShould Japan build a more general amphibious capability on traditional USN/USMC lines?
Or should she just tackle crossing the Sea of Japan (short range/high speed) ?