Berger's transformation was trash yet they still try and defend the Fudd...

Berger aka Elmer Fudd

via Military.com

Gen. Berger saw what needed to be done and had the moral courage to follow through with what he considered to be in the best interest of the Marine Corps, which is likely the most solemn responsibility of any commandant. I am sure that every commandant who has brought major change to the Corps has faced a battery of critics, some louder than others, and the good ones weathered the storm and carried on with what they thought best.

One of our most beloved commandants, Gen. Al Gray, bulled through the criticism leveled against him; at times, it was vehement. It also lingered for years after he retired. I well remember as a company commander at Camp Lejeune when we were preparing to participate in a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation in 1995. Our regimental commander got up in front of all the officers in our battalion and said, "We made this exercise very difficult for you because I do not believe in this maneuver warfare crap, and we will prove it with this exercise."

Luckily, our battalion commander did believe in it and, more importantly, ensured the battalion could operate within that philosophy. We crushed the exercise. This is but one example, and I like to think, though I have no proof, that the major changes (much more major than anything in FD 2030) that the Corps underwent in the 1930s as we prepared for the war with Japan were met with a great deal of opposition. One of the biggest was that, due to the disaster at Gallipoli in 1915, amphibious operations were a non-starter. Time proved that the changes were exactly what we needed, just as it did with maneuver warfare.

If a war starts in the Western Pacific, and I, like many others, hope it never will, we will be properly prepared for it, or at least be able to adjust quickly. What I am convinced of, though, is that if Gen. Berger had done what many of his critics recommended, more talk and experimentation before anything changed, we would have a difficult time even getting to the fight in the Western Pacific and, once there, we would have the wrong weapons and equipment for the fight we would be faced with.

Gen. Berger served his entire 42-year career honorably, and always foremost in his mind was what was best for the Marine Corps. The system that chooses commandants certainly got it right in choosing him, and he more than fulfilled the faith and responsibility that were placed in him when he was confirmed and assumed the office of commandant. He saw what needed to be done with clear-sighted vision that comes from looking at and analyzing a wicked problem for years before becoming the commandant; had the intestinal fortitude to work with a team of planners to formulate what he deemed to be the best course of action; and then ensured it was executed in a timely manner. For all that, he should be honored instead of derided.

When I was commanding general of Marine Corps University, one of the other service chiefs came to speak to Marine Corps War College. He said he admired the fact that the Marine Corps had a commandant instead of something else. He went on to say that when the commandant makes a decision, people salute and carry out that decision to the best of their ability. When other service chiefs make a decision, that is the start of the debate at the senior levels of the service. It was one of many occasions that I was very glad I was a Marine.

We do indeed have a strong commandant system and, while not all have lived up to the expectations of the office, Gen. Berger certainly did. 

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BERGER MET THE EXPECTATIONS OF OFFICE?  THAT IS UTTER BULLSHIT!!!

Do you know what we've actually seen that should SCARE (and I'm using that word correctly) the living day lights out of anyone associated with the Marine Corps?

We saw a total lack of moral courage among active duty officers and SNCOs.

They were bullied into silence and they kept their mouths shut.  Not once did we see the courage of convictions by any of them.

We were told before these fucks took office (I'm including Berger's sycophants in this) that if they didn't get onboard then they should be dismissed.

That shit worked and its a shame it did.

Force Design 2030 should be one of the many defense scandals that this generation of generals has participated in (how can we have so many fucking losers wearing stars at the same time?).

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs using backchannel communications to tell the Chinese shit?  Whoever was in charge of that shit show in Afghanistan?  This idiocy in Ukraine.  Finally the bullshit that the Marine Corps has gone thru.

Our generals have been reduced to being as worthless as tits on a bull.  They're fucking pathetic and we all better pray that China doesn't go to war with us if these clowns are in charge.

I digress.

Berger was and is shit.  They can try and rebuild it but his reputation is and will continue to be seen as one of the worst Commandant's the Marine Corps has ever seen.