US Marines have no Leader
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"The Marine Corps is on track to be led by an acting commandant for the first time in 164 years as senators leave town for two weeks with no end in sight to a standoff over military confirmations.
The term for the current Marine commandant, Gen. David Berger, expires July 10, "at which time he must vacate the office, regardless of whether a successor has been appointed," service spokesperson Maj. Jim Stenger told Military.com in an email last week. Berger's deputy and nominated successor, Gen. Eric Smith, will fill the position in an acting role.
The failure to confirm Smith to be the next Marine Corps chief is due to a single-handed hold on confirmations by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., over Pentagon abortion leave policies. The position is the highest in the military so far to feel the pinch of Tuberville's hold, but the Defense Department has warned that hundreds of officer promotions could be disrupted this year."
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This might be a good time for Mexico and Canada to invade.
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I know this is the way it has been in the US senate, but strange that one person can hold everything up, even if the other 99 people want to vote the other way.
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And now, the US Navy has no leader also.
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The Navy now joins the Army and the Marine Corps in being without a Senate-confirmed leader. The upcoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also affected. While the immediate impacts of the ongoing retirements seem minor and ceremonial -- empty picture frames in the halls of the Pentagon and use of words like relinquishment rather than change of command -- military leaders say the lack of confirmed military leaders will be dire.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called Tuberville's move "unprecedented," before adding that "it is unnecessary and it is unsafe."
"This sweeping hold is undermining America's military readiness," he added, using some of the harshest language on the topic to date.
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And now, the US Navy has no leader also.
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The Navy now joins the Army and the Marine Corps in being without a Senate-confirmed leader. The upcoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also affected. While the immediate impacts of the ongoing retirements seem minor and ceremonial -- empty picture frames in the halls of the Pentagon and use of words like relinquishment rather than change of command -- military leaders say the lack of confirmed military leaders will be dire.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called Tuberville's move "unprecedented," before adding that "it is unnecessary and it is unsafe."
"This sweeping hold is undermining America's military readiness," he added, using some of the harshest language on the topic to date.
UNQUOTE@taiwan_girl said in US Marines have no Leader:
"This sweeping hold is undermining America's military readiness,"
Because it all depends on this one guy.
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@jolly You don't think it is a big issue for the military and the longer it goes on, the more worse the problem becomes?
@taiwan_girl said in US Marines have no Leader:
@jolly You don't think it is a big issue for the military and the longer it goes on, the more worse the problem becomes?
Not really.
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I know, I know, apples and oranges, but what if there was a hold up with the installation of the US President? No big deal?
My experience is that without a head guy in charge, decisions stop getting made. And that does "filter down" to lower levels.
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For operational purposes, it just goes down to the next guy in line.
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Tuberville to try going around his own blockade to confirm Marine commandant
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tuberville-try-going-around-own-205218874.html
