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Mycroft 11-14-2020 01:16

Christopher C. Miller to DoD
 
Christopher C. Miller to DoD:

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Nov/1...DEPARTMENT.PDF

Apologies in advance for any formatting I broke. I tried to fix most of it when moving it from the PDF.

MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EMPLOYEES
SUBJECT: Initial Message to the Department

Apart from leading fighting men and women in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq earlier in my career, serving as your Acting Secretary of Defense is the greatest privilege of my professional life.

Our mission at the Department of Defense has been - and remains - serving the people of the United States with honor and integrity so that they may continue to enjoy the blessings of freedom and liberty. To do this, we must take care of each other, focus on outcomes. and remain the most dynamic and innovative organization and fighting force in the world.

With a foundation built upon respect, professionalism, competence, and honesty, we will continue to transform our Department to compete in a new strategic environment. This requires changes in organizations, skills, and decision-making processes. But we know how to do this.

We have done it before - and no one on earth does it better. We will continue to aggressively challenge established paradigms, maintain and modify those that have value. and courageously discard those that have run their course.
Today, with enormous gratitude to those who came before us. we face the future with confidence and humility. We are the inheritors of the genius of our founders and generations of successors who created an organization ruthlessly committed to excellence, non-partisanship. and servant leadership. This motivates me enormously and allows me to face the daily challenges of our chosen calling.

The opportunity to again work with all of you and serve as your leader is something that could only happen in America. After all, I still see myself as a kid from Iowa who enlisted to serve his Nation, be challenged, and do something that matters - which is what each of you do every day. I am a better person thanks to the opportunities that the Army and the Department of Defense provided me, and my story, while not distinctive, is emblematic of the boundless opportunities that are available in this ongoing experiment of democracy. To each of you, I offer
my utmost gratitude and respect for your willingness to sacrifice so much to our vital mission.

My thoughts. hopes, dreams, and prayers are with all of you and your loved ones as we resolutely lean into the future and update our processes and structures to guarantee that our Armed Forces remain preeminent and the beacon of justice and goodness in the world.

As we prepare for the future. we remain committed to finishing the war that Al Qaida brought to our shores in 2001. This war isn't over. We are on the verge of defeating Al Qaida and its associates, but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish. Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous. and many are weary of war - I'm one of them - but this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role. We are not a people of perpetual war - it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought. All wars must end.

Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it's time to come home. As I consider the scarring but ennobling experience many of us have undergone during this war, the words of Abraham Lincoln during his second Inaugural Address bring me strength, perspective, and confidence:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.'·

To all of our Soldiers, Sailors. Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Space Professionals, and civilians: Continue to be bold. Continue to be courageous. Continue to set the example of selfless service that is the envy of the world and an example for our citizens. Our tasks are not easy. The burden is great. But together we will take our Nation to new heights.

What a magnificent time to be a part of the Department of Defense and the United States Armed Forces. Our Nation needs you, and I'm enormously proud of you. I am humbled and honored to be on your team.

Old Dog New Trick 11-14-2020 05:49

Morning coffee in cup full of Hooah! (I was gonna say something else...lol! Perhaps Box will be along shortly.)

lindy 11-14-2020 07:37

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We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it's time to come home.
Ah, so this ^^^ may be the reason for the “shakeup” at the Pentagon?

Trapper John 11-14-2020 08:37

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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick (Post 663897)
Morning coffee in cup full of Hooah! (I was gonna say something else...lol! Perhaps Box will be along shortly.)

You've done it again....I'm begining to think that we're twin sons from different mothers.... Scary this is is starting to be! :eek:

PRB 11-14-2020 14:54

Astan.... move on...let's leave them to their own idiocy...you can't fix Islamic ignorant....

tom kelly 11-14-2020 19:17

Christopher C Miller:
 
Sect. Miller you have @ 65 days and 15 hours I wish you the best of success.

abc_123 11-17-2020 20:07

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Originally Posted by PRB (Post 663909)
Astan.... move on...let's leave them to their own idiocy...you can't fix Islamic ignorant....

That should have been done in 2004 or even late 2003.

But we are American ignorant.

LongWire 01-26-2021 14:13

The President Threw Us Under The Bus!
 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021...otic-last-week

Old Dog New Trick 01-26-2021 14:38

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Originally Posted by LongWire (Post 666546)

That’s actually a pretty good article but, ask yourself who is - Ezra Cohen-Watnick? And why does he constantly end up in the middle of the situation?

LongWire 01-26-2021 14:43

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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick (Post 666548)
That’s actually a pretty good article but, ask yourself who is - Ezra Cohen-Watnick? And why does he constantly end up in the middle of the situation?

Agreed!

Found this article.....Interesting Piece

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...atnick/534615/

Pete 01-27-2021 02:55

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Originally Posted by LongWire (Post 666546)

Stopped reading right here "On the evening of January 5—the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead ....."

JimP 01-27-2021 06:37

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Originally Posted by Pete (Post 666557)
Stopped reading right here "On the evening of January 5—the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead ....."

same here. saw "white supremacist" and called it a day. Propaganda.

Box 01-27-2021 08:25

You guys made it further than I did - I called it quits at "vAn1tyFaIrdotc0m"

tom kelly 01-28-2021 13:22

The "Article":
 
It is the PROPAGANDA from the radical left Communist/Socialist Democrat Party. There is no white supremacy, BUT, there is a superior, elite class and the radical left wants you to know it is them and they are in charge.


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