Hillary Continues Posturing To Right

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by BMT

Who was CSA when all these deals were made??



BMT

Chiefs of Staff, United States Army:

GEN Meyer, 22 June 1979–21 June 1983
GEN Wickham, 23 July 1983–23 June 1987
GEN Vuono, 23 June 1987–21 June 1991
GEN Reimer, 21 June 1991–20 June 1995
GEN Sullivan, 20 June 1995-June 1999
GEN Shinseki, June 1999-June 2003
GEN Schoomaker, 1 August 2003-Present

I personally think some should have resigned in protest.

TR

[Airbornelawyer]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Chiefs of Staff, United States Army:

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GEN Vuono, 23 June 1987–21 June 1991
GEN Reimer, 21 June 1991–20 June 1995
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GEN Vuono presided over what were the quickest and deepest cuts, but GEN Reimer (i) allowed the active cuts to go even further, (ii) allowed the gutting of the Army Reserve (which would fall by a third in the Clinton years) and (iii) allowed the off-site agreement, which ended the Reserve's combat arms role (except for 100th/442nd, which Sen. Inouye managed to protect).

I have to admit I was wrong about one criticism I had of the off-site agreement in the 1990s. Then, I found it hard to conceive of a situation where Guard combat divisions and brigades would get called up for a warfighting mission. To its credit, the Bush Administration avoided the mistake of the Johnson Administration and did not keep the Guard out of the fight for political reasons.

[longrange1947]

Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer

GEN Vuono presided over what were the quickest and deepest cuts, but GEN Reimer (i) allowed the active cuts to go even further, (ii) allowed the gutting of the Army Reserve (which would fall by a third in the Clinton years) and (iii) allowed the off-site agreement, which ended the Reserve's combat arms role (except for 100th/442nd, which Sen. Inouye managed to protect).

I have to admit I was wrong about one criticism I had of the off-site agreement in the 1990s. Then, I found it hard to conceive of a situation where Guard combat divisions and brigades would get called up for a warfighting mission. To its credit, the Bush Administration avoided the mistake of the Johnson Administration and did not keep the Guard out of the fight for political reasons.

Actually the CSA has no choice in the matter, he is given his ordes and completes his assigned mission. As far as President Bush, he faught the cuts until the Dem Congress made it clear that the "Peace Dividend" would be taken advantage of. The continued cuts in the military came from the Dems in congress. I still remember the "oh crap are we screwed feeling when Congress demanded an estimate of what a 25% cut in the military would look like. The tehn CSA gave a chart show that showed how we could no longer fight a two front war and the Dems said that it wasn't that bad, "make it so."

When Clinton wanted more cuts the Republicans started to refuse but the shut down of gov't over vetos had them over a barrel.

Need to look at some of the posturing by the Dems at that time to realize that Bush didn'thave much choice in the matter and that the Congress was writing their own budgets. Remember the old line from "I smell a fart Pat Schroeder"? "That budget is dead on arrival."

It is that "Peace Dividend" that drove the LEA to claim much worse crime then the stats showed. They did not want the hit that the Dems gave the military.

I remember this crap very well due to the arguements with some leftys I had over the whole deal and how they thanked the Dems for having the balls to force/trick Bush into those cuts.

[Gypsy]

Can you even imagine? I must have been living under a rock in 1994...I certainly don't remember hearing THIS before. Interesting how it's resurfacing now. Makes me ill.


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...9/124048.shtml

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:36 p.m. EDT
Hillary Clinton: I Tried to Join the Marines

USA Today's report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's newfound appeal as a possible commander in chief omitted a key part of her resume that proves she's long been a hawk on military and defense issues: her attempt to join the Marines 30 years ago.

Or at least that's what she claimed.

Seated beside her husband, the former first lady recounted her military experience during a 1994 TV interview.

"Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975," Mrs. Clinton recalled. "I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military."

"Because we all love the military so much," Mr. Clinton interjected helpfully.

Hillary resumed: "So I walked into our local recruiting office, and I think it was just my bad luck that the person who happened to be there on duty could not have been older than 21. He was in perfect physical shape."

She remembered telling the recruiter, "I wanted to explore - I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines."

But Hillary's bid to become a leatherneck soon came unraveled.

"This young man looked at me and he said, 'How old are you?'" she recalled.

"I said, 'Well, 27' ... I had these really thick glasses on.

"He said, 'How bad's your eyesight?'

"I said, 'It's pretty bad.'

"And he said, 'How bad?'

"So I told him.

"He said, 'That's pretty bad.'

"And he finally said to me, he said: 'You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman.' And then he went on ... this man, young man, was a Marine.

"He said, 'But maybe the dogs [Army] would take you.'"

"This is not a very encouraging conversation," Mrs. Clinton recalled thinking. "So maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country."

The original transcript of Hillary's "I-tried-to-join-the-Marines" interview has vanished from the LexisNexis archives, but excerpts from a rebroadcast on Rush Limbaugh's old TV show are still available.

[jasonglh]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...video_game_sex


'GTA' Game Rating Changed to Adults-Only


By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
35 minutes ago



SAN FRANCISCO - The video game industry on Wednesday changed to adults-only the rating of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," a best-selling game in which explicit sexual content can be unlocked with an Internet download.

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"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" was last year's top console game, selling more than 5.1 million copies in the U.S. after its October release, according to market analyst NPD Group. Xbox and PC versions were released last month.

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The developments did little to appease Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, who applauded the ESRB investigation but remained disturbed that the sex content appeared on store shelves in the first place.

"Apparently the sexual material was embedded in the game. The company admitted that," Clinton said. "But the fact remains that the company gamed the ratings system."

Clinton has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, and said the ESRB must do more to police content.

"I think that the rating board has to be vigilant and really make sure that it's as thorough as it can be and not just take the game makers' word as to what's on there," Clinton said.


Over 5 million copies sold already so whats the real point now? Amazing all the things people of her ilk think should be protected by the 1st amendment and she is gonna go after video games?

A little known fact is that the 101st also had a round-out brigade during the late 70s and early 80s. The Arkansas National Guard was the 4th manuever brigade for the 101st should we have gone to war in Europe.

At least up until 1982, the brigade had a large number of Vietnam veterans of the 101st and 1st Cav, especially in their Aviation elements (which were still flying UH-1Hs when the rest of the 101st had moved entirely to Hawks).