The Austin/Milley Dog and Pony Show

| August 19, 2021

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs U.S. Army General Mark Milley 

Yesterday’s presser with the SECDEF and Chairman JCS could have gone worse. I’m just not sure how. For such a large man Austin proved himself to be a capable tap dancer, and Milley flat admitted his incompetence.

Q: Do you have the capability to go out and collect Americans?

SEC. AUSTIN: We don’t have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people.

GEN. MILLEY: Well, I stood behind this podium, and it said that the Afghan security forces had the capacity, and by that, I mean, they had the training, the size, the capability to defend their country. This comes down to an issue of will and leadership. And no, I did not, nor did anyone else see a collapse of an army that size in 11 days.

Perhaps the non-combatants may have been, I don’t know, evacuated before the US capitulation? Milley’s bald-faced lie aside, why TF did he NOT see the collapse coming after all support was withdrawn from the ANA, nearly overnight?

I’ve heard Dunkirk mentioned. That comparison breaks down pretty quickly, considering how Churchill successfully evacuated some 338,000 British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops, rescuing them from annihilation.

Our CinC lectures us on Covid boosters and masking schoolchildren.

Video transcript available here: Defense.gov

Category: Afghanistan, Biden, Big Pentagon

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Old Arty Sgt

Did I miss something? Aren’t you suppose to lead by example? No Man Left Behind. I have heard that several times in my career. Always secure the area to get civilians and equipment loaded and out of harm’s way. BEFORE the military is cleared to leave. Tell me again, how you got NO Intel. Wasn’t there a plan in Germany in case the Russians attacked? NEO I think it was called. Didn’t we train to get the dependents out fast. A LARGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE removed from theater. Sorry to say, you both are losers.

11B-Mailclerk

“Duty. Honor. Country”

Replaced by:

“Me. My ass. My career.”

Again.

-Again-

A Proud Infidel®™

Along with “My Pension and a cushy high-paying gig with some Defense Contractors.”

NEC338x

I see mostly men in pictures of the Kabul airport. There seem to be far more women and children being left behind, I’m sorry, I mean sheltering in place.

Anonymous

Same as last time… ‘Nam, April ’75:

USAFRetired

We exercised portions of the NEO plan for Korea over the years.

rgr1480

As well as in Japan from 1990~94.

Roh-Dog
Hatchet

Spot on. Think Milley should ditch the uniforms(even if current and correct) and go full-on Milley-Vanilli. As it is said(and Sacred are these Words) – Embrace the Suck.

T1B

The other truth about Dunkirk is that the French fought a tenacious delaying action that is largely responsible for the Brits to be able to evacuate the BEF personnel. The ANA…not so much.

Dustoff

Would someone let these two individuals know , if you want to lead, if you care about your fellow Americans, then this is how it’s done.

Sapper3307

WORD! +250

Skippy

👍👍👍👍👍

rgr1480

I’ll see your 👍👍👍👍👍
and raise you 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Anonymous

Hooah! (It’s an Army thing… he done outstanding.)

SFC D

These asshats are a two-man circle jerk.

Wireman611

Dutch Rudder Club. TIFIFY.

Herbert J Messkit

In 1757 or so, the British navy court martialed and shot Admiral Byng for “ failing to do his utmost”. In the relief of Mallorca. This focused the military leaders to their duty that the British navy ruled the waves until WW Ii.

The Other Whitey

Pour encourager l’autres, right?

HMCS(FMF) ret

Austin and Milley are the inventors of the Afghani Cluster Fuck.

Green Thumb

And chicks getting nine recycles.

Yeah.

That’s what counts.

STSC(SW/SS)

Austin and Milley should do the honorable thing and commit seppuku for this cluster fuck.

thebesig

I’ve told friends and family, whatever it is they require the military to do, it had better contribute to combat/military effectiveness. Social Justice experimentation should not be one of those things that takes up the military’s time.

KoB

Chesty Puller (among many others) weeps.

The Other Whitey

Somewhere in the heavens, George Patton is loading his sidearm…

Mason

It’s really concerning to me that Milley has all the training and bona fides of someone who should understand how to execute this mission.

Special Forces, Ranger School, Combatant Diver, dual CIB, multiple combat deployments to all the hotspots over the last 30+ years. On paper, this guy is over qualified for this contingency.

Fyrfighter

Agree Mason, it is concerning, since so far all he’s demonstrated is that he’s overqualified at screwing the pooch..

Hate_me

“Best time to be a hero is when all the other blokes are dead. God rest ‘em, and you take all the credit.”

In my experience, the best way to get ribbons and shiny stuff is to be close to the flagpole and as far away from the FEBA as possible.

Mustang Major

Mason, You forgot Milley’s throwback uniform.

If the military created the “Savior of Afghanistan” badge with diamonds and swords, Milley might get interested in solving the Afghanistan problem. Until then- “I’m good.”

Ex-PH2

I believe sincerely that the control board in my fridge’s freezer compartment has more intelligence than the idjits currently “in charge”, who apparently can’t even tie their own shoes.

How many people are WE (and the Brits, etc.) going to lose to this damned fustercluck??????

SgtM

The French are getting our people out, think about that. Affirmative action general and his side kick “ Meltdown Miley” are still trying to figure out which bathroom to use.

MarineDad61

I picked a good day to begin a 1 week shore vacay.
And to visit my son (reference my site handle), and watch him fly.

Then again, I am now retired.
Biden and Milley are not…..
though the indicators are clear that they should have been.
Milley about 2 years ago, and
Biden about 13 years ago.

I’ll check in from the motel laptop, as time allows,
but the grandson, the son, the daughter in law, and the beach come first.

Despite VA emails and VFW pronouncements,
don’t let any of the recent events shake your own confidence and pride,
nor your own sacrifices and contribution(s)
to your families and your fellow citizens and battle mates. 🙂

Fyrfighter

Have a good vaca MD, and enjoy that grandson!

Anonymous

What’s going on today:

26Limabeans

Milley neeeds to eat his gun. Set an example for others to follow should
they find themselves in a similar situation of their own making.

timactual

That concept of honor, responsibility, and atonement adhered to by military officers all over the world for centuries is what built the reputation of military officers as a priest-like aristocracy worthy of deep respect and deference and obedience. The last few decades seem to have turned them into just plain old civil servants.

AW1 Rod

What a clown show. Even on TV, one could actually feel the mean IQ of the room drop, as Austin and Milley entered.

Although it pained me to do so, I watched the entire Dumb and Dumber shitshow to its conclusion. Then I had a drink. Several, actually.

David

Going in:
Set intermediate and final goals.
Plan to achieve those goals
Have an exit strategy.
Plan to achieve that exit.
Only then: commence hostilities.
What is so difficult to understand?

Jay

Every Marine from PFC up can tell you SMEAC and BAMCIS.

We could’ve put a LCpl in charge of this clusterfuck and gotten far better results.

timactual

All that education—War College, Staff College, graduate degrees, etc. and they still “thought” it was a good idea to conduct an evacuation within walking distance of a city of over 4 million people, a goodly proportion of whom would willingly risk their lives to get on one of those planes.

CDR D

Remember these feckless assholes?

https://web.archive.org/web/20201103085548/https://www.nationalsecurityleaders4biden.com/

I hope each and every one of these worthless bastards chokes to death on a copious serving of their favorite dish:

SMOKED CROW

Jay

I DO. Looking at that, it’s a bunch of political appointees (stars). The ones I cannot forgive are the Senior Enlisted Advisors who signed. I know a LARGE majority of the USMC E-9s (both SgtMaj and MGySgt’s) who signed off on this abortion in the White House now.

If those assholes cause us to lose a Marine from the 24th MEU currently in country now, the blood is on their hands as well.

Jay

Austin and Milley are both Rangers. “Rangers Lead the Way.”

Milley is also a Green Beret. “De Oppreso Liber.” To free the oppressed.

Neither man is living up to the motto/mottos of their respective units. They had an obligation to stand up and tell Biden his plan and policy was fucked up, and failed. They need to resign.

Trent

If they had any integrity, both these so-called ‘leaders’ would resign due to this failure. Since they they’ll never be fired as their boss is just as big an idiot.

So glad I retired earlier this year.

MarineDad61

BREAKING NEWS…
But not so breaking, since it was really out there all along,
but only recently, some in the media put it together.

Guess who were high school classmates, 1 year apart?
Vice Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine… and Gen. Mark Milley.
https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1429984393955844098