A telling tale for these transformative times
By Poetrooper
Eric Fanning, Obama’s gay Secretary of the Army, a man with no active-duty uniformed service, is being replaced with Donald Trump’s nominee, Vincent Viola, a West Point and Ranger School graduate who served several years with my beloved 101st Airborne Division before leaving the Army to become a self-made billionaire.
Apparently, the good life hasn’t done much to change Vinnie’s Airborne Ranger Attitude. From the Daily Caller:
Vincent Viola, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Army, allegedly punched a concessions worker at a racehorse auction in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. last year, according to a police report obtained by the New York Times.
Viola — the owner of the NHL Florida Panthers and retired Army Ranger —reportedly punched the concessions worker in the face after confronting the man for pushing his wife when she tried to enter the event’s kitchen area. His wife, Theresa, was attempting to get water for a woman who had fainted. The incident happened in August.
“Vincent states about 45 minutes after the incident occurred, Theresa located the subject who had pushed her and then pointed him out to Vincent,” the police report reads. “Vincent then reportedly confronted the subject, [redacted] two subjects then engaged in a verbal dispute. [Redacted] states the argument escalated with Viola punching him just prior to my arrival on scene.”
The altercation left the worker, whose name was redacted from the police report, with a “bloody lip.”
Forgive me for a possibly stereotypical misperception, but somehow I just can’t see Eric doing much more than stamping a warmly burnished Berluti loafer and throwing a bit of a hissy fit had someone pushed his baby-faced boyfriend out of the kitchen. Would it be unduly rash of me to suppose there’s some significant attitudinal adjustment on the way for our United States Army? Could this be a parable for these transformative times?
Category: Army News
SO good it needed to be posted twice.
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Oh, crap! I’ll go edit the copy down to one.
I did not see the double, but I’ve fixed it. My bad. Sorry.
Sounds like he remembers “tree line counseling”.
+50 Ranger points
I like the guy already!
Somebody lays a hand on my wife, I’ll absolutely deck the fucker. All the more so under the circumstances of this incident, in which Mrs. Viola was trying to help someone with a possible medical emergency.
That Mr. Viola attempted to talk to the asshole first, evidently offering him a chance to apologize, and only knocking the dickhead on his ass when he doubled down on his assholery, indicates that he’s a higher caliber of man than I.
God help the man that lays a hand on my wife. She’s a Marine brat! We married when we were both ADAF.
The adults are back in charge.
Hallelujah! Amen!
2017 is shaping up as a Very. Good. Year!
Not a moment too soon IMHO.
Have already see comments to the effect that the Inaugural speech was “Hitleresque”. Gonna be some serious butthurt while the new kids take over.
And yeah, push my wife around and you’re likely to get shot. By her if not me.
How was it ‘Hitleresque’?
Hitler’s speeches were nothing like what Trump said. How can anyone justify labeling ‘Hitleresque’ a barely 20-minute speech that was brief, clear and to the point, and had not one hint of Hitler’s Nazi state crap in it?
The pussycats I heard in the MSM tried to draw a line from Trumps often quoted “America First” to the movement in the 20’s and 30’s of the same name that was anti-semetic and so supported Hitler emphasizing that the movement had a large number of wealthy people in it. It was such a laughable reach that it mostly passed un-noticed.
Guess they missed the “Forward” connection with Stalin when Hillary and Obama used it.
Chris Matthews called it “Hitlerian” on MSNBC, not that anyone watches that channel anymore. I saw the replay on Fox earlier.
Chris Matthews would call a fart in the wind “Hitlerian” if there was a Republican within 500 yards of said fart. The man has a one track mind. He references the Austrian Corporal so often I sometimes think he gets a tingle up and down his leg when he thinks about him. Either that or his Depends are leaking.
The soviet media representatives here in the US have to help their comrades in DC defeat the evil TrumpHitler and save their non-workers paradise.
With their glorious community disorganizer in chief out of power, they fear for the future of their glorious ideology.
It’s refreshing to see type a behavior from a type a, I had lost hope that we’d see it again from those that run this country. These are going to be good times.
” Could this be a parable for these transformative times?”
One can only hope …
Mrs. A Proud Infidel®™ Is a Midwest Farm Gal. Anyone trying to push her around is likely to get KO’ed by her before I can get anywhere near.
There is a reason I’m drawn to strong shouldered Eastern European women who like to knead bread dough for kicks…. my ex wife laid out some doucheroller with a right cross that was having trouble with his hearing when she repeatedly told him to leave her alone. (Unfortunately, many/most same said Eastern Euros have too great a penchant for vodka and cigarettes, hence the “EX” designation.)
The Military’s obsession with social justice is about to come to a screeching halt. What will the SJW’s do now?
So glad adults are in charge again. The days of getting a job because you check a box on the diversity sheet no matter your experience are done.
Someone lays a hand on my wife and a firearm will be involved in short order.
While I was in Afghanistan, the unit Family Readiness Liaison called every point of contact for every deployed Soldier in our company even though many of us had a “do not contact!” notice on our Family Contact forms.
He left a garbled and nonsensical message for my mother. I sent him an email and emailed every key leader in the rear along with it telling them not to contact my mother because it scared the shit out of her and she immediately emailed me asking about it to check if I was okay.
I told my company commander and 1SG that he was flat out lucky that he wasn’t in my presence when I found out about that. I would’ve thrown him out the window of his second floor office, at minimum. He was fired because of that, but I told my chain “don’t fuck with my family or you’ll regret it” and even the 1SG agreed with me because his wife got the same bullshit phone call.
I’d have done the same thing as Viola and my response would be he not only provoked me by physical contact with my wife, but by words after the fact. Fuck him.
RLTW!
What Would Lars Do?
Pontificate on how he is so much better and smarter than everyone else, possibly quote an unreliable and thoroughly-disproven source as evidence, and call us all fascists for not being fascist like him. Lars is, after all, immensely butthurt at the world and everyone in it over the fact that he was born too late to get the chance to prance around in a Hugo Boss jacket with a pair of angular S’s on the collar.
I’m grateful to all the Officers and SNCOs who suffered and chafed under Obama waiting for the country to unfuck itself so they could go about the business of training warriors and winning wars.
Can’t wait for all the Obama flunkies to resign or get purged.
The ones who got their commissions and promotions for embracing the social experiment BS that was shoved downed the military’s throats. The special snowflakes who screamed ” Discrimination” every time their substandard performance was pointed out.
Every admiral=shitcan. Every other USAF general=shitcan. Every third Army general=shitcan. I would leave the USMC out but for the fact that oBaMa’s favorite general, the lying liar Cartwright was USMC.
A man (not merely an adult male) does what a man should do and it’s noteworthy nowadays. That’s sad. It really is. We have grown accustomed to girly males and sissymarys that when we find one who’s not, we have to applaud him.
Exactly. Many “men” are neutered these days it seems. Drives me freaking crazy.
The results of decades of the feminazis being in charge of schools, daycares, and any place else that has influence on children. They’ve brainwashed and browbeaten an entire generation into believing that competition=bullying and other such nonsense.
yeah but they are sensitive to a woman’s needs. I saw a bunch at the pussy march in DC today although I am inclined to believe that 90% were there in hopes of getting laid
Ranger Viola. You are a go for this station.
He’s going to put his foot up some asses to be sure. Viola for Prez 2024 (ya heard it here first)
Fannie will probably cry because he didn’t make the new Army slogan “Diversity Strong” 🙁
So, is there a way to get my retirement paperwork redone so that it no longer has Barack Obama’s name on it? So very happy that the adults will be back in charge at the DoD…..
Would a replacement certificate be sufficient? They would probably use current auto-pen signatures, not the prior ones.
Wait a month or two, so the new ones are in place.