Anyone who has spent significant time around the American subculture called the “defense industry” knows that military commanders don’t air their dirty laundry as a rule. In fact, they can be quite tight lipped about what it is they know, dirty secrets of the armed services and all that.
(Some of the secrets I’ve heard over the years are pretty dirty, too. But then, I know more pilots than any other sort of service member. Test pilots at that.)
In that light, it is quite extraordinary that a number of retired command level, and heavily decorated veterans are openly discussing the Obama administration’s manipulation of the various U.S. Armed Services branches, let alone with palpable disdain, disgust and alarm that the litany of grievances in this morning’s WND piece by F. Michael Maloof displays:
