Good God! What is happening to the Marine Corps?! Chesty would have given this guy a medal. Today we're seeing him about to be kicked out of the Corps. Read the whole story here but a tidbit...
The Marine Corps has ordered a major to appear before a board of officers that could end his career for the way in which he warned deployed Marines in Afghanistan about a potential security threat.One thing has me perturbed. Why would information of this type be classified as NATO Secret? Why would passing it along to a unit requesting it get a Marine Officer into hot water no matter how he passed it along? The Marine Corps house is in disarray. Time to fire 99% of the four stars and start over.
Maj. Jason Brezler was called by Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, commanding general of Marine Corps Forces Reserve, to stand before a board of inquiry to determine if he should be tossed from the service for “substandard performance of duty and misconduct, or moral or professional dereliction,” according to an Aug. 30 memo that Mills sent the major. The scrutiny stems from the manner in which Brezler, a mobilized reservist, sent classified information about an Afghan police chief to Marines in the area......
Brezler warned about the police chief, Sarwar Jan, last year after receiving “an emergency request for information” from Marines with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., according to a July 11 letter from Rep. Peter King, R.-N.Y., to Commandant Gen. Jim Amos. Brezler “immediately told his fellow Marines what he knew about the peril they faced,” and realized afterward that he passed “imminent threat” information, classified as NATO Secret, over an unclassified computer network, King’s letter states.
Brezler, a New York City firefighter, reported his mistake to his chain of command, and subsequently received an adverse fitness report. His story was first reported by Marine Corps Times on Aug. 25, five days before he was ordered to appear before the BOI.
Despite Brezler’s warning, three Marines — Staff Sgt. Scott Dickinson, 29, Cpl. Richard Rivera, 20, and Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley, 21 — were killed Aug. 10, 2012, by an alleged attacker who worked for Jan as a “tea boy,” an unpaid personal assistant. The teen reportedly opened fire on them with an assault rifle at a gym at Forward Operating Base Delhi in Helmand province. A fourth Marine, Staff Sgt. Cody Rhode, sustained five gunshot wounds, including one that shattered his elbow, according to a Marine Corps news release. They were all members of a police advisory team attached to 3/8.
Police Chief Sarwar Jan and his “tea boy” were both arrested following the killing spree. Based on the information he now has, Buckley, Sr. said that the AK-47 used in the murders belonged to the police chief, as identified by the serial number. Justice, however, has not yet been served.
ReplyDelete“Sarwar Jan was released after only being held for two weeks. Incredibly, even though superior officers were well aware of the dangers — Jan had previously been in trouble on other bases for sexually exploiting children, and U.S. Marines had asked that the “tea boys” not be allowed on base — Buckley, Sr. said the American troops were left defenseless on the base.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/15725-our-empty-future-in-afghanistan
** even though superior officers were well aware of the dangers**
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy--
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
add this failure to the one at Camp Leatherneck that caused the destruction of Marine Aircraft and you're seeing a collapse in leaderships in the Marine Corps.
DeleteAfghanistan is rotten at the core and from the top. The U.S. has allied with a country (Pakistan), providing it with considerable financial support, which openly supports the people the U.S. sends to kill and be killed by. Other than some peeps from General McChrystal (2009) and Admiral Mullen (2011) no other flag officer has even mentioned this despicable condition even though they know it exists.
DeleteSo what happens in the Corps? Famous Amos and his tea boys take it out on the ranks.
well said. but we have to remember that the group of generals that we have now came after vietnam during the hollow military of the 70's. we don't have the best and brightest, we have those that kissed ass and sucked dick during that time period to rise in rank.
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