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Nonilex<p>“The ghost of General <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Milley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milley</span></a> shouldn’t haunt the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> anymore, nor should it haunt the armed forces,” a senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> ofcl said. “This is all about accountability for General Milley.”</p><p>[Jiminy Cricket, echoes of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s Germany “too much of a focus on past guilt”]</p><p>Shortly after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> was sworn in, admin ofcls had a portrait of Milley memorializing his time as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JointChiefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JointChiefs</span></a> chairman removed from a wall in the Pentagon.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jcs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The move comes after years of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> criticizing Ret Gen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkMilley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkMilley</span></a> for perceived “disloyalty” &amp; Milley acknowledging in congressional testimony that he had served as a source for several unflattering books about the first Trump admin. Milley, 66, retired in 2023 following 4 tumultuous years as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jcs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/honor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>honor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>integrity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IG</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>[Newly “confirmed”] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a> Sec <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a> has decided to remove retired Gen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkMilley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkMilley</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> detail, revoke his security clearance, &amp; order an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InspectorGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InspectorGeneral</span></a> [lol are any left?] inquiry into his “behavior” as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a>’s top officer,…taking extraordinary action against a frequent target of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.<br>
<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jcs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/honor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>honor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>integrity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IG</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DrunkRapist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrunkRapist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a> readies *actions* against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> “foe” Retired General &amp; former chairman of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JointChiefsOfStaff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JointChiefsOfStaff</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkMilley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkMilley</span></a><br>
The retired general, a frequent target of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, will lose his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> detail &amp; face an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InspectorGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InspectorGeneral</span></a> [apparently there’s one left] investigation, said a senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> official.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jcs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/honor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>honor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>integrity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IG</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/28/mark-milley-hegseth-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/national-se</span><span class="invisible">curity/2025/01/28/mark-milley-hegseth-trump/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In normal times, the chair of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JCS</span></a>, the principal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> adviser to the pres, is supposed to focus attn on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>…, &amp; on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/readiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readiness</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lethality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lethality</span></a> of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/armed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>armed</span></a> forces. But the 1st 16 mos of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Milley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milley</span></a>’s term, a period that ended when <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> succeeded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> as pres, were not normal, bc Trump was exceptionally <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unfit</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/serve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serve</span></a>. “For &gt;200yrs, the assumption in this country was that we would have a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/stable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stable</span></a> person as president,” …the retired 3★ gen James <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dubik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dubik</span></a>, told me.</p>