I do have a few things to say, but I doubt you'll like it.
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Give credit where credit is due.
Liberals, progressives, the media, never-Trumpers on the right, and even some hardcore Trump supporters have been complaining that Trump hasn't visited deployed American Troops.
Now he has.
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Was it for his own self-aggrandizement? Surely you'd expect no less NOW?
Was because he was shamed into going? No doubt.
Was it the only way he could get a plane ride to Mar-a-Lago? I dunno.
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Operational Security. Trump's visit outed a covert special operations team. SEALs. Compromising their ability to carry out the mission and perhaps even putting their lives at even greater risk than they normally are.
That's not Trump's fault.
It's not.
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I'd love to blame Trump, or his staff, or the photographers, or the press. But it's not their fault. They don't know any better. They should, but they don't.
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Military members are supposed know and enforce OPSEC, their very lives depend on it.
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That's on the military.
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They should have known better.
They DO know better.
They ALL know better.
There's no excuse for this.
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This is a violation of military regulation, specifically DoD Directive 1344.10 "Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces."
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That's the thing right there.
These officers know better, or should.
And these aren't separate items, one, two, and three. No, they're all part of a set piece.
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That's what you're looking at here. Rot. From the top down. Poor leadership starting with the Commander-in-Chief, permeating the Officer and NCO ranks. Partisanship. Open bias in the ranks. Slack discipline. A lack of professionalism.
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You're watching it happen.
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