This is coolbert: Big-mouth Generals. There seem to have been a number of these guys running around in the U.S. military. There are two articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice [UCMJ] that deal with "mouthiness". Article 88 states that members of the military cannot criticize the President or members of Congress. And Article 134 states that disloyal speech is any speech or action that causes a lack of discipline in the ranks. Any member of the military is subject to the UCMJ. Of all people, high ranking officers should know this. But this does not stop some of them.

General Brown was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs when he made intemperate statements directed at the Jews. Said that the Israeli lobby controlled Congress and that the Jews owned the banks in this country.



General Singlaub, while commander of U.S. forces in Korea, said that we should expect to see a war between China and the Soviet Union at some point in the future. He made these statements in an address to some school kids.



General Dugan, commander of the Air Force in Kuwait prior to the outbreak of the first Gulf War, said that we would bomb Saddam in his bunker, and even bomb his mistress.



General Campbell, an Air Force commander in Germany, told a bunch of school kids that when President Clinton was elected, we now had a draft dodging, dope smoking President.

And General Mundy, Commandant of the Marines. When asked about the lack of black Marine Generals, and the dearth of black officers in the Marines period, said that "they don't swim as well, they don't shoot as well, they don't follow a course on the map as well [land navigation]". "They".

Now, in the case of General Mundy, this man did seem during the interview in which he made these statements to be totally surprised and was flabbergasted that anyone would even suggest that something was wrong with what he said or that his opinions were wrong. He was dumbfounded. It seemed that he was in total denial that anything he said was wrong or he had no perception of what was going on. And remember, this was the highest ranking officer in the Marines. He did just not seem to mentally catch on.

As for the other officers, they were all relieved of duty and retired. And this is probably a loss for the country, as these are probably all good men with outstanding records. It does surprise me that such persons of high rank would be so stupid to expose themselves to circumstances that portray them negatively, but it does happen.

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