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Thread #130368   Message #2933550
Posted By: Jeri
23-Jun-10 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: US General McChrystall sacked for being honest
Subject: RE: BS: McChrystall sacked for being honest
Does anyone have a recipe for 'sensitive rolls'?

If you're in the military, you speak out to your boss, and if your boss doesn't agree with you, you

1) Suck it up and do what you're expected to do,
2) Quit, if you can (officers can resign their commissions, enlisted people, see 1) or 3)
3) Bitch, whine, piss, and moan--probably to someone other than your boss, because that didn't do any good the first time. Then, if you're an officer, you're probably asked to resign your commission if things go well for you, or you get to go to your very own court martial if they don't. If you're enlisted, and your commander is in his or her 'happy place', you can face 'non-judicial punishment', which means no court martial, but probably a discharge and maybe not an honorable one. Or you can face a court martial.

It's not likely that an enlisted person's bitching to third parties will harm national security. If a general does, they should nail his ass to the wall.