JCS Chair Gen. Pace leaving in September

[schwarti]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/08/gates.pace/index.html

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he will recommend to President Bush that he nominate Adm. Michael G. Mullen to replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Pace's term ends in September."

 

[snake020]

Looks like it's not just Brett, but the rest of the military is set to take tasking from a SWO.

 

[Brett327]

Looks like it's not just Brett, but the rest of the military is set to take tasking from a SWO.

If I'm being tasked directly by the CJCS, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Brett

 

[HH-60H]

If I'm being tasked directly by the CJCS, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Brett

Standing ROE

 

[Flash]

Midnight Mullen...hmph

Huh?

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Huh?

That's his nickname.....given to him "affectionately" by other SWO's he's led.

 

[Flash]

That's his nickname.....given to him "affectionately" by other SWO's he's led.

Why? Good or bad? I know nothing about him..........

 

[Flash]

Cus he makes his staff stay til midnight (guy is a workaholic)

Okay, not so good......... I can understand that schedule type of during combat operations but there is no reason to have staff work last more than normal work hours (8), anything more is just busy work......I know........

 

[HeyJoe]

Cus he makes his staff stay til midnight (guy is a workaholic)

Sure you not confusing him with Sestak?

 

[statesman]

Cus he makes his staff stay til midnight (guy is a workaholic)

Thats probably how he got to be the CNO however. (Being a work-a-holic) not saying its good or bad, but those senior know that he will get his work done.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Sure you not confusing him with Sestak?

No, Midnight and Mullen fit together like Hey and Joe.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

We need some damn aviators to be CNO.

You guys had your chance. Now sit down and shut up.

 

[Herc_Dude]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/32675e52-1603-11dc-a7ce-000b5df10621.html
Another article talks about some of the reasons for Gen. Pace not being nominated again ... can anybody not on active duty give some opinions and insight to these statements?

“In response to a request from Secretary Gates, I solicited the views of a broad range of senators,” Carl Levin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate armed services committee said on Friday. “I found that the views of many senators reflected my own – namely that a confirmation hearing on Gen Pace’s reappointment would have been a backward-looking debate about the last four years.”

Critics accused Gen Pace and Gen Myers of being weak chairmen who allowed Mr Rumsfeld to emasculate the role. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate armed services committee, once sparked laughter at a hearing when he told Gen Myers that his response was not required because he would only repeat what Mr Rumsfeld had just said.

 

[nittany03]

We need some damn aviators to be CNO.

Had one awhile back . . . granted, I was a MIDN 4/c when ADM Johnson retired.

 

[HeyJoe]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/32675e52-1603-11dc-a7ce-000b5df10621.html
Another article talks about some of the reasons for Gen. Pace not being nominated again ... can anybody not on active duty give some opinions and insight to these statements?

Back channel conversations with Congress indicated that they would turn the renomination hearings of both Pace and Giambastiani into a "Why aren't we winning in Iraq, etc." so it would be a politically driven circus. Pace and the vice chairman don't deserve that at peak of their careers.