Some of you may see a promotion to a fourth star and a cushy planning post as a reward, but the reality can be far different.
Gen. Mattis to receive four-star nomination
Camp Pendleton's Lt. Gen. James Mattis will be nominated for the rank of general and appointed commander of a high-level military planning and strategy unit based in Virginia, the North County Times has learned.
Mattis, whose present job is commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command and head of Camp Pendleton's I Marine Expeditionary Force, will become head of the Joint Forces Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation.
For those of you who may not be familiar with him, Mattis has been stepping all over prosecutions of Marines who commit crimes under his command - LG James Mattis, War Crimes Enabler and Pardoner of Killbots. In fact, Mattis actually gets a bit giddy, gushing his panties over the notion of killing, according to the Intellectual Conservative:
YeeHaw, I love the troops and Sweet Baby Jesus, don't mess with Texas 'n stuff like that......
"Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot," Mattis said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience. "It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil," Mattis said. "You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
Like I said, giddy as a schoolgirl. My theory is that he'd become too much of an embarrassment. They can't cashier him as they should (too many shrieks from the red meat sycophants), so he's being promoted to a spot where he can't do harm.