The General who abandoned Bagram Air Base....has already left Afghanistan

[Gunboat1]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3986579/posts

"During Wednesday’s briefing by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS national security reporter Jennifer Griffin asked the two about the decision to abandon Bagram Air Base in the weeks leading up to Afghanistan’s collapse. That decision has proven to be crucial, as it left Afghanistan with no U.S. military support and now leaves the civilians stranded there with one option: to try to get to the Kabul international airport through Taliban checkpoints. The U.S. government issued a statement saying that it cannot guarantee their safety and that even if they can get to the airport, they will face a long wait.

That wait could have been made shorter and the evacuation safer with better planning and the use of Bagram Air Base, which has two runways. HKIA only has one.

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Milley clearly says the plan to abandon Bagram came from the commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin “Scottie” Miller, in response to orders from Washington.

It’s tempting to call for Miller’s firing now, but there’s a problem with that. He already left.

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Bagram is huge and could have been used to stage at least part of the non-combat evacuation operation (“NEO” in military-speak) that’s now underway. 

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This was the plan: bug out of the largest U.S. base in the dead of night without even telling our allies, then a week later reassure them that we were always going to stand by them— when the military knew Biden had no intention of doing so."

 

GEN Scott Miller is the putz who made sure that the first females graduated from Ranger School, by personally walking a patrol with a failing female candidate and vocally calling it a “pass” in front of the Ranger Instructor cadre. This is textbook “undue command influence” and it reeks of political correctness. He is one of Obama's “perfumed princes.”

So no great surprise that he is absent from the scene of the debacle. 

[Ricordo]

It is rumoured that he left for a very good reason.

Teach gender equality to the taliban.

[Fog]

He should be given a gun with one bullet and sent back in.