184 U.S. generals and admirals endorse Trump for Commander-In-Chief

Have you seen that pro-Hillary TV ad of disgraced Gen. John Allen?

Nauseating.

You should know that in 2011, Allen, then a 4-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps, was nominated to be NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, pending confirmation by the Senate. On November 13, 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suspended Allen’s confirmation hearing, pending investigations into the general’s “inappropriate communication” with a woman named Jill Kelley.

As part of the fallout of the Gen. David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell affair, the FBI uncovered 20,000 to 30,000 pages of correspondence — mostly email — between Allen and Kelley from 2010 to 2012. Reportedly, their correspondence was “flirtatious” and “inappropriate” as Allen and Kelley were both married at the time, but not to each other.

Seriously, how can a 4-star general even have so much free time as to write 20,000 to 30,000 emails in the space of two years to ANYONE? 20,000 emails mean an average of 28 emails a day exchanged between Allen and Kelley; 30,000 emails mean an average of 42 emails a day. There is no one with whom I’ve exchanged 28 emails a day, even less 42 emails.

The upshot: Not only did John Allen lose his confirmation as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, he also lost his job as Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan — a post to which he was promoted to replace the disgraced Gen. Petraeus. (See “Obama purges U.S. military command (Part 1)”)

Allen retired from the military in February 2013, but was appointed Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (or ISIS) — a post and title created for Allen by Obama, which Allen held for about a year from September 2014 until October 23, 2015.

Allen was a featured speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. He criticized Donald Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton — who abandoned four Americans to die in Benghazi — for President.

Like the New Yorker that he is, Trump fired back, calling Allen “a failed general.”

Trump does have the endorsement of 184 non-failed and non-disgraced U.S. generals and admirals, including at least four 4-star and fourteen 3-star flag officers, as well as the endorsement of 14 Medal of Honor recipients.

The endorsements began with an open letter on Sept. 6, 2016, from 88 retired U.S. general and admirals:

“The 2016 election affords the American people an urgently needed opportunity to make a long-overdue course correction in our national security posture and policy. As retired senior leaders of America’s military, we believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world. For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief.

For the past eight years, America’s armed forces have been subjected to a series of ill-considered and debilitating budget cuts, policy choices and combat operations that have left the superb men and women in uniform less capable of performing their vital missions in the future than we require them to be.

Simultaneously, enemies of this country have been emboldened, sensing weakness and irresolution in Washington and opportunities for aggression at our expense and that of other freedom-loving nations.

In our professional judgment, the combined effect is potentially extremely perilous. That is especially the case if our government persists in the practices that have brought us to this present pass.

For this reason, we support Donald Trump and his commitment to rebuild our military, to secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries and restore law and order domestically. We urge our fellow Americans to do the same.”

Two days later on Sept. 8, another 21 retired U.S. generals and admirals joined the list, followed by 31 more the next day, on Sept. 9, and another 44 on Sept. 16, bringing the total number of flag officers who have endorsed Trump to 184.

Below is the list, as of Sept. 16, 2016, of the retired U.S. generals and admirals, who are endorsing Trump for President and Commander-In-Chief:

1. General Burwell B. Bell III, US Army, Retired
2. General Alfred G. Hansen, US Air Force, Retired
3. Admiral Jerry Johnson, US Navy, Retired
4. Lieutenant General William G. Boykin, US Army, Retired
5. Lieutenant General Marvin Covault, US Army, Retired
6. Lieutenant General Brett Dula, US Air Force, Retired
7. Lieutenant General Dan Duren, US Air Force, Retired
8. Lieutenant General Harold T. Fields, US Army, Retired
9. Lieutenant General Bruce L. Fister, US Air Force, Retired
10. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, US Army, Retired
11. Lieutenant General Gordon E, Fornell, US Air Force, Retired
12. Lieutenant Jay Garner, US Army, Retired
13. Lieutenant General Ron Hite, US Army, Retired
14. Lieutenant Generals John I. Hudson, USMC, Retired
15. Lieutenant General Harley Hughes, US Air Force, Retired
16. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, US Army, Retired
17. Lieutenant General Timothy A. Kinnan, US Air Force, Retired
18. Lieutenant General Joe Kinzer, US Army, US Army, Retired
19. Lieutenant General Bennett L. Lewis, US Army, Retired
20. Lieutenant General Frederick McCorkle, US MC, Retired
21. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, US Air Force, Retired
22. Lieutenant General Clifford H. Rees, Jr. US Air Force, Retired
23. Lieutenant James C. Riley, US Army, Retired
24. Lieutenant General Hugh G. Smith, US Army, Retired
25. Lieutenant General John B. Sylvester, US Army, Retired
26. Lieutenant General David J. Teal, US Air Force, Retired
27. Lieutenant General William E. Thurman, US Air Force, Retired
28. Lieutenant General Jack Woodward, US Air Force, Retired
29. Vice Admiral Mike Bucchi, US Navy, Retired
30. Vice Admiral Edward Clexton, Jr. US Navy, Retired
31. Vice Admiral Bernard M. Kauderer, US Navy, Retired
32. Vice Admiral J. Theodore Parker, US Navy, Retired
33. Vice Admiral R.F.Schoultz, US Navy, Retired
34. Vice Admiral Robert Spane, US Navy, Retired
35. Vice Admiral Donald Thompson, US Coast Guard, Retired
36. Vice Admiral Howard B. Thorsen, US Coast Guard, Retired
37. Vice Admiral John Totushek, US Navy, Retired
38. Vice Admiral Jerry Unruh, US Navy, Retired
39. Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army, Retired
40. Major General John Bianchi, CSMR, Retired
41. Major General Pat Brady, US Army, Retired
42. Major General Bobby G. Butcher, US Marine Corps, Retired,
43. Major General Henry D. Canterbury, US Air Force, Retired
44. Major General Carroll D. Childers, US Army, Retired
45. Major General Jeffrey Cliver, US Air Force, Retired
46. Major General Tommy F. Crawford, US Air Force, Retired
47. Major General Harley Davis, US Army, Retired
48. Major General Felix Dupre, US Air Force, Retired
49. Major General Neil Eddins, US Air Force, Retired
50. Major General David W. Eidsaune, US Air Force, Retired
51. Major General John R. Farrington, US Air Force, Retired
52. Major General Dave Garza, US Marine Corps, Retired
53. Major General William A. Gorton, US Air Force, Retired
54. Major General Kenneth Hagemann, US Air Force, Retired
55. Major General Gary L. Harrell, US Army, Retired
56. Major General Geoffrey Higginbothan, US Marine Corps, Retired
57. Major General Kent Hillhouse,US Army, Retired
58. Major General Jerry D. Holmes, US Air Force, Retired
59. Major General John A. Leide, US Army, Retired
60. Major General James E. Livingston, USMC, Retired
61. Major General John D. Logeman, Jr., US Air Force, Retired
62. Major General Homer S. Long, US Army, Retired
63. Major General Billy McCoy, US Air Force, Retired
64. Major General Robert Messerli, US Air Force, Retired
65. Major General John Miller, US Air Force, Retired
66. Major General Ray O’Mara, US Air Force, Retired
67. Major General George W.“Nordie” Norwood, US Air Force, Retired
68. Major General Robert W. Paret, US Air Force MC, Retired
69. Major General James W. Parker, US Army, Retired
70. Major General Richard Perraut, US Air Force, Retired
71. Major General R.V. Secord, US Air Force, Retired
72. Major General Sidney Shachnow, US Army, Retired
73. Major General Edison E. Scholes, US Army (Retired)
74. Major General Richard A. Scholtes,US Army, Retired
75. Major General Mark Solo, US Air Force, Retired
76. Major General James N. Stewart, US Air Force, Retired
77. Major General Michael Sullivan, US MC, Retired
78. Major General Thomas R. Tempel, US Army, Retired
79. Major General Richard L. Testa, US Air Force, Retired
80. Major General Paul E. Vallely, US Army, Retired
81. Major General John Welde, US Air Force, Retired
82. Major General Kenneth W. Weir, US Marine Corps, Retired
83. Major General Michael Wiedemer, US Air Force, Retired
84. Rear Admiral Phillip Anselmo, US Navy, Retired
85. Rear Admiral Peter Booth, US Navy,Retired
86. Rear Admiral Thomas F. Brown III, US Navy, Retired
87. Rear Admiral James J. Carey,US Navy, Retired
88. Rear Admiral, Larry Chambers, US Navy, Retired
89. Rear Admiral Robert C. Crates, SC, US Navy, Retired
90. Rear Admiral Mimi Drew, US Navy, Retired
91. Rear Admiral Ernest Elliot, SC, US Navy, Retired
92. Rear Admiral James H. Flatley III, US Navy, Retired
93. Rear Admiral Vance H. Fry, SC, US Navy, Retired
94. Rear Admiral Byron Fuller, US Navy, Retired
95. Rear Admiral George M. Furlong, US Navy, Retired
96. Rear Admiral Albert Gallotta, Jr. US Navy, Retired
97. Rear Admiral Michael R. Groothousen US Navy, Retired
98. Rear Admiral William A. Guereck, US Navy, Retired
99. Rear Admiral Dale Hagen, US Navy, Retired
100. Rear Admiral John G. Hekman, US Navy, Retired
101. Rear Admiral Charles F. Horne III US Navy, Retired
102. Rear Admiral William P Houley, US Navy, Retired
103. Rear Admiral Grady L. Jackson, US Navy, Retired
104. Rear Admiral J. Adrian Jackson, US Navy, Retired
105. Rear Admiral Frederick C. Johnson, US Navy, Retired
106. Rear Admiral Pierce J. Johnson, US Navy, Retired
107. Rear Admiral Jack Kavanaugh, SC, US Navy, Retired
108. Rear Admiral Charles R.Kubic, US Navy, Retired
109. Rear Admiral Rich Landolt, US Navy, Retired
110. Rear Admiral Don Loren, US Navy, Retired
111. Rear Admiral William J. McDaniel, MD, US Navy, Retired
112. Rear Admiral E.S. McGinley II, US Navy, Retired
113. Rear Admiral Fred Metz, US Navy, Retired
114. Rear Admiral Douglas M. Moore Jr. SC US Navy. Retired
115. Rear Admiral John A. Moriarty, US Navy, Retired
116. Rear Admiral David R. Morris, US Navy, Retired
117. Rear Admiral James A. Mozart, SC US Navy, Retired
118. Rear Admiral Ed Nelson, US Coast Guard, Retired
119. Rear Admiral Philip R. Olsen, US Navy, Retired
120. Rear Admiral Robert S. Owens, US Navy, Retired
121. Rear Admiral Robert Passmore,US Navy, Retired
122. Rear Admiral W.W. Pickavance, Jr., US Navy, Retired
123. Rear Admiral Leonard F. Picotte, US Navy, Retired
124. Rear Admiral Brian C. Prindle, US Navy, Retired
125. Rear Admiral Mike Roesner, SC USN, Retired
126. Rear Admiral William J. Ryan, US Navy, Retired
127. Rear Admiral William L. Schachte, Jr., US Navy JAGC, Retired
128. Rear Admiral William R. Schmidt, US Navy, Retired
129. Rear Admiral William H. Shawcross, US Navy, Retired
130. Rear Admiral Hugh P. Scott, US Navy, MC, Retired
131. Rear Admiral Gregory Slavonic, US Navy, Retired
132. Rear Admiral Paul Sutherland, US Navy, Retired
133. Rear Admiral Charles Williams, US Navy, Retired
134. Rear Admiral H. Denny Wisely, US Navy, Retired
135. Rear Admiral Theodore J. Wojnar, US Coast Guard, Retired
136. Brigadier General Charles L. Bishop, US Army, Retired
137. Brigadier General Remo Butler, US Army, Retired
138. Brigadier General Jimmy L. Cash, US Air Force, Retired
139. Brigadier General George P. Cole, Jr. US Air Force, Retired
140. Brigadier General Philip M. Drew, US Air Force, Retired
141. Brigadier General Jerome V. Foust, US Army, Retired
142. Brigadier General Norman Ham, US Air Force, Retired
143. Brigadier General Thomas W. Honeywill, US Air Force, Retired
144. Brigadier General Charles Jones, US Air Force, Retired
145. Brigadier General Gary M. Jones, US Army, Retired
146. Brigadier General James M. Johnston III, US Air Force, Retired
147. Brigadier General Thomas J. Lennon, US Air Force, Retired
148. Brigadier General Bruce Miketinac, US Army, Retired
149. Brigadier General Bert Mizusawa, US Army, Retired
150. Brigadier General Harold C. Morgan, US Air Force, Retired
151. Brigadier General Stephen Mundt, US Army, Retired
152. Brigadier General Mike Neil, US Marines Corps, Retired
153. Brigadier general Robert V. Paschon, US Air Force, Retired
154. Brigadier General Mark D. Scraba, US Army, Retired
155. Brigadier General George L. Schulstad, US Air Force, Retired
156. Brigadier General Richard M. Tabor, US Army, retired
157. Brigadier General Hugh B. Tant III, US Army, Retired
158. Brigadier General Troy Tolbert, US Air Force, Retired
159. Brigadier General Robert F. Titus, US Air Force, Retired
160. Brigadier General William O. Walsh, US Air Force, Retired
161. Brigadier General Robert V. Woods, US Air Force Retired
162. Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, Retired

See also “Unprecedented letter from Chair of Joint Chiefs suggests U.S. military does not want a President Hillary“.

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~Eowyn

Dr. Eowyn’s post was first published at Fellowship of the Minds