General McChrystal Biography
Commander, International Security Assistance Force/
Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan
United States Army
SOURCE OF COMMISSIONED SERVICE: USMA EDUCATIONAL DEGREES
United States Military Academy - BS - No Major
United States Naval War College - MA - National Security and Strategic Studies
Salve Regina University - MS - International Relations
MILITARY SCHOOLS ATTENDED:
Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses
United States Naval Command and Staff College
Senior Service College Fellowship Harvard University
FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Spanish
PROMOTIONS DATE OF APPOINTMENT:
2LT 2 Jun 76
1LT 2 Jun 78
CPT 1 Aug 80
MAJ 1 Jul 87
LTC 1 Sep 92
COL 1 Sep 96
BG<http://file/l> 1 Jan 01
MG 1 May 04
LTG 16 Feb 06
GEN 11 Jun 09
FROM TO ASSIGNMENT:
Nov 76 Feb 78 Weapons Platoon Leader, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Feb 78 Jul 78 Rifle Platoon Leader, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jul 78 Nov 78 Executive Officer, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Nov 78 Apr 79 Student, Special Forces Officer Course, Special Forces School<http://file/l>, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Apr 79 Jun 80 Commander, Detachment A, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jun 80 Feb 81 Student, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia
Feb 81 Mar 82 S2/S3 (Intelligence/Operations<http://file/l>), United Nations Command Support Group Joint Security Area, Korea
Mar 82 Nov 82 Training Officer, Directorate of Plans and Training, A Company, Headquarters Command, Fort Stewart, Georgia
Nov 82 Sep 84 Commander, A Company, 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia
Sep 84 Sep 85 S3 (Operations), 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia
Sep 85 Jan 86 Liaison Officer, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger<http://file/l> Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Jan 86 May 87 Commander, A Company, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
May 87 Apr 88 Liaison Officer, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Apr 88 Jun 89 S3 (Operations), 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Jun 89 Jun 90 Student, Command and Staff Course, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
Jun 90 Apr 93 Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina and OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia
Apr 93 Nov 94 Commander, 2d Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Nov 94 Jun 96 Commander, 2d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Washington
Jun 96 Jun 97 Senior Service College Fellowship, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jun 97 Aug 99 Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Aug 99 Jun 00 Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York
Jun 00 Jun 01 Assistant Division Commander (Operations), 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Kuwait, Camp Doha, Kuwait
Jun 01 Jul 02 Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING
FREEDOM, Afghanistan
Jul 02 Sep 03 Vice Director for Operations, J3, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC
Sep 03 Feb 06 Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Feb 06 Jun 08 Commander, Joint Special Operations Command/Commander, Joint Special Operations Command Forward, United States Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Aug 08 Jun 09 Director, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC
Jun 09 Present Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS:
S2/S3 (Intelligence/Operations), United Nations Command Support Group Joint Security Area, Korea (Feb 81-Mar 82, Captain)
Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina and OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia Jun 90-Apr 93 Major/Lieutenant Colonel)
Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 01-Jul 02, Brigadier General)
Vice Director for Operations, J3, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC (Jul 02-Sep 03, Brigadier General)
Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Sep 03-Feb 06, Brigadier General/Major General)
Commander, Joint Special Operations Command/Commander, Joint Special Operations
Command Forward, United States Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Feb 06-Jun 08, Major General/Lieutenant General)
Director, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC (Aug 08-Jun 09, Lieutenant General)
Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 09-Present, General)
SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS ASSIGNMENTS DATE GRADE
Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia (Jun 90-Mar 91, Major)
Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Kuwait, Camp Doha, Kuwait (Apr 01-Jun 01, Brigadier General)
Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (May 02-Jul 02, Brigadier General)
Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 09- Present, General)
US DECORATIONS AND BADGES:
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
Legion of Merit (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Bronze Star Medal
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Expert Infantryman Badge
Master Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab
Special Forces Tab
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
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Obama Biography:
Birthplace: Location remains questionable. Proof of United States Citizenship hasn't been provided.
Education: Columbia University, Harvard Law School. Records never produced, attendance remains questionable.
Military Career: None
Business Career: None
Political Career: Community organizer, Chicago, 1983-86; civil rights attorney, Chicago, 1991-96;
University of Chicago, lecturer, early 1990s-2004; Illinois State Senator, 1996-2005; U.S. Senator, 2005-2008; President 2008-.
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I believe the wrong guy resigned.
I believe anyone can manipulate facts and figures to make any point they want.
I also believe that doing so is dishonest.
Furthermore, I believe that the what the good general allowed to happen was a very poor decision on his part.
I believe that people who are complaining about the general's resignation are hypocrites, because they are the same people who said that public dissent in among the government and armed forces gives aid to our enemies when W. was president.
Finally, I believe that lists are boring.
Quote from: Anmar on July 08, 2010, 12:20:59 AM
I believe anyone can manipulate facts and figures to make any point they want.
I also believe that doing so is dishonest.
Furthermore, I believe that the what the good general allowed to happen was a very poor decision on his part.
I believe that people who are complaining about the general's resignation are hypocrites, because they are the same people who said that public dissent in among the government and armed forces gives aid to our enemies when W. was president.
Finally, I believe that lists are boring.
Boring.... as in the list you posted? yeah... your boring!
Great post, Teresa.... I hate to see the General retire, too.
lol, good job warph, i see that nothing slips by you!
Teresa, that is a good post and the Majority of the people I talk to agree with you on this.
I dont think McChrystal should've had to quit OR apologize, been fired or whatever the "official" story is now.
So nobody is mad at "Rolling Stone" for publishing the article?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on July 08, 2010, 10:49:56 AM
So nobody is mad at "Rolling Stone" for publishing the article?
why? They are a liberal rag. it was a mistake to talkt o them since they would sell their own mothers for a story. Off the record? not a chance.
Do we get mad at sharks for being sharks? Rolling stone and all the rest of them are bottom feeders.
Rolling Stone ?? Does anyone but Obama still read that Liberal rag ?
Personally, I think the General knew exactly what he was doing. I think he had a gut full of fighting a war while the politicians had their grubby little paws wrapped around the Generals scrotum ( thought we learned a lesson from Vietnam but I guess not )
He asked for more troops and it took months for the Big Zero to commit. Then the "build up' trickled over at about the same rate as troops rotated home. What a troop surge Then you have these stupid ass rules of engagement.
No I'm not mad at Rolling Stone. I like to read it. I'm of the if you cant say it to their face dont say it behind their back variety.
I just think McChrystal is the kind of man who DID say it to their face......they didn't like it and used the article as an EXCUSE to get rid of him. Not like he's the FIRST general that's happened to. He strikes me as a warrior not a politician.....politicians don't LIKE warriors.
Quote from: jarhead on July 08, 2010, 11:06:50 AM
Rolling Stone ?? Does anyone but Obama still read that Liberal rag ?
Personally, I think the General knew exactly what he was doing. I think he had a gut full of fighting a war while the politicians had their grubby little paws wrapped around the Generals scrotum ( thought we learned a lesson from Vietnam but I guess not )
He asked for more troops and it took months for the Big Zero to commit. Then the "build up' trickled over at about the same rate as troops rotated home. What a troop surge Then you have these stupid ass rules of engagement.
The commander in chief is a civilian.... those are the rules that govern our system... if the warriors don't like it, that's unfortunate, but it is the nature of the beast.
Sadly those rules of engagement go back a very long time. Al's father ( WWII, CBI ) talked about the soldiers not being able to shoot into the rubber plantations because of the politics. Of course Viet Nam was full of it. I'm sure it got and still gets people killed. Look what happened to Douglas MacArthur over Korea also. At least perhaps McChrystal's wife can renew her relationship with her husband.
Jerry , I'm gonna jump in on the side of the warriors........yes the commander in cheif is a civilian......I am one of those people who think that if the president doesn't have experience of war he REALLY ought to at least LISTEN to people who HAVE been there done that because the LIVES of HIS citizens ride on the decisions he makes.
The lives of BOYS and GIRLS who have to MEN and WOMEN at a MUCH younger age than he did. To say it is just the nature of the beast devalues their sacrifice and it IS a sacrifice. It should just be a sacrifice for something WORTHY. Their hands should not be tied by rules of engagement formulated in a conference room somewhere FAR away from the war zone with POLITICAL objectives that use their lives as currency.
Thank you Pam. You hit the nail on the head.
Jerry, I aint got a clue as to what you say applies to my quote------but that's OK. You don't have to try and explain it.
It seems to me that there have been, for better or worse, at least a dozen Presidents who have not had any military experience of any kind. Personally, I think congress is the big fly on the pie for the military, even more so than any President. As far as the big surge, I don't understand any of that. Don't we have people in Germany that could have been moved very quickly? Is it a matter of not having the right kind of uniforms or the right kind of weapons for the locale? Not enough vehicles to move them around? Are they behind on rations etc.? Not enough people who have desert training? I know that was problem part of the time during Vietnam.They got behind in jungle training.You can't send people who don't yet exist. Is it like WWII that the companies who make all the war supplies see the end coming and aren't making as much as fast because they don't want to be stuck with it?
Do what Dianne ?? We got behind on jungle training during Vietnam ?? Now that's a new one I've never heard. "Jungle training " you learned OJT (ON JOB TRAINING )
Sorry Jar, I was just being descriptive. OJT doesn't describe what Ft. Polk LA was like, with the jungle huts and "swamps "and all . I had no personal experience of course, but had lots of friends who did.That's when they also shortened basic by a few weeks too, to crank 'em out faster. Al had had 12 weeks, right after that it was shortened to 9.
Pam, this is one time you will get no argument from me, you hit it center mass.