Trump and Hegseth may have made the biggest mistake in their lives.

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52. How do you think those Generals liked being lectured by an O-4?

a Major (the lowest field grade officer rank), and that was in the National Guard, not the Army?

To his credit, he was deployed 3 times, but only once when he conceivably could have seen hostile action. That was a year in Iraq, described as: "During his 2005 to 2006 deployment with the 101st Airborne Division, Hegseth was first an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad. He later served as a Civil-Military Operations officer in Samarra, where he worked with the city council."

Not to minimize any service in a hostile zone, and by 2006, we were in Cheney's "last throes", and the heavy action was not in Baghdad -- it was north of that.

He had a tour in Afghanistan, but that was as a counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center. I'm sure that is an important job, but not one where he had to make any decisions that would risk the lives under his command.

And his third tour was in Gitmo. 'nuff said?

So this drunk calls every general -- and THEIR STAFF, a total of over 2000 people most likely to be lectured by a GUardsman who has never had any live combat experience. I don't see how any of the Generals could be very happy about that, regardless of their politics.