'He’s loud, he’s bombastic, he’s salt of the earth.' And now Mark Milley is preparing for confirmation to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army Gen. Mark Milley headed to the White House in November to be interviewed for the top military job in Europe.
“I think that he ended up in the job in no small measure [because] there’s a lot of aspects to him that Trump likes: He’s loud, he’s bombastic, he’s salt of the earth, he is also at the same time Ivy League-educated,” the former official said. This spring, his intervention with then-acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan succeeded in heading off criminal punishments for officers who may have been at fault in the 2017 deaths of four soldiers during an ambush in Niger, two defense officials told POLITICO.
“Those people who worked for him I think feel a little bit bullied,” said another former senior Defense Department official. “He was tough on them without necessarily giving them the decisions that they needed to get done what they were expected to do.” Milley also wanted to be part of the approval process for every step of every acquisition program, which encompasses thousands of Army programs — an unusual approach for a chief of staff.
But Milley is also known to be fiercely protective of friends and of Army interests, as shown in his intervention into the Niger investigation., originally intending to appoint a general with “In my opinion, the only thing that could potentially trip Milley up during his confirmation hearings is the whole Niger incident,” Moeller said. “The Army didn’t do itself any favors with the fallout from that tragedy.”
Milley also contended in a July 27, 2017, interview at the National Press Club that transgender service members had caused “a variety of issues” for the Army — the opposite of what he would tell Gillibrand the following year.National Press Club appearance “He fully supports DoD’s current transgender policy and has always believed the opportunity to serve should be afforded to anyone who can meet Army standards as outlined by existing policies, laws, and regulations,” Turner said.he suspects that the general hasn’t changed his earlier views, and that when he answered Gillibrand’s question he was already thinking ahead to his confirmation as chairman.
“We give Gen. Milley credit for making that shift and acknowledging the success of inclusive policy,” Belkin said. As chairman, Milley would not only be the highest-ranking officer in the military. He would also become Trump’s principal military adviser. It’s a relationship that’s expected to go more smoothly than the one between Trump and Dunford.
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