{"id":734404,"date":"2021-09-09T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734404"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:35:19","slug":"marine-veteran-torches-military-leadership-wishes-they-cared-as-much-about-winning-a-war-as-they-did-a-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-veteran-torches-military-leadership-wishes-they-cared-as-much-about-winning-a-war-as-they-did-a-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Veteran Torches Military Leadership, Wishes They \u2018Cared As Much About Winning A War As They Did A Narrative\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarine-veteran-torches-military-leadership-wishes-they-cared-as-much-about-winning-a-war-as-they-did-a-narrative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734404&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-12.50.51-PM-e1631211427463.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"51.410225921522\">\n<p>U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joey Jones laid into senior military leadership Thursday, saying he wished they \u201ccared as much about winning a war as they did a narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the news that President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/afghanistan-veterans-poll-biden-withdrawal-trump-obama-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden<\/a> had purged former President Donald Trump\u2019s appointees from the military service academies, Jones said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cOutnumbered\u201d that the people who were charged with leading Americans sometimes seemed more interested in \u201cgetting a jab on Twitter.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/jen-psaki-blows-off-criticism-service-academy-trump-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:&nbsp;\u2018It\u2019s Not Personal\u2019: Jen Psaki Blows Off Criticism Of Service Academy Trump Purge)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook what we\u2019re dealing with: these are people that are supposed to lead our \u2014 lead our country in times of turmoil and they\u2019re more worried about getting a jab on Twitter. I long for the good old days when people in the Naval Academy or maybe the Pentagon cared as much about winning a war as they did a narrative or a political election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I long for the days when we were more empowered to kill our enemy on the battlefield than we are to tell on each other and get our careers ruined,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/joey-jones-marine-corps-terror-attack-joe-biden-afghanistan-kabul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jones<\/a> continued. \u201cWe literally have a military today that spends as much as more time weeding out conflicting ideas from our political left then, you know \u2014 I don\u2019t know, winning the war in Afghanistan. Bringing home all the Americans, you know, not letting 13 of our service members die as sitting ducks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones went on to argue that the rank and file <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/senate-armed-services-committee-hold-open-hearings-testimony-lloyd-austin-mark-milley-kenneth-mckenzie-jack-reed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">military<\/a> service members would be much happier \u2014 and better suited to \u2014 simply being allowed to do their jobs and do them well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there isn\u2019t a veteran out there who wouldn\u2019t rather lay down his or her life taking it to the enemy to get Americans out of safe houses than sitting there waiting for something like that to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy don\u2019t we demand the resignation of generals and State Department leaders who allowed that to happen rather than people that sit on board that isn\u2019t all that active at a service academy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones concluded by saying that there would always be some good leadership in the military, but noted that a lot of great leaders began as enlisted men and worked their way up through the ranks and through education to become officers later in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, look, Joey always manages to say a whole lot that we can think about the rest of the day,\u201d cohost Harris Faulkner replied. \u201cWe are getting more comfortable canceling each other than we are at canceling the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joey Jones laid into senior military leadership Thursday, saying he wished they \u201ccared as much about winning a war as they did a narrative.\u201dResponding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}