Donors want Marine Gen. James Mattis to run for president against Trump, Clinton
Marine Corps Times
Jeff Schogol
April 8, 2016
Gen. James Mattis, former head of U.S. Central Command, speaks to the crew of USS George H.W. Bush during an all hands call.
(Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Billy Ho/Navy)
No matter how many times retired Marine Gen. James Mattis says he is not running for president, people still hope the legendary former commander jumps into the race.
Most recently, a group of wealthy conservatives is looking to have Mattis run as a third-party candidate if Donald Trump secures the Republican Party’s nomination, according to The Daily Beast. Their hope is that no candidate wins enough electoral votes, forcing the House of Representatives to select the next president.
“Trump is a fascist lunatic and Hillary [Clinton] has one foot in a jail cell,” John Noonan, a former aide to Jeb Bush who is now advocating for Mattis to run, told The Daily Beast. “That means the lunatic can win. I’d be first in line to plead with the general to come save America.”
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SUSPECT IN WILD LA CHASE WAS TRAINED MILITARY DRIVER, PENTAGON SAYS
Eyewitness ABC 7 News
By Miriam Hernandez and ABC7.com staff
Friday, April 08, 2016
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The driver who led police on a wild chase through Los Angeles on Thursday was a trained vehicle operator for the U.S Marine Corps, the Pentagon confirmed.
According to military personnel information from the Marine Corps, 20-year-old Herschel Reynolds served in the Marines from April 22, 2014 to Jan. 13, 2016. He was ranked as a private, and although he was never deployed, he was decorated with the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, records show.
Reynolds was trained at Camp Pendleton as a Marine Corps motor vehicle operator.
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A veteran trying to get help for PTSD, walks into a therapist's office and talks about what he has thought of doing. He ends up in jail for 10 days. It isn't a joke.
"On April 5, 2015, Juillerat was arrested by Louisville police and held in jail for 10 days. His charge of Terroristic Threatening was dismissed on May 7, 2015."
Veteran Says Counselor Got Him Arrested
Courthouse News
By Joe Harris
April 7, 2016
On March 31, 2015, Sweeney wrote in Juillerat's file that, "Patient never said anything about killing the officer or anybody else," that "He (Plaintiff) said he 'thought about shooting' the cop," and that "(Patient) went on to say he had no intentions of doing this."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CN) - A veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder was without cause arrested and jailed for making a terroristic threat after he told a counselor in confidence that he thought about shooting a police officer who pulled him over, the vet claims in court.
Maki Juillerat, who served 17 years in the U.S. Army, sued the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, the Louisville Metropolitan/Jefferson County Government, Mayor Greg Fischer, Police Chief Steve Conrad, Police Officer Greg Mudd, and Veterans Administration employees Sonny Hatfield and Jaime Watts in Jefferson Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Juillerat says he sought counseling through the V.A. to help with his PTSD.
During a session on March 20, 2015, Juillerat told his counselor, Dr. Mary Sweeny, that he had thoughts about shooting Mudd after Mudd had pulled him over for a traffic stop. Juillerat claims he told Sweeny that he had no plan to carry out the shooting and promised that he would call emergency personnel is his thoughts progressed towards action.
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Video of altercation between Muslim teen, Marine in Coldwater goes viral was the headline from WWMT out of Michigan. Pretty much made me sick to think that after all these years of the military telling all of us that our servicemen and women are being trained to "prevent PTSD" along with "prevent suicides" what we see is all too often more suffering while we get excuses from Brass and politicians with jurisdiction over everything. They love to forget we noticed that is what their jobs are and what they get paid to do.
Ok, so this is the part that bothered me the most out of this whole ugly story. A family member had this to say.
"He claims the teens were mouthing off and his uncle reacted. He also says his uncle suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving 3 tours in the middle east--and a woman we spoke to says that's the name she knows."
If you know veterans, they say all kinds of things that they don't mean. Coming from a family of them, I cannot remember how many times I heard something stupid and that is from 3 generations of veterans. Thank God someone didn't pull out a cellphone every time you said something you shouldn't have said. I know I do.
This veteran would have received all the training we were told would work to take care of them after combat. They just failed to mention that none of it worked and the repeated deployments increased the risk of PTSD, which they knew, but ignored and sent them back over and over again.
With all that in mind, there is this veteran who said something he shouldn't have said after something happened to set him off. Because one of the "kids" pulled out a cellphone, this is what happened to him after 3 tours risking his life.
"As for the man in the video, his relative tells us he lost his job today because of the video."
I think you should watch the video now after you have that thought in your mind. Is it fair to you? Click the link above and see what happened for yourself especially if you have a veteran in your family.
Florida National Guard sending 700 soldiers to Africa
Miami Herald
Carol Rosenberg
April 7, 2016
About 700 Florida National Guard troops are headed to the Horn of Africa again to be part of U.S. military operations against al-Qaida and other violent extremists in East Africa, a wing of the war on terror.
The Guard said in an announcement Thursday that the Miami-based 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the “Hurricanes,” and Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 153rd Cavalry Regiment depart this weekend respectively from airports in Fort Lauderdale and Panama City “for a 12-month mission in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.”
They’ll be at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti for about nine of those months with the rest of the yearlong deployment devoted to preparation, training and demobilization.
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