Sen. Tommy Tuberville won't lift his military blockade amid Israel-Hamas conflict

Amazing how many veterans on this board don't have a clue what is going on, but buy that liberal media line that Tuberville is somehow standing in the way of military operations and somehow impacting military readiness and "national security"

MSG Thomas Currie - He is. Denying appointments has to cause serious morale issues as well as diruption in the chain of command.

MSG Stan Hutchison - Except for two problems with your gripe:
1. No appointments are being denied and no positions are being left vacant. A few generals have to add the word "Acting" in front of their position title while waiting confirmation. Some of those generals are also having to survive on the same pay they've been getting rather than getting their pay raise, for the time being, but they will get back pay when confirmed.
2. It's not Tuberville single-handedly holding up the confirmations. Your boy Chuck can hold the confirmation vote any time he wants to, all Tuberville is holding up is being able to do all the confirmations in one package without a vote.

But it is perfectly ok woke military leaders change policies to impose their personal political beliefs to (at best) bend the law.

I don't personally support Tuberville's position or his method, but I have even less support for a handful of military brass who made a purely political decision to bypass existing law.

MSG Thomas Currie - What laws?

MSG Thomas Currie - Ditto, what laws?

Capt Gregory Prickett - The defense appropriations for the last several years have all contained a provision preventing the military from providing abortions - this is the reason why military hospitals don't DO abortions, service members get abortions in civilian hospital. That is why it's now suddenly a big deal that some states have banned murdering babies. The defense department then changed the regulations so the military pays service members to travel to go get abortions, claiming that this spending doesn't violate the exact wording of the law. That was a political choice by the defense department -- regardless of which side anyone supports on the abortion issue, there is simply no way to claim that Titusville is introducing politics into the military, when the military chose to make the issue political. What Titusville has been demanding is that the military return to the regulations it already had in place.

It doesn't have to make sense -- that has never been a requirement for the liberal media when supporting a Democrat or attacking a Republican.

Sometimes if you sound the issue out and provide perspective, some might actually have an epiphany.