From Pentagon guru Colin Clark’s additions to the lead story on Military.com.
A source with close ties to the senior Air Force leadership told Military.com that the likely replacement for Moseley is Gen. John D.W. Corley, commander of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command. The source said that Corley had been tagged to replace Moseley in the fall, when Moseley was due to retire. This source, and an industry source, said that Wynne’s successor was unlikely to make it through the Senate’s nomination process before the end of the Bush administration and would serve as acting secretary.
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Initial congressional reaction was positive. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, praised Gates for appointing Schlesinger to lead the nuclear weapons study and made it clear he accepted Gates’ decision to oust the senior leaders during a time of war.
“The incidents at Minot and Barksdale Air Force Bases and the misshipment of missile nose cones to Taiwan should never have happened,” Skelton said in a statement released Thursday evening. “I look forward to reviewing Admiral Kirkland Donald’s report on what went wrong with the Air Force’s management of nuclear weapons security and safety.”
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a new member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also praised Gates for his actions. “What is so encouraging is that Secretary Gates is walking the walk on accountability,” she said in a statement.
Rock on DoD Buzz-master!
– Christian
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What I think what happened it was just the last drop. Two major (nuclear)errors in a short time and being to blunt (not political enough/critical) at your Boss is just waiting for trouble…
Nope, not even close, Gates uses the “vertical stroke” in dealing with these problems.
It is far more likely that commander of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, Gen. John D.W. Corley, will get the same ax that Moseley got instead of replacing him.
The video here:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/breaking-air-fo.html#more
makes clear that the issue is the institutional and command culture of the USAF.
Corley is part of the problem, not the solution.
The fact that the nuclear investigation team Gates quoted was lead by a Navy Adm. and the nuclear policy team coming behind it is headed by Ex-Def Sec Schlessenger (sp?)with no USAF involvement says a lots about the issue.
None of it good for the current Fighter Pilot General USAF brass.
I’m waiting for my “favorite” website “whatdoesitmean.com(thgis site is better than the old World Weekly News or other extremely weird supermarket tabloids)” to explain the “real” reasons for these firings.Good ol’ Sorcha Faal using her “Russian sources”will let us know how the fired general & secretary of some coup or counter-coup faction battling for supremacy of the U.S. & just happened to be on the losing side.Every time you hear incidents like this happening,you need to go to that website to read the most outlandish,left field reasons for why such a thing took place(they have come up with some whoppers in the past).
Folks,
If you’re getting good gouge on likely replacements for Moseley and Wynne, feel free to email me directly.
This story isn’t going to go away today…
If GEN Corley is CG of Air Combat Command, doesn’t that put him in the kill chain regarding the nuke mishap? Making him the CoS would be like firing the CG of Walter Reid for moldy rooms and replacing him with the guy in charge of building maintenance.
General Norton Schwartz, Special Operations background
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364480,00.html
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