Extremism on Duty
Lt. Col. Tommy Waller (USMC Ret.)
The suicide of Aaron Bushnell indicates that the military has not purged itself of dangerous ideologies.
Video footage of a U.S. Air Force Airman engulfed in flames on video this week brought back for me many terrible memories from Iraq.
Unlike the brave heroes I knew who lost their lives to horrific burns inflicted by enemy action on the battlefield, this airman’s burns were self-inflicted, initiated out of a misplaced loyalty to a cause upheld by that same enemy.
The transformation of today’s Department of Defense (DoD) to one seemingly incapable of recognizing insider threats has also been self-inflicted. While it breaks my heart to see the current state of our military, it reinforces my belief that it’s time for accountability for its current leadership.
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