Wrong, Colonel, the Concerns Are Yours!
Kevin McCullough
If you grow up in a military family, like I did, you don't just learn the rank structure or how to fold a flag. You grow up with an inherent respect for duty, service, and the rules that govern both. One of the biggest rules? Keep your politics to yourself when you're in uniform.
So when the story broke this week about the 821st Space Base Group commander at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland being relieved of duty after a snarky, partisan email targeting U.S. Vice President JD Vance, I wasn’t surprised. I was disgusted.
Colonel Susan Meyers, in a wildly inappropriate and insubordinate move, decided to flex her self-righteousness in a private email chain following Vice President Vance's visit to the base. Her message, which became public, aimed at the Vice President in a tone that can only be described as condescending, partisan, and unbecoming of an officer in the United States Armed Forces.
Let’s set the record straight: Vice President Vance was on an official visit. He represented the elected government of the United States and, in his executive role, engaged in strategic oversight of critical military assets abroad. Colonel Meyers’ job wasn’t to editorialize or belittle him behind his back. Her job was to provide support, transparency, and respect to a duly elected representative of the American people.
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