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Posted on May 11, 2015
GEN Stanley McChrystal
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SSG Chaplain Assistant
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Sir, what is your favorite PX eating joint? Follow up, your go to "comfort" meal at said establishment?
Thank you Sir.
AIRBORNE!
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SFC James Marshall
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Sir
Why you get on national television and say that we should not have access to AR platform weapons
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LCDR John Hicks
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General McChrystal it is an honor to be able to ask you questions. I read your brother is a Chaplain in the Army was wondering if you could comment about your religious beliefs and how they may have influenced your life and military career. Thank you Sir.
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Cpl Christopher Bishop
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GEN Stanley McChrystal,

First, I will say Thank You for taking some time here.

I would be "out of character" if I didn't ask things most might not ask.

My questions surrounds our most senior military positions is how folks on the Joint Chiefs of Staff might handle things if/when an issue arises where the ethical thing to do is to challenge either the POTUS, or anyone between him and them in their own upward chains of command, and also how branch Commandants or Vice Commanders might feel about avoiding any such appointments to the JCOS out of the concern its likely one step closer to forced retirement, if/when any backbone is displayed towards senior officials. Are people like GEN Dunford better off staying put in a CMC position...I sense an insane amount of political bureaucracy at that level.

Please understand I am a Marine Infantry Corporal who has been Honorably Discharge since 1995, so I confess I'm not entirely familiar with you personally, or savvy on anything about your specific career. I am simple concerned about the present POTUS and such a high level of Leadership Purges, indicating to me that the POTUS is reassembling with only faces who will play ball and let him turn America into a new Monarchy.

How are those things handled? How are they supposed to be handled? And how much of those things will really never know unless/until we get to those bridges? Can you speak on what checks and balances we have and/or how effective they can be?

Thank You
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SFC Stephen King
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General McChrysal, Thank you for taking the time to be here.

What is more important to you in Leadership? Do you feel mental toughness is essential to development of a leader in both the military and business arena? If so what are your ways you have maintained your toughness since retirement?
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SSG John Erny
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GEN Stanley McChrystal
Sir,

1. Do think that the discipline and respect level of soldiers towards NCO's and Officers has decreased from the 1980's? From my observations I would say yes.
2. Should the Army bring back the CCF corrections facilities to help turn around soldiers who have lost their way?
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A1C Michael Reedy
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Good afternoon General! I recently applied for review of discharge to use my education benefits. Typically what is the outcome of such an undertaking after 7 years of separation? U.S.A.F. review boards.
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LCpl Mark Lefler
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Good afternoon General, and I say that with great reverence. My question for you is can you comment on why there seems to be such a hard tide against women trying to break new boundaries in the military? Shouldn't be our obligation to cheer on our sisters in the military to achieve new goals?
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SSgt Geospatial Intelligence
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Welcome, sir! My question would have to do with what differences you saw in strategical needs in Iraq vs Afghanistan? Was there something present that caused you to try a different route than what was used in Iraq?

Thank you, sir. I look forward to reading your answers!
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1LT Tom Wilson
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To Make America Great Again with 5th Wave High Performance

MEMO:
TO: Gen. Stanley McChrystal
SUBJECT: To Make America Great Again with 5th Wave High Performance

Now, when you grow weary of being corporate America’s favorite performing seal, me and you and the 75th Ranger Learning Community can do for America with The Points of Light Program what I did for Jim Kimsey in 1979 as described in The Tools of Transformation. You can place this data in an equivalent category of data as that contained in The Men Who Stare at Goats. This story is evidence to my claim that I was using the same performance technology to run The Exchange, Ltd that Frank Burns was developing with the First Earth Battalion and Force Delta Leadership Program.
The Harvard Business leadership model is about 70 years behind the leadership model of the US Army Ranger School. And West Point. This leadership gap began to manifest in 1947, but the take-over of Harvard by the SDS in 1968 accelerated the process and this gap has now become an economic crises. The Points of Light Program will fix this before the 2020 election.
I would prefer to work with Bernie. He is already using the economic models of 5th Wave High Performance and is demonstrating that he understands the power of the community organizer as a force multiplier and capitalist tool
Now, I am no fan of Trump, but I would prefer to work with him than trying to bring Hillary Clinton up to speed, although this memo may serve to help her get her head out of her ass in the same way I jerked Kimsey back on course in 1979.
In terms of Trump, if he will deposit $10 million with Speaker Paul Ryan as seed capital for the Deconcini Deficit Reduction Trust, I will train 30 people of his choosing as the Steering Committee for the Donald Trump Learning Community. An advantage to him, he can include anyone who ever enrolled in Trump University including exclusively Trump University alumni or student body,
I’ll do the same for Bernie and Hill as soon as they deposit $10 million with Speaker Paul Ryan on the same basis. The Points of Light is a venture capital process. In no small measure, the motto of the program is “Money talks, bullshit walks”.
I want your business to do the same thing for your current book. This program is designed to supercharge Trickle Down Economics. I don’t care if you ever give me a penny, because the program enriches the synergies that flow through my life space in various ways. I am already more or less set for life, as long as the economy continues to recover after the disaster of 30 years of Tea Party Conservative economic policies. This program will give Trump the data he needs to over-fulfill his aspirations as President.
Timing is everything, My advice to graduate of the US Army Command and Staff College to pursue a similar MBA at Wharton as Trump’s. It has nothing to do with Trump, but the epistemology of the two schools are almost perfectly organic by themselves. It’s what I am saying about me and Frank Burns: There were only two people in the world doing what Frank Burns in 1979 and I was the other one. But we are complimentary models. His model is perfectly designed for the socialism of the Army community but inappropriate for civilian communities, while mine is literally based on the business model Dick iHeidenberger employed to open The Bottom Line on Eye Street, NW and is appropriate for civilian and military communities.. Frank and I were a perfect compliment, but he was too cool for school. I wanted to do for him what I did for Jim Kimsey, but he pulled rank on me in a particular way and Iust said “Fuck you, shit for brains. You are about to crash and burn, big time, because you don’t have any idea how business works than Ted Cruz or Paul Ryan or Ayn Rand, but if you want to run things like Jeff Bezos is running Amazon knock yourself out.” And that’s what happened. What happened to Frank Burns is trickling down directly for the damage Bezos leaves in his wake through his bureaucracy to the warehouse workers who can get fired for saying “Teamsters “ on company time or property.
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