Sukio, it is Admiral Mullen, not Mullens. Please fix it.
Don't worry about any combat mismanagement. The Joint Chiefs of Staff only brief the NCA, SecDef, and other civillian leaders as well as being the head of their respective administrative commands. They are force providers, which means they have no direct authority over any operational forces, only over support forces. Combat forces are under the authority of Combatant Commanders (such as USCENTCOM or USSOCOM) who report directly to the Secretary of Defense. [I just had a midterm on this stuff ]
Personally, being at the bottom of the food chain and all, it doesn't really affect me at all...
A question for those who know becuz I see a trend here that USN officers are taking high ranking posts through out the US military structure:
Chieff of Staff is now a navy admiral.... CENTCOM commander is a navy admiral... SOCOM commander is a navy admiral..... SOUTHCOM is now headed by another naval officer.
Wonder why!?!
Chief of Staff and CENTCOM are probably just on random rotation, but the others have reasons.
SOCOM, Admiral Olson, is the first Navy SEAL to ever become an Admiral, so he must be an absolutely outstanding officer. SOUTHCOM deals with mostly drug interdiction and such in South America and the Caribbean, so it makes sense to have an Admiral because ships are needed to patrol that area.
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