Warrior General Stan McChrystal Retires

July 24, 2010

He ended his 34 years as an Army Officer yesterday. Al-Qaida couldn’t stop General Stanley McChrystal but Rolling Stone Rag/Mag sure did — which frankly still bites.

Wearing his own Army combat uniform for the last time, McChrystal received full military honors, including a 17-gun salute and flag formations by the Army’s Old Guard. Soldiers who attending the retirement ceremony were allowed to leave their customary dress uniforms in the closet and wear their combat fatigues — an awesome tribute to a warrior commander fresh from battle and whose career was marked by more secret operations to snatch terror suspects and other enemies of our republic than by Washington bureaucracy. Remember: General McChrystal knows where all the bodies are buried… literally! It was McChrystal, a seasoned special operations commander, who made his reputation hunting down members of al-Qaida in Iraq, and helping turn around the course of that bloody war.

SecDef Gates said this of General McChrystal:

“Over the past decade, arguably no single American has inflicted more fear, more loss of freedom and more loss of life on our country’s most vicious and violent enemies than Stan McChrystal,”

I’m so very glad General McChrystal was on our side. He is a hero and I am quite certain we haven’t heard the last of him.

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