Hillary Clinton has done her best to argue that she has the experience necessary to serve as the next commander-in-chief.
But apparently top former leaders of the U.S. military strongly disagree.
In an open letter released yesterday, 88 retired generals, admirals, and other former military officers said they were backing Trump. In the letter, they claimed that the continuation of President Barack Obama’s policies under Clinton would be a disaster for our fighting men and women.
“The 2016 election affords the American people an urgently needed opportunity to make a long overdue course correction in our national security posture and policy,” said the letter, which was signed by retired Army General Burwell B. Bell III, retired Vice Admiral Mike Bucchi, and many others.
The letter criticized eight years of “ill-considered and debilitating budget cuts, policy choices, and combat operations” that had “emboldened” America’s enemies.
Urging the American public to vote for Trump, the former military brass said we need a leader who can stand up to America’s enemies and defeat Islamic extremism.
And apparently there’s only one candidate in the race who is up to the task.
Trump will outline plans to “add substantially” to the nation’s arsenal of submarines, ships and combat troops in a Wednesday morning speech in Philadelphia, according to a briefing provided by his campaign. Trump’s address comes hours before his national security acumen is tested at a “commander in chief” forum on NBC.
A late morning address at Philadelphia’s Union League will outline his plans to eliminate deep military cuts, known as the “sequester,” enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.
Beyond new spending on troops and naval assets, Trump also will call for additions to sea-based missile defense.
On Tuesday night, Trump promised to convene his military commanders soon after taking office with “a simple instruction” aimed at the Islamic State group. “They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS,” he told North Carolina voters.
And it’s clear military members have faith that The Donald can get it done.
— The Horn editorial team and The Associated Press contributed to this article
We need a strong defense. Time for our enemies to fearful. Also time for our texting, reality show watching apathetic 19-30 year olds to start joining our military. Sad as to how the majority of our politicians today have never joined our military. Some American families haven’t had son or daughter in the service since WWII.
we certainly don’t need Hillary as commander in chief. She said she will follow the Obama legacy. It is one of failure where he bowed to the head of the Muslin World.
Those 88 generals and Admirals can’t be all wrong. She has 1 who says Trump is not qualified. Trump has 88 who say he is the best choice.
It’s on the Boston news today as to how Red Sox player David Ortiz strongly criticized Trump for his border enforcement stand. In this day and age how can anyone criticize making our nation more safer? Ortiz was on the MLB’s PED watch list. All he does is hit as a DH and pitch hitter. Rarely does he field. Last week reporters were saying that he is better than Ted Williams or Carl Yastrzemski. Those Boston player were good hitters and fielded every game they played. Unfair to compare Trump hating Ortiz with those greats.
We’ve had bushes, we’ve had the Clinton administration. We don’t need anymore old Liberal baggage that didn’t do a damn thing to help this country! It’s time for non-politically correct, non-politician outsider to operate this country and get it back on track and secure! Wake up all you Hillary airheads!
Right on!!! Kevin NO MORE BOUGHT POLITICIANS, NO MORE CLINTONS, BUSHES OR OBAMA TYPES!!! We need a PEOPLES’ PRESIDENT: Donald J Trump/Mike Pence team is what America needs to stop this CORRUPTION in Washington!
As someone who served in the Army (1970 – 1972) I am repulsed by the idea of Trump as President. Do not delude yourselves into thinking the military, active duty and retired, uniformly support Agent Orange.
Steve Smith: As a Viet Nam Veteran (67-68) suffering the debilitating effects of Agent Orange, I take severe offense to referring to our next President as “Agent Orange.” You are a liberal coward and a disgrace to the uniform that you wore. GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY !!!!!
The Clintons tried in the past, the bushes tried in the past they are that all their chance to fix things they didn’t fix shit!
Darl Steve is A true veteran you are the one that needs to leave the United States a real vet would not say what you said to another veteran and you were only there one year he was there for three years the orange must’ve mess up your head ,A real vet wouldn’t vote for a draft dogger like Trump ! Hillary 2016
Steve Smith, being a cook safely stateside does not qualify you to be anything other than a tool for fighting men. It certainly does not afford you an opinion worthy of any credibility.
To oppose a strong military presence for any reason makes me think that you are nearly a pant suit cross dresser
@Dane: I am voting for Trump. I joined the service man years ago and was honorably discharged. If someone was a cook then at least they served their nation. More than we can say about 95% of those in congress today.
Well. Thank you for your service. I hope the VA medical system serves you needs well. I am afraid that military leadership requires the personal integrity, physical ability to be there at 3am, acceptance of the advice of of honest advisers with out forming a study committee, not celebrating criminals nor their activities, respecting our allies with out belittling them. Yes military leadership requires a lot of focused effort covering a lot of areas. Most of all, being honest is foremost above all the attributes of leadership, even among the NCOs and officers. If you read the MSM, even they are beginning to question one of the candidate’s
integrity, so when is you brain bulb going to light up? Vote Trump-Pence 2016.
SteveSmith: you don’t know what the hell you are talking about buddy! Hillary will carry-on the Obama policies in this country will be a disaster! We don’t need anymore Clintons and Congress or bushes or anything else! That’s enough right there! When is someone with some brass balls and backbone that’s not politically correct and knows what the hell is got to be done to this country! You and a lot of crazy other people don’t know what the hell you’re thinking!Get your head out of your ass and vote the right Man that will take care of this country the way should’ve been taken care of! One will not have any respect! Obama doesn’t have any respect! Because he doesn’t have any balls are backbone! Donald Trump has it all! Do you want more refugees coming over here without being vetted?! Do you want more illegal immigrants coming over over the wall so taxpayers can keep paying for them!? Are you Hillary Clinton lovers out there you don’t know what the hell you’re thinking about! What the hell you are doing! When is someone fresh nine politically correct to operate this country we don’t need another damn politician from the past old ass passed!
Your 100% correct.
Real tuff time for you huh??!! NOT!!!!!!! I also served in our military but during the Viet nam “CONFLICT”!! My in country dates were 23 Dec. 1967 thru 26 May 1969, so please don’t say how tuff you had it! Those dates of service 70-72 were when Nixon was withdrawing troops. So…….you couldn’t possibly have been “in country” overseas then!!!!!!!
Please do not talk about something of which you have little or no knowledge of!! It only makes you sound more rediculus than you are!!!!!!!
God Bless the USA and Donald Trump!!!!!!!
My post was in responce to Steve Smith’s comment!
DBMagnum the troops were withdrawn 15Aug 1973 not 72 you should get your facts right before you say that to someone else we lost 58,315 Dead 303,644 wounded .My uncle was a five star general in the Air Force he had a lot of books on the war and if you were a true veteran you wouldn’t speak to a vet in that fashion and really Trump is a draft dogger why are so happy to call his name unreal and it’s none of your beeswax who votes for whoever. Most of the comment are a lot of crap has nothing to do with nothing, People are playing a game with Trump they’re saying that they’re going to vote for him but they are not they want to see his face whenever the votes are counted he is really going to lose it he needs to take the hat off our United States is great already,a draft dogger can’t make something great when it s already great !!!!!!!!!!!God Bless America and God bless all of you.
We need to remember that the Democrats elected Obama to destroy our strong military so as to make the take over bu Islam so much easier. When Obama took office he had the strongest military in the world.. After his war on our defenses it is suspect that our military could take on an army from Disney World.
I agree with the generals. We need someone that’s going to be strong and protect their borders and make America number one. Hillary Clinton wants to open our borders cut military spending and allow 500000 syrians undocumented into our country. how could anyone in their right mind vote for that most crooked was corrupt politician in American history.
Every time i heard this policy of Hillary ,I am coughing to death ,my whole body goes into contraction . I m sure it s not allergy . It the contagious pain spreading out from HILLERY
Big. Fat. Deformed Hillary . If the nominee job is taking all her time ,so that she doesn’t have time to take care of her personal self than let s not talking about the presidential look that she is dreaming of . BUT she is good for Volunteer works like in the VA hospitals .
Trump is the man to lead us back to a respectful country here and around the world.
Dear Suzi , Your answer is short but straight to the point ! I fully agree with you . Obama has disgraced America throughout the world . It’s time to bring respect for America back again .
Vote Trump-Pence 2016 .
A vote for Trump will halt insane policies by Obama, and send Hillary to the nursing home, where she belongs.
A vote for Trump will get you blown up for sure if he gets in the White House!!!!!!! World war three pop goes the Great United States,,????????
They mostly retired because of odumbo. They are right. Go Trump….
The “Warrior Class” not the “Weeine Class” supporting our current “Coward-in-Chief”.
Those former military officers are right. It is Hillary’s experience and past performance that clearly shows that she is not the right person to be President of the United States.
Her Experience is horrible . We do not need those experience . Her head can not handle all the KNOWS that she accumulated during the years she have her feet in the polical arena . They drive her NUT like overdosed medicines . So psychotic ward is her home now . Feel sorry for Bill
How much longer can he take it ???
I can not see Killary as the next POTUS. It scares the hell out of me to even think about that happening. God please don’t let that woman near the gates of The WHITE HOUSE again. We have to save our country. Trump is our last hope. God bless the USA.
Lisa …
. Please, you and all others pray B HO will leave and we will stop the fix, also !
We need a strong defense for our nation. We barely have a Pacific fleet in our Navy. Everytime when there are military budget restraints & military budget cutbacks, the Navy, Marine Corps are always asked to go way above & beyond to make sacrifices, especially in the Pacifc fleet and all 5 services in the Western half of the country alway have to make sacrifices above & beyond. The 1990’s of the Bill Clinton Figurehead era has seen
Military base closures left & right in the states of CA,OR,WA,CO,TX,IL,IN,PA,NJ,MA,FL,NY,OK,AK the majority of those states voted for Clinton & base closures were his thanks to those states. The retired military officers, generals & admirals as well as those who are active duty are doing the right thing, endorsing Donald Trump. I served in the Navy, worked for the Navy & Marine Corps in San Diego, and have seen & even experienced first hand of budget restraints & restrictions as well as cutbacks.
We need to trim our sorry excuse of a congress down in benefits to a low level. The congress should want the jobs to benefit the country not themselves.
No pension, no free medical, no expenses to pad, they should be like our original framers of our COUNTRY.
RIGHT NOW THEY SERVE TO BENEFIT THEMSELVES.
Well said!! We certainly don’t receive any benefits, and our l poor vets even less. Their jobs compared to our congress cannot be compared and some of them get nothing in return or very little. And, your right, they benefit themselves and their spouses. That is pathetic!!
Kathy
You are right on the money! All congress and senate members, should have a maximum of 8 years. .,.then return to normal civilian lives and compete in this world like everyone else. .,. How did we allow these thieves to set themselves up for lifelong income on the taxpayers back. Incredible perks for a part time job.
Do you REALLY want another 4 years of Obamaism? Clinton will only carry on what Obama didn’t quite get finished while in officer though we’re well on the way to the total destruction of the USA.
Congress needs term limits also, and do away with there benefits of free flights or American taxpayers footing the bill for them to fly home on military flights just to campaign. There Gold fleece retirement plans that they voted for themselves .
Steve Smith, Agent Orange did cause some health problems but the real problem was our president stopping the military from winning the war. WE haven’t had a democrat president that could win a war since Truman. We would not have the problem with North Korea today if Mac Arthur had not been fired. It would just be Korea. Same for Vietnam. We kill and injure more annually on the highways in this country than were than were affected by agent orange. Maybe we should eliminate all automobiles.
We would not have the problems in Syria, Korea, Iraq, and Iran if we had a leader that did his job rather than apologizing for not being Muslim.
So Steve, you were in the military in the early seventies. Something tells me you had a job of little or no importance and carried no responsibility. I assume this due to your poor judgement now. I wish one of you Hillary lovers would explain to me how the United States, or any of our Allies are better off because of her.
NUMBERS—–I recently interviewed and talked to 135 marines at Camp Pendleton Ca.——Subject, who do you support as POTUS——TRUMP= 124 HILLARY=11
I can’t believe one Marine would support Hillary Clinton ! They need to see the movie 13 Hours which shows how Obama and Hillary…. ABANDONED our fellow Americans in Benghazi . Those two should be on trial for TREASON for how they coldy left our service people to die. Obama had to get his sleep because he was off to Las Vegas on a fund raiser the next day…..and Hillary and her team were cooking up their lies to tell the American people.
It makes sense to have the military leaders come up with the plans for victory. Barack Obama has shown the foolishness of having someone who knows nothing about battle creating strategy. As a result of President Obama’s incompetence the extremists and terrorists have erased the gains paid for with the lives of America’s military. If the military leaders can’t devise a strategy for victory then we need to replace them with leaders who can create a plan for victory.
AAxon, you hit the nail on the head! I agree with you 100%. George, I remember agent orange , it was drooped to defoliate the jungles so we could see troop & supply movement. The long lasting effects of this defoliant was not known or realized at that time. I agree about Korea, but we would have had to use nukes because of the mountain terrain and it would have not been as good as it was in Japan. Plus, had we invaded the mainland of China they would mass something like 100 troops to 1 of ours. However, I agree there should not have been a cease-fire and we should have made one Korea.
I blame the republican party under Mitch McConnel , John Boner, and Paul Ryan for the way the O’Bama presidency went down. No, I did not vote for OBama or Bush cause I felt they both sucked. The Bush’s are to blame for our un-necessary involvement into the middle east , Georgie Jr. Bush waisted our trillions of dollars surplus and broke the country!
Both Republicans & Democrats are the same—just money grabbers, give me your dollars people , vote me in , elect me to office , then , go screw yourself until I need your vote again.
We need more political partys to make our choice on who’s going to represent us. Until then nothing will change for us working class people , we will just plug along like sheep and take whatever comes. Bubba J.
Our country needs strong leadership now more than ever, we need Donald Trump as our next president. God help us if Hillary wins.
Hillary claims 99 for her” defense” plans.
Got to update Defense:
Pulse weapons
Railguns
More drones
Directed Energy.
Revive Reagen SDI.
Drone attack subs.
New BBG class ship.
Expand ABM from 1972 update Tech for Today
Were these the guys running things from Vietnam until now. Not a good record and now to pick a draft dodger. A guy that went to a military school and thought he served. Really
Hillary—-liar, liar, pants on fire!!!!!
Hillary is the second most INCOMPETENT candidate to run for POTUS , behind Hussein Obama and we see how that worked out the last eight years. Her actions in Benghazi alone disqualify her and if some people are stupid enough to vote for her more Americans will die ….only they will be killed in their own Country by Muslim refugees/jihadis. My fellow Americans , WAKE UP. ….you see what is happening in the Middle East …..well OBAMA and Clinton are bringing it HERE !
I am a retired Army Colonel who supports Donald Trump. I believe he has surrounded himself with advisors who are the best at what they do and know. Hillary is surrounded by the same gaggle of political hacks that have been around her for the past 30 years.