Casting aside the recommendation of his defense secretary, President Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to command the US Navy. If confirmed, she would be the first woman to command a military branch and the first on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Biden’s move took many observers by surprise, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had recommended Admiral Samuel Paparo for the position. Paparo is TOPGUN graduate with more than 6,000 hours in F-14s, F-15s and F/A-18s, 1,100 carrier landings and experience commanding forces in war zones.
However, with the Biden administration obsessed with diversity hires, Paparo’s bid was likely doomed by the fact that he’s a white man.
“Throughout her career, Adm. Franchetti has demonstrated extensive expertise in both the operational and policy arenas,” said Biden in a statement. He of course couldn’t help but emphasize her gender: “She is the second woman ever to achieve the rank of four-star admiral in the United States Navy.”
Though his recommendation wasn’t heeded, Austin praised Franchetti, saying “She will continue to inspire all of us.” Biden’s choice of a woman to lead the Navy comes 15 months after he picked a woman to command the Coast Guard.
With 38 years of service that began with service on and command of destroyers, Franchetti is currently the vice chief of naval operations, the Navy’s second-highest position. As then-commander of the Sixth Fleet, she was an instrument of President Trump’s unconstitutional warfare on Syria in response to an alleged use of chemical weapons by President Assad that likely never happened.
A Northwestern University Navy ROTC product, Franchetti must be confirmed by the Senate. That may not happen quickly.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has been putting holds on military confirmations to protest the Pentagon’s policy of paying for service members to travel for abortions, a policy he says is illegal. “An unprecedented change to the military’s abortion policy ought to go before the people’s elected representatives in Congress,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
As he announced his pick of Franchetti, Biden blasted Tuberville, saying, “It has long been an article of faith in this country that supporting our service members and their families, and providing for the strength of our national defense, transcends politics. What Sen. Tuberville is doing is not only wrong, it is dangerous.”
As for Paparo, Biden nominated him on Friday to lead Indo-Pacific Command, which has an area of responsibility spanning about 52% of the the Earth’s surface.
That’s all well and good, but, if he wants a shot at the Navy’s top job the next time it comes open, he might consider coming out as trans.
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” She has a degree in journalism and a master’s in organizational management from PHOENIX UNIVERSITY. She has never left a desk and couldn’t get through Naval War College. People simply don’t understand how bad this is. She has no business being in a position of responsibility. This is sabotage.
The Republicans in the Senate will line up to suck her toes, too. Can’t wait to watch Lindsey and Mitt take turns. “
Lindsey only sucks adolescent boys’ toes.
I’d go in debt to see Lispey curb stomped on pay per view…is that wrong?
toes?
It starts with toes, yes.
Phoenician Navy baby!
Burn baby burn!
Naval inferno!
My late USN CDR (O-5) father is spinning in his grave at G force speeds. I’m glad he doesn’t have to witness all this shit.
Biden picks a what?
Auntie thinks a Black, blind, Muslim in a wheelchair would be a certainly better pick, Chou, because dieversity.
(Stavka and the PLA general staff are having cocktails on the poop deck to celebrate this selection.)
So were there no black women available for this position? Or at least a man currently transitioning to a woman?
She looks like a dude with lady hair to me. Pretty obvious the game plan here. The low IQ Air Farce fool they have lined up to replace Milley is an out an out Whitey hater who believes in racial %’s over merit. The guy, another low IQ, they have picked to replace the current Air chief of staff is a blithering idiot who was totally disgraced in Congressional testimony by Matt Gaetz. He did not even know the definitions of the things he is demanding to be implemented in his “whites free” Clownfaggot Air Farce.
Yep, they had to settle for an ordinary woman. No freaks or colors to choose from. Nice country we have —sure would be a shame if a war happened to it.
FJB. FJB. FJB. FJB. FJB……………………..ad infinitum.
Can we be sure that it wasn’t “Larry” Franchetti once upon a time?
Yet, the media is baffled as to why white men are leaving society and have the highest suicide rates.
This is the result when society bases your value on skin color/sex alone and leads a 24/7 campaign telling men they’re useless and should just disappear.
At least Alaric had a use… this cognitively stunted emoter has none other than to serve Deep Shekel’s destruction of America agenda. Get that money, whores …Nation be damned.
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The split-tail obviously passed Biden’s sniff test…
One more nail in the coffin…
Lisa Franchetti is a member of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), along with SecDef Lloyd Austin, NavySec Carlos del Toro, new JCS chair Charles Q. Brown, and dozens more.
This is great news. The US military is not a force for good. It’s domination of the US economy is a major negative for everyone. If the “thank you for your service” useful idiots who keep signing up realise they are volunteering to become a part of a totally dysfunctional system and instead get real jobs it’s a good thing.