I Guess Someone Talked To U.S. Gen. Robert Neller

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Task & Purpose: Marine Commandant: Border deployments aren't hurting readiness, even though I said they would

Deploying troops to the U.S.-Mexico hasn't hurt Marine Corps readiness as much as previously reported, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller told lawmakers on Tuesday, directly contradicting the "unacceptable risk" to readiness the Corps' top officer had explicitly detailed in a pair of internal memos that leaked last month.

Neller testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee that despite the "unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency" posed to Marines by "unplanned/unbudgeted" exigencies detailed in the leaked memos in March, Trump's border deployments hadn't actually affected Marines.

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WNU Editor: He is retiring later this year, and I sense he was given an ultimatum to either support the White House or leave after doing this .... Top U.S. Marine General Leaked Emails To The Press That Questions President Trump's Border Plan (April 4, 2019).