WHEN THE CHAIR of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley enters into his scheduled retirement later this year, one of the perks will include a personal security detail to protect him from threats — including “embarrassment.”
The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, the Pentagon’s little-known Secret Service equivalent, is tasked with safeguarding top military brass. The unit protects current as well as former high-ranking military officers from “assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment,” according to Army records.
Protective Services’s mandate has expanded to include monitoring social media for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats and identifying “negative sentiment” regarding its wards, according to an Army procurement document dated September 1, 2022, and reviewed by The Intercept. The expansion of the Protective Services Battalion’s purview has not been previously reported...
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No need to worry about embarrassment…that happens daily through sheer incompetence.
You're toast dude. They're already on the way to get you...
Jesus. If our generals can't handle something as benign as criticism, God help us if we ever have to go to war.
Milley has been an embarrasment all along.
They should spend their time monitoring generals who make contact with our enemies to subvert a US President, or national policy.