MRFF Communications

Mikey ~

I have watched the recent vicious and vindictive dialog regarding you personally, and more generally, throttling your and MRFF’s communication with the Pentagon, with much incredulity. As a retired, multiple-star, senior officer (General or Admiral) you know that I was asked by the Chief of Staff of my military Service (a 4 star General or Admiral and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) to be my Service’s direct day-to-day interface with you. During those three years, and specifically because of that relationship, my Service avoided countless (I believe in excess of 3 dozen) events of potential Constitutional breaches of religious civil rights – which we were able to resolve quickly, and quietly. Mikey, when you revealed these potential abuses by officials in my armed forces Service, I contacted the Command Section of the responsible agency (usually 3-star Generals or Admirals) who took actions to fix the situation. Many times that “fix action” was accomplished in hours….not weeks. As a result we were able to avoid/fix situations which could potentially have been seriously detrimental to military good order and discipline, ensure we were in compliance with the oaths we all swore to protect and defend the United States Constitution, and avoid what would have otherwise clearly been negative media exposure.

It was the continuing relationship between you & me (thus, my branch of the armed forces) that precluded embarrassing situations because, in many cases, we could quickly implement fix actions to the problem MRFF first identified and swiftly brought to our attention. Further, as a direct result of this relationship, we had military Service-wide policies written/documented for our entire Service to follow!!

I’m stupefied by suggestions of severing a relationship which worked so well for my Service. As you know, we were not able to fix everything MRFF identified…but the most senior DoD leadership was sensitized to ensuring we were being true to…”support and defend the Constitution of the United States” which every officer of the US Armed Forces swears as an oath. I’d be glad to discuss this with mutually-approved, and appropriately high-level, decision makers….to convince them I’m not a ghost manufactured by MRFF.

It was an honor to help my branch of the Armed Forces and to be your General Officer or Admiral contact in my armed forces Service branch.

(Recently retired General’s or Admiral’s name, rank and Pentagon title and position all withheld)