Former US general got drunk in Kyiv, suffered concussion, left classified maps on train, watchdog finds
https://kyivindependent.com/former-us-commander-in-charge-of-security-assistance-to-ukraine-left-classified-maps-on-train-overindulged-in-alcohol-watchdog-finds/
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We’re onto Iran
Happens to the best of us
Ive heard this story before but didn’t know it happened in Ukraine. This guy sounds like a strong SecDef contender.
Geez, if someone had to write a 50-page report every time I partook in an “overindulgence in alcohol”, a few national parks would no longer have trees.
We’ve all been there before.
Misleading headline. He did get drunk and showed up hungover to an important meeting, but the classified maps were left behind by a sergeant who was traveling with him. The general accepted responsibility for the loss because he was the senior officer present, but he wasn’t the one who actually lost them.
Sounds promotable
MURIKAAAAA!!!!!!
In April 1944 the American Major General Henry J. F. Miller was at a dinner party at Claridge’s Hotel in London when he publicly blabbed about D-Day: “On my honor the invasion will take place before June 15.” (D-Day would eventually occur on June 6).
That he had been a classmate of Eisenhower’s at West Point didn’t help him; he got demoted and sent home.
I’ve watched enough episodes of “Slow Horses” to know this isn’t uncommon.
Sounds like he had a good time tho!
See? Alcohol is more harmful to society and national security than weed
At least the worst thing I ever lost while drunk was a baseball card I keep in my wallet
And this is precisely why i dont believe in most conspiracy’s.
People want to tell me that bush/cheney convinced a shadow government to plan and orchestrate an attack on our own people, and yet they would have me also believe that NOT ONE single guy/gal included in these attacks hasnt left a single “Evil Master Plan” spark notes on the morning bus ride to villian school??
That’s a cause for promotion in this administration.
Was he partying with Kegsbreath?
What the hell was he thinking? You don’t try to keep up the pace whilst with anyone who lives east of the Oder river 🤭
We’re not sending the best & brightest, are we…
Good old American discipline.
That sounds WAY less secure than the bathroom at Mar-a-lago…
Yeah, I can’t be trusted with anything that involves booze
Title is misleading. He was active duty at the time of the incident. He has since retired. Lesson: don’t take eastern European liquor lightly.
I think we found the new SoW!!
American century of humiliation, love to see it
All of this aside, I just want to say that before the war, Kyiv was always an amazing place for a night out. I used to visit there for work, and we always had a great time. Such a shame.
what a complete joke
Deputy Secretary of DOD material we have here?
The honey pot at the bar already took pictures of all the maps
Color me unsurprised.
Aiden Pierce in Ukraine?
I’m on the train with the “Top Secret Maps” in the middle of conflict.
I’d better get so drunk on this train that I get a concussion.