Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the holds are having a negative impact.
The holds blocking military promotions by Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville are having a negative impact on the military, according to the country’s top general.. Tuberville, of course, put a hold on promotions in February in objection to a new Pentagon policy providing paid leave and travel expenses for military personnel to receive abortions.“I don’t want to enter into the whole discussion of abortion and the culture war,” Milley told The Post. “I’m staying out of all that.
“About a third of our assignments change pretty much every year. So you’re looking at about a third of the organizations in the U.S. military globally, are without predictable, consistent leadership. And the guy who’s in the job right now would either have to extend or defer retirement or defer the next assignment and there’s a real ripple effect to all of this. So there is a real readiness impact to all of this and that concerns me. And the sooner we can get to a resolution, I think the better.
Tuberville has repeatedly said he does not believe that military readiness is affected by the holds and that acting commanders can perform necessary duties without Senate-confirmed promotions. Democrats in the Senate disagree while top Senate Republicans Mitch McConnell and John Thune have also spoken against the military holds.
About 300 promotions are on hold at this point and that number is expected to approach 600 by the end of the year. The Senate has traditionally approved military promotions in a quick unanimous consent action but Tuberville has invoked his authority as a senator to block that mechanism.
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