Top Marine General Let Emails Leak Amid Border Funding Fight

Top Marine General Let Emails Leak Amid Border Funding Fight so Service Families Would Not Be Forgotten: Sources

By James LaPorta On 4/3/19 at 12:52 PM EDT

The Marines’ top general allowed internal memos to leak out of the Pentagon to bring attention to service families living among hurricane-ravaged military installations as the Trump administration tries to bankroll the southwest border with defense funds at the expense of combat readiness.

General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, let two internal Defense Department memorandums leak to The Los Angeles Times and NBC News in the past two weeks, two Pentagon sources, who asked not to be named due to U.S. military media regulations, told Newsweek.

The letters underscore the fiscal challenges the service is facing as it struggles to support security operations at the southwest border while “unplanned/unbudgeted” line items plague the general’s fiscal agenda, a burden Neller asserts is an “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency.”

When asked why Neller would allow internal memorandums to leak to press outlets, one Defense Department source expressed bluntly, “Because he didn’t want the Marines and families at Camp Lejeune [in North Carolina] to get f***ed.”

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https://www.newsweek.com/border-funding-general-trump-defense-1382113

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He's losing the military. Good. I used to think "Seven Days in May" was scary until now. Not so far as to stage a coup, but I would hope that the Joint Chiefs would love our country enough to disobey bullshit, catastrophic orders. How fucked up is this country that I think that is even a good idea? Jesus H. Christ, we're in a lot of trouble. I hope he loses the 2020 military vote.