Peach........We have assets all over the globe.........and in the Med region.........There is no way in hell it should have taken that long. As I already said, we could have sent people from the continental U.S. in that amount of time.
So you claim Gen. Dempsey lied, under Oath, before Congress? Still no reason given for the grave accusation against a man who served this nation for decades. Dempsey's record is impressive for such a smear to be upheld:
Dempsey received a commission as an
Armor officer upon graduation from the
United States Military Academy in 1974. As a
company-grade officer, he served in 1st Squadron,
2d Armored Cavalry Regiment as the S-1 OIC. He went on to be the Executive Officer of the 3rd Brigade
3rd Armored Division during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. As
Lieutenant Colonel he commanded the 4th Battalion of the 67th Armored Regiment "Bandits" from 1992–1995 in the
1st Armored Division in
Friedberg, Hesse, Germany.
[5]
In June 2003, then
Major General Dempsey assumed command of
1st Armored Division. He succeeded
Ricardo S. Sanchez who was promoted to
Lieutenant General, as Corps Commander
V Corps. Dempsey's command of the 1st Armored Division lasted until July 2005 and included 13 months in Iraq, from June 2003 to July 2004. While in Iraq, 1st Armored Division, in addition to its own brigades, had operational command over the
2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and a brigade of the
82nd Airborne Division; the command, called "Task Force Iron" in recognition of the Division's nickname, "Old Ironsides", was the largest division-level command in the history of the
United States Army.
[6]

Dempsey talks with
U.S. Marine Corps drill instructorsin March 2013.
It was during this time that the U.S. intervention in Iraq changed dramatically as
Fallujah fell to
Sunni extremists and supporters of
Muqtada al-Sadr built their strength and rose up against American forces. Then Major General Dempsey and his command assumed responsibility for the Area of Operations in Baghdad as the insurgency incubated, grew, and exploded. General Dempsey has been described by
Thomas Ricks in his book "
Fiasco": "In the capital itself, the 1st Armored Division, after Sanchez assumed control of V Corps, was led by Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey, was generally seen as handling a difficult (and inherited) job well, under the global spotlight of Baghdad."
On February 5, 2008, Dempsey was nominated to head the
U.S. Army, Europe/Seventh Army, and was nominated for promotion to four-star general upon Senate approval.
On March 11, 2008, Dempsey's commander,
Admiral William J. Fallon, retired from active service. U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates accepted this as effective on March 31. Dempsey took over command as acting commander
CENTCOM.
On March 13, 2008, Dempsey was confirmed by the
United States Senate as Commander,
U.S. Army, Europe/Seventh Army.
[7]However due, to Admiral Fallon's unexpected retirement, Dempsey never took command of U.S. Army, Europe/Seventh Army.
On July 11, 2008, Dempsey was nominated to take command of
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command while Lieutenant General
Carter F. Ham replaced his nomination to command the U.S. Army, Europe/Seventh Army.
[8]
On December 8, 2008, Dempsey assumed command of
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command.
[9]

Dempsey and
Lt. GeneralBenny Gantz, Chief of General Staff of the
Israel Defense Forces visiting the
Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Jerusalem,
Israel, where Dempsey paid respect to the memory of
Holocaustvictims on January 20, 2012.
[10][11]
On January 6, 2011, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates announced that he would recommend that the President nominate General Dempsey to succeed General
George Casey as the Army Chief of Staff.
[12] On February 8, 2011, Gates announced that President
Barack Obama nominated Dempsey to be the 37th
Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
[13] On March 3, 2011, Dempsey testified before the
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services,
[14] and on March 15, 2011, the committee affirmatively reported Dempsey's nomination.
[15] On March 16, 2011, the Senate confirmed Dempsey's nomination by unanimous consent.
[16] On April 11, 2011, Dempsey was sworn in as
Chief of Staff of the United States Army at a ceremony at
Fort Myer.