SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez yesterday by decrees placed on retirement 31 generals and admirals in the different Armed Forces branches and the National Police, the most ever in Dominican history.
Fernandez also promoted around 3,947 Police agents and officers, as recommended by its chief Rafael Guzmán.
In his first term in office Fernandez also placed around 20 generals and admirals on retirement, bowing to pressure from the excess number of those senior officers despite the country’small military budget.
The generals placed on retirement:
Air Force
• Luis Damián Castro Cruz.
• Juan Bautista Rojas Tabar.
• Nelson Eladio Marmolejos.
• Ubaldo Alemany Velásquez.
• Santiago Tejeda Cabrera.
• Bienvendo A. Reyes Areché.
• René Antonio de León Suero.
• Luis Virgilio Carario de Jesús.
• Víctor Darío Guerra Camilo.
Navy
• Luis Alberto Humeau Hidalgo.
• Gustavo A. Rojas de Beras.
• José Altagracia Beltré Tejeda.
• Juan Víctor Sosa Ruiz.
• Héctor Antonio Lizardo Jorge.
• Roberto de Jesús Ortiz Reyes.
• Tobía Eleodoro Esquea Isaac.
• Reynaldo Antonio Muñoz Cairu.
• Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Martínez.
Army
• José Eliseo Noble Espejo.
• Gustavo Adolfo Jorge García.
• Julio César Nin Rodríguez.
• Najib David Neder Rodríguez.
• Manuel Antonio Roa Almonte.
• Félix Víctor Molina Rodríguez.
• Pedro A. Frías Larrendowtte.
• Jaime E. Dagoberto Osers García.
• Eufemio Torres Mejía.
• Ramón Antonio Rodríguez Curiel.
Police
• Hilario de la Cruz González.
• Félix Ant. Fernández Colón.
• William Durán Jerez.
Written by: josean, 2 Mar 2009 7:36 AM
From: United States
Now if Lie-onel retired there might be some HOPE!
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 7:37 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya La Bella
31 Down, how many more to go in a total armed forces of 53,000 men?
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
I hope these men are not painted with the corruption brush if they are innocent a cloud will hang over them ....on the other hand this is a bloated military and needed to be thinned out ....still many more to go
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
the last time he got rid of these chapitas then hippo just made a bunch of new ones when he came in
Written by: josean, 2 Mar 2009 7:51 AM
From: United States
By next week who will Lie-onel be taking orders from Washington or Havana?
From: United States, (on Sabbatical)
Replaced 31 Generals right before his hiatus in Havana, Humh?
Possibly Preventive Damage Control.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
To put things in perspective the US has a force of over 1.4 million soldiers
and there are approximately 300 general officers in the Army. There are, however, only 11 Generals, often referred to as "four-star generals". The remainder are Lieutentant Generals (3 stars), Major Generals (2 stars) or Brigadier Generals (1 star).
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 10:42 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya La Bella
texasshoe
Do you have the breakdown of how many major generals and brigadier generals in the USA?
In the DR armed forces the top rank is Lt.General or 3 stars and his only held by one in a transitory
basis by the Chief of all the branches. So most generals are major generals and one star.
Written by: brootto, 2 Mar 2009 11:27 AM
From: United States, South West Florida
I had said before the there is got to be a way of reducing the military by retiring many officers and non officers and reduce the recruiting and train those adequately and we will have a more efficient military.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Written by: zak325, 2 Mar 2009 12:37 PM
From: United States
It's incredible, an air force with less than a dozen (now) fixed wing aircraft needs more than 15 Generals, a navy with no ocean going capability, and no vessel larger than 100 feet in lenght needs more than a dozen Admirals ! if you told this to other people, they would call you a liar ! (but then again, Boliva has a navy, with an Admiral and...NO COAST !)
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 2:22 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya La Bella
texasshoe
Thank you, you are too kind. In the last link they only offered a percentage that was hard to calculate
such as 0.3 for major generals and 0.4 for brigadier generals out of 1,351,000 men. So it will come out to 415 major generals and 540 brigadier generals. That is 955 total for a force of 1,351,000
men the ratio is 1414 men per general, with the same rank equivalent to the DR army.
So in the DR by these calculations, and adding the generals in the police which are counted in that total military forces we should have a total of 38 generals total not 300 some.
So in DR we have 10 times more major generals and brigadier generals than the US military in comparison.
Written by: belly51, 2 Mar 2009 3:49 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Francisco y Houston,TX
I say to many chief not enough Indians.
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
He can replace all the military officers he wants, nothing will change.
Greed is supreme, when you see all these foreigners in DR living the good life and your getting paid peanuts what do you think is going to happen?
It doesn’t matter how many officers he replaces, Leonel him self is corrupt. He can not lead by example.
There is too much money in drugs no one wants to let it go and you know what you call that? Materialism, Capitalism
I don’t care how many times he replaces the military officers, where there is a will there is a way, supply and demand.
That’s what you have to think about, you think those generals are going to let all those millions slip through there hands.
Stop being a fool….
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Possibly Preventive Damage Control.
and there are approximately 300 general officers in the Army. There are, however, only 11 Generals, often referred to as "four-star generals". The remainder are Lieutentant Generals (3 stars), Major Generals (2 stars) or Brigadier Generals (1 star).
Do you have the breakdown of how many major generals and brigadier generals in the USA?
In the DR armed forces the top rank is Lt.General or 3 stars and his only held by one in a transitory
basis by the Chief of all the branches. So most generals are major generals and one star.
Here is a link from Wiki;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_(United_States)
An article on Marine Corps;
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1991/BSW.htm
An article on general Officers
http://www.globalsecurity.org/mil....order=r&cq=&id=49a9923b13
A wealth of information;
http://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html
I am sure I could come up with the count if I was not so busy but the couple of links spell out things pretty clearly.
Tex
Try page 8 of 12,
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/02statab/defense.pdf
Thank you, you are too kind. In the last link they only offered a percentage that was hard to calculate
such as 0.3 for major generals and 0.4 for brigadier generals out of 1,351,000 men. So it will come out to 415 major generals and 540 brigadier generals. That is 955 total for a force of 1,351,000
men the ratio is 1414 men per general, with the same rank equivalent to the DR army.
So in the DR by these calculations, and adding the generals in the police which are counted in that total military forces we should have a total of 38 generals total not 300 some.
So in DR we have 10 times more major generals and brigadier generals than the US military in comparison.
Greed is supreme, when you see all these foreigners in DR living the good life and your getting paid peanuts what do you think is going to happen?
It doesn’t matter how many officers he replaces, Leonel him self is corrupt. He can not lead by example.
There is too much money in drugs no one wants to let it go and you know what you call that? Materialism, Capitalism
I don’t care how many times he replaces the military officers, where there is a will there is a way, supply and demand.
That’s what you have to think about, you think those generals are going to let all those millions slip through there hands.
Stop being a fool….