Meet Command Sergeant Major John Troxell. He’s currently serving at the Pentagon as the “Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the senior non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Armed Forces.”
CSM Troxell took to Twitter and Facebook earlier this week with a clear and brutal message to ISIS: “Surrender or die,” including “beating them to death with our entrenching tools”:
ISIS needs to understand their two options when facing us: surrender or die! Surrender & we will safeguard to due process. Otherwise we will kill with extreme prejudice, even if that means beating them to death with our entrenching tools!
#SEAC3 #DefeatDaesh #ISIS_SurrenderOrDie pic.twitter.com/unH7Mwk9t1— CSM John Troxell (@SEAC_Troxell) January 9, 2018
And a longer warning via Facebook:
As for the responses, it’s mixed.
CNN’s Barbara Starr isn’t sure about it:
US troops beating ISIS to death with entrenching tools? https://t.co/D3Ialm0ZP5
— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) January 10, 2018
Others are horrified:
https://twitter.com/FintanHennessy/status/951148334173052928
But we’re in this camp:
Take a look at this threat against ISIS! https://t.co/1SC6B2cGPS
— Hannah Mullins (@HelpingPAWS_SD) January 10, 2018
That's my old 4/2 ID Sergeant Major. Still pulling no punches, evidently. https://t.co/asuydS4SwF
— Clifford Davis (@CliffDavisJax) January 10, 2018
— Drowsy Giant (@DrowsyGiant) January 10, 2018
We agree!
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