Posted on 06/11/2016 8:19:14 PM PDT by pboyington
It’s 1984 at the Pentagon, where the truth is warped like an old 78 RPM record sitting in the sun all day. At the Pentagon, true is false and false is true and the difference couldn’t be located with a million GPS’.
We are living in dangerous times, when incompetent, leftist social engineers are calling the plays in the Pentagon and in the process, sealing the fate of the US military in future conflicts.
As reported on Townhall this week:
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are getting a progressive make-over. The word ‘man’ will be dropped from each job and rating description to make them inclusive and gender-neutral.
Progressive make-over defined as the self-immolation of the US military.
Long gone are the days of ordnanceman, corpsman, or naval aircrewman- the new rating could be called ordinance person, health assistant, and aircrew assistant.
What’s long gone are the days of the US military winning wars.
“This is one more step in how our force has changed,” Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in an interview Friday. “Our force has evolved, our force is different. And I believe it’s stronger and better.”
“It’s time for us to let go of telling women, ‘You’re just included. We don’t call you out by sex, but just know you’re part of mankind,'” said Lory Manning, a senior fellow at the Service Women’s Action Network. “When you hear that ‘man’ at the end, the image is a male image.”
We wouldn’t want any male images associated with the military would we Comrade Manning?
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was asked about this proposition in May by the Associated Press.
“Signifying that in all appropriate ways is, I think, exactly that, very appropriate and needed,” he responded.
Carter said that he did not have any good alternative titles for those stripped of “man,” but that someone smart was going to figure it out.
Uh…huh…
A female yeoman told a senior Navy official that “administrative specialist” would be a better title than yeoman.
There are some Army and Air Force titles that end in ‘man’ as well, but the services are not considering changing them.
The Pentagon has indeed lost its collective mind and is creating its very own version of Newspeak from George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus are living characters right out of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s fictional police state, Oceania.
Apparently, in the US military in 2016:
Diversity is a combat multiplier.
Diversity is strength.
Gender neutrality can win wars.
Riflemen no longer exist. They are now rifle people.
Mortarmen are mortar things.
Women in the combat arms will lead the way.
Women in the combat arms and special operations make the military much stronger.
And, my personal favorite…Standards will always remain the same.
Carter and Mabus are certifiably nuts. They need to be carted off in a couple ambulances to Walter Reed, where after their psychiatric exams they will be both deemed mentally unfit to continue holding their offices.
Instant Section 8 – just add Pentagon Kool Aid.
Idiots like Ash Carter and Ray Mabus believe if you alter titles and erase letters, you will somehow create a world where men and women are interchangeable widgets with the same body parts, physical strength, thoughts and emotions.
This pure, unadulterated insanity really began at the ivy covered towers that are the home of the Snowflake Generation, our nation’s overpriced, communist footholds, aka universities. On our nation’s campuses, gender neutral psycho speak is in vogue. Men are no longer men and women are no longer women. They have been replaced by ridiculous made up words and terms that are straight from the Big Brother playbook.
And, the Pentagon is marching right along. Unlike, the intellectual leftist airheads on college campuses, the Pentagon is supposed to deal with reality. The US military is charged with winning our nation’s wars. That is the sole mission of the military. Unfortunately, the Pentagon is now more concerned with transforming the military into a gender neutral fantasy land, than fighting wars and defending the nation.
Here are some questions the military’s executioners have probably not asked themselves:
How are female soldiers and Marines going to survive hand to hand combat fights against a Russian soldier or an ISIS jihadi? The gender neutral nuts will tell you that hand to hand combat is a thing of the past. WRONG. Tell that to the Marines who fought in Fallujah. Tell that to the Delta Force troopers who took down an ISIS prison several months ago. Tell that to the soldiers of the Big Red One who engaged in hand to hand fighting with the Tawakalna Division of the Republican Guard during the Battle of Norfolk in 1991.
Obviously, Carter and Mabus have given no thought on how women are going to carry heavy combat loads on sustained operations. In an extensive study done by the 82nd Airborne, they outlined the various combat loads for soldiers in the famed “Devils in baggy pants” division fighting in Afghanistan.
A Rifleman in the 82nd had a fighting load of 63 pounds, an approach march load of 96 pounds and an emergency approach march load of 127 pounds.
A M240 Bravo Assistant Gunner had a fighting load of 70 pounds, an approach march load of 121 pounds and an emergency approach march load of 148 pounds.
A Mortar Section Leader had a fighting load of 58 pounds, an approach march load of 110 pounds and an emergency approach march load of 149 pounds.
Most women in the world cannot carry those weights for any sustained amount of time or at all, without enduring stress injuries.
Of course these are individual loads and troopers rucking their own loads will not be able to carry more weight to help females. And, what happens when Carter’s mandatory quotas of 25% to 35% percent women in each combat unit are instituted? You’re going to have large numbers of female grunts and Marines who can’t carry a basic load into combat. Combat units are going to be combat ineffective before they even see a green Russian tracer go down range at them.
How about artillery shells? How is your average woman in a field artillery unit going to carry a 98 pound, 155mm round? According to the 2014 Marine study that was thrown into the Pentagon dumpster by both Carter and Mabus, only 18% of female Marines tested could carry a 155 round 50 feet to a gun; whereas, 98% of male Marines could complete the task. It is important to note that that the women tested were the cream of the crop physically in the Corps. The male Marines tested were only in average physical condition.
When you low crawl out of the Disney like, fantasy world of Gender Neutral Land, you realize that US military policy is now based on an allusion and that the Pentagon is lying and betraying an American public with limited, if no understanding of the military.
And, where oh where are the Joint Chiefs of Staff while this delusional destruction marches on?
I call it like I see it and the JCS are nothing more than cowards weighed down by fruit salad and gold braids. I don’t care what they’ve done in their illustrious careers. They are standing by and doing nothing as the US military is destroyed on their watch. Frankly, they should all be court martialed for dereliction of duty.
One day, historians will talk about the power and the glory of the US military like historians speak of Ancient Rome. The famous Roman Legions were weakened and ultimately destroyed by power hungry maniacal leaders, social decay, weakness and cowardice. The US military is on the same collision course, only 1600 years later.
What Mabus and Carter haven’t figured out yet is that our enemies are not politically correct, gender neutral, egg shell walking wallflowers. They’re going to fight us the old-fashioned way, with men. And, we are going to lose.
There is no equal opportunity on a battlefield. A battlefield is not gender neutral. On a battlefield the strong survive and the weak are shot, shake and baked and gutted like Coho Salmon.
You don’t have to be a field marshal to figure out that the US military is on the eve of destruction.
Diversity is not going to carry the day. It’s the death knell of the US military.
LOL, I was using “you” in the sense that if one says that, they are attacked in the fashion I described for doing so.
Being a woman does not rob her of her rationality (as the logical refutation of women in combat in the linked article in included in my previous post by Jude Eden clearly demonstrates) but it is also clear that there are many people of both sexes who have sacrificed rationality at the altar of diversity.
Vermont Lt well I don't know what it will take for us to get some sense. That's the only reason I was glad I was a girl, so I wouldn't have to fight in any wars. I'm a pre-WWII kid.
There it is.
LOL! Roger that ‘’Mom’’.
Well if we’re lucky the cavalry is coming with a President Trump and they can rescue what’s left of the military and send the social engineers packing.
And when you lose a war part of the surrender conditions may be changes in the government that the leftists will not like. But they can't reason that far ahead.
Yes. There are many advocates out there who think that people against the concept of women in combat think it is a global anti-female sentiment that means those same people have no respect for the capabilities of women in any area other than physical prowess or strength.
It couldn’t be further from the truth.
Just speaking for myself, but I know there are plenty of men who fee the same way, I have worked my entire post-military career in an industry that has a much higher percentage of women than men, and I have had women supervising me and making decisions that I respect, trust implicitly, and will work to my utmost to give them what they need to be successful.
But combat is NOT business. Combat is COMBAT, and there is no parallel. Making a gutsy decision in a corporate environment is not the same as having someone leap on you in your fighting hole with a spade, trying to cave in your skull.
Or carrying one of your shipmates out of a burning compartment on a sinking ship.
But liberals don’t think combat involves a spade being used as a deadly weapon, or a ship with gaping holes in it slowly sinking as the crew tries to save it.
Liberals think combat involves air conditioned rooms where people can look at monitors on a wall, make sterile decisions, and push buttons to kill people. And they think women can do that as well as a man can.
That may be true. But if that 110 lb woman has to carry a 220 lb guy in a fireman carry up a ladder, that is a different kind of reality.
There is truth in that, that liberals refuse to see the truth.
I think it is worse than that. I think they really believe their own crap, a self-hypnosis of some kind. When people say that liberalism is a mental disorder, it is this kind of thing they have in mind.
This issue isn’t about the tenacity of women. It’s about emasculating the West.
Absolutely. There will also come to fore the almost irrepressible instinct of those same said young men to protect a woman in a potentially dangerous situation, their ancient impulses telling them that to do so will make a female more attracted to them. And for their part a young woman, driven by the same unconscious impulses might find herself attracted to such a male, to the consternation, and as your pointed out, the jealousies of their peers, male and female. All of it mixing together in the incredible, relentless, nearly irresistible, emotionally complex and near ceaseless rutting, preening and mating of our species. What a combination. Young men and women, virile, testosterone and estrogen fueled, high tech automatic weaponry , violent killing and violent death. In a way it almost seems that sex is war without weapons.
I’ll be honest...I think it is too late. (In something like this, I hate myself for being defeatist, but...I don’t see how these things get walked back)
There is too much water over the dam. The purging of the warrior psyche from the military ranks has been going on since the early 90’s, in my opinion.
And the physical purging has been taking place unabated as well. The ranks of decision makers are filled with people who don’t see why women in combat is problematic. And those who don’t believe it implicitly, have careers at risk for not wholeheartedly embracing the liberal orthodoxy of the fallacious idea that women can do anything men can.
They can’t.
And while it is true that men can’t do everything a woman can do, being able to carry a baby to full term isn’t going to help when someone is trying to stick a bayonet in your abdomen. Having testosterone in your body and an extra 30 lbs of muscle will.
I don’t know much about SecyNav Mabus re his background (I think he was mainly a desk jockey), but he is a coward, PC-corrupt, stupid, dangerous to our Armed Forces, and perhaps a little Cupcake or Pansy, or both.
I cry to think that this POS is destroying our Navy when I’ve met great men like CINCOMPAC Adm John McCain Jr, had lunch with Adm. Arleigh Burke, Dan Gallery, perhaps Adm. Radford, interviewed for radio shows Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer and Maxwell Taylor, and was friends with Adm. Jeremiah Denton (former US Senator and POW).
Mabus is a disgrace and if Trump is elected president, the first thing he should do is fire this ahole, and put him in front of a firing squad made up of Iraq and Afghan veterans.
Obama promised that he would destroy America as we know it, and Mabus is one of his henchmen. Both are traitors and after Nov. 4th, should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Well said.
This is insane. In my lifetime, it is unbelievable to me that we even have to have this discussion.
Not to mention that that same 220 lb. man playing for the other team ever comes across the 110 lb woman playing for our side would literally tear the 110 lb. female to pieces. But not before he rapes the living bejeezus out of her. This would be warfare in The Stone Age.
Mabus is typical of the set of people in place who have set the table. For officers and enlisted, people like Mabus have created the reality that it won’t be good enough for soldiers and sailors to keep their mouth shut if they feel differently about these things.
They will have to positively voice their enthusiastic support for this, or they will have no career. It is as simple as that. If they want a career in the military, they will have to lie to themselves, or delude themselves to accept the lies of others as truth.
There is no middle ground anymore.
I’m wearing out Rosary beads praying Trump gets in. If he doesn’t we are well and truly screwed. The only possible recourse is too dreadful to think about. But, like the fire ax in the glass case that say’s “For Emergency’’ we have a recourse. You know what that is. Pray God we never have to use it.
I agree about the purging of the warrior psyche. Heck, kids aren’t allowed to even play dodge ball anymore. Dodge ball is a form of combat training and combat. Seriously.
I work in an office with a bunch of women. High School Drama almost every day. Gossip and cattiness galore. Heavy lifting done by me and a few other guys.
In 1990-1993, the Armor unit I was in was all guys. we got the job done in austere circumstances.
Gulf War vet?
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