Posted on 06/25/2016 7:31:19 PM PDT by pboyington
It was another stellar week at the Pentagon.
I knew the Pentagon was up to no good. They had been virtually in monastic silence as Barry Soetero tap danced his way through a chorus line number of cowardice and denial in response to the Orlando shooting.
Speaking of chorus lines…
Ash Carter came out of hiding yesterday and pounded a couple more nails into the US military’s coffin.
The Pentagon is “likely” to repeal its ban on transgender service members next month, defense officials told Fox News Friday, even as one report claimed an announcement could happen as soon as next week.
According to USA Today, top personnel officials could meet as soon as Monday to finalize details of the plan. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Wolk would sign off on the plan and Defense Secretary Ash Carter would give his final approval shortly before the July 4 weekend.
Pentagon officials would not confirm the USA Today report’s timetable to Fox News, but spokesman Peter Cook told reporters earlier this week that a decision on the matter was coming “soon.”
“I can tell you that we have made progress,” said Cook. “[Carter] has indicated that he expects to make a final decision soon, and that’s exactly where we are.”
Late Friday, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, accused Carter of putting “the political agenda of a departing administration ahead of the military’s readiness crisis.”
In his statement, Thornberry said Carter had failed to answer a series of questions posed by the committee at the time of Carter’s initial announcement, including the cost of modifying barracks and bathroom facilities.
The Defense Department currently disqualifies transgender troops from the service on medical grounds. USA Today also reported that several issues related to repealing the transgender ban have caused contention at the Pentagon, most notably how long troops would need to serve before being eligible for gender reassignment surgery.
The idea of allowing transgenders to serve in the military is another catastrophic social engineering concept courtesy of the Marxinist-Leninists in the White House and their dutiful minions in the DoD.
As US Defense Watch has reported before, Gender Identity Disorder is labeled as a mental illness, no matter what left wing advocates believe. Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
The Pentagon is therefore authorizing personnel with mental disorders to remain on active duty and it is inviting civilians with the illness to enlist as well! Furthermore, the military is going to waste millions in gender reassignment surgeries, when the military is drowning in budgetary and readiness quandaries.
Transgenderism is not looked upon as normal behavior by a majority of Americans, and like open homosexuality, it is another distraction from the military’s mission and most importantly, another reason for the military’s sinking morale.
What Obama and Carter and Mabus and the rest of the left wing social engineers don’t understand is that men join the military because it is looked upon as a male rite of passage, something macho, a maker of men. Or it used to be. When the military becomes saturated with confused men who wear dresses and homosexuals; normal, red-blooded men will simply not want to serve.
Obama’s social engineering is destroying the warrior spirit, discipline and morale of the US military. What could be a better example than the disgraceful conduct of the US Navy in the Persian Gulf last January, when Lieutenant David Nartker surrendered his men and boats to the Iranians without firing a shot, then proceeded to violate the Code of Conduct by groveling to the Iranians on worldwide TV, while one of his sailors was openly weeping on camera. Thankfully, someone in the Navy realized that action had to be taken against the sailors and officer involved.
According to PJ Media this week:
After an extensive investigation, the Navy has found numerous problems associated with the mission and the personnel, and it is likely that at least nine officers and sailors will see disciplinary action.
The report will be released next week.
The mission was plagued by problems even before it began. The day before, one of the boats had mechanical problems and maintenance personnel were forced to cannibalize a third vessel to fix it. The investigation found “the mission was plagued by communication failures, shortcomings with maintenance and training, missteps by members of the boat crews, and a lack of rigorous oversight by commanding officers.”
Transgenders, low morale, lack of fighting spirit, cowardly officers and now the Marine Corps is forced to cannibalize parts for their aircraft and search aircraft boneyards for F-18 Hornets, once thought to be obsolete.
As reported in the Marine Corps Times several days ago:
With most of its F/A-18 strike fighters unable to fly on any given day, the Marine Corps is resurrecting 23 Hornets from the “boneyard” and getting another seven aircraft from the Navy.
The move comes as the Marine Corps and Navy struggle to keep F/A-18s in the skies until the F-35 joint strike fighter can replace the services’ aging aircraft.
“We are very focused on our current readiness, and at the moment, we don’t have enough Hornets for combat, flight instruction and day-to-day training,” said Capt. Sarah Burns, a Marine spokeswoman at the Pentagon.
Meanwhile, the military continues to participate in Obama’s Carnival Shell Game, aka Operation Inherent Resolve, aka Obama’s Phony War on ISIS.
We have B-52’s in the Middle East, but they fire missiles instead of carpet bombing ISIS positions. We have a carrier in the Med that conducts a handful of air sorties a day. We have a baker’s dozen of Special Forces personnel in Syria and Iraq tangling with ISIS.
Have you heard ONE, yes ONE, senior officer in the US military speak up about our War on ISIS? Have you heard ONE, yes ONE, senior officer in the US military speak up about the insane social engineering destroying our military.
Crickets….
Things are not going well folks. Everyone seems to know it except the idiots in the DoD and the Obama Administration.
Open homosexuality in the military, transgenders in the ranks, women in the combat arms and Special Forces, low morale, discipline problems, poor junior leadership, cowardly senior leadership, spare parts and equipment issues and no clear mission to fight ISIS.
The US military is getting weaker by the hour…
The US military is coming apart at the seams and our enemies love every minute of it.
Answer: Because they were silent on Obama’s eligibility, fake social security, forged birth documents etc. None of our very highest military peacefully and legally requested clarification of Obama’s status as a natural born citizen from the courts or congress. None resigned in protest.
This is how they look after the loyal,very capable, and highly trained troops serving under them. Perks and a pension were more important to these pansies with the fake brass jewelry on their chests, collars, shoulders, and lapels than the lives and blown off limbs of the good men and women serving our nation.
Spot on.
All according to the 0bama plan.
He came into the job intending to make the US weak and defenseless. He has succeeded.
There’s a lot of work to do, always a mess to clean up after liberals. They are so insecure that they have to destroy others that they don’t measure up to. In doing so tjey risk everyone’s lives and freedom.
That was the Kenyan’s plan to begin with. Destroy the U.S. military. We sat back and allowed the bastard to do it.
Well, maybe some of the Orlando SWAT team could enlist. And a little friendly fire could be arranged.
Why would the barracks and bathroom facilities need to be modified? “Girls” use the girls’ rooms and “boys” use the boys’ rooms depending on how they feel in the inside at the time. As for barracks just let ‘em float from one building to the next.
I would advise against anyone joining the military today.
Very good article. Thanks for posting.
The govt. likes to tout the fact that we have “voluntary” military personnel.
The past few years of social engineering of the military to reduce standards for women and push the LGBT agenda, along with the massive cuts in the DoD budget, MAY require reinstatement of the SSS DRAFT just to ensure we have enough personnel in our military forces.
Right now, we are undermanned and lacking sufficient spare parts in the logistics system to maintain the military equipment.
Obama just had to spend money to arm all federal agencies to create his “civilian force equal to the military” BS!
Surely the KY Cavalry will save the day. (And I don’t mean Kentucky)
The true fix for all of the mess our military (and society) is in, is going to necessarily need to be very messy.
The heart of true freedom necessarily stems from men who ultimately have faith and respect for the laws of God, which directly results in individual responsibility. Not the nominally religious and religious leaders of today who have found utility toward gaining power over people and personal gratification at the hands of the unsuspecting.
Ben Franklin:
“[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
(Source: Benjamin Franklin, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks, editor (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, 1840), Vol. X, p. 297, April 17, 1787. )
I am paraphrasing here, but Benjamin Franklin is saying - the strong morally responsible individual in a society of morally responsible individuals will not have so much need for human masters or sovereign/totalitarian government. Additionally, by the time society needs human masters, those human masters are historically most often ruthless and without moral boundaries themselves.
As many of our founders did, George Washington nailed it:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?”
(Source: George Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States . . . Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge), pp. 22-23. In his Farewell Address to the United States in 1796.)
“T]he [federal] government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.”
(Source: George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, John C. Fitzpatrick, editor (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1939), Vol. XXIX, p. 410. In a letter to Marquis De Lafayette, February 7, 1788.)
“While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.”
(Source: George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, John C. Fitzpatrick, editor (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932), Vol. XXX, p. 432 n., from his address to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in North America, October 9, 1789.)
What George Washington stated is absolutely true!
The “religion” he was speaking of was unperverted Christianity.
Benjamin Rush (Signer of the Declaration of Independence)put it this way:
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
(Source: Benjamin Rush, Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), p. 8.)
“By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. . . . It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. . . . All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon it [the Bible] must perish, and how consoling the thought, it will not only survive the wreck of these systems but the world itself. “The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” [Matthew 1:18]
(Source: Benjamin Rush, Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951), p. 936, to John Adams, January 23, 1807.)
William Penn stated:
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
The degree to which we are individually responsible, is exactly the degree of freedom we have obtained!
Individual freedom was never meant to be permission to do wrong, break the law, break our most solemn promises (”oaths”) to our wives or others in society, or to eliminate moral boundaries!
The elimination of moral boundaries is precisely what wages war against morality (”virtue”), individual responsibility, and freedom.
What our founders were saying is, faith and respect for the moral absolutes found in unperverted Christianity resulted in individual responsibility and freedom, and it was critically necessary to sustain real freedom!
Rhetorically put another way, can an individual or society remain free if that individual or society have no true justice or recourse when violated? Can justice exist in a society with no moral boundaries, or worse yet, a society at war with moral boundaries and those who believe in them and live by them?
The only evil to a person without moral boundaries, is the person with moral boundaries!
This is exactly WHY the thorough teaching and implementation of moral relativism (amoralism) to a full generation of our children and society was a direct assault against the freedom derived from “virtue” (morality) which was framed into law in our U.S. Constitution.
Of course this is exactly why the very real “rewrite” of American History by liberals, and the here and now assault on our Constitution!
As such, in addressing what our military (and society) need, it is almost a complete rebuild.
Those who espouse morality are now the enemy!
They (WE) are the enemy of virtually all entertainment, academia, and government!
We need men with extreme moral character and clarity from the top to the bottom!
In reality, it will not happen until the pervasive evil among us is identified and eliminated.
Historically, in the small handful of societies where democratic forms of government have even existed, this societal (individuals comprising the majority of society)decision either ended positively by corporate repentance, or it ended in bloodshed and some form of totalitarian governance.
In this society which is now littered with individuals who seek only the elimination of moral boundaries, who are infatuated with sexual perversion of every kind, and who are seeking to lead our children to love immorality and simultaneously hate morality, the only way this will end is through an act of God!
No president or congress can stop this now, as American is not simply on the edge of a cliff, it is falling to its death in the abyss below.
What freedom we have now is rapidly coming to an end, as humanism’s box of tricks to turn society away from those foundational moral principles necessary for freedoms own existence have been removed from the same society which existed because of them in the first place!
One of the marks of any society throughout history which devolved into paganism and hedonism, only living to experience ever greater levels of sexual deviancy and entertainment, was their inability to recognize or to even care about the dangerous enemy’s both from outside and from within.
Three things can happen to America from here -
#1. We can recognize the very real evil rebellion we have espoused and turn back to God
#2. We can continue in the same direction we are now going, and ultimately destroy ourselves (several ways this could happen)
#3. Our youth and society turns very hard toward some form of totalitarian government and brutality. (Think NAZI Germany or Bolshevik Russia)
If anyone doubts this, consider the same humanism and moral relativism taught in America today, is the same humanism and moral relativism which was taught to the youth of both Germany and Russia
What we are witnessing now is incredible!
Where is the Congressional oversight? They can prevent damaging decisions if they want to!
My son just reported to his new duty assignment with the 101st. He is assigned to one of the division’s infantry brigades. His assessment of the personnel, equipment, training and infrastructure readiness situation there is pretty sobering. Lots of challenges just getting the routine training done. This is like the Carter years x2. The only bright spot from his perspective is that soldier issues such as wholesale drug abuse and race riots aren’t part of the picture as they were in the 1970s.
The military is a miserable place for a decent man these these days.
It has become a social petri dish that is breeding perversion and inferiority at an exponential rate.
It has become a dangerous both to the psyche and body of the people in it. The people that do the critical work are being over worked to the point of dangerous and rightly fear for their lives in a job that is already dangerous. The systems are being maintained by people who are understaffed, underexperienced, under funded and under equipped. Air planes continue to be flown at the edge of their design limits with replacement parts that have passed their fatige life and need to be melted for scrap. Military airplanes are not airliners, they are high performance machines that are designed like Formula One race cars to run at the very edge ability to wring out every bit of power and performance possible.
The US military is a miserable dangerous place and the mess is leaving us all less safe. All the while this disgrace goes on the men and women wo do the hard jobs in the military go on with and do their jobs as best they can and with honor but their dignity has been stripped. They have been humiliated beyond all reasonable expectation by the maggots of this administration.
Hopefully Trump can fix this by deleting Obama’s executive orders, etc.
varsity blues .http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139699/ Great flick ablout the real America,
Thanks, I’ll look for it.
“Have you heard ONE, yes ONE, senior officer in the US military speak up about our War on ISIS?”
The higher the rank, the fatter the pension. The fatter the pension, the lower the bravery. DAMN sad, but we have to deal with reality here.
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