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What kind of US Army is this?
US Defense Watch ^ | October 26, 2015 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 10/26/2015 1:24:26 PM PDT by pboyington

The Army is in serious trouble. Besieged with a myriad of readiness and morale issues, it is under siege by radical feminists and leftists who are determined to reshape the Army, even if they have to destroy it.

You would think that the Army generals, men who are supposed to be tough guys and seasoned combat veterans would stand up and speak out against the feminist fire engulfing the lean green machine. But, they haven’t and they won’t, in order to protect their careers and retirement benefits.

Don’t the Army’s leaders have a moral obligation to disobey orders that are illegal or dangerous to the institution itself?

Moral cowardice has become a common virtue at the Pentagon.

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1 posted on 10/26/2015 1:24:26 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: pboyington

Welcome to FR.

No, i wont take your click bait.


2 posted on 10/26/2015 1:29:05 PM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: pboyington

Hillary will utterly destroy whatever good is left in our armed services. Who would want to fight for that lying b*tch besides Islamo-Fascist leftists, fudge packers, transgenders and dykes, anyway?


3 posted on 10/26/2015 1:31:24 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: pboyington

It is more than just cowardice with the brass. At times it becomes a sexual fetish in pushing women into manly roles.

The perverse officers like to see feminine women doing GI Jane sorta stuff but the reality is different. They have a few bull dykes doing the tough stuff and feminine women doing more common but essential Army jobs until it is time for deployment and then they become non-deployable (pregnant).

Then the brass play with the statistics until they cover up the truth of this.


4 posted on 10/26/2015 1:32:45 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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To: pboyington

I read the article and see nothing wrong with it.

My personal opinion is the Army will not be a very good one.


5 posted on 10/26/2015 1:33:45 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: pboyington

The entire military has been pussified with a few exceptions. But don’t worry, they’re getting to it.


6 posted on 10/26/2015 1:37:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: pboyington

People here don’t like to click on blogs because sometimes they are loaded with viruses. So...you will get negative comments if you only post a part of your article.

I agree with you on what I read! The military is disappointing as of late. It is anti-Christian, too.


7 posted on 10/26/2015 1:47:55 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson; pboyington
People here don’t like to click on blogs because sometimes they are loaded with viruses. So...you will get negative comments if you only post a part of your article.

No, people here don't appreciate blog pimps. Post your entire content or don't post. FR isn't your private billboard.

8 posted on 10/26/2015 2:09:44 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

We can’t say we weren’t warned.

“The women’s suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”
- Winston Churchill 1909


9 posted on 10/26/2015 2:11:01 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: TADSLOS; All
Humblegunner happily seems to be gone but others are there to pick up the gage of battle with blogs. However, Defense One appears to be a moderated posting board, more akin to this site than a normal blog. In any case it contains a wide array of useful articles on defense issues and I can see nothing offensive with it.
10 posted on 10/26/2015 2:16:55 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: yarddog
I fear with the changes, our army could lose a conflict against the Danish army.

Meanwhile the Russians are looking testosterone fortified to the rest of the world. Who would you pick as your friend?

11 posted on 10/26/2015 2:24:11 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: robowombat

It’s not a matter of being offensive, it’s a matter of using FR as a free advertising site.


12 posted on 10/26/2015 2:24:51 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

And Bernie will just dissolve the Armed Forces.

Hillary will leave something for us to work with (but not much). Sanders will totally destroy it.


13 posted on 10/26/2015 2:45:18 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: robowombat; humblegunner
Humblegunner happily seems to be gone

He be?

14 posted on 10/26/2015 2:47:05 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: pboyington

Apparently the military now has a ‘gay quota’ that must be filled-


16 posted on 10/26/2015 3:04:08 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: humblegunner

It is a blog.

But it seems to be a good blog.

They do need to post the total article here, though.


17 posted on 10/26/2015 3:29:28 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: humblegunner

So, here it is.

The Army is in serious trouble. Besieged with a myriad of readiness and morale issues, it is under siege by radical feminists and leftists who are determined to reshape the Army, even if they have to destroy it.

You would think that the Army generals, men who are supposed to be tough guys and seasoned combat veterans would stand up and speak out against the feminist fire engulfing the lean green machine. But, they haven’t and they won’t, in order to protect their careers and retirement benefits.

Don’t the Army’s leaders have a moral obligation to disobey orders that are illegal or dangerous to the institution itself?

Moral cowardice has become a common virtue at the Pentagon.

The White House has an agenda. That agenda is simply to destroy the US Army that we all knew and loved and to create a pro-feminist, politically correct force. The social engineers could care less if the new Army will be able to fight and win. What matters is the implementation of the policies. What matters is that the Army obeys the orders.

In the words of Lieutenant-General Claudia Kennedy, “This is not your father’s Army.” It sure isn’t general. What it is; is a circus train that is rapidly careening off a cliff.

Here is a partial list of some of the insanity being thrust upon the nation’s soldiers:

Last spring, male ROTC cadets at several universities in the country were ordered to walk around campus wearing women’s red high heels. This was to facilitate sympathy for female rape victims. While the cadets complained about the order, nothing was said by any senior Army leaders; or for that matter by any junior officers. Good God.

http://images.military.com/media/news/service/rotc-heels1-600.jpg

For the last three years, US Army soldiers have been ordered to wear and exercise in pregnancy simulators, which are foam pad strap on devices consisting of two boobs and a womb. Apparently, forcing men to wear the devices will make them sympathetic to pregnant female soldiers’ concerns and feelings.

Aww… isn’t that sweet? Goodbye Sergeant Stryker, hello Doctor Spock and Oprah.

In a recent memo by Secretary of the Army John McHugh, titled “Breastfeeding and lactation support policy,” commanders and soldiers are advised to “balance lactation support and readiness.”

Lactation support and readiness; what readiness? Sort of like maternity Army Combat Uniform (ACU); doesn’t make a lot of sense does it?

The memorandum for record, dated September 29, 2015, was distributed to every Army command across the world. I’m trying to figure out how breastfeeding, lactation support and the Special Operations Command can be included in one sentence. But, have no doubt, the Green Berets, Delta, and the Rangers all received the memo.

“Fighting soldiers, from the sky, fearless soldiers who lactate and die…”

“One hundred soldiers, we’ll test today, and 93 will have breast pumps…”

The Army can keep lying all it wants about women graduating from Ranger School. Anyone with half a brain in their head knows that there is no way on earth any woman, except perhaps the Game of Thrones chick, some former androgynous East German swimmers and Dennis Rodman in a wedding dress could make it through Ranger School alive. Considering the fact that my possible female graduates are a TV character, unisex, former servants of a communist state and an ex NBA player with a big Barbie Doll collection, who are we kidding? The amount of Kool Aid being consumed at Fort Benning these days could fill Lake Superior.

To paraphrase Sonny and Cher, “And, the lies go on…”

The Army has become rather adept at dumping endless sensitivity training sessions on its soldiers, whether they’re in garrison, or in the field. In fact, in 2012, soldiers in Afghanistan were ordered to take gay sensitivity training, while of course deployed in a combat zone. There’s nothing more important than being sensitive toward a homosexual member of the Taliban who’s shooting at you.

Then there are those nifty online DoD classes where soldiers can learn how the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are all sexist documents.

Apparently, the Army now exists to make Gloria Steinem, Hillary and Valerie Jarrett happy.

The Pentagon is creating an Army more concerned about satisfying the mad lust of a radical left-wing social experiment than about defending the country.

Countless hours and manpower are being wasted on this lunacy; hours and days and weeks that could be used for stuff the Army used to do, like weapons training, map reading, hand to hand combat, enemy vehicle and aircraft identification, the proper way to use a mortar; you know the stuff armies do, except our Vera Wang fashion Army.

The Army has one sole purpose. When called upon it is to fight and win the nation’s wars, and to kill the enemy violently and efficiently. There is no other purpose for the Army, not ONE.

The Army does not exist to placate naïve civilians whose idea of being a soldier is to spend a weekend with Outward Bound, civilians who have never been within 5,000 miles of any shot and shell, civilians who don’t know if they’re snake bit or powder burnt on a good day.

Unfortunately, the Pentagon perfumed princes have completely lost any sense of duty, honor and country. The Pentagon feather merchants think they’re defending the country. I have some news for them.

Placating wackos isn’t defending the country. Having ROTC Cadets parade around like they’re on a Paris fashion show ramp isn’t defending the country. Ordering male soldiers to strap on fake boobs and a womb isn’t defending the country. Sending out lactation memos isn’t defending the country. Sensitivity training isn’t defending the country. Passing 37 year old mommies at Ranger School isn’t defending the country.

If the Army isn’t defending the country, then just what in the hell is its purpose now?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Mr. Magoo could see where this is all heading. It’s leading to a series of US Army defeats and disasters in battle that will be Biblical. And, when it’s over, when the Great Social Experiment Army is broken into a million pieces and the corpses and wreckage and the red high heels and pregnancy simulators litter the battlefields of the earth; then and only then will the American public wonder what happened to their Army.

The Army is incapable of exhibiting any moral courage to alter this disastrous course. Conservatives in Congress have failed the public on everything, so they can’t be counted on to help. If the Army is to be saved, it is up to the American people to do it. The public says over and over again how much they love to support the troops.

Support the troops, by saving them.


18 posted on 10/26/2015 3:30:15 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: humblegunner

There’s actually a lot of good content at this website.

After one year, US led air campaign against ISIS a dismal failure
October 22, 2015 Ray Starmann Air Campaign against ISIS, Carly Jacobsen, Iraq, ISIS, Syria

By Carly Jacobsen

ISIS

As suspected by a myriad of military analysts, Operation Inherent Resolve, the desultory US air campaign against ISIS has done very little damage to the para-military organization.

This is certainly not a failure of air power alone, but the result of a lack of will and power projection by the US and NATO to fight and destroy ISIS.

IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre issued a report on October 22nd stating that ISIS attacks rose in the 3rd quarter of 2015 compared to the previous three-month period, both in terms of the number of non-militant casualties and the frequency of attacks.

Jane’s reported 1,086 separate attacks between July 1 and September 30 of this year, or a daily average of 11.8 daily. That’s up from 8.3 last quarter, representing an increase of 42%.

The attacks killed 2,978 non-militants, a 65% increase from the previous quarter.

Jane’s concludes that the true number of attacks was likely “far higher,” as the agency relies on open-source intelligence and only reports what can be confirmed definitively by governments, or attacks claimed by the ISIS militants themselves.

The uptick is significant in showing that though ISIS failed to gain a significant amount of territory during that time period, they remained capable of inflicting damage to targets around in the Middle East and Africa even in areas outside of their control.

“We’re probably more in a consolidation phase currently where the group is stabilizing gains its made and protecting those gains,” Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center, told NBC News.

Of the attacks outside of ISIS’s are of control, Nigeria was a main target, likely because of the presence of ISIS affiliate Boko Haram. Though the total number of attacks outside of the group’s “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq dropped, the casualties per strike rose considerably.

“This underlines the nature of the group’s insurgency in Nigeria and several bordering countries, with its operations characterized by mass-casualty operations targeting the civilian population,” the report noted, according to NBC.

ISIS Near Abroad SEP isw isis world map

Though the data set reported ends on the same day that Russia began its bombing campaign in Syria, the findings support claims that international efforts to roll back ISIS have fallen flat. Despite constant hammering from a US-led coalition, ISIS is still capable of carrying out constant attacks across a wide geographic area.

“They’re able to make daily life fraught and dangerous and insecure,” Henman added.

But ISIS still focuses on their home turf. The 902 ISIS attack in Iraq and Syria, which resulted in 1,780 non-militant fatalities, represent 83% percent of all ISIS attacks recorded over the period.

ISIS map

While ISIS attacks and operations are still centered Iraq and Syria, this report shows that the organization has so far successfully weathered the multi-national military effort to stop them and have even branched out to become a consistent global threat.


19 posted on 10/26/2015 3:31:35 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: BlueNgold

I like their content. But I’ll post the whole article here when I do pass it on.


20 posted on 10/26/2015 3:33:30 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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