Posted on 12/30/2016 5:41:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Theres been a fair amount of Trump-supporter braggadocio regarding the President-elects nomination of Gen. James Mad Dog Mattis as the new Defense Secretary an admirable choice, certainly. If Mad Dog can navigate the machinations of the Pentagon as well as he did the battlefield were in for a rejuvenation of Americas military that should be a major reversal of its downward fortunes over the past few decades. I hope that Mr. Trump fully appreciates the magnitude of the task he has set before Gen. Mattis.
That task that has grown steadily in size and complexity since the end of the end of the Bush I administration. Its not just a matter of budget and resource allocation. Much has been done with the intention of diminishing, if not eliminating, the traditions and esprit-de-corps of all the armed services. An early example is what happened in the wake of a 1991 convention in Las Vegas following the prosecution of the Gulf War. Several Navy officers had their careers sunk in what became the Tailhook Witch-Hunt as recounted in the October 1993 issue of Heterodoxy. This is but one of many ventures into the transformation of the military into post-modern, politically-correct, feminist-beholden, open-homosexuality organizations. The 2008 PBS mini-series Carrier, whether intentionally or not, gives our potential foes an insight into just how far the emasculation of our armed services has gone. A few extracted bits may be seen here.
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Just before I went on Christmas Leave, I had to sit through a required tranny brief where professional military officers seriously discussed the notion that a woman can become a man, get pregnant, then get required time off to start a family.
Deal with that nonsense first, please, GEN Mattis.
I agree. The culture and morale issue have got to be at the top of his list.
And they’re going to be the toughest to tackle. Discrimination lawsuits are going to be raining down, plus the propaganda organs will be in full incitement mode.
Man born a woman is first in UK to give birth despite having sex change
Medical experts said that if the womb is not removed in sex change surgery, there is nothing to stop a woman who becomes a man from having a child.
That’s because “it” is still female!
Bush the first gave a big hit to Military tradition by denying combat members the ability to bring back war trophy firearms, in the first Gulf War.
It was brazen break with tradition, and should be reversed.
Its been 20 years since I retired from the Army, might as well be 20 light years for the changes. few of them good.
That and the other facets of readiness: training and spare parts.
The point being she is still a woman. She can have surgeries, she can have therapies, but she’s still a woman. Calling her a man is just a nonsensical statement—a lie some have agreed to tell each other in order to placate those with a bizarre mental illness.
Bed-wetting, pencil-arm snowflakes vs “Mad Dog” Mattis. My money is on the Marine winning.
How long have you been in?
I joined in 1998. Six years NC National Guard, 12.5 years active duty so far.
mazda77, are you too lazy to click on FSN's FRName after his post -- and read his FRProfile?
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Future Snake Eater, thank you for your service!
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It was a friendly question, but I suppose you have a problem with that? Maybe I should have asked your approval first?
Geez, lighten up Francis!
10-4. Was curious of the frame of reference to your observations. 71-76 for me. We didn’t get sneakers and gym shorts for PT. Combat boots and fatigues were it on the beach sand running track.
Begin by flushing the training manuals for the current nancy-boy training approach used by the former boot camps, PI & San Diego.
Maybe I can, once more, attend the Marine Corps birthday bash without having to listen to the sniveling pretenders of the last few years.
OTOH, maybe the problem is because, at 83, I still remember almost every day of P.I. in June,July,& August 1951...
Someone has to begin the process of returning gonads to military men; Mad Dog seems like a good first choice. This won’t be a fast process.
General Mattis’s call sign is “Chaos.”
Any author who begins by calling him “Mad Dog” probably does not know enough about the prospective Secretary of Defense to write anything useful.
Which is unfortunate as General Mattis’s lifetime of service to the nation and his body of work is more than sufficient for any number of articles regarding the challenges he and our nation face after he is confirmed as the Secretary of Defense.
A useful start might be some basic research on the “who,” “why,” “where,” and “when” some people began to call him “Mad Dog.”
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