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The US Military’s Silent Generation
US Defense Watch ^ | August 29, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 08/29/2016 5:39:34 PM PDT by pboyington

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1 posted on 08/29/2016 5:39:34 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: pboyington; advertising guy

BRAVO ZULU!!

And a PING to you, Ad guy


2 posted on 08/29/2016 5:46:14 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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3 posted on 08/29/2016 5:47:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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The US armed forces are being strangled to death by the agents of political correctness, feminism, cultural Marxism and the LGBT agenda. Those agents defined as Barack Hussein Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Ash Carter, Ray Mabus, Eric Fanning and Deborah Lee James.

This started earlier, definitely by the time women were allowed to become chiefs in the Navy. Some coworkers who were sailors described what happened and it sounds like a bad idea. However, the term political correctness predates Obama. If the culture of the country as a whole is PC, the military will be as well.
4 posted on 08/29/2016 5:47:11 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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5 posted on 08/29/2016 5:49:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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This is a very, very tough nut to swallow.

The people in a position to do something about it don’t care, and the people that care are powerless to do anything about it.

God help us.


6 posted on 08/29/2016 5:51:03 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Just one more thing DT is going to have to fix.


7 posted on 08/29/2016 5:52:09 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Hillary- Time To Change the Bag...)
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I don’t even have to read it. I can’t read it.


8 posted on 08/29/2016 5:54:09 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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All of this was inevitable from the day that the service academies were opened to women. That reality, coupled with the ascendancy of cultural Marxism enabled this perfect storm that is wrecking the US Armed Forces.


9 posted on 08/29/2016 5:58:15 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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Today’s military leaders have the same moral courage the German General Staff had against Hitler. today’s Pentagon leaders must read up on Jodl and Keitel on how to be a military leader.


10 posted on 08/29/2016 5:58:50 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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not a sound emanates from those Rubber Men of Arlington, those spineless mannequins called the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

All too many of the higher ranking military officers are some of the biggest butt kissers and political animals one can find in any bureaucracy. They're looking for the next butt to kiss to get them their next promotion.

11 posted on 08/29/2016 5:59:42 PM PDT by Will88
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The leadership doesn’t care. They won’t be the cannon fodder. The politicians don’t care. They will be safe and rich. If a hundred million American’s die, oh well.


12 posted on 08/29/2016 6:05:07 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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Anyone in our military should know that there are families like mine that have served in our military since the 1600’s who are against Obama and Hillary at every point. We are patriots serving our country and we want all others like us to vote for Trump...Hillary would be worse that Obama for this country.


13 posted on 08/29/2016 6:05:50 PM PDT by Stayfree (FlushHillary.com says "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY")
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When I took American History in college, way back in the dark ages, it was impressed upon us that the military quite successfully fought back against more than one president who dared encroach on the military’s turf.

The military’s attitude was that you civilians run the government, but WE run the military and never the twain shall meet.

So disastrous was it for several US presidents who forgot that rule, it became common wisdom in government that you don’t meddle with the military on matters it regarded as essential to discipline and morale.

What happened to those men? Men who would fight back?


14 posted on 08/29/2016 6:14:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Forget the leaders. Why didn’t the men in the heels and pregNancy simulators tell them to GO TO HELL?. There’s your problem.


15 posted on 08/29/2016 6:15:35 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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They’ve run all the fighting men out.


16 posted on 08/29/2016 6:19:14 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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I'm a Vietnam combat Air Cav vet, (among other things)

We saw this politically correct crap happen 45+ years ago when the politicians started running the wars, (I hope you're enjoying HELL, Sec Of Defense Robert MacNamara!!!)

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT?

WTF?

We had to drop heads-up "leaflets" in areas where we were to soon engage the enemy.

We couldn't pursue the enemy if they were lucky enough to make it into Laos or Cambodia, (although we actually did, Heh).

We could of kicked commie butt in a few years if we had been allowed to, but instead the politicians decided not to.

Yeah, I'm still pissed!

And now the marxist, faggot, perverts in our government are trying to finish the job.

Who indeed will call this crap out for what it is?

17 posted on 08/29/2016 6:30:49 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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Sadly, the Pentagon has no modern Colonel David Hackworth’s. In 1971, Hack was a highly decorated combat vet and leader who was being groomed for his first star. He was on a high trajectory in the lean green machine. But, Hack threw his career away when he went on the ABC talk show, Issues and Answers and told the world that the Army’s strategy to fight the Vietnam War wasn’t working and wouldn’t work unless drastic changes were made.

While Hack was a polarizing figure who was both loved and hated by his men and readers (most of the love came from the lower ranks and the hatred from the higher ranks and the men he deemed the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon), no one can argue that the man had the courage of his convictions, aka moral fortitude, aka guts.

I loved reading David Hackworth's newspaper columns. He hammered where things needed to be hammered. He was awesome.

18 posted on 08/29/2016 6:32:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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19 posted on 08/29/2016 6:33:05 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Ray, when you ask, “Is there one righteous person in the US military with the courage to speak out?” do you realize what it is that you are asking? Is there one righteous person in the US military with the courage to commit suicde? When the head of the CIA is a Muslim, when the FBI and NSA is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, how do you think a GI can defeat them? Our President, his Chief of Staff, our Attorney General are all Muslims. Our entire government is infiltrated with Muslims from the top to the bottom and you have the balls to ask someone to attempt to sneak by the authority and powers of these people so you can write a friggin article. Wake up and start using some common sense!!


20 posted on 08/29/2016 6:35:22 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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