Posted on 09/04/2018 6:15:36 PM PDT by pboyington
Remember, the old expression, ‘the Army will make a man out of you.’ Or, the Marines great recruiting tagline, “Looking for a few good men.” How about the Navy’s action-packed 1980’s commercials with F-14’s blasting off into the wild blue yonder under the cover of smoke and exhaust fumes as a gravelly voice told a nation of young men that to join the Navy wasn’t just a job, but an adventure.
From the birth of this nation, the military was seen as a male rite of passage, something one joined, not only out of patriotism, but to prove something to oneself; perhaps, like Phil Caputo, to avoid the complete drudgery of civilian life, and to find oneself in that ultimate crucible of manhood – war.
Young males always admired the generations of men who went before them and who had served honorably and survived to ‘stand a tip-toe’ for the rest of their days.
But, since, Tailhook in Sept of 1991, in what I believe was the launching point for the PC destruction of the US military, our armed forces have been on a downward spiral into an abyss of diversity, feminism, political correctness and cowardly leadership.
And, now, literally every week there are one or two or three stories detailing just how deep in the PC abyss the military has sunk.
Today, the Army Times, aka the Diversity Times, shouted out with glee the joyous fact that Staff Sgt. Amanda Kelley, 29, is the first enlisted woman to earn a Ranger tab.
1st Armored Division spokeswoman Lt. Col. Crystal Boring, could barely keep herself from busting out of her maternity army combat uniform when she updated Old Ironside’s Twitter Page with this announcement –
HISTORIC MOMENT! Congratulations to @USArmy Staff Sgt. Amanda F. Kelley for being the first enlisted woman to graduate Ranger School, and earn the coveted Ranger tab today at Fort Benning, Ga. She is the true definition of an #IronSoldier!
Oh rejoice! Diversity!
Who cares if we get our asses handed to us against the ChiComs? The important thing is to keep the lie going, national security be damned!
Kelley is a military intelligence electronic warfare specialist, serving in a combat aviation brigade. One might begin to ask oneself why in the name of God this soldier was sent to Ranger School, wasting tax payer money and taking a slot that some young stud in an Infantry Battalion could have filled.
Kelley’s attendance at Camp Diversity, aka Make-Believe Land, aka Fantasy Island, aka Ranger School and her ‘graduation’, served no other purpose than to shove another female through the course so Kirsten Gillibrand can get a tingle down her leg.
Ranger School used to be one of the toughest military schools in the world. For decades, men trained hard with the hope that they could earn a Ranger tab, maybe even serve in a Ranger battalion, maybe follow in the footsteps of the Boys of Pointe du Hoc and Merrill’s Marauders.
Why even go to Ranger School now? They’re graduating mommies, the cheerleader you wanted to date in high school and the butch dyke down the block.
Not exactly a male rite of passage, anymore is it? More like an episode of Big Brother – Blanks and Boots.
And, mark my words, you heard it here first, there will be some bimbo in the coming months sporting a Green Beret and the liberal world will shout loud and high about the joys of diversity and how men and women are physically equal, when every Swingin’ Richard on Smoke and Mirrors Hill at Bragg, knows damned well that the standards have been lowered so much at the SFQC that Granny Clampett could be your next A Team light weapons sergeant.
While the PC warriors celebrate diversity, our enemies are licking their chops like Wiley Coyote at an all you can eat ACME buffet. And, this time Wiley is going to kick some butt.
Our enemies are dying with laughter every day now. They don’t even have to squeeze off a round or drop a mortar in a tube. We’re doing all the work for them as we destroy ourselves in the name of feminism and political correctness.
What red blooded American male would want to serve in a US military of drag queens, cadets in red high heels, Mommy Rangers, lactating chicks in the field and waddling battalion commanders?
There’s a known fact that the feminist crowd would like to keep buried, like those Green Cards for those Ranger tabbed ladies that Benning hides so well – any industry women take over, men leave… in droves.
The future of the US military is a largely female force (there are currently 170,000 serving in the US Army) with a smattering of gay men, men who think they’re women, liberals in skinny fatigues and aggrieved soy boys.
The future of the US military is a broken force, a devastated force, if anything is left at all on some distant battlefield.
A perfect storm is brewing in the US military now. It’s a combination of a worthless Secretary of Defense who is probably the biggest disappointment since Evil Knievel’s failed Snake River Canyon jump, a Congress with few veterans and those who are, are mostly female, cowardly generals and admirals, liberal generals and admirals, a vocal LGBT mafia in the Beltway, candyass Millennial recruits and the feminist lobby which believes combat power equals the number of pregnant women a division has in its TO&E.
Nope, the US military just isn’t macho anymore.
And, that’s a big, big problem.
This reminds me, the main problem, if not the only problem I have with Gen. Mattis, is his continued support of keeping Transexual recruits in active service.
Mattis supports keeping them even when they undergo gender reassignment, meaning, for big chunks of time, the recruit is not able to serve, but the USA must still pay for all that ‘free’ surgery and hormone replacement. Not many studies have been done to discover what happens to the body and the psyche after years and years of being unnecessarily dosed with sexual hormones.
The experiment has not yet been concluded.
I became a sonar technician on a ship that was always on the go.
Much of my Navy time was spent as a janitor. Despite that I have thanked God ever since that there was a draft that motivated me into that course of action.
I met friends I still have. I amassed a lifetime of sea stories and saw, for real, places that could never have been a dream without the Navy.
I feel sorry for youngsters these days who don't have the same "forced" opportunity.
I dunno. I joined the military because it was something every male on both sides of the family had done for a century at least. It was something I had to do.
My Dad was in the South Pacific in 1943-45 His Twin brother flew with the 8th in B 17 over Europe in 1943. One family member was killed at Meuse Argonne in 1918. He is still not forgotten.
Me, nothing spectacular
I can’t agree with a draft. I don’t support involuntary servitude.
SOCOM, Marines and Army combat arms still count. With technology, the need for bullet stoppers becomes less and less. The need for guys that can speak 2-3 languages, can jump out of perfectly good airplanes, know how to shoot any common military small arm in the well, and have the skills to teach others? You’ll go far. The days of 400 person “personnel services units” and 120 highly caffeinated clerks in a “Finance Support Unit” are quickly coming to an end.
At least we still have the Marine Corps. Semper Fidelis.
The Pentagon is designing a new vehicle for all branches of service ... it comes with private crying rooms, puppies, kittens, warm milk dispensers, and cookie machines. The lactation stations are still a work in progress, but sources indicate that the problems were not insurmountable and the vehicles will be fielded soon.
Well, we don't have a draft these days.
It seems like any philosophical foundation for a military should be whatever it takes to make it a strong as it can possibly be.
Our all volunteer force has been a far better, more efficient and effective military than what we had in the 1950's, 60's and early 70's. It seems like some of the necessary training has taken a hit in recent years, and that has caused problems. Those problems can be fixed, and the premise of the all volunteer force still works.
I was passed over during the draft lotteries..then enlisted and spent 24 years in the AF...it may have saved my life/freedom by requiring a different way of “interacting”...
Gender reassignment surgery is associated with a brief respite in elevated suicide rate, followed by extreme rates.
Insult women in the military all you want, but the Army soldier killed in Afghanistan this past week - killed by an Afghan soldier supposedly our ally - was on his 13th deployment overseas, 8 deployments being combat deployments. He was supporting a war that has been going on for 17 years. You don’t think those may be the reason why young men are bypassing this ‘rite of passage’?
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