Say it again, brother! My maternal grandfather fought in WWI, for Scotland. My dad and stepfather served during WWII, also an uncle on my mom's side. An older stepbrother served in Nam. My FIL served in the Army during the Korean War, stationed in Germany. One of his cousins survived D-Day.
I was on active duty at the start of the AVF, from 76-84. Army, Air Defense Artillery. I spent my 4+ years with the same battalion, 6/56 ADA, motto "Night Hides Not"...oops, I just outed myself.
I loved my time in Germany, never really wanted to leave. Unique assignment, air base defense. We had composite Chaparral/Towed Vulcan batteries at Hahn, Bitburg, and Spangdahlem.
Before my next comment, allow me to say the Army treated me very well, they paid for college and I had some great assignments.
I have close to a dozen nephews, along with my two sons. I have never advised them to join the military. It's not the military we knew, and the Courtney Massengales have run off the Sam Damons. I fell far short of resembling Sam, of course, though I gave it a good effort. There were sufficient run-ins with staff pukes and REMFs that kept me from a career.
That was my trump card, never intending to make it a career. I refused to be cowed into submisson by a micro managing superior. Best relationship was with my last battalion commander in Germany, whom I also worked for back at Fort Bliss.
Not only is our military too woke, our generals continue to insist on preparing for the last war. Air Force should be buying thousands upon thousands of drones, as opposed to the next $150 million jet fighter that will be obsolete the moment the first one is delivered.
Where is the leadership today? Case in point: the young soldier that drowned in the Rio Grande. Where were the rules of engagement, where were the flotation devices? IMO, the entire chain of command should have been relieved over the loss of that soldier.
No, it's time for the sons and daughters of our politicians and elites to shoulder the burden of their parents' leadership failures. Don't bring back the draft: rich boys have found a way to avoid the draft since the War Between the States.
Apologies for the length and failure to stay on topic. The Battle of Midway is one of our greatest military victories. If you're ever in Fredericksburg, TX, they have an excellent museum of The War in the Pacific. It's a history lesson unto itself, and the birthplace of Admiral Nimitz is just across the street. You can spend several hours in it, and barely scratch the surface.
Here is the essay I post every December now.
Social Engineering Defeats Combat Capabilities
Obama’s defense department announcement on December 3 of 2015 about women in combat following repeal of DADT demonstrates attachment to a political ideology fueled by arrogance and reinforced by premeditated ignorance. The defense secretary Ash Carter’s supposed managing any long period of study and vigorous debate sought only those mutually supportive creatures that have metastasized throughout the military to serve a social agenda bringing future needless devastation.
Most of the points highlighted about women in combat arose first when the decision was made to do away with DADT and invite the LGBTQ and whatever communities into the mainstream of military operations. In the case of DADT, the religious fervor driving a delusional Congress and Administration sought comfort from a fallacious study conclusion which showed supposed support for their decision using populations which included garrison and base housing personnel. However, the trigger pullers at the core of military operations rejected the idea.
The foundational comfort for this approach relies on dubious scientific credibility. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Removal followed a two-year campaign Newsweek described as ongoing disruptive, chaotic attacks on psychiatrists and physiologists. Yet throughout these disruptive attacks, no academic papers arose at conferences refuting any research previously done. Eventually onslaughts forced sufficient abstentions, under-votes, and apprehensive responses for a third of APA’s 17,000 plus membership to approve removal.
After this decision, activists targeted leading individual researchers such as Dr. David Reuben, and Masters and Johnson to ensure perpetual sanctity for the APA action. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, substantiating that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle. Persistent activism over 37 years enabled ubiquitous infiltration of academia thereby ensuring pre-ordained theses, approved flexibility in research designs, suitable human data points, and enchanting statistical enhancements. Psychology and Psychiatry chose to relinquish scientific rigor for popular societal and political acclaim.
Neither decision was compatible with combat operations that too often demand unpredictable and unimaginable endurance and brutality to achieve victory. Only the highest physical abilities and most severe restrictions on human behaviors and interactions can foster the traditionally defined high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion required. Resorting to war for national defense entails the ultimate Olympics of conflict occurring at the bleeding edge of existence where the unbelievable must become the possible.
Human sexuality, and therefore LGBTQ behaviors and women, simply cannot intrude into this sub-culture where only those displaying the greatest savagely can hope to win. Particularly regarding women, national defense compels the highest in physical achievements where no excuse exists for merging men and women into war environments which are more severe than any found in the segregated Olympic competitions every four years. Certainly, that point becomes obvious with the controversy over transgender females competing in women’s sports.
Combat forms personnel into rigid, task-oriented units. They then descend into a squalid cacophony of shrieking, cursing, sobbing, crashing dissonance to orchestrate the killing of other humans under a discipline which should not allow for neither hate nor joy. These people continuously face extraordinary mental and physical stress and survive by acquiring the wisdom of wild animals that live in the moment without conveniences for eating, sleeping, resting, or other bodily functions. At the point of collision, they undertake operations requiring sacrificial, primitive, and intimate actions. They must display a noble fidelity to each other despite environments that are inherently chaotic, barbaric, and brittle. Overcoming within this alternate reality requires trained killers subject to a totalitarian leadership and narrow focus unimaginable for those who accept human sexuality in its now many varied forms and always see an opportunity for the social alchemy popular in civilian life.
The regimental combat teams for infantry, mechanized, and armored units and special forces units are now the playthings of bureaucrats committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action. They are dismissive of warriors enduring the carnage imperative for triumph. Institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as the Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons. If one notes the ribbons on any senior officer’s uniform, they show they fought only Arabs that Israelis beat three times at 20 to 1 odds.
Such people now question the necessity for standards which do not dismiss inferior female physical performance, or the psychological degradation of units forced to incorporate LGBTQ and feminist agendas. Social engineering that amalgamates these agendas has become the overarching imperative to which all operational capabilities must submit.
Women can serve in many rolls, but do not belong at the pointy end of the spear and should not be holding the spear to the extent they intrude into the fellowship of combat arms which depend upon savagery and physical strength for victory. LGBTQ and whatever behaviors simply have no place in our military where sexual extravagance breaks down unit cohesion.
As this tragedy unfolds, I will remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”. A lot of good men are going to have to die in years to come to cover up the abandonment of the military as the ultimate meritocracy. This tragedy of women in combat following endorsement of LGBTQ behaviors provides another reason I now always council men to never enter the armed forces. In my wife’s and my families eight men volunteered and served over three generations, but never again.
Partial Bibliography
Jordan Peterson: It’s ideology vs. science in psychology’s war on boys and men The coup of the American Psychological Association undertaken by the ideologues is now complete
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-its-ideology-vs-science-in-psychologys-war-on-boys-and-men
Action of APA to remove homosexuality from list of disorders DSM
Link: http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/
Homosexuality and Sexual Orientation Disturbance: Proposed Change in DSM-II, 6th Printing, page 44
http://www.torahdec.org/Downloads/DSM-II_Homosexuality_Revision.pdf
The APA Decision
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+APA+decision+December+1973%3A+declassification+of+homosexuality+as...-a094598255
Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal
http://traditionalvalues.org/content/article/30884/Exposed:%20The%20Myth%20That%20Psychiatry%20Has%20Proven%20That%20Homosexual%20Behavior%20Is%20Normal
Will Hamas place benches to help female IDF soldiers?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226508
'Integrating women into combat is a colossal failure'
israelnationalnews.com
narrative about women in combat
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings
Pentagon manual details rules for transgender military personnel
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/19/pentagon-manual-details-rules-for-transgender-military-personnel.html