We need 50,000 Gurkas.
Who would want Bammy or H! as their commander?
- Joseph Stalin
If the Draft comes back and I’m still alive, I’ll do what I can to help the draft dodgers avoid service to the New World Order.
I hang my head in shame,,
the greatest machine for peace this planet Will Ever See;
The American Soldier.
Thank You.
Great rant and I can relate to much of what you wrote.
We have homosexuals in all our barracks, sodomites dancing in the streets in front of the Pentagon, we have an anti-American muslim coward in our White House, we have a decidedly anti-military regime running around in our White House, we have military defunding going on, we have generals being let go who refuse to murder American citizens, etc.
What else could make our military totally unappetizing?
Obama’s going to turn the military into another massive benefits program for his loyal commie followers.
Thanks for your service.
What do you mean? They have ‘em all lined up. Gays, feminists and Illegal Immigrants.
So more like good luck to those who are being protected by the creep corp.
Thank you.
Hmm, things like this are starting to make me think I was fortunate to be turned down from military service.
the problem with govt pensions isn’t the military pensions... it’s all the govt employees with 6-figure salaries that retire after 15 yrs to 6-figure pensions (a CA lifeguard w/ $200k pension comes to mind)... only to grab another gig and start building another.
of course, when budget cuts come... the very first place the big govt type aim at is military and military pensios
Thank you for your service.
I have even more contempt for the gangsters in DC.
If that were possible.
Very good essay!
First, the pace of operations the past twelve years has been ridiculous. The size of the force that would be necessary to maintain the kind of expeditionary forces we have fielded would be three to five times the size of our military. The planners anticipated the need we have had, and decided to squeeze the regular, reserve and guard units, instead of put the actual cost of the wars to the Congress.
But, if we can think of the military experience apart from the strain imposed by the recent pace of operations, its a good deal, albeit with pluses and minuses. The writer dwells on the negatives. But, what about not having to contribute to the cost of your health insurance or to your pension plan, like us PFCs; and, being able to retire after twenty years? The proof that, everything considered, it’s a good deal is to be found in recruitment and retention.
Now, with regard to promotion, the military has its reasons for recruiting more junior officers than it will probably need as senior officers down the road ten to twenty to thirty years. A consequence of this is that there normally is an “up or out” policy. What is unfair about this “up or out” policy is that if you’re forced out, you lose what would have been your equity in your retirement plan. Over in the private sector, companies have to fund their pensions and the pension vests to the employee. But, in federal service, you have an unfunded pension that just goes away if you’re in for, say, twelve years and then forced out. This can and should be addressed.
Another item that can and should be addressed is allowing those retirees and others who qualify for medical care, to receive a voucher for private health insurance so they’re not tethered to certain medical facilities. I realize many vets prefer their VA medical facilities to dealing with the private sector for health care, so I wouldn’t just make a 100 percent conversion. But, I would develop an option for those currently in the system.
I only have two words: Thank you!
When they start taking down crosses and nativity scenes, and letting homosexuals in, and putting women on the frontline, its time to just stop your kids signing up.
If there was a draft tomorrow, what would you do? Make sure your kid was hidden, or let him go to war for a TOTUS who lives by the codes of Lenin, to get shot and killed because his overwatch was applying lipstick, then have him buried in some dank little grave site with a totally 100% secular obelisk that just bears a number rather than a name?
That’s the future.
Thank you for the service by the way. Though I guess right now you must wonder why you bothered. America has declined faster than anyone predicted. I mean... Obama... president?
Tell the government they’d better start recruiting illegal aliens as no one else capable of critical thought would fight or die for the corrupt controlling ruling class in D.C.