Posted on 04/26/2016 11:58:04 PM PDT by pboyington
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Elaborate article with fancy vocabulary items, the essence of which is that obama has f***ed up the military in the same way he’s f***ed up everything else.
It’s sad that the military, like our entire govt has gone along with the skinny ass, black muslim marxist in order to destroy America from the inside out.
Powerful stuff
8 years ago I would not have believed the liberal progressive movement could destroy our military.
But there you have it
Great article! Thanks for posting!
I served three years in the US Army 67-70.It was a mess then. I believe the decline has accelerated steadily over the past fifty years. It is a disgraceful and an embarrassment for the our country to have allowed this to happen. This is progress? There will be conscription again in this country. It is just a matter of time.
Writing such an article would get a member of the military severely disciplined or fired.
I found this article to be long on complaints, short on specifics. From my perspective, there is not much difference in the day-to-day Army between now and when President Bush was still CinC. I do not expect to see a lot of difference when President Trump is sworn in. While allowing gays to openly join the military is not the best idea in the world, it also did not create a flood of gay enlistees or commissions. That's because people with certain attitudes and beliefs tend to join the military--and one does not find many military-minded people among the gay population. And so on.
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I served in the US Army in the late 70’s and then most of the 80’s, and there were a significant number of gays and lesbians serving at that time. I doubt it has changed. A knew a couple of Female, Lesbian, NCO’s who where the best leaders in the units. And I had a gay leader who I would have died for and he would have done the same for me. Nobody gave a shit what he did on his weekends cause he kept his personal life and work separate
A very plain-spoken article and I can’t find fault with any point made. The best, most apt comparison is with the post-Vietnam Army where the leadership pulled the fat out of the fire, preserved the core of the organization while Reagan arrived to regenerate the US military to the force that overcame Saddam in the First Gulf War.
I can’t recall author and am paraphrasing: Military officers willingly take enormous risks with their lives but not their careers.
It ain’t just today’s army. The stage was set by 40 or more years of PC, which involved listening to lies, mouthing lies, saluting lies and enforcing lies. Today is the Coda, it is NOT the Overture.
Patton’s career was deeply hampered by non-pc actions and statements. What saved us was combat, the place where bad officers eventually get replaced after getting a lot of good men killed. There’s hope. We just haven’t gotten enough killed under our chief commander yet.
That’s why he says to use a pen name, and write and submit the article from some anonymous internet cafe. Granted that it is harder now to do such a thing anonymously, but it is still possible.
Well written discussion - and unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg.
This is not an example of cognitive dissonance. The rules against active duty personnel speaking out publicly against the civilian leadership of the military are very clear, and I am certain that they are enforced in draconian fashion under lord obama.
The article is a bit simple-minded, I think, but raises a number of valid points nonetheless. It would be very interesting to compare and contrast the politics and backgrounds of former and current senior commanders of the Army. Are there ANY mavericks like Patton or even Schwartzkopf left in the lieutenant general and general ranks?
A similar study of senior NCO leadership would be instructive, as well - but may have to focus more on ethnicities and perhaps religion. One has to wonder how many adherents of islam have been promoted above their level of competence.
JMO, naturally.
Came in handy during several assignments, particularly one where I was the XO of a support detachment on a German firing range in Northern Germany (Todendorf). We were the only Americans for 200 miles, and I was in charge roughly 2/3 of the time. My CO was enduring marital difficulties that were exacerbated by being 400 miles from home station.
Wasn't that big a deal for me, my NCOs were excellent, and my soldiers all did a fantastic job for me. They were smart enough to understand that if we pulled together, four day work weeks would be the norm.
Your comments and experiences are interesting, because homosexuality and transgenderism for the last 2000 years have been considered dangerous mental illnesses (until recent). Militaries around the globe had real and factual data showing that people given over to sodomy were high risk, not only to themselves, but especially to their comrades in arms. It has only been this political correctness insanity, bereft of truth and data, that has driven the acceptance of these aberrant and dangerous behaviors.
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