So you’d rather have the good ones sit it out and leave it to the weak ones you’re complaining about? Good strategy.
“So you’d rather have the good ones sit it out and leave it to the weak ones you’re complaining about? Good strategy.”
In this political correct environment that we’re in, who do you think has the power? What do you think will happen to you if you express a totally normal opinion about a homosexual or woman getting special treatment? What does an 18 year male do when his homosexual company commander propositions him in boot camp? How do you handle working for someone not qualified for the position but promoted due to political correctness (I’ve got the t shirt for that one)? No thanks.
I have to agree with Suthener on this. I retired in 1995, but have kept working on-post in the legal field. The liberal, feminist, pro-homosexual atmosphere is simply poisonous. Spending days away from field/mission training to receive "training" in how to be accepting of homosexuals and their lifestyle, sexual harassment training, equal opportunity training ... all aligned to enforce the idea that straight men, and particularly straight white men, are not to be trusted, not to be believed, not to be worth anything.
It doesn't matter whether you're a newbie E-2 or within a week of retirement after 20 years: your future depends on how the Command is looking at the "flavor of the week" with respect to diversity, sex/gender, or race attitudes and how it will affect the commanders or play in the press.
For the last couple of years, I have been discouraging friends' children from going into the military, any Service. It's just too dangerous to risk your future against the threat of not being politically correct or having to stare down the threat of a court-martial for innocent situations arising from those types of interactions.