How 'Social Justice' is Killing the Military

American Thinker ^ | 5 Mar, 2022 | Brent Ramsey and Michael D. Pefley

[MtnClimber]

“Some 41 percent of the military identify as members of minority groups,” the Department of Defense (DoD) reported on Feb. 9, 2021. That number is much higher than the 24 percent of the U.S. population who identify as non-white. “We all bleed RED,” service members say. Years ago, when a commanding general asked for a report on all disciplinary cases by color, a black Chief Master Sergeant from rural Alabama whose parents grew up under actual racism, reported back, “All our soldiers with disciplinary cases are green.”

The least racist people in America are in our military. It is obvious to all who have served, because one’s identity or race is irrelevant when people are trying to kill you and your teammates. No one cares about race when bullets are whizzing past your head.

So why has President Biden declared white supremacy as America’s number one threat? Why has the secretary of Defense created a Counter Extremism Working Group to uncover extremism in the ranks? The actual record of racial/radical incidents is not the reason -- the number of cases is tiny. With 3.1 million in uniform, DoD reports less than 100 annual incidents of “extremism,” without defining extremism. When the DoD spokesman was asked for specifics of extremism, he did not have them. If the government declared that “Trolls” are a threat to the Republic and began an investigation, would we nod our heads and say, “I want to know about Troll Rage” because as a child we learned from fairy tales how vicious trolls can be? Now the fairy tales are about white racism.

Yet, while admitting that 41 percent of the military identified as minorities, the DoD reported that diversity, inclusion and equity were military necessities. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) is the language of Critical Race Theory

[MtnClimber]

[sauropod]

Yep.

[Savage Beast]

'Social Justice' is Killing the Military...

AND EMBOLDENING AMERICA'S ENEMIES!

[joma89]

That title sentence should be past tense not current tense.

[MSF BU]

Which is interesting because the last time I read anything about it 88% of the casualties in the War on Terror were white males. Why the discrepancy?

[Chainmail]

Anyone who has spent more than an hour in uniform knows that there are three pillars of combat effectiveness: competency, cohesion, and trust. Competency involves knowing your job very, very well - whether you are a rifleman or a sonar operator or a flightline mechanic. Cohesion is what gives us teams; teams made up of young people who each know will do their job and if you are yourself injured or in grave danger, you know will come to get you or die trying. Trust can only exist if you have the first two and it is critical to combat or any dangerous operations. You have to know that your leaders are devoted to you, that they know who you are and value you. Trust is knowing that if the first few levels of command are killed or disabled, you will continue the fight well.

These current fads are just that and contradict centuries of experience in preparing young men for war. Direct, infantry, face-to-face combat cannot involve the distractions of sexual couplings, or identified ethnic groups, or covering for weakness and failure points to make some artificial quota.

There is only one point to organizing and training for combat: to kill or convince the enemy to quit and to try to get as many of your own people home as possible.

[Graybeard58]

Well said.

[bk1000]

With all the genders, deviant letters and various ethnicities, “minorities” are certainly in the majority now. When do we get to tell them to pound sand?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Savage Beast]

'Social Justice' killed the Military...

AND EMBOLDED AMERICA'S ENEMIES!

IT WILL KILL THE ENTIRE USA!