Posted on 04/25/2021 5:13:51 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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I'm now a major in the Marine Corps Reserve and a member of a formerly all-male infantry battalion.* This past weekend we had our monthly drill period. A few days before drill, the command told us that all scheduled training on Sunday morning was canceled and replaced with a "stand-down to address extremism in the ranks."
It was left-wing political programming, as direct as it sounds.
We were instructed that there is a Taliban-like threat in the United States called "domestic terrorism." These terrorists are characterized in part by "anti-government," "anti-authority" or "abortion-related" extremism and various "supremacist" ideas. None of these terms are defined. The Marine Corps entrusts the government's HR department to figure that out.
Reporting requirements are key. Do you suspect someone supports an "extremist ideology?" Alert the chain of command. Have you heard a Marine express "contempt toward officials?" Notify the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Don't handle anything on your own. Just rat them out. After all, "service is a privilege" and it'd be a shame to lose that privilege for failing to do your part to stamp out "extremists." One PowerPoint slide posed this imperative in stark terms: "Do you want to be a Marine or do you want to be part of an organization that sows disunity and hate. You cannot have divided loyalties."
Where did all this come from? Soft liberalism has taken root in the military over several decades. These alarming trends are already well documented in James Hasson's book Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America's Military. But in the wake of President Joe Biden's election—and more precipitously since the January 6 "insurrection"—bureaucratic progressivism has hardened into iron-fisted wokeism.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
The left is the worst about projecting their flaws onto others.
And uh, when will the “Republicans” react to the Defense Secrectary trying to characterize them as the Enemy?
Maybe they’ll have Liz Cheney lead the charge.
Don’t think this kind of stuff would have gone over well in my military of 1969.
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fragging (present participle)
deliberately kill (an unpopular senior officer) with a hand grenade.
Ping
After WWII, we had Generals who grew up playing baseball and football.
Team oriented.
From the 1980s on, we had generals who grew up running cross country.
Self oriented.
I’m surprised to find this published in Newsweek.
Did you do all you could do when the Executive branch and the Senate were literally stolen in a coup this last election?
Did you do anything?
If WWII taught us anything, it should be that it is not enough to simply say, “I was following orders”.
We have our domestic terrorists. They are in the White House.
Last year Newsweek published the only MSM piece I’m aware of that reported the whole truth about George Floyd, so they can surprise on occasion.
ping
I’m surprised to find this published in Newsweek.
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I’ll tell you why. They are happy to out the Major and get his ass kicked out of the Reserves. Let’s hope he doesn’t get court-martialed or get a less than honorable discharge. It’s his last hurrah even though his views are obviously correct. In today’s Fascistic world, such words are blasphemy.
Gee
“Monthly drill period” takes a whole new meaning with women and trannies in the group...
And our congresscritters sit by and watch as the morale of the military, along with our local police, is destroyed by racist ‘critical race theory’. The deliberate demonization of the race that conquered and benefited a world filled with unimaginable psychotic savagery. Glimpses of which we still see in distant lands, and on the streets of our own major cities.
I am definitely anti-authority - better report me asap.
There are place for both
And thats not really the issue
The issue most paramount is
You have officers rising up the ranks that are genuine military men
And then you have officers that are just political animals wearing a uniform
I ztil remember the early 90s sitting in on talks about china and how they were being ignored/underestimated then,
Ping.
The genuine military men were all run off during the Kenyanesian Usurpation Part I.
Apparently, the author has a day job.
“...the Texas Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy.”
me too. but I’ve seen newsweek do honest articles fairly regularly over the last year or two.
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