Posted on 08/09/2021 3:43:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you’re aiming that comment at the generals, they never retire, certainly not in 20 years.
If you’re aiming it at me, I only served 8 years.
What was your score on the rifle range? You need more practice 🙄
Come to think of it you could be right.
After reading many of the comments, I have one thought...that the restoration process needs to start at the top. That would mean prosecution for treason at the hands of much of the leadership, even if it means the president & all leadership under him on down. That’s where we would start.
Yes, we live in a kleptocracy which includes our military leaders.
There is no honor anymore.....only thieves.
The kleptocracy has been so successful that many of those we send to DC to stop it have been co-opted into the kleptocracy.
Trump could not be co-opted because he already had wealth. Everyone else wants more wealth and the kleptocracy is the easies road to that wealth.
Another great read on the military, and I recommend that all follow the link at the end to hear Gen. Robert Barrow’s remarks in Senate testimony, even though parts of it appear in the article its self.
Polticians in Camo.
“Too late now. Fags in the streets. Legal drugs and million of addicts. Entire cities being destroyed.”
It’s never “the end” unless you give up. I don’t know how old you are but I remember the Newark NJ riots and the LA riots and they were also the “end of our country”.
The creeps causing the problems are in a huge minority and already there have been (mostly un publicized ) occasions where the thugs have been engaged and beaten.
We are moving towards a conflict of competing ideologies and I believe once the resistance to the thugs takes hold as I see it beginning to do it will accelerate and grow.
Right now what is important is to resist as we see so many beginning to do. Even Rand Paul is calling for it and he has a very big voice.
Everyone needs to do what they can and that doesn’t mean taking up arms and baseball bats etc.
Air conditioning is where it started....honestly
Average fire support base in Vietnam have AC?
Nope
I grew up south central Mississippi
Average summer temp 95-100
Humidity around 70% to max...about like Parris Island ...maybe even warmer no breeze
I first had air conditioning in nearly 1973 when I was 15.5 years of age
I’m living in central TN without air downstairs now for two weeks plus due to a dearth of parts these days....
17-18 year olds can handle no air ....attic fans are reasonable
“Everyone else wants more wealth and the kleptocracy is the easies road to that wealth.”
Can’t argue with that. Seeking wealth thru kleptocracy is also the road to slovenly physical fitness, mental atrophy, slow-witted organizational acumen and degenerative, chronic disease.
Don’t believe me? Take a walk thru any federal bureaucracy and look at the low-IQ, fat, potato chip eating, pop-guzzling squishes squatting at their desks.
And wear a mask to avoid infection.
A nation of lions led by homosexual sheep.
The Air Force had air conditioning in their O club at Danang. Cold milk, too.
Maybe that’s why we hung out there. Plus, it was fun when the F-4 crews would come back and ring the bell; they’d just bagged another MIG up north.
I was born at Seymour Johnson in 57
There tuscon and San Antonio and Greenville miss
Officers married housing
I doubt there was AC then except selected places
My folks bedroom had AC
I had attic fan
It wasn’t horrible honestly
I lived outside all day like we did then
The “woke” USMC never recovered after The Ribbon Creek incident occurred on the night of April 8, 1956. It’s all been downhill from then and it is never going to return to what it was.
USMC ‘55 to ‘60.
Oh, I don’t know - we did quite well fighting in Vietnam. The enemy learned to avoid fighting us head-to-head throughout our war.
I believe that real drop in the value of the Corps came when we were forced to violate our own standards in the 80’s.
Your point is well taken but, I saw what happen to the DI’s while in boot camp during this and witnessed the DI’s difference in “attitude” as this issue was being discussed. These opinions change for many reasons. All can be part of the changes we see.
Sempre Fi and thanks for your service.
Wow. Sad.
The old saying about the frog and the boiling water certainly seems to apply here.
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