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1 posted on 07/05/2022 8:41:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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I was there at America's pinnacle, present temporally and physically, right at the very peak of American power. But I did not know it then. In fact, it would not become clear to me until decades later. On February 24, 1991, I was a few miles west of Hafar al Batin in the Saudi Arabian desert along Tapline Road, at the main command post of the mighty VII Corps with my chemical decontamination platoon …. When President Bush declared the ground war over on February 27, 1991, after about one hundred hours, I did not understand what it meant except in terms of my approximately 20-man unit. We knew we had won—the vaunted Republican Guard, with its Soviet gear, had been swept away by the unstoppable power of the VII Corps's American tanks and the attached Brit armored division. Not just swept away—annihilated, defeated utterly and completely, so decisively that our potential opponents around the world watched in stunned horror as it dawned on them what America could do. It could do any damn thing it wanted.
2 posted on 07/05/2022 8:43:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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Who wants to fight for the POS running our country today? Not patriotic AmeriCANS!

We don’t give up our blood for communists!


3 posted on 07/05/2022 8:45:30 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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The military has traditionally been majorly comprised of white heterosexual men.

Since the leaders now want gay, trans and people of color and are biased toward normal white men obviously recruitment would be down.


4 posted on 07/05/2022 8:47:13 AM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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...the key to revitalizing our military is electing a president who will confront the Pentagon with a whip and a chair. The joint chiefs? Fired. The heads of the military schools and war colleges? Fired. Everyone in a slot with a title that includes the word "diversity," "inclusion," or "equity?" Fired if a civilian, transferred to a real job if not.
5 posted on 07/05/2022 8:47:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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DIE must Dee - Eye - Eee.
6 posted on 07/05/2022 8:47:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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What young person would want to be under the anti-American biden ? Maybe the young are more intelligent than are being given credit ?


7 posted on 07/05/2022 8:48:15 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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Who wants to work in a "woke" military where courageous and daring men are denigrated and made to feel inferior, plus being disciplined for all sorts of "thoughtcrime" cooked up by the leftist cadres that have spread throughout the force.

My son, who wanted more than anything else in the world to be a Marine, has left the service after 4 tours (including two in Afghanistan).

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” —C.S. Lewis

8 posted on 07/05/2022 8:49:33 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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Soon you’ll see ads for only Gay or Bisexuals


9 posted on 07/05/2022 8:51:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Bring back the draft and start with the Snowflakes.


10 posted on 07/05/2022 8:52:41 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Canon fodder is crossing the southern border in record number.
11 posted on 07/05/2022 8:52:57 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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good ol Ft. Irwin /s


14 posted on 07/05/2022 8:55:49 AM PDT by mylife (when Jesus Christ superstar was crucified the Beatles were still making noise....)
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When Obama was elected, did that mean the whole country was Leftist?

Of course not.

This is also true with the military. The silent majority are NOT woke. They’ll still fight fo us.

I joined up post draft after the Civil Rights struggle and fully accepted blacks in the military—they were my brothers and any crazy enough to join up like me were accepted.

My grandparents thought integrating blacks into the US Military would destroy it. I’m from Alabama. They could not accept blacks as their equals. It was common thought back then, say up through the 1960s, that whites were the superior race. Us younger boomers didn’t think so, and believed we’re all the HUMAN race and the ideals that Doctor King articulated.

Today’s average teen just accepts gays the same way. Doesn’t mean they’re gay, they’re just more accepting of them and don’t really give a hoot about who they date.

Us boomers should remember that.

Every generation is going to be different, but there are still a hell of a lot of young patriots out there.


16 posted on 07/05/2022 8:57:45 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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I have advised my grandsons against joining the military. The woke BS is not my major concern. Having watched the very best young men America can produce wasted in the Middle East for twenty years for nothing, drives my concerns. If anyone but Donald Trump is elected in ‘24 these young men will once again be fed into a globalist or another neocon meat grinder to advance their anti MAGA designs. Of course, the regime is doing everything possible to blunder these young men to their doom right now. I certainly don’t won’t to see my grandson bleed for international trans rights, climate change or spreading American “democracy” around the world out of the barrel of an Abrams tank.


17 posted on 07/05/2022 8:58:22 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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we have the worst military leadership in American history, starting right at the top with a commander-in-chief who is less like Ike than Beavis.


18 posted on 07/05/2022 8:58:23 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Hi.

I’m thinking of an addition to my bucket list.

Make a copy of my DD form 214, go to the White House and burn it at the front lawn fence.

5.56mm


19 posted on 07/05/2022 8:59:17 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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Is ‘the draft’ making a comeback or perhaps a crime crackdown in the big cities with ‘military service’ sentences for the offenders?

The Fakeservative Republicans and Fakegressive Democrats who support the Uniparty policy of policing the world in places like Ukraine right now have to be considering options to find new cannon fodder.


22 posted on 07/05/2022 9:01:33 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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There are only bad leaders, and we have the worst military leadership in American history, starting right at the top with a commander-in-chief who is less like Ike than Beavis.

That's your money quote. Referencing the great novel Once an Eagle, the Courtney Massengales have run off the Sam Damons. I aspired to be Sam, but didn't come close. I served with quite a few excellent staff officers, but never should have been allowed near soldiers.

Was I a great leader? Hardly, I thought of myself glowingly as an average officer. I knew how to "play the game" during evaluations.

The only battery-level ARTEP (tac eval) I participated in was close to an unmitigated disaster. From missed mission times to incorrectly encoded coordinates for another mission, a defeatist attitude permeated the leadership of my battery.

I just got angry, and loudly delivered a counter to that defeatist attitude. My message was: it's not over, not if you do what I tell you to do tomorrow morning. If you don't I will tell each one of our soldiers that we failed as leaders, it wasn't on them.

Little did I know that the Chief Evaluator was standing outside our CP, and heard everything...lol. When he saw me, he simply said, "that was beautiful, LT". We passed, barely. It earned me the worst efficiency report of my career, though the Group Commander repudiated the rating from my Battery and Battalion.

What they didn't know was a military career was never expected, nor desired. I had a 4 year active duty commitment that turned into 8.

Apologies for the length...anyone who served in the military knows exactly what Kurt was saying.

24 posted on 07/05/2022 9:02:31 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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Perhaps there is less enthusiasm for fighting in the military establishment of the sole superpower charged with enforcing collections for the globalist financiers?


26 posted on 07/05/2022 9:05:07 AM PDT by FarCenter
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Why would anyone want to fight and die for the NWO, the imposition of another level of Global matriarchy and the LGBTQ+ culture?


27 posted on 07/05/2022 9:05:29 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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Who wants to potentially get blown up so some 3rd world hell hole will allow gay marriage ? Frankly it’s a good thing that we have less people signing up for the military , maybe it will make our NeoCon politicians think twice before committing Americans to another war


28 posted on 07/05/2022 9:05:40 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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