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Gallup Poll: Faith In America’s Military Plummets To Lowest Level In More Than 20 Years
The Federalist ^ | 08/01/2023 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 08/01/2023 9:49:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/01/2023 9:49:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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General-Milley


2 posted on 08/01/2023 9:51:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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What happened 20 years ago, I wonder?


3 posted on 08/01/2023 9:51:41 AM PDT by fwdude
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Putting some womyn with a degree in journalism as head of the U.S. Navy tends to do stuff like this.


4 posted on 08/01/2023 9:52:30 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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So much for the popularity of homos in the military. This lessened support surely affects military readiness.


5 posted on 08/01/2023 9:53:18 AM PDT by fwdude
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One thing that is a fact is that many in the military are now vendor managers for vendors that do the work. Yesterday’s military took over operations and maintenance from the vendors once a system was delivered, but now vendors have lucrative contracts for maintenance and often operations. That is a BIG difference from a readiness standpoint. In war, you cannot force a vendor to take the job, but you can keep uniformed personnel on the job. Technology initially forces skilled vendors to do certain jobs, but that was decades ago.


6 posted on 08/01/2023 9:54:21 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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As planned.


7 posted on 08/01/2023 9:56:20 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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All it thinks about now is Sex , War what’s that


8 posted on 08/01/2023 9:56:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Has that pathetic little bitch ever even been directly in combat? No, he hasn’t.


9 posted on 08/01/2023 9:57:33 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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Everything is plummeting under Joe Biden’s Banana Republic.


10 posted on 08/01/2023 9:58:33 AM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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Throughout history, every pre-war military seems to be a reflection and amplification of the politics, ideology and the government bureaucracy it exists under.

It often leads to disaster at the start of new wars.

I imagine ours will be no different.


11 posted on 08/01/2023 9:59:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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There is an old story about a trainload of Russian military officers on their way to Siberia Gulags the very day that Hitler's armies invaded in June 1941 and Stalin's politicized military leadership showed their abject ineptness.

The train had to be turned around and sent back for that national emergency.

12 posted on 08/01/2023 10:15:56 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Historically, as we began each war...we were always in terrible shape...until after WW II. For various reasons...they continued to pump tremendous amounts of money into the Pentagon, and kept them fully operational through the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and up to this point.

I think with the recruiting going south, within six years...they won’t be able to maintain all the fighters/bombers, naval ships/subs, or Corps. There’s some serious amount of funding cuts coming by 2030, and probably thirty major military installations to be cut because you don’t have the manpower. Same story for reductions in Pacific and Europe....those cuts are coming probably prior to 2030.


13 posted on 08/01/2023 10:36:19 AM PDT by pepsionice
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It seems the last time there was such a lack of confidence was when Clinton was in office. I suppose I was alarmed at that time to a certain extent, but nothing like today. I do recall that thinking my children were born into a world after the Cold War and that was quite a relief. My worries back then were purely of the strength begets peace variety, and given Clinton never served a day, he was making America weaker.

Biden simply eff’s up everything he touches. It only took eight months into his presidency to prove that he did could radically misuse the military. Now he simply gives away weapons and munitions making us weaker each and every month. That has nothing to do with all the fags, trans and woke running things at the Pentagon.

14 posted on 08/01/2023 10:45:58 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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If you don’t believe in the government why believe in the military?


15 posted on 08/01/2023 11:43:35 AM PDT by poinq
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Flagrantly homosexual men and Trannies are filling up the military with undeployables. They spend most of their time getting treatment for their physical infirmities in the hospital and infirmary. Women noon clericals tend to get pregnant and are also undeployable for longish periods of time. The insistence on antiwhite discrimination in promotions has put many less competent officers and noncoms in operational positions. We have a military that now depends on a few video game wizards to fly the drones and a few skilled pilots to fly the low number of planes that are flyable and sailors to serve on the ships that are still operational. This is the military we will go to war with When China decides that we are so low on ammunition and tanks and such (Ukraine attrition) that we have no more than a few hours of response available.


16 posted on 08/01/2023 12:26:37 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe efefvoc)
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Flagrantly homosexual men and Trannies are filling up the military with undeployables. They spend most of their time getting treatment for their physical infirmities in the hospital and infirmary. Women noon clericals tend to get pregnant and are also undeployable for longish periods of time. The insistence on antiwhite discrimination in promotions has put many less competent officers and noncoms in operational positions. We have a military that now depends on a few video game wizards to fly the drones and a few skilled pilots to fly the low number of planes that are flyable and sailors to serve on the ships that are still operational. This is the military we will go to war with When China decides that we are so low on ammunition and tanks and such (Ukraine attrition) that we have no more than a few hours of response available.


17 posted on 08/01/2023 12:27:07 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe efefvoc)
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All good points.

Regarding recruiting slump, which is a major factor in faith in the military, most men don’t want to be under the command of a leftist CO, who would have daggers for any even mildly conservative enlistee. Plus, homosexual CO’s have essentially a free hand at ogling or molesting young men entering the service.


18 posted on 08/01/2023 12:32:10 PM PDT by fwdude
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Throughout our own history, at least since Truman Democrat presidents have purged the military of combat experienced officers. All leftists Liberal to Communist through history have feared the military and taken steps to emasculate it and put it in a corner and they are still looking over their shoulders at it. That syndrome reached a peak with Red Obama and the Biden politburo who purged the officer corps, the noncoms and down to recruits, looking for operational incompetence and ideological purity or at least political vacuity.


19 posted on 08/01/2023 12:34:26 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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They are already not maintaining the mechanical portions of the services. One third of missile subs are operational at any one time and maybe half of combat aircraft and surface ships. We have not modernized our ICBM force nor tested systems for a long time. We are rapidly becoming an ineffective deterrent.


20 posted on 08/01/2023 12:38:09 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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