Posted on 01/27/2024 7:50:17 AM PST by nuconvert
Today, we see risk-averse leadership despite enormous adversarial pressures on military forces deployed overseas. Constant attacks on U.S. military forces and locations in the Middle East go virtually unanswered. Domestically, we see the rise not of war-fighting but of the primacy of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology that, despite the words, tends to cut at the fabric of military service.
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We need leaders and commanders who understand the primacy of the mission. The mission is to deter and, if deterrence fails, to fight and win our nation’s wars. They must have a warrior personality that understands why men and women will fight and, if necessary, die for this nation.
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Purge the military of all DEI / WOKE / CRT / Racist crap and get back to the mission. End the pursuit of young white males as “extremists.” Apologize to young white males for accusing them of being extremists and domestic terrorists. Make it clear to young white men and their families that that are welcome in the military and can advanced through merit, not skin color. Discharge all the perverts. Replace all the woke top brass that seeks woke positions at the defense contractors after they retire.
Only then can we have a powerful military.
Great accomplishment?
Seriously — what are we planning? Are we going to conquer Canada? Going to invade Europe so we can defeat the Bolshevik scourge coming out of Russia?
If you want to defend America (and this is the only thing we should think about) you need about 400 million firearms (go ahead and check that box) and you need some submarines that can nuke other continents (check that box too).
You don’t need much more than that. We need to drop the Neocon BS and stop any thinking that we need to travel abroad and save the world from God knows what. We just don’t.
Why are we being attacked? Are we in sovereign countries with our military, like Iraq and Syria, or in proxy wars like Ukraine and Israel (with Yemen and Taiwan in the immediate horizon)?
Our record on that front is one disaster after another (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.).
We don't need to spill one more ounce of blood over somebody else's problems. Our government's responsibility is to protect the US - not the world. And they are doing a horrible job of that! Protecting the world days are over. That's so 20th century.
It's over. Done! Take care of our own.
> Purge the military of all DEI / WOKE / CRT / Racist crap and get back to the mission. <
Absolutely correct. But the only chance of that happening is after a Pearl Harbor type event. Even then, there’d only be a chance.
FDR squared away the country after Pearl Harbor. He put the right people in the right jobs (George Marshall, Chester Nimitz, etc.). One reason FDR was successful is that he had the media and Congress behind him.
Let’s say Trump gets back in. He won’t have the media and Congress behind him. Yet Trump is the country’s best hope. Maybe the only hope.
He won’t have the media, Congress OR THE DEEP STATE behind him. His tasks will make Hercules’ Fifth Labor cleaning the Augean Stables seem simple.
Those stables had not been cleaned in over thirty years, and 3,000 cattle lived there. However, Hercules succeeded by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash out the filth.
We need Trump to reroute the Potomac to wash the filth out of DC.
An an example:
Lt. Col. Bree Fram, transsexual Biden administration "leader"
"...revolutionize the way we fight in space we fight in cyber just happens to be in a trans body you should want them all serving alongside me and for your organizations...."
This is going to be really hard to fix.
It will take courage.
Moral courage.
And that has been lacking for a long time.
Everyone wants to be a general or an admiral and they sell their moral courage to get there.
The first step to fix the military is to get rid of the Democrat party.
The Democrat party demands allegiance to it ahead of the nation and the nation’s military cannot be subjected to that kind of confusion.
The Bolshevik scourge is coming from the USA these days. The former Soviet Union wants nothing to do with totalitarian “Communism”.
The US on the other hand is racing towards it full speed with no brakes apparently.
“The Democrat party demands allegiance to it ahead of the nation and the nation’s military cannot be subjected to that kind of confusion”
BUMP !
EXACTLY-—WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING TO RECRUIT BRAIN SURGEONS—YOU DO NOT SEARCH IN THE JANITOR RANKS.
There is a concern that gets zero attention.
Deaths by US military in combat are called training accidents and maybe announced as being from somewhere across the world.
The officers involved are told the enemy must not know of their success. We must not do their damage assessment for them. So we will call this a training accident.
The families will never know. We will never know.
Believe nothing.
It can’t be fixed anymore. The military has been filled with Wolk, Trannies, homosexuality, lesbians, atheists and Marxists. And even if you were somehow able to magically purge all of them, the pool of American kids that you draw from has been hopelessly destroyed by the same forces in the education system. The military that used to be loved and respected in America is gone, and it can’t be brought back.
The military is really going to go to **** once the union thugs start “organizing” it in the coming year.
There's your problem right there.
A large portion of it, yes.
The ERA failed ratification primarily because the vast majority of women didn't want to be included in a potential future draft.
However, without any formal debate or policy discussion, women somehow magically ended up in combat units.
There are even those among conservatives who believe that most of the women who volunteer to be in combat units are most likely dykes who would be good killing machines. I doubt that is true.
I remember back when "The Love Boat" was a thing where women in the Navy who joined for free college or something, got themselves knocked up in order to avoid going to war in the Middle East. Some fighting machine!
Some female history in the military.
Public Law 90-130, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 8, 1967, removed promotion and retirement restrictions on women officers in the armed forces. Thereafter, it was possible for more than one woman in each service to hold the rank of colonel and for women to achieve general (or flag) officer rank.
Just two years later, President Richard M. Nixon selected two women for promotion to brigadier general: Col. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, and Col. Elizabeth P. Hoisington, director of the Women’s Army Corps. These promotions were done simultaneously on June 11, 1970, in recognition of their equal importance.
PL 90-130 also eliminated the two percent limitation on WAC numbers – permitting WACs to serve in the Army National Guard. At this point, only prior-service women were allowed to join, due to the war in Vietnam demanding so much money that none was available to train women for enlisted Guard service.
As the war in Vietnam drew to a close and the Army began transitioning to an all-volunteer force, the role of women in the Army expanded to help fill vacancies before the draft ended in June 1973. In 1971, women with no prior-service experience were permitted to enlist in the National Guard. When estimates for male recruits revealed a looming shortfall in volunteers, Secretary of the Army Robert F. Froehlke approved a major expansion in WAC strength and the opening of all military occupational specialties to women in August 1972, except those that might require combat training or duty. This was the realization that women could be utilized in far greater capacity than ever before. That same year, the ban on women commanding units that included men was lifted.
This time period also marked the beginning of other advancements for women. Army regulations for the first time permitted women to request waivers for retention on active duty if married and pregnant, April 9, 1971. In that same year, the Army chief of staff authorized WACs’ entry into male drill sergeant schools and NCO academy programs.
The advent of the all-volunteer force in 1973 made a large difference in the numbers of women coming into the Army and Reserve components. As a result of recruitment, training and greater opportunities, the total number of WACs in the Army increased from 12,260 in 1972 to 52,900 in 1978.
Women entered the Army Reserve Officers Training Program (ROTC) beginning in September 1972, and the first female ROTC cadets graduated from South Dakota State University on May 1, 1976. Prior to this, the primary source of commissioning was the Junior College Women’s Program.
In 1975, the Army chief of staff approved the consolidation of basic training for men and women when test programs showed that “female graduates met the standards in every area except the Physical Readiness Training Program,” which could be modified without compromising the value of training. By 1977, combined basic training for men and women became policy, and men and women began integrating in the same basic training units on Fort McClellan, Alabama and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in September. Similarly, the first gender-integrated class began with the Military Police One-Station-Unit Training at Fort McClellan on July 8, 1977.
Between 1975 and 1979, many Army rules and regulations concerning women changed and the standards for men and women in the Army began to equalize. The defense secretary directed the elimination of involuntary discharge of military women because of pregnancy and parenthood, June 30, 1975. Mandatory defensive weapons training was initiated for enlisted women and they were authorized to serve the same length of overseas tours as men – increased from 24 months to 36 months for single females. Effective April 1, 1976, the minimum age of enlistment of women was reduced to the same as for men, and by October 1979, all enlistment qualifications became the same for men and women.
Another major advancement for equal standards between men and women in the Army came in October 1975, when President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106 that permitted women to be admitted to all service academies beginning in 1976. In 1980, the first women cadets graduated from U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Since then, women have continued to enter every class there.
https://www.army.mil/women/history/
1922
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
Things have been messed up for a LONG time now..
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