1 posted on
03/28/2016 4:50:54 PM PDT by
Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
Is there anyone listening?
2 posted on
03/28/2016 4:52:34 PM PDT by
longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)
To: Pan_Yan
Now let’s see, I recall one presidential candidate has been saying this repeatedly - oh yes, Donald Trump.
3 posted on
03/28/2016 4:52:36 PM PDT by
Rennes Templar
(President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
To: Pan_Yan
But at least our military is far more sensitive and GLBT tolerant than ever before and isn’t that the most important thing here?
4 posted on
03/28/2016 4:55:28 PM PDT by
MeganC
(The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
To: Pan_Yan
What concerns me is the sheer amount of equipment worn out, destroyed, 'donated', captured from donees, and the spares consumed keeping the remaining equipment going.
How many hours can you put on an airframe? How many miles of desert road or bush can a chassis (tracked or wheeled) withstand?
And then there is the wear and tear on the troops.
Reductions in force size (especially naval) are a concern, and then there is the ever present spectre of social experimentation and its dangers to combat readiness, from the lowest recruit to the JCS.
5 posted on
03/28/2016 4:55:33 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Pan_Yan
With the Secretary of the Navy the limp wristed Ray Mabus, it is no wonder the Marines and Navy are suffering efficiency. In order to be promoted to the top of these services one has to be pro female or gay with Mabus at the helm.
To: Pan_Yan
Have everyone in the military claim to be a fake pig farmer.
That’s worth $50,000 each.
7 posted on
03/28/2016 4:57:23 PM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Pan_Yan
A large majority of people in the US have been led to believe we don't need much in the way of a military. Good luck convincing them otherwise. It will likely take an event, like North Korea launching towards the US, before the citizens *might* sit up and take notice.
OTOH, if it doesn't impact their favorite reality TV show or their latest electronic gadget or their paycheck and benefits from the US government, they still won't care.
8 posted on
03/28/2016 4:58:40 PM PDT by
CatOwner
(Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
To: Pan_Yan
![](http://images.military.com/media/news/service/rotc-heels1-600.jpg)
Gender sensitization training for Univ-level ROTC.
9 posted on
03/28/2016 4:59:45 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: Pan_Yan
11 posted on
03/28/2016 5:01:24 PM PDT by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Pan_Yan
Yeah but, the military industrial complex is fat and happy.
13 posted on
03/28/2016 5:03:33 PM PDT by
VTenigma
(The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Pan_Yan
In other words, because soldiers are not adequately prepared, the U.S. Army would be late to arrive to a conflict
Can you say,"Benghazi?"
14 posted on
03/28/2016 5:09:17 PM PDT by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Pan_Yan
What % of US service women are pregnant right now?
16 posted on
03/28/2016 5:15:38 PM PDT by
corkoman
To: Pan_Yan
Let’s hope we don’t have to fight one of these emerging countries.
17 posted on
03/28/2016 5:16:50 PM PDT by
22202NOVA
(Our System of Government: Duh. Mock. Crazy.)
To: Pan_Yan
I fear we are losing the institutional memory of having faced enemies that are capable of defeating us on the battlefield. We have not faced such an enemy since the summer/winter of 1950 on the Korean Peninsula. The names of Task Force Smith, the 1st Battles of Taejon and Seoul, the Pusan perimeter the ambush of the 2nd Infantry Division at Kunu-Ri the destruction of Task Force Faith and the 80 mile withdrawal from the Chosen Resovoir seem but distant memories. The cultural marxists now in charge of the Obama administration are indulging in the sort of social experimentation SURE to result in defeat or serious setback against an enemy capable of projecting the sort of battle field power that would lead to the battlefield reverses that the US Armed Forces suffered at Kasserine Pass, the opening phases of the Ardennnes Offensive, the Hurtegen Forest, the Rapido River, the US Strategic Bombing Campaign, the 1st Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, (Savo Island) or the Rangers at Cisterna in Italy. Over a decade of facing an enemy that is only capable of terrorist/guerilla warfare that can be largely countered by elite specops units has us fighting the last war, and would not be suitable against any enemy capable of projecting real battlefield conventional power.
Only a feckless, unserious nation that is oblivious about facing an enemy capable of inflicting these sorts of battle field defeats would contemplate such a disastrous notion as placing women into the first team of ground combat units whose task is to close with, engage and destroy similar enemy units. Sheer and utter madness!!!!
19 posted on
03/28/2016 5:36:27 PM PDT by
DMZFrank
To: Pan_Yan
I know people in the military so it is not worse than I think.
It is worse than the people who believe the MSM think.
To: Pan_Yan
25 years ago I got into a heated argument with a female Captain in the USAF that was flying one of the AWACS. I told her IMO it was folly for the military to do away with the requirement for horsemanship for some officers. She told me that with the modern military that horses were obsolete and we will never need them again. Fast forward to Afghanistan. The terrain and weather was so foul that it made the AWACS useless and the FAC’s and Special Forces had to use horses to negotiate the terrain and direct fire for combat air cover and artillery. The female was arrogant and ignorant and short sighted. This is what is now the upper echelon of our military. I hope we don't get into a war with a well supplied and organized enemy that doesn't cater to the homosexuals and females that weaken a military command.
To: Pan_Yan
Not as bad as it was in 1939.
23 posted on
03/28/2016 6:27:19 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Pan_Yan
Not a peep about this from Cruz or Rubio, both are sitting Senators.
Only Trump has commented on the shape of the military and that he’d do what it takes to support them and set things right.
29 posted on
03/28/2016 7:07:52 PM PDT by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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