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Our Military’s SJW-Driven Abandonment of Warfighting Is Going to Get Troops Killed
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 02/18/2021 3:19:46 AM PST by Kaslin

It gives me no pleasure to say that I no longer recommend that young people join the military, and I’m not alone. The non-Blue Falcon veteran community is in full revolt against the conscious decision to decline embraced by our current military leadership. After failing to win a war in the last 20 years – and don’t say Syria, because the second President * woke up in the Oval Office wondering how he got there, more of our troops were heading back into the hellscape for reasons no one has bothered to articulate – the military has decided to target an easier enemy, i.e., other Americans.

See, the problem with me and the other vets who are disgusted by the brass’s choice to focus on SJW priorities instead of, you know, successfully deterring or defeating America’s enemies, is that we actually listened to what we were taught when we were coming up. Most of us were trained by the heroes who put the shattered American military together after the Democrat war in Vietnam broke it. We learned about leadership, about putting mission first but taking care of people always, and about objectives and how to attain them.

None of that’s a thing anymore.

So, count us out from complicity with the degeneration of our proud institution into a giant gender studies struggle session. And that’s a big deal. Do you know where the military gets a huge chunk on its recruits? Legacies. These are young troops who want to be like their father or grandfather or big brother or neighbor or other role model. I was the third-generation commissioned officer in my family, on both sides. Guess what? Right now, if one of my kids goes in, it’s against my advice. And again, I am not alone. I hear this over and over and over from other vets. And it makes me furious.

Congratulations, Pentagon. This is all on you. 

You put two divisions behind wire in D.C. to protect against phantom insurrections by guys who dress like Vikings. And then you can’t even feed the troops, or house them. Gosh, if only there was a great big five-sided building full of generals just a couple miles away to square that idiocy away.

Oh, wait, there is.

And now, though we have not won a war in two decades, our military has plenty of time to stop training and focus on purging the ranks of people who like the politicians the current administration opposes. I eagerly await the introduction to the new 69D MOS – political officer. A zampolit for every battalion – hell, why not every company?

And don’t patronize us with baloney about how this is just about rooting out all those secret “extremists” lurking in the ranks – that’s right up there with sending the new second louie down to the supply room to retrieve a box of grid squares. How about you stop trying to expel these mystery “extremists” and start firing the incompetents all around you?

Sadly, this trickle-down SJW foolishness is reaching what used to be the pointy end of the spear. Generals and colonels adopt it because if they don’t, they’ll get tossed out – if you invest three decades in the green machine, it must be awfully tempting to hold your tongue to nail down that retirement and then get the hell out ahead of the deluge. It’s the company grades who buy this pap who are most disconcerting. One lieutenant – for you civilians, lieutenants are the wisest officers in the military, according to lieutenants – went on Twitter to inform me and some other people who were actually alive and in the military the last time America won a war that when we Neanderthals were serving, the military was awash in “white supremacy.” Could have fooled me. When I got off active duty the first time 30 years ago this May, I was stunned at how often race came up back in the civilian world. It almost never did when I was in the service, though in basic training it would have been nice for the awesome power of my pallor to keep Drill Sergeant Whittlesey from dropping me for countless sets of 20.

But hey, some 23-year-old assistant S2 who operates the coffeemaker doubtless has better insights into stuff happening before he was born that those of us who were actually there. The only positive thing about my interaction with that guy was my relief in knowing that I was no longer the dumbest lieutenant in the history of the United States military.

We had our imperfections and misadventures back in the day, sure, but if some idiot had done something bigoted to another solder, we would have slammed him. The only thing that mattered when a new soldier showed up was whether or not he was squared away. But not now. No, winning battles is hard, but internal snipe hunts are easy and fun! Why focus on external warfare when the career payoff for witch-hunting within the organization is so much bigger? Check out this new Navy pledge – us vets’ enlistment/commissioning oaths were apparently insufficient for today’s woke battlespace:

“I pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy. I pledge to engage in ongoing self-reflection, education and knowledge sharing to better myself and my communities. I pledge to be an example in establishing healthy, inclusive and team-oriented environments. I pledge to constructively share all experiences and information gained from activities above to inform the development of Navy-wide reforms.”

The most disconcerting part of this is that it was apparently written on purpose. Is the next thing we’ll see some sort of mandatory woke Space Force interpretive dance?

No, I do not recommend anyone subject themselves to this sort of four-year camo sociology seminar in which they must “pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy” or any other branch. My intersectional identity is “America,” and I am utterly uninterested in any other identity.

Maybe the brass should focus on killing America’s enemies, and maybe not running ships into other ships? Both those things would be totally awesome.

War is a serious business, even for guys like me who ran heavily armed carwashes. But this current tail-chasing is not serious. The military is hollowing out as people vote with their combat boots. Word from inside is that it can’t keep troops from ETSing – that is, leaving the service when their obligation ends. If our troops want their thoughts controlled and to be programed into little lefty conformobots, they can go off to college – the Dems want to give it away to slackers for free anyway, so who needs to ruck march and attend Bill Kristol’s latest war to get the G.I. Bill?

The military used to be a welcoming safe space for patriots. But no more. With this insane babbling about “internal enemies,” does anyone think that potential recruits do not understand that this slur is what the liberal elite that the military brass obeys calls people like them and their families? Why would you join an organization that sees you as an enemy?

I wish I could believe that the generals and admirals will en masse reject this sack race to failure, but it may be too late, at least until we get a real president determined to unscrew this cluster. It will be hard. The academies and war colleges are already full of the same kind of liberal hacks that civilian education is infested with. Michael Walsh’s hardcore new book Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost should be required reading for every military leader, but some professor at the Army Command and General Staff College (I’m a graduate, sigh) reviewed it and found it – I’m not kidding – “problematic.” You know what’s really problematic? Turning the military into a cauldron of neurotic SJW obsessions while our foreign enemies circle our senile CINC like vultures.

We can laugh at the antics, but the terrible reality is that this crap is going to get a bunch of our young people killed. Let’s be very clear – when your priority is social justice nonsense instead of preparing to fight and win, you are opening up a lane for the enemy and the enemy is going to drive right through it.

But look on the bright side. When something horrible happens – maybe the Chinese will send a carrier to the bottom, for example – we can all take comfort in the fact that our sons and daughters, because it’s us patriots’ sons and daughters who usually fight and die in America’s wars, perished because our leadership failed to prepare, but at least they died fully aware of trans intersectionality.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: military; sjw; socialjustice
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1 posted on 02/18/2021 3:19:46 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It will definitely drive down recruitment. If I were of age, there would be no way on God’s Green Earth that I would join the military today. You may as well walk yourself over to the military prison over nothing.


2 posted on 02/18/2021 3:21:20 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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Idle hands are the devils workshop.

No emergencies or wars to occupy the forces, the command will find something to challenge the lower paygrades even if it destroys them.


3 posted on 02/18/2021 3:23:24 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Kaslin

We need to draft women, since they are equal.


4 posted on 02/18/2021 3:27:12 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I think that is ultimately the intent. If you can’t man the military from a volunteer force, bring back the draft.


5 posted on 02/18/2021 3:28:45 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: Jonty30

I was in the USAF, but I wouldn’t join now if young.

Everything is ridiculous, and I’m a straight White conservative male. No thanks...


6 posted on 02/18/2021 3:30:38 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

Hitler Oath
“I swear to God this holy oath
that I shall render unconditional obedience
to the Leader of the German Reich and people,
Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces,
and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared
to give my life for this oath.”[8]

Its coming


7 posted on 02/18/2021 3:57:26 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Kaslin

You can go back to the post-Vietnam ‘70’, armed with a eunuch christian president named Jimmah Cahtuh, with Denocratic control of the Congress, and see how that muthahluhvin’ team ripped the military a new ‘what!’.


8 posted on 02/18/2021 4:09:24 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Jonty30

Deep State hates the draft.

Deep Stare wants a permanent force that employs millions of personnel whose paychecks are dependent on doing what Deep Stare tells them to do.

Those personnel become a constituency for Deep State.

Once the opponents are purged.

Which is what we’re seeing now.


9 posted on 02/18/2021 4:15:51 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Terry L Smith
The words, “ Jimmy Carter” and “Christian” should never be used in the same sentence. To do so blasphemes< the Holy Name of Christ./p>
10 posted on 02/18/2021 4:17:11 AM PST by sport
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To: Terry L Smith

Enlisted at end of Carter era- and served bulk of active duty and reserve under Pres. Reagan. Night and day 180 degree difference in attitude and expectations


11 posted on 02/18/2021 4:17:25 AM PST by slapshot (The NHL is dead to me)
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To: Kaslin

This new military won’t get anybody killed. They’ll just surrender. In a way they already have.


12 posted on 02/18/2021 4:23:33 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Travis McGee

Ping


13 posted on 02/18/2021 4:37:07 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kaslin

Trump started to fix this. He will finish in his 2d term—which will begin shortly.


14 posted on 02/18/2021 4:50:18 AM PST by View from the Cheap Seats
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To: Kaslin

Outstanding!


15 posted on 02/18/2021 4:50:20 AM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: HighSierra5
This new military won’t get anybody killed. They’ll just surrender. In a way they already have.

Yup

16 posted on 02/18/2021 4:56:34 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: EEGator
"We need to draft women, since they are equal."

Never fails: there is always some twit that calls for drafting women every time there's a discussion about military readiness. Why? were you scared of the draft? Never served in combat? Don't have a daughter yourself?

Each time I hear that same routine, I think "coward", because no actual man would ever propose such a thing.

17 posted on 02/18/2021 5:13:54 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Chainmail

The fact that you thought I was serious shows what a dumbass you are.
Have a good day.


18 posted on 02/18/2021 5:15:48 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
Perhaps adding a "Sarc" note on your post would help keep things straight.

Otherwise, one would think that you were yet another dumbass calling for drafting ladies.

19 posted on 02/18/2021 5:31:48 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Chainmail

We shouldn’t have, nor do we need, any draft.
A female only draft sounds ridiculous, so I assumed it was obvious sarcasm.
Just like when I, and others, say we think tranny guys won’t have an advantage over females in sports.
It’s merely a lashing out over the state, and direction, of our society.
I don’t know any guy who really wants a female draft. They’re just pointing out the hypocrisy of feminism and equality.

That said, I didn’t need to be rude about it.


20 posted on 02/18/2021 5:38:57 AM PST by EEGator
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