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.
“Never fails: there is always some twit that...”
...stabs somebody else, on our side, in the back.
No wonder the Right is getting their ass kicked. The Left ALWAYS circles the wagons and protects their own. The Right? Not so much.
Letting woman in was the start of all this nonsense!
It was sarcasm.
Me either - sorry, Buddy. Kind of one of many "third Rails" for me..
I get it, no worries.
you have a bit of a habit being rude to fellow freepers EE....
You should think about that for a while.
Ladies? When was the last time you saw a lady? They’re mighty few and far between these days. If women want true equality, let them have it, right down to waste burning and buying the farm. That equality.
While we’re at it. Drafting women will be the only way to make quota during the snowflake era. First reason, no of 4-fs. Second reason, number of males identifying as trans females to avoid the draft.
Besides, just ghink of how cool it would be to get all the Karen’s and Democrat harpies into boot and AIT.
Piss off, how’s that?
Actually if there is conscription taking place it should be comprised of both sexes in this day and age for equality sake. Why should a son be conscripted during the time when they should be advancing their careers? Once they come back, they will be behind the 8-ball in terms of career advancement/graduate school. Women should be responsible for their own rhetoric. Also, females would be not much different than a weak-ass soy boy who doesn’t want to be a conscript anyway in terms of readiness. Also, it’s not like women today are producing kids, instead most are just “finding themselves” in their late teens/20’s so conscription will give them plenty of time to do that. Either that or kick out every female in the military and spare the hypocrisy of it all.
“...Going to Get Troops Killed...”
I think that honorable men will just quit enlisting. That means only the dregs will sign up and only FOR the freebies and perks.
That will produce a bought and paid for ‘praetorian’ group.... JUST where the Liberals really want this thing to go. Easy peesy
With the size of our country, there should be no reason for any draft. Stay out of police actions in foreign countries and concern ourselves with our needs.
An all male military would be preferable, but it won’t happen.
I’ve seen one good looking female destroy unit cohesion.
It doesn’t matter who’s at fault, just the outcome.
You can see it in certain companies too.
A male dominated company hires some hot young thing, and output goes down and behavioral issue go way up.
How shortly?
Wow - such hostility! How many times have you been married?
The whole point of a draft is to get young men who are otherwise qualified but reluctant to become a fighting instrument in time of a major, country-threatening war (Which means that I was against the draft during my war, Vietnam). It worked well during the Second World War to field competent if unenthusiastic combatants but is only annoying during the interwar years.
Women are specifically disruptive to combat units not because they can't be trained to kill but because young men and young women can't help forming relationships and diffusing command relationships, unit cohesion and loyalties to each other.
Wars are always conducted in sucky places, in sucky conditions and that causes people to bond. When its only (normal) men, that bond causes everyone to look out for each other and gives you the trust that the other guys in the tent would actually die for you.
Introduce young women in the mix, and lots of separate couples emerge and their loyalty is understandably to each other first. And their tent mates will deeply resent those lucky few. And everybody's armed.
Wars require focus and a certain sense that everyone's in the same boat. There is also the tendency of young males to want to "prove themselves" and that if combat is opened up to everydamnbody, it takes some of the luster out of the limited cachet they get from volunteering for the really crazy stuff.
Which is why most young men volunteer for the really tough stuff to begin with.
What the hell is wrong with you?
“He will finish in his 2d term—which will begin shortly.”
Another delusional Qball slithers up from mom’s basement.
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In this instance, you.
Mind your damn business.
The other poster and I came to an understanding without your two cents.
Feel free to not post to me again.
You are one of the rudest a**holes on this site
I’m not even close.
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