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.
Thinking about Rush made me remember this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwlOOKedg
Thanks for the link.
I had never seen that.
I’m sure heads would explode if someone said that now.
By April 1.
Here’s a good place to start:
Trump is still in charge of the military until March 20. Everything will cleaned up by then. (Do your research.)
Name calling after the 3rd grade is de-grading.
“Trump is still in charge of the military until March 20.”
No, he isn’t.
“Name calling after the 3rd grade is de-grading.”
It’s “degrading”. No hyphen needed. And what’s really degrading is following some anonymous internet con artist who’s never been right about a single damned thing.
Q is a fraud. Q is a con artist. At this point anyone spouting the continued line or horse dung he or she is tossing around is either delusional or complicit in the con.
So, which one are you?
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FYI (Good info) And read the rest of his thread on “devolution”.
Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
Devolution happened NOT because the armed forces disagreed with a president.
It happened because our global enemies helped STEAL an election in order to install a puppet who is a de facto enemy agent.
We don’t know what happened after January 6 and before January 20.
In order to make devolution perfectly legal and constitutional, Congress would have to have been involved.
My guess is the feud between Trump and McConnell is strategic deception.
“My guess is the feud between Trump and McConnell is strategic deception.”
Nope. They really do hate each other. It’s that simple.
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de-grading was a joke on you. You were the victim.
By the way, the correct vote count changes the composition of the House and Senate, and it nullifies the Biden administration. By April 1.
The correct vote count changes the composition of the House and Senate, and it nullifies the Biden administration. Mitch is caught and doing what he is told. This is clandestine warfare. By April 1, you will see more clearly.
Here’s a good strting point for you:
Devolution, continuity of government, and WMD (including biological weapons), ie, CORONA-19. Include the election as an act of war, and the “devolution” becomes inevitable.
Military ping
Bttt.
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Sadly, now is exactly the time when we want to flood every branch with thousands of patriotic young mean. The pink battalions will help overthrow the nation. The patriots won’t
Riiiight. Man you Q guys are good.
The Left would rather not have a military, than have one whose primary loyalty is to the Constitution.
This feels a lot like the 1930’s. There is a tremendous amount of dead wood in the senior military leadership. The problem is there is no George Marshall on the horizon to start clearing it out and identifying the leaders we will need when a real war comes along.
How many wars have you been in?
I’ve been in one. We had draftees. Boys. From the farms, suburbs, many from the ghetto. Most with just high school degrees, not very many college graduates.
You want to end wars, or really defend your country? Draft everyone of age regardless of race, sex, family wealth, education, or political connections.
You can argue any and every point you like, but until everyone has some money in the game it’s bull sh!t.
There is only one reason young men fight. That reason does not really occur until you have unit cohesion and are in battle. Men fight for self for self preservation and for their fellow soldiers. The rest is BS.
The game is changing. Patriotism in this country is damn near dead, especially in the youth. No skin in the game, you’re not a player.
Just one: 17 months in Vietnam, about half that time with the infantry.
The very first draftees I ever met were while I was in intensive care with them in the Tachikawa AFB hospital. They were interesting guys - different world view than I had as a Marine, but I liked 'em.
Here's the part I agree with you about: if we have a war on, everydamnbuddy other than psychos in the Psych ward should be drafted to do something the serve their country. But ladies or sexual deviants in the combat troops - or even in theater unless it's completely necessary.
We don't need distractions.
Served Ft. Hood/Frankfurt 1982-1986, NG 1986-1988 during the glorious Reagan Era. There were homos but they kept it to themselves. It was a disciplined meritocracy where nearly everyone got what they earned on as fair a basis as possible. May God save America.
"But it won't be a white flag. It will be a rainbow flag, and it will be fabulous!"
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