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The US Military – A Fish Rotting from the Head
US Defense Watch ^ | May 4, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 05/04/2016 8:46:14 PM PDT by pboyington

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1 posted on 05/04/2016 8:46:14 PM PDT by pboyington
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Great article. Only issue it did not address is Obastard’s insane Rules of Engagement.

Otherwise, the article is spot on.


2 posted on 05/04/2016 8:53:35 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullete)
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To: pboyington

Just what Trump has been saying


3 posted on 05/04/2016 8:53:52 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you)
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If Trump is elected, he needs to turn the Navy SEALs loose and let them clean out this ‘RATS nest. They can start by removing all of the Muzzie Jihadis from the U.S. Military and work their way up from there. Time to make the U.S. military great again.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 8:57:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#neverclinton)
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Hear! Hear!


5 posted on 05/04/2016 8:57:50 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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The idiots voted for Omoron two times so it’s no surprise that the military is on the verge of a pending disaster. Hopefully they will make it through until Trump becomes President. If The Beast becomes President instead of calling them the armed forces you can just call them Caitlin.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 8:59:35 PM PDT by seawolf101 (This)
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Feeling the draft: women and Selective Service System
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371980/posts

Gender-Neutral Draft Registration Would Create Millions of Female Felons
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7 posted on 05/04/2016 9:00:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Head: soon to be replaced.


8 posted on 05/04/2016 9:02:02 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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cowards...all of them....in the face of their fat pensions, they choose to be cowards and yes men...

not a real man among them....

I can just say that I don't know any of them but I hate them....I hate what they have done and I hope Karma comes and smacks them right square on their collective ass...

9 posted on 05/04/2016 9:03:28 PM PDT by cherry
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Another great article from Ray Starmann. Thanks once again for posting pboyington.


10 posted on 05/04/2016 9:06:00 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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They should be given a DIRECT ORDER to vote. If they don’t like it they can vote for the other party. Put their permanent residence in a swing state where there is a military base. Watch the Rats squeal. We can charge them with suppressing the military vote.


11 posted on 05/04/2016 9:33:39 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Ditto!


12 posted on 05/04/2016 9:44:41 PM PDT by onedoug
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Didn’t mention the suicide rates either. The problem with cleaning house will be that superiors can threaten whistleblowers. Military politics is the worst.

If I were president I would get the list of all the commanders who were fired or retired and ask them who to promote. Get lists off the record. I remember seeing a list of 100 generals who were against obama in 2012. I wonder how they’re doing.


13 posted on 05/04/2016 10:06:39 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: pboyington

Accurate and well written.


14 posted on 05/04/2016 10:09:21 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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I can’t believe I’m the only person on Earth to have noticed this.... Russians spend far less money on their military than we do on ours, but the effect they achieve appears to be greater. The Russian military appears to actually be geared towards winning wars; ours appears to be geared towards lining the pockets of fat cats and, as the article mentions, towards social engineering.


15 posted on 05/04/2016 10:49:06 PM PDT by ganeemead
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The US military must be gutted from the top down by a President Trump. A President Trump must fire the Secretary of Defense, the secretaries of each service branch, the entire JCS and every admiral and general until he gets to a point where he’s cleaned out the perfumed princes, feather merchants and narcissistic careerists who have run roughshod over the military in order to pursue their own goals.

They need to keep their job until sometime around February. Then, one day, out of nowhere, be arrested and detained by MPs until we figure out if their incompetence and cowardice was actually malice and malfeasance.

16 posted on 05/05/2016 12:17:25 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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Every capable male member of my family tree going back to some time before 1776 has served in one branch of the armed services or another.
We had family members in blue AND gray during the Civil War(unfortunately).
During WW-2 and Korea, male family members served in the combat arms units (all types) and female members served as nurses and other support positions.
Both my brother and I, and all of our male cousins (those of proper age) served in Vietnam.
When Bush #1 stopped the first Iraq war short of total Victory and Unconditional Surrender of Saddam Insane; I realized that American politicians had refused to learn or had forgotten the LESSONS OF VIETNAM AND KOREA.
I forbid my son or daughter from enlisting; thus breaking a chain of generations of honorable service to the United States, and the colonies before that.
I do not regret my decision and to this day I am still glad I made it.


17 posted on 05/05/2016 12:31:53 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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My son enlisted in 1999. He served 14 years in the US Marines. After seeing the changes that started happening and after complaining and being labeled a trouble maker, He saw the signs on the wall. He wanted to be a lifer but couldn’t stay in with it being the way it was. He told me “I didn’t leave the Marines, The Marines left me” It broke my heart that he felt it, but seeing what was going on in the military under Obama, I was glad he got out when he did. I think it would have killed him to stay in with the changes that started coming about. We need a major cleanup in our military from the top down. Then maybe we can get back some of the good guys that retired.


18 posted on 05/05/2016 12:49:51 AM PDT by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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“I forbid my son or daughter from enlisting; thus breaking a chain of generations of honorable service to the United States, and the colonies before that.
I do not regret my decision and to this day I am still glad I made it.”

Along a similar line, I was the 8th generation commissioned officer in my family. I was really torn when my son talked to me about joining the army, but I left the decision up to him. He decided not to. It is tough to see a family history like that come to an end.


19 posted on 05/05/2016 4:44:05 AM PDT by VMI70
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I retired in 2013 after 26 years. I’ve seen a huge decline. I spoke out often and fortunately was at a rank where the only way they could demote me was by court martial. I was told more than once to basically shut up and stop asking questions. Of course being the smart ass that I am I continued.

Looking back now I am thankful to be out. Quite a few of my friends are considering getting out as well.


20 posted on 05/05/2016 4:48:07 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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