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The Army is broken
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 08-15-2015 | Robert H. Scales

Posted on 08/18/2015 10:25:56 AM PDT by NRx

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To: cva66snipe

You are correct.


41 posted on 08/18/2015 4:00:25 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: cva66snipe

This couldn’t have come at a worst time giving with China’s aggression on the South Sea and Russian Aggression in Ukraine as well as ISIS and North Korea and Iran.


42 posted on 08/18/2015 4:03:46 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: NRx

All part of the Obama plan, which is working well.


43 posted on 08/18/2015 4:13:09 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

True and with the current active duty levels those we have are basically being over deployed and over extended. The End Troop Strength levels have been way too low ever since about 1994-96. Just more temptation for rouge in both major powers and third world to test us.


44 posted on 08/18/2015 4:17:23 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: NRx

Hey, they need all the money they can get for transgender surgery and gay pride events.


45 posted on 08/18/2015 4:18:02 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: NRx

By design.


46 posted on 08/18/2015 4:18:29 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: NRx; Jet Jaguar

I’ve got news for you, General. The Army is broken in more ways than just aging equipment, lack of manpower and training. The Army, and in fact, every branch of service, is morally and ethically corrupted from the top down to at least the Division level equivalent. We no longer have a serious total war fighting force. We have only small elements of a total manpower base weaker than what we had post Vietnam still able to deploy and fight. What we do have is a large social engineering agency filled with people out of uniform directing diversity and anti-Christian policy on those wearing uniforms, who pretend to be an effective military force while being experimented with by the left.


47 posted on 08/18/2015 4:28:16 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: NRx

The result of a collapsing welfare state and short sighted leadership in DC.


48 posted on 08/18/2015 4:53:51 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: NRx
"Sadly, the Army that stayed cohesive in Iraq and Afghanistan even after losing 5,000 dead is now being broken again by" a bipartisan, socialist consituency continuing to insist on outrageous government spending on civilian incomes. They reject the only candidate who has a real record of cutting civilian government spending in favor of several socialist candidates in the Republican Party.

And most political/regulator constituents in both political parties have trolled the Net all along against taking needed action in Iran.


49 posted on 08/18/2015 4:54:52 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: NRx

Trump or any of those candidates agreeing with him would further turn my country into Soviet Balkan Germanistan, but that situation wouldn’t last long for them. With their preferences in office, the default process will complete.


50 posted on 08/18/2015 4:59:34 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Ronin

And now certain people are pushing for womyn in combat, based on the two who went through Ranger School.


51 posted on 08/18/2015 5:25:36 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: NRx

Here’s a little hint for everyone. All these warriors being drummed out of the service can be hired by states and local communities to create militias or state guard units.

Combat generals can probably be hired for $500,000 per year, while platoon and company commanders go for less. The grunts - E-5 and below - you can probably hire for, say, $50,000 per year.

You’ll also need to pay for equipment, food and lodging.

An idea such as this would require citizens and communities to pay out some modicum of cash annually to ensure a crack fighting force to kick the asses of federal fascist traitors.


52 posted on 08/18/2015 6:03:11 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: NRx; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty ping.


53 posted on 08/18/2015 6:29:26 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Borax Queen

What is funny is they said that men need to protect their female battle buddies so how can they be effective fighters if they can’t protect themselves in the barracks?


54 posted on 08/18/2015 6:56:30 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: NRx

So glad that the Good LORD got me through 20+ years and led me to retire and get the heck out of the military. The crap going on in the Army today would get me kicked out, I’d quit on a career in the Army, or they would probably have court-martialed me for not supporting the Obama homo policies. Thank You again Jesus for bringing me home.


55 posted on 08/18/2015 7:01:13 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (It is about THE CROSS. It has always been and always will be about the CROSS!!!)
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To: Rusty0604
our leaders say that global warming is our number one security concern.

Don't forget America's SERIOUS problem with right wing extremists!
56 posted on 08/18/2015 7:04:13 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: NRx

I quit in disgust during the Carter administration.


57 posted on 08/18/2015 7:05:16 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Regulator

Get the illegals out of our country and there will be jobs for Americans, and no need to pay the unemployed welfare and food stamps. The illegals and their kids are destroying public and education budgets while the treasonous businesses that hire them need prosecuted to the fullest extent.


58 posted on 08/18/2015 8:00:01 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Free speech and 1st A is dead when it becomes illegal to criticize illegals or any others.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Multigenerational USA WASPS are made second class in USA now too by recent immigrants and corrupt politicians who suck up. We the plurality and majority don’t even get a seat at our own Supreme Court, while the viewpoints from our minorities are boundless.


59 posted on 08/18/2015 8:06:10 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Free speech and 1st A is dead when it becomes illegal to criticize illegals or any others.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
I have no proof of this, but I suspect what is left of military leadership after cuts are liberal supporters of Obama. The conservatives that remain fear that they will lose their jobs or will not advance if they speakout. Meanwhile the RINOs in congress do nothing.

You may have no proof, but you may very well be onto something. I have long suspected these same things.

60 posted on 08/18/2015 8:14:24 PM PDT by Mark17 (How could anyone suspend himself upon a cross and die for me, die willingly, to set us free.)
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