Did not need an crystal ball to see this coming.
This long-suffering assortment of lab rats in a vast social experiment in human degradation that the US military establishment has become, are really in no position to raise objections. They are officially prohibited from making ANY commentary of the demands and expectations placed upon them, under threat of rather harsh disciplinary rules, no matter how unreasonable or ridiculous those orders may be.
Which is one very compelling reason to select a commander in chief who has had some REAL military experience, and has had both the demands of command placed in his hands, and the discipline of carrying out orders as directed from above. One may be relatively sure, then, that unreasonable or baseless commands are not directed at the troops, while disregarding the best utilization of the capabilities at hand.
Sending women into armed combat side-by-side with men in mixed-gender units is an unnecessarily complicated way to achieve “equality”, unless the intent is to REDUCE the effectiveness of the fighting unit. And denying the comfort of the sure will of the Lord in the foxhole is no way to buck up morale.
“Moral” and “morale” are from the same linguistic root, and to disregard the link is to defeat the powerful will to strive and win in difficult conditions in the field. Dispirited soldiers are easy prey for an enemy.
It is an axiom that some people are just much better at fighting than others, and of these excellent fighters, only some make excellent soldiers. Because an excellent soldier is a relatively rare thing, a combination of talent, discipline, training and willingness to stand FOR something, this paradigm should be encouraged at every opportunity.
A fully-formed human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly.
God would expect nothing less. And our military would have this taken from them?
Atheists have a deep faith in the existence of God or they would not go out of their way to fight Christians.