Posted on 07/25/2014 4:21:14 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Probably > 80%.
Obama appointed a lackey...Hagel
This entire administration should be brought to trial for High Treason.
I was in Vietnam in the spring of 1972 when half the pilots in my helicopter battalion were sent home with a sixty day RIF notice. We had been receiving aviators from other divisions standing down up until then, so feast became famine instantly. When the NVA initiated their Easter Offensive at the end of March, each of us was flying many more hours daily due to pilot shortage.
In the spring of 1973 there was another RIF of captains, again with a 60 day notice, affecting mostly combat arms, and separating combat experienced officers who maybe lacked a year of college.
Then in 1975 with the fall of Saigon there was the `War of 1812’ RIF which for the first time since then affected Regular Army officers.
Morale was low throughout the 1970’s. I was in the National Guard where the only combat vets were aviators so that was a trip.
Ronald Reagan turned military morale completely toward the upside within a year of taking office. It was wonderful to see. I was in Germany at the time.
My Dad barely survived the post-WWII drawdown & stayed on active duty to serve in Korea & Vietnam.
RIFs are never pleasant but it’s impossible not to see the hand of an unsupportive commander in chief this time.
It's incomprehensible that trained, patriotic military are being let go at this time. Someone posted yesterday that we might well already be in WW3, and it's a true world war. Historians will look back and decide which situation led to the inescapable slide into chaos.
The US won't even have the military strength to defend the homeland, if the DC crowd ever decide to do so.
I do have one complaint. It involves a fantasy. That fantasy is that the HOR defunds AF1 leaving Obama stuck somewhere far away from DC.
Make an appeal in person wearing Bozo feet and fake boobs and you’ll be a Major before you know it instead of being unemployed.
These trained, patriotic military vets are the ones we Americans should support because they are the ones whom the DHS fears the most. They are combat experienced and are not going to support any confiscation of weapons from the general population. They will be on our side should a CWII ever occur.
“America needs a civilian force that is as powerful as the military.” - Obama, 2008
He is giving military weapons to IRS, FDA, DoEd, BLM, USDA, EPA etc. SWAT teams to get around Posse Comitatus, while shrinking and feminizing the real military so it can’t be used against our enemies.
Thank you for enlightening me.
The only thing a person should get while serving in a combat zone is 100% of our support.
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