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Secretary Mattis: Focus on War-Fighting, Ditch the Social Engineering
Breitbart ^ | May 30,2017 | by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin

Posted on 05/30/2017 8:47:22 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 05/30/2017 8:47:22 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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And a clear focus on marksmanship and PT with 20 mile marches with 80lb packs will weed out the poseurs and perfumed princes
2 posted on 05/30/2017 8:50:10 AM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: Hojczyk

B . I . N . G . O

we have a winner


3 posted on 05/30/2017 8:53:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: rdcbn
20 mile marches with 80lb packs

And that is what put me in surgery at the tender age of 48. I deployed with a team in AFG and went on a mission with them. Since I was not a door kicker, I carried the radio and associated equipment. Got back to America and realized something wasn't right. Now I have six inch scar on my lower back, but I can still walk. Praise the Lord.
4 posted on 05/30/2017 8:55:11 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: rdcbn

“... perfumed princes...”

Remembering David Hackworth.....


5 posted on 05/30/2017 8:55:42 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump era ROE = “kill people & break sh!+, all else is BS”


6 posted on 05/30/2017 9:03:09 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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This is significant. The military is not a laboratory for social experimentation, it has a dedicated purpose.

If they are not out making noise, killing people, breaking things and scaring potential enemies into conformity, then what ARE they for? We might as well choose up debate teams for wussified college campuses.


7 posted on 05/30/2017 9:09:40 AM PDT by alloysteel (Why does anyone vote Republican, anyway? The Democrats STILL impose their will.)
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To: JBW1949

Unforgettable Hack!!!!!!!!!!
He is missed.
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8 posted on 05/30/2017 9:14:25 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: gunnyg

Yes, he definitely is missed....


9 posted on 05/30/2017 9:15:20 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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And...power-flush the swamp...NOW !!!!!!!!!!

Semper POTUS TRUMP!
Trump...if we can keep him!
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10 posted on 05/30/2017 9:16:14 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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And Alan Stang—two of a kind—no bs no half-stepping!
They both departed about the same time.

Dick Gaines AMERICAN (NOT AINO!)
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11 posted on 05/30/2017 9:19:22 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Hojczyk

Amen, General Mattis.


12 posted on 05/30/2017 9:24:33 AM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: wbarmy

Carrying a radio in Vietnam made you a mobile aiming stake. that’s why the platoon leader made the radio guy stay at least 15 meters away. /s


13 posted on 05/30/2017 9:30:20 AM PDT by Datom (Still runnin' "Against the Wind.")
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To: DoughtyOne

Good that he wants to focus on the military, but he needs to lose the PC term, War-Fighting and get back to calling it Combat like it should be.


14 posted on 05/30/2017 9:43:11 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: Datom

Slightly smaller radio this time around. And it was very dark where we were. So no need to be that far back.

Although I am old enough to remember, and have used the PRC-77.


15 posted on 05/30/2017 9:45:55 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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The goal of the US military is to kill our enemies, and break their shit with ruthless efficiency.

Anything less is completely unacceptable to the American soldier and the American people.


16 posted on 05/30/2017 9:50:07 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: BuffaloJack

Good that he wants to focus on the military...

Couldn’t agree more...


17 posted on 05/30/2017 9:55:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: rdcbn
And a clear focus on marksmanship and PT with 20 mile marches with 80lb packs will weed out the poseurs and perfumed princes

Yes, that would do it! Problem would take care of itself because only the fittest would remain. And if a woman can do all that, all the power to her. Issue her an M-16 and get her to the front lines.

18 posted on 05/30/2017 9:59:01 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: JBW1949
“... perfumed princes...”

Remembering David Hackworth.....


Fondly.

R.I.P. Wolfhound

19 posted on 05/30/2017 10:01:21 AM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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One can understand the attraction of being a Commander In Chief to those on the Left, particularly those who have never served: the military is a group of citizens who are charged with obeying orders and prohibited (to a degree) from complaining about it. It's a playpen for autocrats, a perfect petri dish for social experimentation, a microcosm of what they'd like all of society to be like and what they'd like to do to it when it is.

Oh, the mission? Never mind the mission. That's somebody else's problem. Those who respect the mission tend to respect the people trying to accomplish it; those interested in something else such as self-aggrandizement - Hillary, 0bama - tend not to.

20 posted on 05/30/2017 10:05:40 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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