Posted on 05/04/2016 8:46:14 PM PDT by pboyington
The US military is a fish rotting from the head; a politically correct, feminized, decrepit, nearly bankrupt force that is one step away from complete obliteration on the land, on the seas and in the air.
A fish rots from the head and the military is decaying by the hour. Veterans know it, the troops know it, the military’s senior leaders know it, yet they do nothing as the floor gives way underneath them.
From our commander in chief, to the Secretary of Defense, the secretaries of each service branch, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the admirals and generals, the US military is being led by a combination of leftists, feminists, selfish careerists and all around lackeys and yes men.
The current crop of senior leadership in the US Armed Forces has either green lighted, watched or turned away in embarrassment as every form of budgetary cut, equipment shortage, dimwitted national security directive and social engineering policy is hammered into the military like a thousand nails in a wooden coffin.
We now have a military where Marine Corps planes don’t have spare parts, where Navy ships are decrepit and Naval air assets have less range than the planes Bush 41 flew in WWII; where Armor officers can’t run a tank range; where breastfeeding soldiers express milk in the field; where the slightest non-PC comment gets you a ticket to unemployed Obama Land; where male ROTC cadets parade around in red high heels to express empathy for rape victims; where women are allowed to serve in the Navy SEALs and the US Army’s Delta Force; where fantasy and delusion have become standard operating procedures.
An example of the moral relativism wafting through the Pentagon like Sarin nerve gas are the comments made by General Mark Milley, the Army Chief of Staff, who sports Ranger and Special Forces tabs and who once served in the famous 5th Special Force Group. Milley told the nation and the world that women will serve in direct ground combat units and furthermore, he has no problem with young American girls being subject to a draft that could ultimately send them into direct ground combat units, aka the infantry.
We’re all supposed to nod in a semi catatonic state as a man who wore the famed Green Beret spouts out this absolute nonsense with a poker face. Unless Milley has become some kind of bleeding heart liberal, I doubt he believes anything he has said. What Milley does believe in is the greater good of Milley, just like Dempsey believed in the greater good of Dempsey.
And, look where that’s got us…
What’s in it for you General Milley, the Chairman of the JCS once General Joe pops smoke? What’s the price today for selling out America’s women to mass slaughter on a distant battlefield?
Tis the season of moral cowardice at the Pentagon and it’s quite reminiscent of the Vietnam era, when political perfumed princes skulked through the hallways of the Pentagon like mastodons; admirals and generals who cared more about their careers than about the troops and the nation they had sworn to serve.
Some point out that the military is subordinate to civilian authority. They need to remain silent. I’ll say it again. Someone with a lot of stars on their shoulders is going to have to fall on their sword and resign. When they do, they need to hold a press conference and tell the nation how a combination of the Obama White House and willing minions are demolishing the military by the hour.
But, this will never happen, mark my words.
A more realistic option is this:
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.
The US Army was on the verge of self-destructing in the post- Vietnam years of the early and mid 1970’s. What saved it from imploding were the field grade officers and some tough and truthful general officers who maintained Army traditions and who rebuilt it from the bottom up; men like Dick Cavazos, Carl Vuono, Shy Meyer, Paul “Butch” Funk, Norman Schwarkopf and Fred Franks.
In 1974, the Army’s problems were at the bottom, not the top. The Army had soldiers who were thugs, gang bangers, druggies and race baiters. Race riots were common and officers were afraid to walk into a barracks without being armed.
The troublemakers were discharged, the new volunteer Army began to slowly attract motivated and better educated soldiers and with the election of Ronald Reagan money flooded into the lean green machine; resulting in new equipment like the M1 tank and funds for endless training at places like Hohenfels in Bavaria and on major NATO exercises like REFORGER.
By 1990, the US Army was a magnificently trained and equipped fighting force. The men responsible for the military’s ascent were the senior leaders who had seen the military savaged by political generals and admirals.
General Fred Franks, an amputee, who rose to lead the VII Corps to victory in the Gulf War is a symbol for everything the Army’s senior leadership once stood for and doesn’t today; devotion to duty, honesty, moral courage and most importantly, putting the troops always above personal ambition.
During the Gulf War, a soldier in Third Armored Division noticed that General Franks looked very worried as he spoke to young soldiers. The soldier told General Franks, “Don’t worry General, we trust you.”
How many soldiers can say the same thing about their senior leadership today?
A young adult who enlists in the military must know that their leaders care more about them than their careers and retirement benefits and investment portfolios.
Wanted: US military senior leadership with honesty and moral courage. Apply here.
Great article. Only issue it did not address is Obastard’s insane Rules of Engagement.
Otherwise, the article is spot on.
Just what Trump has been saying
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.
Hear! Hear!
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.
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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3427237/posts
Head: soon to be replaced.
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...
Another great article from Ray Starmann. Thanks once again for posting pboyington.
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.
Ditto!
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.
Accurate and well written.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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