Hmmm. Not one mention of LBJ
We have a constitutional mandate to do so.
I ‘m not so sure about that. You’re not counting the very large number of Christian warriors being borne out of the assault on America the past 7 years....
For later
The Warrior Ethos has been marginalized for decades.
We used to run as a unit. Then, people started complaining that running with the unit was lowering their PTTest scores. So we started running by ability groups. Then, it was everybody running on their own. It was a mark of your dedication to run by yourself.
They killed teamwork in the name of physical fitness.
You didn’t have to just improve yourself, you had to downgrade your peers. They were competition. The whisper in the boss’ ear. Innuendo. Setting people up for failure.
The enemy became your peers and superiors. Your subordinates became people to be used and blamed.
As much as I’d like to blame Obama solely for the decline of the military, the truth is that it has been declining for decades.
We have a physically fit military that can’t work together and isn’t smart enough to figure out how to win.
Putting forward arguments that practicing LGBT behavior and placing women in combat will not hurt morale and effectiveness ignore the character of military operations. Because Pentagon and political creatures place an impenetrable wall between policies they cherish and the terrible realities of combat, I council young men to never join the armed forces.
Combat operations entail applying and enduring unimaginable brutality until victory. Therefore, only the highest physical abilities and most severe restrictions on human emotions and behaviors can foster the required high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexuality, and therefore LGBT behavior, simply cannot intrude into this extraordinary dimension where only those displaying the greatest savagely win. Because war entails the ultimate Olympics for national defense there is less excuse for merging men and women into this environment than would exist for the athletic competitions every four years.
Combat forms personnel into small, rigid, task oriented units. These people continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans. At the point of collision, men face environments requiring extraordinary physical capabilities and demanding unbelievably sacrificial, primitive and intimate relations.
Such environments are inherently chaotic and brittle. They can be overcome only by a totalitarian leadership and narrow focus unimaginable for those who see any opportunity for social engineering.
The regimental combat teams for infantry, mechanized and armored units are now the playthings of bureaucrats committed to equal opportunity, and dismissive of warriors enduring the brutal carnage imperative for victory. Institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as the Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons.
Women and the LGBT fraternity not only do not belong at the pointy end of the spear, but should not be holding it to the extent the infantry must depend on their savagery. There is no reason to depart from the writings of Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell that can be synthesized into the quote, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.â€
P.S.
Notice from the ribbons on his uniform that General Dempsey, never fought the enemies mentioned, and now questions the necessity of current high standards which already allow inferior female performance?
General Martin E. Dempsey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dempsey
Gen. Dempsey: If Women Can’t Meet Military Standard, Pentagon Will Ask ‘Does It Really Have to Be That High?’
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gen-dempsey-if-women-can-t-meet-military-standard-pentagon-will-ask-does-it-really-have
Coed Combat Units - A bad idea on all counts
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/coed-combat-units_697822.html
You’re In the New Army Now
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/youre-in-new-army-now.html
Women not only do not belong at the pointy end of the spear, but should not be holding it to the extent the infantry must depend on their savagery. There is no reason to depart from the writings of Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell that can be synthesized into the quote, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.â€
Women out of the foxholes, cockpits, & ships, and strippers back in the enlisted, NCO, & officers clubs.
Pussies actually breed pussies. Ain’t that somethin’? Anyone ever heard that, anywhere?
The Democrats put almost as much energy in trying to stop military members from voting as in having illegals vote. For some reason, the ballots of our service men and women serving abroad never seem to get counted.
Post; thread BUMP!
Spot on! I put in 32 years and retired just in time. When I saw Maternity BDUs in the Clothing Sales Store, I knew it was time to go.