Posted on 06/26/2018 2:08:40 PM PDT by Pollard
Fighting will now take precedence over dealing with transitioning transgender troops, drug abuse and other issues as the Army seeks to overhaul its training regimen to hone its soldiers’ battlefield skills.
In a series of servicewide memorandums approved by Army Secretary Mark Esper and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and obtained by The Washington Times, service leaders are making optional previously mandatory training on issues such as transgender transition and drug abuse. The move, Army leaders argue, is designed to relieve stress on the overburdened troop training regimen and refocus on soldiers’ ability to fight in combat.
“The Army’s regulations and policies that deal with training were pretty settled, and there were not a lot of detractors to it. … It was all the other [training] requirements that we levied on ourselves, or we had levied from other places” that led to the increasingly cumbersome approach to combat readiness, said Col. John O’Grady, chief of the Army’s collective training division.
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Everything that traitor touched has been tainted. Thank God it is all being rolled-back
So no more social justice warriors, just warriors. Love it.
I was reading earlier where Infantry OSUT is being extended from 14 to 22 weeks.
Now they need to get rid of the political correctness commissars and spies. So many good officers got purged simply because they did not agree with the Left’s position on homosexuals and transgenders in the military.
Training troops to fight. No more drills in high heels. What a novel idea.
Hope the Navy follows suit.
In his book about the fall of Berlin, Cornelius Ryan quotes the German defensive genius, General Heinrici.
He said it took a year in combat to make a really useful soldier.
I celebrate with a chocolate milk shake.
A good sign.
Our Army gets back to the basics: to kill people and break things.
5.56mm
“This is alone is reason enough to never let a liberal democrat (or republican) POTUS through the White House doors ever again.”
But what if we run a RINO? Don’t you want to ‘send a message’ by sitting out the election and thereby help a FLAMING LEFTIST win the presidency?
Just kidding - we really do need to move beyond that reasoning though.
Let’s discuss Obama’s Rules of Engagement that were responsible for how many patriots deaths and how many thousands who who are forever maimed and disabled. We can also discuss another worthless Liberal President, LBJ, who did likewise. If anyone doubts that, visit The Wall in DC. Comments anyone?
Extortion 17 Truths
”A retired Air Force captain says the Pentagon lied to families about what caused the Extortion 17 tragedy.
A decorated retired Air Force officer who witnessed one of the most deadly attacks on Navy SEALs in U.S. history is breaking her silence, saying the government covered up evidence detailing that the 2011 downing of a Chinook helicopter gunship that killed 38 fighters in Afghanistan could have been prevented had it not been for restrictions to the military’s rules of engagement that were changed under the Obama administration...”
Trump's fault.
Thank goodness.
No, it isn’t. Some of the social engineering training is being set aside because there’s only so much training time on the clock. While that may sound like a good thing, the underlying bad policies and degradation of combat effectiveness due to feminists and freaks run amok are still there.
Ping.
The military has been for decades more concerned about women and fags in uniform than anything else. Fighting wars has taken lowest priority.
An anonymous email came in over the transom this morning:
Hi, Stacy.
During the early weeks after the USS Fitzgerald was speared by a lumbering Philippine container ship, it was noteworthy that the captain and a couple of admirals were publically named, but not the actual officer in charge, the officer of the deck. (OOD) The other person who should have kept the Fitz out of trouble is the person in charge of the combat information center, the Tactical Action Officer. That individual is supposed to be monitoring the combat radar, which can detect a swimmer at a distance of two miles. Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out. The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!
Another fun fact:
In the Navy that won WWII, the damage control officers were usually some of the biggest and strongest men aboard, able to close hatches, shore up damaged areas with timbers, etc. The Fitz’s damage control officer was also a woman, and she never left the bridge. She handled the aftermath of the accident remotely, without lifting a finger herself!
Look it up:
The OOD was Sarah Coppock, Tactical Action Officer was Natalie Combs. . . .
When I noticed last year that they were doing all they could to keep the OOD’s name out of the headlines, I speculated to my son that it was a she. Turns out all the key people (except one officer in the CIC) were female!
Indeed, I did some searching, and Lt. Coppock pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty. Lt. Combs faced a hearing last month:
In an 11-hour hearing, prosecutors painted a picture of Lt. Irian Woodley, the ship’s surface warfare coordinator, and Lt. Natalie Combs, the tactical action officer, as failing at their jobs, not using the tools at their disposal properly and not communicating adequately.
They became complacent with faulty equipment and did not seek to get it fixed, and they failed to communicate with the bridge, the prosecution argued. Had they done those things, the government contended, they would have been able to avert the collision. That two of the officers — Coppock and Combs — involved in this fatal incident were female suggests that discipline and training standards have been lowered for the sake of “gender integration,” which was a major policy push at the Pentagon during the Obama administration.
It could be that senior officers, knowing their promotions may hinge on enthusiastic support for “gender integration,” are reluctant to enforce standards for the women under their command.
This was the story of Kara Hultgreen, the Navy pilot who died in a 1994 F-14 crash. Investigation showed that Hultgreen had been allowed to proceed in her training after errors that would have meant a washout for any male pilot. But the Clinton administration was pushing for female fighter pilots, which resulted in a competition between the Navy and Air Force to put women into these combat roles.
It is not necessary to believe that (a) women shouldn’t be fighter pilots, in order to believe (b) lowering standards for the sake of quotas is a bad idea. Of course, you may believe both (a) and (b), but it is (b) that gets people killed.
It seems obvious that the Pentagon (and the liberal media) sought to suppress full knowledge of what happened to the Fitzgerald in the immediate aftermath of the June 2017 incident that killed seven sailors, in the same way the details of Kara Hultgreen’s death were suppressed. It took investigative reporters like Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times a lot of hard work to find out what actually happened to Hultgreen. Let’s hope other reporters will dig into what’s happening in our military with the “gender intergration” agenda at the Pentagon now.
Army to extend Infantry OSUT to bolster Soldier lethality | Article | The ...
https://www.army.mil/.../army_to_extend_infantry_osut_to_bolster_soldier_lethality
Apr 3, 2018 - — The Army will extend Infantry one-station unit training from 14 to 21 weeks under a pilot program beginning in July. The expanded OSUT will add a combatives course, combat lifesavers course, more day and night land navigation, and different weapons qualifications.
Oh, man, the Iranian Tranny Commandos are gonna give our guys such a beating with their purses...
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