Posted on 07/31/2022 9:37:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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P. Michael Phillips is a retired senior military leader with significant political-military experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and a researcher in the social and cultural reproductive aspects of Civil-Military Relations.
Studies done by the US Dept of Labor have shown that going back 6-7 years, the number of people willing to go into the military, become cops/fireman, the trades, etc, has decreased by about 5% a year.
Emasculating boys, Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram and others have done some legitimate damage to this country. Could be irreversible when looking at what’s going on in schools these days.
Absolatfreakinlutley.
LOL, what next to attract recruits, a Rainbow uniform? It sure as hell isn’t my Army anymore. I remember when you went in you learned responsibility and became a man/woman. You didn’t join to have an operation to change your gender.
All part of the plan to bring about the draft.
Healthy young male patriots don’t want near a drag show or to call their commanding officer “ma’am.”
I’ve talked four high school students out of enlisting this year alone. Trade school is where it is at. The cowardice of the flag officers not pushing back on the clot shot makes them unworthy of trust.
There isn’t a fifth star. Each Service chief owns this.
You are correct. I became an Army SF officer as a Green Beret was a big thing in 66-67. I learned fast in Airborne school how well SEAL types could run. Each branch has it’s own Spec. Ops. The NCO’s in SF taught me more than anyone. I wonder what the whackos can do? We darn sure do not need gays in combat or in hospitals.
Healthy young male patriots don’t want near a drag show or to call their commanding officer “ma’am.”
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And they don’t want to be told they’re racists, be forced to take dangerous vaccines and be sent to hell holes enforcing or protecting the NWO agenda.
They don’t want to be Used and Abused.
I spent 20 years in the Air Force. I retired a long time ago. It was not woke then. Today, I would not go into the USAF, due to wokeness. My son deals with it, because he loves to fly. If he wasn’t a pilot, I don’t think he would be in at all.
Consider that a middle-class male is now resolutely told “back of the bus” not only by the people recruiting him but by the people he’s supposed to lay his life on the line to defend. It’s hard to be patriotic enough to volunteer into a situation where everyone from senior command to media to academia openly wants somebody other than you to succeed and is tilting the playing field to see that it happens.
LOL, probably the best learning experience for me was flunking my first ARTEP. I caught so much flak, and heard so much about the responsibilities of being a leader following that.
I'm not sure it had the intended effect: after a month, I finally told my BC, "ok, I get it. If my neck is on the line, please stay out of my way and let me do my job." IOW, I became a real PITA.
I eventually took all 3 of my platoons through their evaluations without a hitch, and unofficially took over my battery when my BC went catatonic during a battery level ARTEP. The platoon leaders were floundering, missing mission times, etc.
I wasn't at the CP when the BC lost it, I was wearing my other hat as Maintenance Officer, while handling XO duties. When I got back to the CP, my First Sergeant (3 tours in Nam as an Infantry First Sergeant) was sitting on a tree stump with his head in his hands, "it's over, it's over."
All I will add is that my BC was a great staff officer.
If pressed, the AF is the only branch I would recommend, their facilities were far superior to every other branch.
Let brandon take the heat for that.
But I’m sure some of the Stupid party will come to his rescue.
I understand as most BN CO’s in 73-74 in Korea had commanded zip. XO’s, Division staff types etc. Then the WP types who made sure you knew they were going to be Gens. I had great SF CO’s from Majors to O-6’s. The regular Infantry types were much different then the SF NCO’s. Pistol team types and other screw off jobs.
I had 13 years in the USAF, when I got to an Army Community in Germany (18,000 Army, and 2,000 Air Force) I went to a new comers course, at the Army base. We went to eat at the Army dining hall. I was the only Air Force guy in the place. It was the worst food I ever had. I was appalled. Then I saw their barracks, their living conditions. I was appalled. I even sent a letter to the Stars and Stripes, about my observations. They printed it. In the following months, in other articles, they used the same terminology I did. I wonder where they got it? 😀
The USAF operated under the rationale, that if they housed us well, and fed us well, we would be more motivated to work hard.
The explanation I was given by Army officials, was that we are only here, temporarily, we could move out tomorrow, so they didn’t put money into facilities. I said temporarily? You mean like the last 50 years? That kind of temporarily? I wasn’t buying it.
I wonder whether I owe my Army experience in Germany (barracks conditions and food particularly) to your intervention.
1992 - 1995.
If so, thanks.
Get Woke, Go Broke.
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