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Time To Clean House At DoD

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This is idiotic. A jihadist shooting up Fort Hood is “work-place violence,” but people who believe in the Constitution are extremists. This is the worst part:

The SPLC is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide.

Morris Dees and his SPLC is itself a “hate group.” Unfortunately, nothing will be done about this until we get a president who cares, instead of one who supports this Bravo Sierra.

11 thoughts on “Time To Clean House At DoD”

  1. I guess Baghdad Jim and Godzilla (King of the Statists) are now working for the DoD. Maybe Admiral Gerrib brought them in.

  2. This is starting to get frightening. If the military can be turned against the American people, we’re cooked.

  3. This is in line with the rampant political correctness that my coworker (an O-6 in the Army Reserve) described to me. Combine that with the lousy civics education most kids get in school and it is cause for concern. Throughout our history, the military has sworn an oath to the Constitution, not to any politician. How many recruits even know what the Constitution means? From the sound of it, the senior leadership doesn’t know very much about it, either.

  4. Don’t worry. If any people in the military are confused, misguided, or suffer from false consciousness, their political officers will straighten them out.

  5. “For the fifth time in a week, a very serious defense person described Hagel to me in private as “an idiot” or “stupid.” That is chilling.” – Raymond Pritchett

    Start at the top.

  6. A significant portion of our military recruitment (both officer and enlisted) comes from enticing people with goodies like a paid for education. In effect selling their integrity (much vaunted in the military) for handouts, as the first act of their military career. And don’t forget that recruits have to come from somewhere – mostly from our government education system and leftist fever-swamps of “higher learning”. Entitlement culture kids join the military to “get theirs”.

    Don’t be surprised that so few military members actually understand their oath and live up to it, or understand what the purpose of the military is.

    1. Actually, what you describe is one of the most forceful arguments against reinstating the draft — and for why liberals are constantly in favor of it now, despite having opposed it during the Vietnam era — that one can offer.

      Most military volunteers choose to join because they believe in the mission of the military. They’ve been indoctrinated in things the public cesspools schools don’t teach anymore.

      When we have people going overseas to get shot at, the entitlement puppies don’t really tend to see the point in going to all that trouble for goodies they can get just as easily by staying the hell home and maybe spending a summer squatting in a tent in a park downtown pretending to “make a difference” with their up-twinkles and their dialog meetings and their Two-Month Hate on people who create jobs.

    2. During peacetime, your argument might have merit. I do recall some service people complaining during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm period that they only joined the military for the education benefits. However, since 9/11, people who join the military have known they’re likely to spend some time overseas in unpleansant locations. Many of them have pulled multiple tours of duty in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. How much would the military have to pay you to do that?

      The finest people of their generation are not found on college campuses (campi?) but in the military. They knew what they were signing up for. Yes, there are some pretty good benefits but also the near certainty of deployment with the opportunity for injury and death. My youngest son is currently in Afghanistan. Even though he’s working at a hospital, he’s had close calls from rocket attacks and other hazards to his health. Again, how much would they have to pay you to go over there?

  7. I recall reading recently that there’s significant down-sizing going on at the upper levels of the military. If I were a conspiracy-minded type, I might wonder if “politically unreliable” folks were the ones being let go, leaving “reliable” ones in place. I’d always thought that if the SHTF, the military would step in and restore order. Now am not so sure.

    1. Drawdowns happen at the end of every war. The military is especially top heavy. I read a number of years ago (don’t know if it’s still true) that we had more 3 & 4 star generals and admirals than we had in WWII when the military was many times as large.

      I joined the Army in 1975 as the post Vietnam drawdown was underway. There were a lot of officers who either had to leave the service or stay on at an enlisted rank. I was on the receiving end of the big drawdown that started in 1992. At the start of that year, there were 2000 officers in my career category in the Air Force. At the end of the year, the number was 110. It’s hard to take it personally when your slot takes a 94% hit.

      Promotion to O-6 and above is always a political process with only a small percentage gaining flag rank. The competition becomes especially fierce during a drawdown. My O-6 coworker tells me that he’s going to submit his retirement papers this October (he has to submit them a year early) because he can’t stand the political correctness any more. Another coworker is an E-7 in the same unit. He says he’s also retiring next year for the same reason. He told me yesterday that if things keep going the way they’re going now, “we’re going to get our asses handed to us in a few years.” This comes from a man who spent over 1100 days deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq as a reservist.

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