If you wonder why it’s low, it’s because of things like this:
“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,” one anonymous cadet wrote on the social media sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
a sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
It was female officers who made the cadets march in high heels. Seems like sexual harassment to me.
Also, Alinsky wears high heels.
[Bumped]
This red shoe business is a stunt to embarrass the Army and another example of Alinsky rule #8:
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
The very outrageousness of the order is calculated to get everyone talking about this and to divert attention from every other disaster Obama is presiding over (including the disaster that is Obamacare as well as arming up Iran with Nukes and ICBM’s).
Civilian control over the military is a wonderful thing.
Let’s keep up the pressure through our elected representatives in Congress to put some entries in the EO’s of the top of the command chain that let this happen.
The top of the command chain are all lackeys handpicked by Obama.
I hope at some point they take their oath to defend the Constitution more seriously than their one to obey orders.
You don’t get to be a general or admiral without being a highly political animal. There are a lot of political suck ups and careerists in the top ranks.
I think the soldiers should have had the option of paying someone to take their place. Or they should have been able to pool their money and pay their commander to cancel the order.
Hey, bob admits support for extortion. Who won the over/under pot on that one?
I’m not for extortion, I’m for commerce. Our troops shouldn’t be asked to defend freedom if they can’t participate in a free market. Well, for that matter, regardless of what else they are asked to do, everyone should be able to participate in a free market.
Oh, a theme! I’m reading this backwards so I have no idea what crazy birdtrack you are on.
MfK is my role model!
I hope MfK considers his options under copyright laws regarding your use of his model. It might teach you a good lesson between free market vs capitalism. Unfortunately, it won’t help you understand your various logical fallacies.
Not much money on the “bob jumps off the logical cliff” pot anymore, you have to come up with a precision measured nearly in seconds to make the odds worth wagering.
Oddly he is consistent with progressive tactics vis-a-vis PPACA: first you mandate participation, and then you claim it a free market to pay a fine for opting out of the market. Absolutely no self-awareness of how fines equate to free.
Now Rand, this is just trolling.
I showed that picture to a coworker who is a Master Sergeant in the Army Reserves. He said, “And we wonder why our enemies do not fear us anymore.”
Those ROTC cadets who have not yet incurred a military obligation should take this incident as a sign of how PC the Army has become and resign. I served in the military for 13 years. Both of my sons have served. There’s no way I’d encourage any of my grandchildren to join the military the way it is today.
“There’s no way I’d encourage any of my grandchildren to join the military the way it is today.”
And Obama says, “Mission accomplished.”
Obama and the Democrats don’t want people who have traditionally joined the military to do so.
Yes but that is why Obama is losing in his effort to control guns, and why gun ownership is dramatically up under his administration.
Talking to my coworkers and others who’re still actively in the military, the situation is worse than you can know. There’s no way I’m going to sacrifice my grandchildren to the festering swamp of political correctness that is today’s military. Let the liberals send their kids for a change.
Does the sort of thing you are talking about impact combat missions? I ask not to score some sort of political point, but because the US has servicemembers risking their lives each day on my behalf, and I’m interested in their situation.
(Not to imply that there aren’t non-combat ways of risking one’s life in the military.)
Both directly and indirectly, the answer to your question is yes. Directly, it comes in the form of absurd rules of engagement where soldiers’ lives are needlessly endangered, with the threat of prison time if they make a mistake. Indirectly, when intelligence analysts can’t even call the enemy by its name because of political correctness, that endangers people’s lives.
I don’t know about sexual harassment, but it looks like hazing to me. Oddly, ASU hazing policy seems to think only students can haze students. It certainly seemed like a ritual required for maintenance of membership in an organization with the stated intent to cause personal degradation.