Posted on 03/20/2024 1:32:59 PM PDT by pboyington
MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY…
There is a hijacking in progress.
The US military is being hijacked by feather merchants, perfumed princes, Maoists, social justice warriors, wokesters, feminists, homosexuals, transgenders, radical Democrats, Wellesley wack jobs, Berkeley pinkos, and Beltway swamp creatures.
Aided and abetted by gutless, woke senior military leadership, the worst senior military leadership in US history, bar none; revolutionaries are conducting a great leap backward to destroy every value, every code, every sacred principle, every ideal of sound reason and conduct in the US armed forces; all in the name of diversity, equity and inclusiveness.
What kind of senior leaders does the US military have now? According to Stars and Stripes when reporting on recent nominations:
Navy Vice Adm. Craig Clapperton, nominated for reappointment as vice admiral with an addition of Navy Space Command to his duties, is called out for speaking about the importance of a LGBT celebration at a Navy Pride Month event in 2018.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, nominated for promotion to general and assignment as commander of the Pacific Air Forces, is singled out for claiming diversity, equity and inclusion programs remove barriers and help draw talent to the military.
“This is one of the WOKEST slates of military nominees ever assembled,” an opposition group wrote on X. “Biden's agenda is clear.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville retweeted another post by the group that targeted Army Col. Kareem "Monty" Montague, who is nominated for promotion to brigadier general. The posts call Montague a “radical leftist” and chastise him for speaking out against racism and statues that honor Confederate generals.
Tuberville’s comments were quickly rebutted by recently retired General Ben Hodges:
Hodges, a retired lieutenant general who served as commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, described the attacks put forth by the opposition group and promoted by Tuberville as “disgusting.” “You call these selfless, exceptional people with enormous responsibility for protecting our nation ‘woke’ because they seek to unleash the talent of the women and men under their command?” Hodges wrote on X. “You should thank them for defending your right to say stupid s--t like this.”
Remember one thing. You can’t wear stars now unless you tow the DEI line. Hodges is towing it from Panama to New York Harbor.
Not exactly Lee, Patton, Spruance, Halsey, Chesty Puller, and Norman Schwarkopf are they?
Here are some examples of the woke nonsense taking place every day in the military:
An LGBTQ spoken-word night was held aboard USS Gerald R. Ford, one of the nation's 11 aircraft carriers. At a hearing in April, Senator Tuberville pressed Adm. Mike Gilday, then the Navy's highest-ranking officer, over the event.
"I'll tell you why I'm particularly proud of this sailor," Gilday said in response. "Her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay, and he was ostracized in the very institution that she not only joined and is proud to be a part of, but she volunteered to deploy on Ford. And she'll likely deploy again next month when Ford goes back to sea."
The focus is no longer on war fighting. Obviously.
According to recent reports: In one of the most notorious instances of wokeism in the military under the Biden administration, the Navy Professional Reading Program added books to their reading list that openly promote leftist creeds.
One such book is How to Be Antiracist, a work by prominent leftist scholar Ibram X. Kendi which explicitly argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination” and “capitalism is essentially racist.”
In June 2022, the U.S. Navy came under fire for forcing new recruits to watch training videos on “proper pronoun usage.” A four-minute-long video, which was posted to the website of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, declares, “Using someone’s pronouns is a simple way to affirm someone’s identity.”
In a similar incident from last year, the Marine Corps announced that they were considering banning usage of “sir” and “ma’am” by recruits in order to avoid “misgendering” someone.
In yet another egregious instance of wokeism in the military, the U.S. Army currently pays for “gender transition surgeries” for service members. As Military.com reported in June 2021, “Transgender soldiers can openly serve in the Army and the force will provide hormone therapy, mental health care, and surgeries they might require, according to a force-wide memo.”
According to a June 1 Air Force memo, Air and Space Force commanders were permitted to use “unit funds” to pay for members to “travel to, and participate in, this year’s [Department of the Air Force] Pride events if approved by their individual supervisory authority.”
Newsweek, not exactly a haven of conservative thought reported recently on How the US Military went Woke.
In August, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command released a report on "Women in Combat"—not to analyze the effectiveness of Army Special Operations Forces, but to excoriate itself for supposed persistent bigotry.
Earlier this year, Army officials released a memo making soldiers undergoing "gender transition" non-deployable for almost one year. At a time of severe readiness concerns, such a concession to ideology is absurd. The military should not be in the business of accommodating social ideology if it means accepting non-deployability.
Analysis from the Center for Renewing America indicates over 40 percent of the officers whose promotion Tuberville has held up have publicly supported "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" policies, and dozens of them have egregiously politicized their service through social media comments, speeches, or policy decisions.
No one can sum up themental state of the US military senior leadership now better than John Kirby. He stated:
“The secretary believes it’s important for the American people to know that diversity and equity and inclusion matter to the United States Department of Defense – it matters to the defense of this nation,” Kirby said at a Friday Pentagon news briefing. “You can’t on one hand say that the job is to defend the nation and develop warfighting capabilities and then not talk about the warfighters and who they are and the skills that they possess and what they represent.”
Being a transgender or homosexual is now a skill set? Hey, Bob what’s your MOS?
69Zulu buddy. Drag Queen. What’s yours? I’m a 72Tango, a top. Bruce over there is a 48Bravo, a bottom.
Diversity is our strength!
Let’s face the facts; the US miliary is not a place anymore for heterosexual males. It is no longer a male rite of passage. Why would any young man want to be in the military with standards so low women can pass Ranger School?
In their minds, the wokesters believe that this revolution will create a stronger, more vibrant force that will be victorious fighting future conflicts. They mouth platitudes like ‘diversity is our strength’ ‘equity for all’, ‘inclusiveness’ with the ferocity of Bolsheviks screaming ‘bread for the workers’ at the gates in Petrograd.
Anyone disagreeing with the cultural Maoism that is sweeping through the military is quickly labeled a homophobic, uncaring, out of touch, a MAGA supporter, yada, yada, yada…
Any dissenters are immediately attacked by all ranks on social media by cultural revolutionaries marching in lockstep, arm in arm like reds in Berlin in the 20’s.
Meanwhile, women parade around military bases with hair down to their asses. Beards and Patrick Mahomes hair styles are prevalent. Headgear is optional, even though it isn’t. The military is now home to soldiers with Viking beards, Sikh turbans, Native American feathers, drag queen nights, gay poetry rap and relate sessions that are straight out of a Berkeley coffee house. Basically, things that would make a sergeant major lose his mind over 30 years ago.
What General Pride and Admiral Tranny and Colonel Trotsky don’t understand is that you give up your individuality when your join the military. The military is not a democracy. It’s not there to coddle everyone’s personal beliefs. It’s not there to serve your goofy needs and quirks. The military is a team. When it stops functioning as a team you have chaos, inefficiency and sadly you have death.
Every time a woman is assigned to a combat arms unit, every time training is stopped so everyone can learn how their company commander Bob got pregnant, every moment a woman needs to lactate in the field, every second a unit bows to some crackpot’s bizarro made up religious views, every hour some nut job transgender needs leave for reassignment surgery is slowing down the operational tempo of the US military and handing victory to our enemies.
General Pride and Admiral Tranny and Colonel Trotsky either have forgotten how important operation tempo is for war or just don’t care. I’m betting on just don’t care. Because training to improve operational tempo is always superceded now by DEI briefings and training. You see General Pride and Admiral Tranny and Colonel Trotsky aren't in the military to train for war. They're in the military to conduct a revolution.
In war, victory goes to those who are the swiftest, most competent and most violent. This does not mean being a war monger, it means inflicting violence to end war and establish peace.
In actuality, the US military is in what the Brits like to call a ‘sh*t state.’
Nothing illustrates the current sh*t state of the US military now more than a slew of engineering incidents and continual bad leadership about the USS Boxer.
A command investigation, released to Military.com via a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed that between January and November 2023, the ship was investigated for at least three different engineering breakdowns that, according to the Boxer's strike group commander, were "caused by a lack of procedural compliance, substandard supervisory oversight, and general complacency by the crew."
The investigation revealed that the ship experienced damage to two "forced draft blowers" on Nov. 8, 2022. A separate investigation into that incident, also provided to Military.com via FOIA request, faulted "poor quality craftsmanship, lack of industry repair skill set/capabilities" and a "lack of supervisory oversight" from the Navy offices overseeing the work.
The revelations come amid reports that the Boxer's sister ship, the USS Wasp, is also suffering from maintenance and engineering problems on the East Coast while Navy officials again refuse to elaborate or offer details.
As the drag queen shows and pride months continue and the DEI power point presentations are fired up by perfumed princes worldwide, the US military slips into further decline.
The military is not a testing ground for DEI policies. It is not a welfare state. The military has one mission: to kill people and break things; a mission that has long been forgotten by the worst generation of senior military leadership in US history.
BAR NONE
One of my favorite Rush sayings.
On a positive note, more women and minorities can get killed in some useless Neocon war.
White guys are done fighting.
“I’d wish you luck, but you wouldn’t know what to do with it.”
Ideological fashions come and go. For a while, drug use was tolerated. Then a crackdown was imposed. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that the military has the biggest caliber weapons in the land. Control of that is always worth something.
Two Missions
1) To Kill People
2) To Break Things
It is deliberate sabotage. That is what happens when Communist China picks your leader.
All in O’Dumbo’s plans! Prepare the military to fight a dance contest!
“Her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay”.
Well, apparently there was about 5 minutes that he wasn’t gay...
“and handing victory to our enemies”
Well, it’s the Nueva Woketards who ARE the enemy. So I guess he’s saying they’re handing it to themselves...which appears to be true
Alex Jones predicted this many moons ago....
mine too
When it has to be positively and absolutely destroyed you call in the United States Marine Corps.
“Two Missions
1) To Kill People
2) To Break Things”
It was explained to me when I was in that the purpose of the DoD was to put ordnance on target.
3) Leave a bunch of crying widows and orphans.
Something like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs3gmewuhI
And the day the government put lawyers in battlezones to instruct our troops how not to offend our enemies, is the day this country lost the ability to win a war any way possible.
https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/3411695/2023-pride-month/
https://dodpride.org/pride-events
Don’t forget to buy your “Pride” coins.
:-)
Our infantry mission statement back in the ‘60s was:
“To close with and kill the enemy
To interdict his lines of supply
To deprive him of the will to fight.”
Nothing more needed be said.
lol. Yep, it isn’t the Marine Corps I served in anymore. Sadly.
It all started back when they changed the name of the War Department to the Department of Defense.
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