Else we wouldn't have Rangerettes who can't climb a short wall, Navy officers who can't conn a ship without hitting everything afloat, as they dredge up parts from museum pieces to keep their current aircraft flying, Air Force generals pimping for a white elephant plane that cannot fly, missile officers cheating on their proficiency tests, Marine recruits in combat arms who can't throw a grenade without killing themselves, or "combat leaders" who couldn't pass a ruck march, West Point "leaders" who condone open communism from faculty and students, and promote a pack of Affirmative Action cadets who couldn't pass a PRT or meet basic weight and appearance standards, while flashing Black Power signs in uniform. We wouldn't be doing gender reassignment surgeries instead of physical therapy for combat wounded, we wouldn't be spending more money on gender sensitivity counseling than on marksmanship training, and we wouldn't be wavering the insane and drug-addicted into the military in record numbers, just to appease a pack of blue- and pink-haired SJWs.There's plenty of blame to go around - Obama's vow to "fundamentally change the country" following hard on Bush's deployment of too small a force into too big a mission for far, far too long. But we have planes that can't fly, ships that keep hitting other ships, and a brass that seems more devoted to their next promotion than the welfare of the troops that serve under them.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The military is in bad shape
I can't disagree with Aesop's righteous rant:
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Sad days. Don't ask don't tell was obviously the tip of a huge iceberg.
It IS turning around, but undoing 15 years of damage is not going to get fixed overnight...
Is there evidence of that?
Is there evidence of that?
I knew things were bad when the VOLAR came out with stress cards for soldiers going through BCT.
When women were allowed into infantry slots things got worse, as you are aware and as LindaG noted it is "...the tip of the iceberg"
Promotions to O-7 (One Stars) and above are by Presidential approval.
I knew we were screwed when I read that Admiral Locklear who was the Commander US Pacific gave an interview in 2013, stating the climate change (I do not remember if it was still global warming back then) was the biggest threat to our national security.
I cursed.
I did not take the Lord's Name in vain, but I did curse.
Prolongedly.
See also:
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/30/15-military-leaders-who-say-climate-change-is-a/184705
The procedures for promoting field grade officers are codified For the most part, but the boards that they appear before are made up of senior officers and such with the "correct" political ideas per their superiors.
Obama had eight years to insure that the top brass were engaged in rightthink.
Until Obama''s appointees retire out and maybe for another generation our military will not be able to perform its mission of protecting the nation and growing the next leaders and warfighters.
That hope is problematical when 80% of our young men are ineligible to serve (yes it is Service) in our militaries due to criminal records, drug use, obesity, other physical conditions, mental "problems", low IQ, insufficient education, and needing the butts "types". "deletes".
Some of these issues can be corrected in service. Some not.
I do not know, but doubt that the Motivation Platoon or the Fat GuysPlatoons still exist at MCRD at Camp Pendleton.
Maybe they should make a comeback.
...their butts "types" "deletes".
The left sees the military as a threat, correctly, and's moved to destroy it.
They'll fail.
As a "graybeard" in the defense industry, I fear for the future. Equipment operations has become heavily dependent on software, and the new generation of software developers are sorely lacking in the ability to "what if" their way into a solid design.
With "graybeards" becoming scarce, and the Pentagon's politically driven weapons choices - many of which simply do not work - unable to accomplish the mission, we are in worse trouble than anyone knows.
Ed, there are a bunch of articles like this one:
https://sputniknews.com/military/201603281037092200-us-military-defense-spending/
It's complaints about lack of training and readiness funding, but in a way that's my point. It's clear that the destroyers crashed into the other ships because of poor training and crewing shortfalls.
Eagle: "I fear for the future. Equipment operations have become heavily dependent on software..."
I have seen how technology can rule a battle space, but I am reminded of Louis Awerbuck's comment,
"When it’s all over, there’s going to be one guy standing there with a bolt[action] Mauser on top of a hill, with no armor plating on, in short pants and tennis shoes with a hundred year old 1898 Mauser. He’s going to the last man standing. It’s as simple as that."
waepnedmann: Although it's old and from a H.G. Wells story (he was also involved in the filming itself), the first half of the 1936 movie "Things To Come" illustrates Awerbuck's comment.
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