Thursday, May 19, 2016

The US Military – A Fish Rotting from the Head

 
The US Military – A Fish Rotting
from the Head
By Ray Starmann
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The US
military is a fish rotting from the head; a politically correct, feminized,
decrepit, nearly bankrupt force that is one step away from complete obliteration
on the land, on the seas and in the air.

The military is decaying by
the hour. Veterans know it, the troops know it, the military’s senior leaders
know it, yet they do nothing as the floor gives way underneath
them.

From our commander in chief,
to the Secretary of Defense, the secretaries of each service branch, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the admirals and generals, the US military is being led by a
combination of leftists, feminists, selfish careerists and all around lackeys
and yes men.

The current crop of senior
leadership in the US Armed Forces has either green lighted, watched or turned
away in embarrassment as every form of budgetary cut, equipment shortage,
dimwitted national security directive and social engineering policy is hammered
into the military like a thousand nails in a wooden coffin.

We now have a military where Marine
Corps planes don’t have spare parts, where Navy ships are decrepit and Naval air
assets have less range than the planes Bush 41 flew in WWII; where Armor
officers can’t run a tank range; where breastfeeding soldiers express milk in
the field; where the slightest non-PC comment gets you a ticket to unemployed
Obama Land; where male ROTC cadets parade around in red high heels to express
empathy for rape victims; where women are allowed to serve in the Navy SEALs and
the US Army’s Delta Force; where fantasy and delusion have become standard
operating procedures.

An example of the moral
relativism wafting through the Pentagon like Sarin nerve gas are the comments
made by General Mark Milley, the Army Chief of Staff, who sports Ranger and
Special Forces tabs and who once served in the famous 5
th Special Force Group. Milley
told the nation and the world that women will serve in direct ground combat
units and furthermore, he has no problem with young American girls being subject
to a draft that could ultimately send them into direct ground combat units, aka
the infantry.

We’re all supposed to nod in a semi
catatonic state as a man who wore the famed Green Beret spouts out this absolute
nonsense with a poker face. Unless Milley has become some kind of bleeding heart
liberal, I doubt he believes anything he has said. What Milley does believe in
is the greater good of Milley, just like Dempsey believed in the greater good of
Dempsey.

And, look where that’s got
us…

What’s in it for you General Milley,
the Chairman of the JCS once General Joe pops smoke? What’s the price today for
selling out America’s women to mass slaughter on a distant
battlefield?

Tis the season of moral cowardice at
the Pentagon and it’s quite reminiscent of the Vietnam era, when political
perfumed princes skulked through the hallways of the Pentagon like mastodons;
admirals and generals who cared more about their careers than about the troops
and the nation they had sworn to serve.

Some point out that the military is
subordinate to civilian authority. They need to remain silent. I’ll say it
again. Someone with a lot of stars on their shoulders is going to have to fall
on their sword and resign. When they do, they need to hold a press conference
and tell the nation how a combination of the Obama White House and willing
minions are demolishing the military by the hour.

But, this will never happen, mark my
words.

A more realistic option is
this:

The US military must be gutted from
the top down by a President Trump. A President Trump must fire the Secretary of
Defense, the secretaries of each service branch, the entire JCS and every
admiral and general until he gets to a point where he’s cleaned out the perfumed
princes, feather merchants and narcissistic careerists who have run roughshod
over the military in order to pursue their own goals.

The US
Army was on the verge of self-destructing in the post- Vietnam years of the
early and mid 1970’s. What saved it from imploding were the field grade officers
and some tough and truthful general officers who maintained Army traditions and
who rebuilt it from the bottom up; men like Dick Cavazos, Carl Vuono, Shy Meyer,
Paul “Butch” Funk, Norman Schwarkopf and Fred Franks.

In 1974, the Army’s problems were at
the bottom, not the top. The Army had soldiers who were thugs, gang bangers,
druggies and race baiters. Race riots were common and officers were afraid to
walk into a barracks without being armed.

The troublemakers were
discharged, the new volunteer Army began to slowly attract motivated and better
educated soldiers and with the election of Ronald Reagan money flooded into the
lean green machine; resulting in new equipment like the M1 tank and funds for
endless training at places like Hohenfels in Bavaria and on major NATO exercises
like REFORGER.

By 1990, the US Army was a
magnificently trained and equipped fighting force. The men responsible for the
military’s ascent were the senior leaders who had seen the military savaged by
political generals and admirals.

General Fred Franks, an
amputee, who rose to lead the VII Corps to victory in the Gulf War is a symbol
for everything the Army’s senior leadership once stood for and doesn’t today;
devotion to duty, honesty, moral courage and most importantly, putting the
troops always above personal ambition.

During the Gulf War, a
soldier in Third Armored Division noticed that General Franks looked very
worried as he spoke to young soldiers. The soldier told General Franks,
“Don’t worry General, we trust you.”

How many soldiers can say the same
thing about their senior leadership today?

A young adult who enlists in the
military must know that their leaders care more about them than their careers
and retirement benefits and investment portfolios.

Wanted: US military senior leadership
with honesty and moral courage. Apply here.




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