DIE Means the Death of Military Professionalism
American Thinker,
by
John Cauthen
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/21/2023 5:45:22 AM
Recent studies and reporting have highlighted the military's recruiting challenges for fiscal year 2022 with dire projections of future shortfalls in coming years. The reasons for recruiting deficits are many and complex, but one major factor is regressing civilian trust and confidence in the military. Since 2018, from record highs at the end of last century and into the post-9/11 era, positive civilian impressions of the military plummeted. This decreased trust is, in no small measure, due to bipartisan public perceptions of a politicized military from both the left and right.
A 2022 Ronald Reagan Institute survey noted that half of respondents attributed military politicization to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Krause 4/21/2023 6:23:44 AM (No. 1452481)
Well, when you’re in the military you learn to take and obey orders, even from corrupt civilian numbskulls.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/21/2023 7:05:11 AM (No. 1452515)
The military has been reduced from an honorable profession to a necessary evil made up of poppinjays and cowardly frauds. At no time in the past did you see obese generals and other officers wearing size XXL uniforms decorated with rows of unearned medals. Pride is gone, honor no longer exists. This country will pay the price when China gets frisky and everybody runs from the fight.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 4/21/2023 7:48:43 AM (No. 1452551)
The military had been stupid since long before the day I joined, and it just got worse to the point that my retirement was 20 years too late for me. All sorts of bad behavior were ignored if you were a minority or a woman. I saw it even as early as basic training, where they helped the girls over the obstacles they couldn't handle, and one girl almost shot my foot off at the range with no repercussions. Blacks could engage in all sorts of predatory behavior towards women that would get whites an article 15 or worse. One chick filed a complaint about a bikini calendar in a workshop, but had a beach muscle picture of her boyfriend on her desk and that was fine. Commanders were afraid to discipline the protected groups, but had no such fear when it came to us regular types.
Fighting and winning wars became secondary to not making any waves. I cannot recommend the military to any young person any more. Sure, I served with an awful lot of very honorable and capable women and minorities, but the system was skewed and we all knew it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/21/2023 7:54:03 AM (No. 1452553)
Leftists have always despised our Military, and think of it as a "last resort" that should employ forced conscription through a Draft of able-bodied persons. Notice that the Draft was once aimed strictly at young males, but today leftists seek females, as well.
Since the 1970's, Leftists have used our Military as "Lab Rats" in their "Social Engineering" experiments. It is beyond disgusting the way civilian appointees in the Pentagon dehumanize our nation's military. It must stop.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 4/21/2023 10:14:38 AM (No. 1452685)
It is usually depicted as DEI Depravity, Evil, Insanity. Ironically, Dei means 'of God' in Latin. Probably not a coincidence. It is conceptual arsenic: once enough accumulates, the Body Politic dies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/21/2023 10:44:36 AM (No. 1452714)
I love my country and would defend it if I needed to but I'm also discouraging my children from actively pursuing military careers due to all the woke madness and how highers-up in the ranks won't back up their subordinates and would rather play DEI games. I told my boys get your college degrees first and IF you're forced to go into the military (via a last-minute draft) you'll have marginally better chances as officers than as enlisted. In fact I'd support any effort on their part to avoid getting drafted by this corrupt Administration.
Recruitment goals across all service branches aren't being met and if armed conflict with China or other adversaries is inevitable this perverted Administration will be forced to consider restarting the draft. The end result won't be positive.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/21/2023 10:47:45 AM (No. 1452718)
This article mostly addresses the commissioned officer situation, but what happens at the top commissioned level of the military drills down through the ranks to the lowest enlisted level. In that respect the leftist and socialist Democrats have no qualms about loading up both the officer and enlisted ranks with fraudulent warriors, by lowering the entry requirements and allowing large numbers of mentally and physically unfit people, including the proposal to obviously load up the infantry, that those Democrats consider the cannon fodder ranks, even with illegal aliens in return for granting them US citizenship, who once the balloon goes up would no doubt in large numbers skedaddle back to their home countries rather than risk their lives for the old DC “gringos” on some foreign battlefield.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jdhumor 4/21/2023 11:05:13 AM (No. 1452734)
It’s the long term strategy of the left: infiltrate the institutions that it despises or are obstacles to its ultimate success and covertly, but fundamentally, change those institutions from within. Look how the left has already done so with government bureaucracy, education, and, most importantly, local prosecutors’ office.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/21/2023 11:14:53 AM (No. 1452741)
Here's my take on this big bloated 'woke' military, it's all a joke from the CIC to the chow hound generals in charge.
As a draftee in 1968 to deployment in 1969 to a place we should have never trampled on it is useless to give to the likes of Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson.
Would I defend this country if invaded, most definitely not. If Russia invaded in the west and China in the east let Lindsey Graham and Hunter Biden get some skin in the game. I'll only defend my home and family. If the draft was reinstated, I would encourage my grandchildren to dodge it. Fighting for useless politicians is a hopeless endeavor. Joe Biden is not worth it along with the likes of all democrats. This country at this point is not worth spit. Something has to change for me to get my pride back. FJB
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/21/2023 11:17:08 AM (No. 1452744)
and it only took the demcommies being aided by diapers and his lackey administration, 2 and one half years to almost destroy our country, this should never be able to happen, again
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