- The brass salutes the denigration and threatens to leave if Trump wins — good riddance (and no need to limit yourself to Trump’s fortunes)
- Most of the Republicans would fire them anyway
- Moron the feminization of the military
We agree with Streiff at Red State, not necessarily on his views on Trump, but on his take on the current military hierarchy. (bold emphasis ours)
The Best And Perhaps Only Reason To Vote For Donald Trump … (excerpts)
Under Obama, the “long march” became a sprint. Senior officers who were outspoken Christians were forced into retirement. Into senior leadership slots were inserted yes-men of the worst sort. The suck-up-kick-down types who do whatever the boss tells them to do and ruthlessly punish subordinates for not falling in line. Under the current Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, the collapse of a warrior culture has been complete. Homosexuals were allowed to serve openly with a concomitant increase of sexual assaults on male soldiers. Women were placed aboard submarines with a predictable impact on both morale and discipline. Three women were shepherded through Ranger School for no greater reason than to debase the performance standard there in the name of equality. When the US Marine Corps did an empirical analysis of the performance of all-male versus co-ed infantry units they found the co-ed units performed at about 60% of the standard set by the all-male unit. Ashton Carter’s Pentagon pronounced it biased and disregarded it. Transgendered military persons are not given the psychological discharges they so richly merit but are allowed to serve in whatever fictitious form the wish.
The services are rife with intellectually bankrupt types at all levels who are willing to say or do whatever it takes to get their heads patted by the command structure. In short, under Obama the US military has been transformed from one that demonstrated it could do anything anywhere to a cultural cesspool where megalomaniacs and sexual deviants rule the roost surrounded by battalions of sychophants panting to carry out their orders. . . .
Via The Daily Beast Pentagon Officers: We Quit if Trump Wins.
Just to be clear, these are the same people who went along with abandoning what was accomplished in Iraq. . . . These are the same people who cooked the books on the rise of ISIS because it ran counter to Obama’s wants. . . . These are the same people who stood idly by while professing Christians were forced from the service. These are the people who discharged men who objected to child rape. None of that offended them. . . .
Good riddance. . . .
Also at Red State is this Mark Sanford piece which we think provides a solid take on the implications of Obama’s actions regarding Women in the Military
Last week, the Department of Defense announced it was opening frontline combat roles to women. . . . The Secretary’s decision will now unleash political forces that in the end will make our military weaker. . . .
The Obama Administration has been deadly silent on the issue of women now being forced into the Selective Service System . . . but in 1981 the Supreme Court ruled that a male only draft was constitutional only because women were banned from combat jobs.
The second way in which I believe our military will be hurt is in the inevitable lowering of standards that will hurt mission capability. . . .
. . . The Marines have actually looked deeply at this and recently completed a 1,000-page study that concluded that male units overwhelmingly outperformed integrated units in physical tasks. My sister is a wonderful woman and a far better shot than I am, but she can’t carry me very far. I believe we begin to affect unit cohesion when members of a unit believe their counterparts can’t carry them out of a bad spot in which they may have found themselves.
. . . This year, every woman who sought entry into the Marine Infantry Officer Course failed. While that might be sustainable for a while in one branch, I don’t think it’s sustainable for all branches. There is a reason we don’t see a lot of women in the NFL, and if we really want to try a social experiment, let’s make one-third of the Army football team female and see how they do next year against Navy. But this is not a social experiment, lives hang in the balance.
Asking for more than a directive from the Secretary in this instance does not denigrate the great contribution women make every day in our armed forces or the extraordinary physical ability of some. It means I’m simply weary of unilateral action from this President . . .
