I don't believe that putting women in the military caused a decline in standards but how they have been treated. Rape and assault of female service members have skyrocketed while many commanders refuse to seek courts martial for the alleged perpetrators. This in of itself has caused many issues that have further degraded our armed forces.
For the safety and benefit of all, I believe it would be a wise decision to return our female service members back into their own service wings where they will be better able to serve our country without the worry of being harmed while also still being able to enter the majority of areas that their male counterparts serve in....
The US military never really recovered from the Vietnam Conflict. By the time women were allowed to enter the same units as men, the Us Armed Forces were already in decline...
Speaking from experience, junior NCOs cannot produce effective teams when their lowest common denominator soldier must be babied and handheld through rudimentary PT. You hit the nail on the head, here. Lower standards are never useful, but once again the pencil pushers calling the shots do not understand this.
Gen Wilson decided to let Marine Corps end strength drop in order to only recruit and train quality. This paid off in spades. Quality begets quality and the image of the institution does not decline. No compromise on standards. Filling the ranks with the substandard insures that the best depart. It is not just physical fitness, intelligence and discipline. It includes character, values, ethics and suitability. The author accurately lays out the path to irrelevance. The leadership would do well to heed his warnings.
Lowering physical standards is one thing, but when you add Marxist rainbow brigade trans nonsense, you get soldiers who can't even figure out how to tie their shoes, much less fight.
But then, our government is treating the military like a social club.
So far, I've only run into one fully-fledged Marcusian in the world of military education. He, moreover, was still playing the "bait and switch" game with "critical thinking." (The folks who hired him thought he was going to teach logic.) Many others, however, might be described as "woke-adjacent." That is, they write theses with titles like "The Construction of Masculinity in the American Civil War."
The LGBT+ community flies the rainbow flag. The LGBT+pedo+abortion are legion, hence the term brigade. Marxism is behind the LGBT+pedo normalization to destabilize normal culture. The Rainbow Brigade has infiltrated every structure around it and is in the process of destroying it. They want a utopia that can never be.
How are Marxists behind the gays - when the gays have so much money which they flaunt, consume conspicuously - they "just love" expensive designer clothing, pretty jewelry, top-end home remodels, luxury sports cars.
Queers in my area push their ill-gotten (stolen) babies around in $1000 to. $2000 strollers; Bugaboo, Cybex. Baby Jogger, Perego is slumming it for the LGB crew
State Command Sergeant Major describing his interaction with Governor ____ on us deploying to DC. I don’t think he actually said this to the Governor, but he said this to a Troop, I was standing there. I went.
He stayed.
“I’m supporting the warfighter HA HA HA Yuck Yuck” said the O5 commander. 1 minute later I’m doing the duffle bag/ ruck shuffle to the Bus “Appreciate it SGT ____ . Appreciate you” as he waved to me on his way to his car. I went, he stayed.
No one over O3 went .
Nor E7.
Of course not.
No I didn’t volunteer, I just didn’t know then that NO was an option... exercised down to E6 level at least. “NO.
I want no part of this.”
Well.
Listen, all you wrote here is true.
It just doesn’t apply.
At all.
This model just has no relation to the realities. I’m sorry.
It’s just not the real problem at all.
When the leadership and the Salts, minus sentimental fools like me (I went because its 26 in a PLT - 21 total newbies and 5 vets.
I was 1/5- in short the “kids” were hostages). Minus sentimental fools like me... and this sentimental fool is out.
The qualities you refer to in this model aren’t what’s lacking.
We left without ammo too, and an E6 had to beg 15-30 rounds off locals. The state ASP has billions of rounds.
About the locals; the DC ARNG has more than sufficient numbers to deal with any issue in DC. We relieved them that weekend at night. They didn’t have firearms. They had batons.
Last time I saw them on the line was that night.
--- they didn’t trust them with rounds or weapons.----
I’m sorry.
I hate to be a downer.
But this is what happened and how it is...
The leadership hung back.*
The soldiers were sent with empty weapons.
15-30 rounds is a joke, that’s not 1 minute of combat, but it’s enough to justify shooting us.
The qualities lacking aren’t their ASVAB or IQ tests... or PT scores.
*from a career and legal standpoint, they who refused DC 1/6 mission aren’t completely wrong. I and the others who went can be construed as being implicated in *treason* - on the other hand, they who hung back are ... known shirkers now. They who advance regardless... are useful. They who don’t...
The Strategic significance of the National Guard then is: it moves.
"rather than pushing their subordinates to “be all they can be,” leaders devote their best energies to keeping them out of trouble. Rather than focusing on the finer points of enfilade and defilade, commanders waste their time on visits to the brig (or stockade), the award of non-judicial punishment, and the enforcement of increasingly picayune rules."
This was the US military since at least the 1990s and still is.
Curiously, the "Global War on Terror" did little to assuage these dynamics, perhaps because Terror was not in fact the existential threat to the USA it was purported to be. The combat tourists of GWOT were fed and grew fat, both metaphorically and literally. The demonym originating with GWOT is "fobbit," which says it all.
If the US military gets any maxim correct, it's that an "army marches on its stomach"; thing is, it focuses on the stomach more than the marching.
Well gracious yes, but mostly just regular size folks in uniform.
Fat people stand out.
But weight is the least of our problems.
No, really... our leadership is shunning danger and can’t give permission to shoot- the Kabul gate choke (see testimony below) was a normal day with an unusually horrible outcome.
The military's primary purpose in most developed countries is as a way of circulating funds. This means the right companies and nations get contracts, and now we're seeing that military careers must also be only allowed to those who are loyal to the cultural regime and its goals. You shouldn't pay your enemies.
Naturally, this means a greater focus on a whole rainbow of cultural regime elements. The standards and morale slide is not simply a side-effect, but a desired goal. It makes me wonder if Spandrel's idea of Bio-Leninism might actually have had a kernel of truth.
I read somewhere the Germans took a similar approach after Versailles - limited by treaty to a tiny army, they made sure that as far as possible every man was capable of being at least a corporal, so that as and when rearmament came they could scale up far more quickly than their neighbours expected without losing effectiveness.
> In addition to discouraging the enlistment of men and women of quality
Putting women into the military was one of the sources of the decline in standards.
100% correct.
I don't believe that putting women in the military caused a decline in standards but how they have been treated. Rape and assault of female service members have skyrocketed while many commanders refuse to seek courts martial for the alleged perpetrators. This in of itself has caused many issues that have further degraded our armed forces.
For the safety and benefit of all, I believe it would be a wise decision to return our female service members back into their own service wings where they will be better able to serve our country without the worry of being harmed while also still being able to enter the majority of areas that their male counterparts serve in....
> I don't believe that putting women in the military caused a decline in standards
Yes it did. They literally had to lower the physical fitness standards since women couldn't pass the old ones.
The US military never really recovered from the Vietnam Conflict. By the time women were allowed to enter the same units as men, the Us Armed Forces were already in decline...
Speaking from experience, junior NCOs cannot produce effective teams when their lowest common denominator soldier must be babied and handheld through rudimentary PT. You hit the nail on the head, here. Lower standards are never useful, but once again the pencil pushers calling the shots do not understand this.
Gen Wilson decided to let Marine Corps end strength drop in order to only recruit and train quality. This paid off in spades. Quality begets quality and the image of the institution does not decline. No compromise on standards. Filling the ranks with the substandard insures that the best depart. It is not just physical fitness, intelligence and discipline. It includes character, values, ethics and suitability. The author accurately lays out the path to irrelevance. The leadership would do well to heed his warnings.
I remember. I was there.
Lowering physical standards is one thing, but when you add Marxist rainbow brigade trans nonsense, you get soldiers who can't even figure out how to tie their shoes, much less fight.
But then, our government is treating the military like a social club.
That Marxist rainbow brigade sounds vulgar. Is this one brigade, or an archetype for the new cadres? Marxist rainbow trainers?
If the latter, then things are already worse than I realized.
So far, I've only run into one fully-fledged Marcusian in the world of military education. He, moreover, was still playing the "bait and switch" game with "critical thinking." (The folks who hired him thought he was going to teach logic.) Many others, however, might be described as "woke-adjacent." That is, they write theses with titles like "The Construction of Masculinity in the American Civil War."
Marcusa is just one person. There's also Hagle, and Marx, and the Jacobians.
The LGBT+ community flies the rainbow flag. The LGBT+pedo+abortion are legion, hence the term brigade. Marxism is behind the LGBT+pedo normalization to destabilize normal culture. The Rainbow Brigade has infiltrated every structure around it and is in the process of destroying it. They want a utopia that can never be.
How are Marxists behind the gays - when the gays have so much money which they flaunt, consume conspicuously - they "just love" expensive designer clothing, pretty jewelry, top-end home remodels, luxury sports cars.
Queers in my area push their ill-gotten (stolen) babies around in $1000 to. $2000 strollers; Bugaboo, Cybex. Baby Jogger, Perego is slumming it for the LGB crew
Well- about that Oath.
To what___?
“I didn’t swear an Oath to you.”
State Command Sergeant Major describing his interaction with Governor ____ on us deploying to DC. I don’t think he actually said this to the Governor, but he said this to a Troop, I was standing there. I went.
He stayed.
“I’m supporting the warfighter HA HA HA Yuck Yuck” said the O5 commander. 1 minute later I’m doing the duffle bag/ ruck shuffle to the Bus “Appreciate it SGT ____ . Appreciate you” as he waved to me on his way to his car. I went, he stayed.
No one over O3 went .
Nor E7.
Of course not.
No I didn’t volunteer, I just didn’t know then that NO was an option... exercised down to E6 level at least. “NO.
I want no part of this.”
Well.
Listen, all you wrote here is true.
It just doesn’t apply.
At all.
This model just has no relation to the realities. I’m sorry.
It’s just not the real problem at all.
When the leadership and the Salts, minus sentimental fools like me (I went because its 26 in a PLT - 21 total newbies and 5 vets.
I was 1/5- in short the “kids” were hostages). Minus sentimental fools like me... and this sentimental fool is out.
The qualities you refer to in this model aren’t what’s lacking.
We left without ammo too, and an E6 had to beg 15-30 rounds off locals. The state ASP has billions of rounds.
About the locals; the DC ARNG has more than sufficient numbers to deal with any issue in DC. We relieved them that weekend at night. They didn’t have firearms. They had batons.
Last time I saw them on the line was that night.
--- they didn’t trust them with rounds or weapons.----
I’m sorry.
I hate to be a downer.
But this is what happened and how it is...
The leadership hung back.*
The soldiers were sent with empty weapons.
15-30 rounds is a joke, that’s not 1 minute of combat, but it’s enough to justify shooting us.
The qualities lacking aren’t their ASVAB or IQ tests... or PT scores.
*from a career and legal standpoint, they who refused DC 1/6 mission aren’t completely wrong. I and the others who went can be construed as being implicated in *treason* - on the other hand, they who hung back are ... known shirkers now. They who advance regardless... are useful. They who don’t...
The Strategic significance of the National Guard then is: it moves.
.... And yet... it moves.
This nails it!
https://open.substack.com/pub/anarchonomicon/p/why-no-one-wants-to-join-the-military?r=14enoz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
"rather than pushing their subordinates to “be all they can be,” leaders devote their best energies to keeping them out of trouble. Rather than focusing on the finer points of enfilade and defilade, commanders waste their time on visits to the brig (or stockade), the award of non-judicial punishment, and the enforcement of increasingly picayune rules."
This was the US military since at least the 1990s and still is.
Curiously, the "Global War on Terror" did little to assuage these dynamics, perhaps because Terror was not in fact the existential threat to the USA it was purported to be. The combat tourists of GWOT were fed and grew fat, both metaphorically and literally. The demonym originating with GWOT is "fobbit," which says it all.
If the US military gets any maxim correct, it's that an "army marches on its stomach"; thing is, it focuses on the stomach more than the marching.
We really aren’t that fat lol
Not saying that you yourself are fat, but I seen plenty chonky fobbits chowin' down at the mess hall.
Well gracious yes, but mostly just regular size folks in uniform.
Fat people stand out.
But weight is the least of our problems.
No, really... our leadership is shunning danger and can’t give permission to shoot- the Kabul gate choke (see testimony below) was a normal day with an unusually horrible outcome.
Also unusually public.
https://youtu.be/MGfUyC-HMtk?si=CS9GQ-wSYrTz5vXW
I’ll take the fat guy who says shoot. It’s the 21st century which is all about reduced expectations.
"our leadership is shunning danger"
This exactly.
Extreme risk-averseness and actually winning wars are not two great tastes that go great together.
They aren’t showing.
It’s now physically not showing up.
This part is ending... that’s it.
The military's primary purpose in most developed countries is as a way of circulating funds. This means the right companies and nations get contracts, and now we're seeing that military careers must also be only allowed to those who are loyal to the cultural regime and its goals. You shouldn't pay your enemies.
Naturally, this means a greater focus on a whole rainbow of cultural regime elements. The standards and morale slide is not simply a side-effect, but a desired goal. It makes me wonder if Spandrel's idea of Bio-Leninism might actually have had a kernel of truth.
I read somewhere the Germans took a similar approach after Versailles - limited by treaty to a tiny army, they made sure that as far as possible every man was capable of being at least a corporal, so that as and when rearmament came they could scale up far more quickly than their neighbours expected without losing effectiveness.
I’m sure this is true for the military. It is even more true for academia. It’s really the same problem, for the same reason.
Never, never compromise to get warm bodies. They are never worth it. They are actually a negative. Quality will attract quality.