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2017-09-25 Home Front: Culture Wars
Dereliction of Duty – The Feather Merchants, Duds and Perfumed Princes who Sold out the US Military to Political Correctness
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Reading that hurts.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-25 00:19||   2017-09-25 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet it is true. And has been since Clinton was prez. I was there.
Posted by newc 2017-09-25 00:55||   2017-09-25 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 And yet, what will be done?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-09-25 02:46||   2017-09-25 02:46|| Front Page Top

#4 During the 1990’s Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, was a vocal advocate for women to serve in combat positions in the army, although she herself had never been near any shot and shell. Kennedy’s most famous quote and one which still reverberates through the tattered army today was ‘this is not your father’s army.’

I remember a retirement ceremony at Forces Command (FORSCOM) Fort McPherson, GA. where Kennedy, assigned to the FORSCOM G2 at the time, had to ask an enlisted man to help her assemble her Load Bearing Equipment (LBE) for the ceremony. As a major, she had evidently never been required to learn or practice these basic skills.

Kennedy punched her 'troop leading' ticket at FORSCOM and went on to become a general officer with eventual assignment in D.C. There she was made famous by her 'girly' coffee and mentoring sessions, along with the forced early retirement of a totally clueless male major general IG (Inspector General) colleague. The IG had made the mistake of giving her a congratulatory peck on the cheek in a pentagon meeting. The phrase 'WTF could he have been thinking' echoed through the army intelligence community at the time.

Her book, like her army career, was a sad joke.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-25 05:11||   2017-09-25 05:11|| Front Page Top

#5 One PT test for everyone, that is the one required of all infantry. Bulge, Tet, 507th, at some point, everyone is infantry regardless of 'specialty'. Bring back the auxiliary designation for those who can't, preferably for those 'profiled' due to combat/line of duty injuries.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-25 08:04||   2017-09-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Reality hit for me in the halls of Bldg. 4, United States Army Infantry School Fort Benning, GA. (now called something else) Seeing highly decorated Vietnam combat veterans get their "Reduction in Force" (RIF) papers (pink slip and 90 day notice) at the Infantry Advanced Course, while at the same time, going back and forth to Martin Army Hospital getting treatments for war wounds.

Nasty taste in my mouth, very nasty.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-25 08:12||   2017-09-25 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 First female Marine in history to graduate infantry training course
Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-25 10:08||   2017-09-25 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 And don't forget the female Naval Aviators that died trying to learn how to fly around the boat; rather than fail them, flight instructors were forced to keep on it till they get it.
But Tailhook didn't do the enlisted any favors either. our fault the JO's were dicks.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-09-25 14:21||   2017-09-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Two thoughts.

First this is a deliberate result of the forced retirement of thousands of colonels and dozens of generals who were fighters and leaders.

Second, I was a 2% to major and a graduate of two advanced courses by correspondence and I got a pink slip...never understood why.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-09-25 14:58||   2017-09-25 14:58|| Front Page Top

#10 I would bet those coffee klatsches included discussions about carpets and snacking.
Posted by Clem 2017-09-25 15:15||   2017-09-25 15:15|| Front Page Top

#11 HR McMaster's book was entitled "Dereliction of Duty".

Who says irony is dead?
Posted by charger 2017-09-25 17:59||   2017-09-25 17:59|| Front Page Top

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