I was reading from David Hackworth blog, here is a quick bio of Hack,
David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005), also known as "
Hack," was a prominent
military journalist and a former
United States Army colonel who was decorated in both the
Korean War and
Vietnam War. Hackworth is known for his role in the creation and command of
Tiger Force, a military unit which was formed in
South Vietnam to apply
guerrilla warfare tactics against
Viet Cong guerrilla fighters.
You can read the rest of his bio on Wiki
Here.
I didn't agree with everything that Hack espoused especially the anti-nuclear stuff, he believed that we should disarm and the Soviet Union get a pass and I personally disagreed with him. But the guy was a warrior, somebody that wins 10 silver stars for valor plus a myriad of other awards is worthy of respect. He was always in the warfighters corner, and he had distain for the "perfumed Princes" that were more interested in their careers rather than taking care of the troops. He was especially critical of Bill Clinton and his pushing a feminist agenda on the U.S Military to eradicate the last vestiges of testosterone in the American Society. This comment was taken off his blog by the guy that updated the original.
Original title - Dereliction of Duty – The Feather Merchants, Duds
and Perfumed Princes that Sold out the US Military to Political
Correctness
Dereliction of duty is a specific offense under
United States Code Title 10, Section 892, Article 92 and applies to all
branches of the US military. A service member who is derelict has
willfully refused to perform his duties (or follow a given order) or has
incapacitated himself in such a way that he cannot perform his duties.
Article 92 also applies to service members whose acts or omissions rise
to the level of criminally negligent behavior.
The US military is in Deep Kimchi. The US military is a non-military, military in 2017.
Since
late 1991, the military has been attacked by leftists and militant
feminists who were determined to transform the last bastion of
masculinity in American society. With the help of traitorous enablers in
the military and civilian government officials, their efforts have been
more successful than their wildest dreams.
A Maoist cultural
revolution has slowly engulfed the military, with the results that
today’s US armed forces are totally feminized, led by perfumed princes,
focused on things that have nothing to do with war fighting and in many
regards, ill-prepared for combat on the high seas, on land and in the
air.
The US military in 2017 is being largely run by senior
leaders who believe the military is no different than a corporation,
except the military has cool uniforms and high explosives. Hollywood
values are now the norm and the spirit of the bayonet is no longer,
kill, kill, kill; but, diversity.
Sure, we have cool technology,
predator drones and nukes. Yes, the SEALs, when they’re not selling
juicers or video games, are still eating glass and urinating napalm.
Yes, there are still motivated troopers, and good NCO’s; but as a
composite, competent, effective and lethal instrument of death to our
enemies, the military is a shadow of its former greatness during the
Cold War and in Desert Storm. This is not the military that Tom Clancy
idolized and wrote about. It’s the military Claudia Kennedy and Patricia
Schroeder wanted…and got.
In the last few years, the list of
politically correct and socially engineered lunacy in the military seems
like something out of a science fiction movie.
The nation has
watched as male US Army ROTC cadets were ordered to parade around in red
high heels to show their empathy towards rape victims. Soldiers from
the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry Division, a unit that landed, fought
and died on Omaha Beach (in addition to every other war in the 20th and
21st Century) were ordered to conduct physical training in pregnancy
simulators to make men understand how difficult it is to exercise while
pregnant. US service personnel were ordered to take white privilege
classes, and training which instructed them that the Bible and the
Constitution are sexist documents. The Secretary of the Army distributed
a memorandum for record to worldwide commands, which instructed
commanders to ‘balance lactation support and readiness.’ At Fort
Benning, a conspiracy as grand as the Kennedy assassination ensured that
three women, including a 37 year old mommy, graduated from Ranger
School, a move which gave Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the green
light to authorize women to serve in the combat arms and special
operations units. To brainwash an entire generation of young marines, so
called ‘unconscious bias training’ is conducted at marine bases to try
and convince young men that Mary Jane can hack it in combat with the Old
Breed on Peleliu and Okinawa.
At the US Air Force Academy, a
lesbian serves as the commandant of cadets. While a lesbian unfurls the
colors in Colorado Spring, a veteran combat pilot and Air Force Major
General is thrown out of the service for telling a subordinate that he
was ‘drunker than 10,000 Indians.’
In the Navy, 16 out of every
100 females are medically evacuated from ships because of pregnancies.
In fact, a baby was born on board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower last
September. The Navy smoke and mirrors unit went into action immediately.
The idea of a baby being born on a US ship of war was looked at as
something normal and the Navy even said they were happy to welcome a new
member of the Navy family.
Good God. Raymond Spruance is rolling in his grave.
Meanwhile,
the 7th Fleet is still reeling from the Fat Leonard Scandal and is
having problems navigating at sea. Collisions in the last year have cost
the lives of 17 sailors. In the 5th Fleet last year, a young navy
officer willingly surrendered his crews and craft to outgunned Iranian
thugs. When in captivity, the young officer continued to violate every
tenet of the Code of Conduct, by thanking the Iranians for their
hospitality, while one of his men weeped openly on camera like a guest
on Oprah.
In the army, senior leaders, realizing that they have
no armored or mechanized skills left in the force are desperately trying
to turn the army of none overnight into the army that won the Cold War
and Desert Storm. Good luck.
Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un seems to have
figured out that our missile defense might just very well be full of
sound and fury and signifying nothing.
How did all this happen and who’s responsible?
The
demise of the US military essentially started the day the Gulf War
ended. The war, which had all the nastiness of war from the past, was
seen by the public as a video game, where the enemy just laid down their
arms and surrendered en masse. War was now clean and bloodless.
Sergeant Stryker was no longer needed to storm the ash laden hills of
Iwo Jima. Suzie Q could kill the enemy at stand-off ranges by merely
pushing buttons.
And, so the feminist fantasies, the PC madness and the social engineering insanity commenced.
Then there was Tailhook…
The
Tailhook Affair took place in September of 1991, when Navy and Marine
Corps aviators at the yearly convention in Las Vegas were accused of
drinking and lewd behavior. Feminists in Congress and in the Beltway saw
their moment to wreak havoc on the military’s masculine culture.
Tailhook became a feminist slaughterhouse, where hundreds of seasoned
and exceptional US Navy and Marine Corps officers, including Chief of
Naval Operations, Admiral Frank Kelso, were keel-hauled by the Navy for
drinking, carousing, indecent conduct and drummed up charges of sexual
assault. Imagine that, aviators who drink and get laid; can’t have that
in the military.
In a 1992 Newsweek article on Tailhook, the
writer states, “It won’t be easy changing the macho atmosphere of the
Navy, which has lagged behind the other services in addressing sexual
harassment.”
God knows we wouldn’t want macho military people in
the military; the hell with Sergeant York and Chris Kyle. Send in Nathan
Lane and Liberace…
Actually, it was pretty easy to change the
macho environment of the Navy. All you had to do was s-can all the
warriors and gradually fill the ranks with powder puff leaders who are
PC wallflowers; the result, a surface navy that can’t sail from one end
of the lagoon on Gilligan’s Island to the other.
The following is
a list of some of those responsible for the current state of the
military. There are many others, hundreds; the criminally negligent
feather merchants, duds and perfumed princes who sold out the military
to political correctness and the let the armed forces be socially
engineered into the fiasco we have today:
The Tailhook witch hunt
was conducted by Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Barbara S. Pope, who,
along with Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder are the first villains in
the death of the US military. Pope chaired an ad hoc committee that not
only reexamined the roles of women in the military, but put political
pressure on President Bill Clinton to make drastic changes in US
military policy, which included assigning women as combat pilots in the
US military and allowing women to serve on Navy ships, two actions which
contributed to the lack of readiness and the lack of fighting spirit we
see in the Air Force and Navy today. Schroeder had been a left wing
lunatic and advocate of women in combat for years while serving in
Congress. Of course, she, like Pope had actually never been within ten
thousand miles of a combat zone.
The liberal and feminist
militants in the Pentagon and in the Beltway had an ally in the Great
Draft Dodger, President Bill Clinton, who saw the military as a great
place to conduct social experiments.
In 1994, women were also
authorized to serve in support units in the army that they had
traditionally been banned from because the units supported the combat
arms. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili,
looked on and said nothing.
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.’
No, it sure as hell isn’t and that’s a big, big problem.
Before
out-processing from the lean green machine in 2000, Kennedy accused a
fellow general officer of sexual harassment. After all, she’s a
feminist. She currently serves as chairwoman of the Defense Advisory
Committee on Women in the Services and is a menace to the military.
Nine
years after Tailhook and an onslaught of feminist led policies had
already shot holes in the military, my old boss at Soldiers for the
Truth, the late Colonel David Hackworth, wrote about the ridiculous
coddling of young army recruits at Fort Jackson in a 2000 article
titled, ‘The March of the Porcelain Soldiers.’ Hack had travelled to
‘Relaxin’ Jackson himself and saw the effects of nine years of the post
Desert Storm army. He wasn’t impressed.
In 2001, with a
conservative back in the White House, you would have thought that things
might revert back to pre-1991 days. Vice President Dick Cheney, who had
served as Secretary of Defense knew the score. He had read the reports
indicating how poorly coed units in Desert Storm had performed compared
to the rock ‘em, sock ‘em all male combat arms units that won the war in
100 hours.
During the Iraq War, to propagate the fantasy of
women fighting in combat, the Jessica Lynch fairy tale was written by
feminists in the Pentagon. Lynch’s convoy was ambushed in Iraq in 2003.
The feminist propaganda machine went into full swing. She was reportedly
fighting like John Wayne, Nick Rowe and Henry V combined as she killed
multiple enemy soldiers. She was awarded the Bronze Star and her rescue
from the hospital was practically directed by Ridley Scott. In
actuality, when the ambush started, Lynch was unable to chamber her M-16
because it was dirty. Her vehicle soon crashed, knocking her out.
Subsequently, she was taken prisoner and treated in an Iraqi hospital
that was largely empty when Lynch was rescued. She will go down in
history as the only US soldier to received a Bronze Star for getting
cold cocked.
Jessica Lynch will be the first person to tell you she was completely used by perfumed princesses in the Pentagon.
As
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raged, nothing was done to change
anything that had taken place in the Pentagon during the Clinton years.
The die was cast…
The
election of President Barack Obama in 2008, would ignite leftists and
feminists in the Pentagon, in Congress and in the Beltway to finish a
job they had started in 1991. Obama’s mission was to not only
fundamentally change America into a socialist country, but to turn the
military into a Bob Fosse musical with C4.
No one was more
responsible for allowing the military to be destroyed during the Obama
years more than General Martin Dempsey. Dempsey, who was referred to as
‘an echo chamber of the Obama administration’, was the virtual captain
of the Pentagon Titanic, who stood on the bridge calmly as the US
military sank into the Potomac. Under Dempsey’s watch, open
homosexuality was authorized, rules of engagement that got troops killed
in Afghanistan continued, along with the myriad of absurd sensitivity
and diversity training, the collapse of the army’s armor and mechanized
capabilities, while the Obama administration shifted money and focus
away from missile defense as Dempsey said nothing.
One of those
responsible for the abysmal state of the US Navy now is former Secretary
of the Navy, Ray Mabus, who was THE WORST SECRETARY OF THE NAVY IN US
HISTORY. Mabus was a one man social engineering wrecking ball. During
his tenure, the Navy lost ships and quality leaders while the Marine
Corps received a new Orwellian gender neutral dictionary and Soviet
style ‘unconsious bias training.’ In an OPED to the Washington Post,
Mabus wrote that he believed women should serve in combat because he
once watched four female marines negotiate a six foot wall.
Obama’s
willing executioner to implement every single PC directive was none
other than Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. Carter opened all combat
positions in the US military to women in 2016, and with the help of Ray
Mabus, completely ignored the Marines’ 36 million dollar study which
said in no uncertain terms that all male units perform much better in
combat simulated situations than all female and coed units.
After
Dempsey escaped from the Pentagon Titanic in a lifeboat down the
Potomac, he was replaced by General ‘Fighting Joe’ Dunford, who is
clearly against women serving in combat, but never said so publicly, or
resigned his commission in protest. Dunford’s silence helped no one
except Dunford and his pension.
In the summer of 2015, the former
Secretary of the Army, John McHugh conspired with Major General Scott
Miller, the commander of Fort Benning, to graduate several women from
Ranger School. McHugh ignored repeated attempts from Congressman Steve
Russell to present school records for the three women who were passed
through at Fort Benning. Major General Scott Miller, a former member of
Delta Force and a veteran of combat in Mogandishu, sold his soul to
political correctness by ensuring that there were female graduates from
the army’s toughest training. Stories of special coddling for the women,
including showers, special diets, unlimited attempts to pass the course
and pre, pre Ranger training held at Fort Carson, led many to believe
that something was indeed rotten at Fort Benning; along with the fact
that the three female graduates looked very plump on graduation day,
when most men lose 40 to 60 pounds. To this day, Congressman Russell has
never seen the green cards (Ranger School transcripts) for the three
women.
In Congress, Congresswoman Marth McSally, a former A-10
pilot and a feminist Kool Aid consumer, has been a strong supporter of
women to serve in ground combat units and MOS’ even though she has never
experienced ground combat herself.
Others members of Congress
that are vocal and obnoxious supporters for women to serve in combat,
but who know nothing of combat, or the military in general are
Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand and Senator Claire McCaskill.
Then there’s General Mattis…
Mattis
has largely been all talk and very little action. He has done nothing
to reverse any of the Obama era directives except for the transgender
issue, in which he was ordered to by the President.
The jury is still out on General Mattis.
Those
mentioned, as said, are only a smattering of the hundreds of
self-serving military bureaucrats and politicians who sold out the armed
forces because they were more concerned about their pensions, PX
benefits, Tricare and post career salaries than about the soldiers,
sailors, marines and airmen and women.
Anyone who has served,
particularly in the army or marines, knows the phrase, ‘The Mission and
the Men; first the military’s main mission – to train for war, to be
prepared for war and to win those wars. Second, the men and the women
that serve in the military need to know that their leaders and
particularly those at the top are making decisions that will ensure that
they have the best chance to survive training, and more importantly
combat. Our senior leaders are most importantly in charge of people’s
lives. Their actions affect whether your son or daughter comes home in a
box or not.
Frankly, it’s more than obvious that a majority of
the nation’s senior military leaders, senior defined as anyone wearing a
star, haven’t given a damn about the troops for a long time. It’s been
all about soothing feminist fantasies, placating some idiot in Congress
who doesn’t know a FROG-7 from a F-14 and following along with social
engineering that any fool with half a brain knows is plain old insanity.
Should these people be prosecuted for criminal negligence, aka,
dereliction of duty? Can they be? Through their actions, for whatever
motivation, they have put not only the lives of US military personnel in
danger, but the nation itself.
