| WarriorDiplomat |
12-07-2021 18:29 |
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Originally Posted by JimP
(Post 672056)
Warrior Diplomat, spot-on. I was thinking that as I drove into work this morning. Was listening to some shit GEN jack Keane was squawking about on the radio. Different story than I heard from him at 0200 in the morning on top of hill 109 at JRTC back in...96?. i stood next to him as a Bde OC when he was Div CDR and listened to him whine about how unfair it was that his air assault was getting decimated by the 509th. We'd given him the fucking playbook and he apparently didn't have time to read it. His hubris prevented him from fighting the fight that was coming, his arrogance wanted to fight the fight he was prepared to fight. BIG distinction replicated by our current crop of perfumed princes borne out by 20 years of interminable war(s).
I drive into work in the early AM and on the rare occasion the troops are actually out doing PT it looks like a Bataan death march: fat bodies schlepping along, nuclear fall-out littering the back trail; etc. Heard they are going to scrap the new ACFT as 40% of women routinely fail it. can't meet the standards? Change the standards Should put Scotty Miller in as a lane-walker for PT tests, maybe we'd have more women pass it.
But I must say - you look out across the formation and we have such wonderful, incredible diversity: all colors; all weight classes; all body compositions represented with an emphasis on overweight; all conditions of fitness with failing and marginal over-represented. WE MUST BE STRONG AS F*CK!!!
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100% agree with the observations and sentiment. It is a sad state of affairs for the military today....I would love to say that it is hyperbole from media driven fears but I can't it's true and IMO worse than we can see on the outside looking in. I wrote years ago of what I saw as a 2x SWTG instructor one as PI and the other as CI and the very real drop in standards...not only is the institution weak so are this eras troops.
The only thing and I mean ONLY way we can fight a war is our technology....the cancer of weakness takes years and years to get rid of but only under hardship and necessity. The GBs traded life hardening experience for institutional brain washing in the form of high speed schools and college degrees. Hard times make for hard men and necessity produces ingenuity and genius not institutions or degrees lastly culture breeds both....the Democrats deserve serfdom.
I keep explaining to people that weakness is why the Russians are considering retaking the Ukraine....they did it with Obama and now Biden they follow what is happening here and it drives their aggression....why would Putin fear a weak administration and a woke military? You want an idea of what the world thinks of the U.S......just pay attention to the giant game of risk call geo-politics |
