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JimP · 11-19-2021, 08:44

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!!!

11-19-2021, 08:44	#5
JimP Quiet Professional Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: State of confusion Posts: 1,574	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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