The first article linked is from one of my favorite curmudgeons. The article by Susan Keating, which he links to in his piece, is really much better.
A Petticoat Military: Comedy in Uniform
by Fred ReedEarth must prepare for the Klingon invasion!
Please tell me I misspelled the K-word.
The marines did not lower their standards to let female officer candidates pass, so the army beat them to Vaginal Valhalla by doing it first! By all dysgenic means let us put our incubators on the front line!
Check out Fred’s article on the widening spiral of our martial descent at the link below.
Below the Lew Rockwell link is the link to the article Fred is referencing by a People magazine babe reporter.
Was It Fixed? Army General Told Subordinates: 'A Woman Will Graduate Ranger School,' Sources Say
BY SUSAN KEATING @SKATZKEATING
09/25/2015 AT 09:30 AM EDT
After reading Susan Keating’s article I would have to say that one of the last nails has been hammered into the martial coffin of the Western World.
What the army brass has done here is so blatantly disingenuous I find it fascinating. Perhaps it simply signals another low point in the U.S. military, like the 70s after so many disgruntled GIs came home from Vietnam. Or, perhaps, this is something different, something more rotten, than that.
The Fix is in. This is merely part of our current Presidential Administration's initiative to "transform" (i.e. destroy) the United States of America by undermining and weakening its major institutions. The majority of the American people will not realize the scope of what has happened unless and until America suffers a catastrophic military defeat. But the effectiveness of our armed forces no longer matters because our political leaders have lost the will to win a war. Such that the efforts of our military have been rendered irrelevant to the outcome of a conflict in any case. Both our adversaries and our allies see this now.
Is this turn of events going to have an adverse effect on the morale and commitment of U.S. Army personnel? Absolutely! How can it not? There is an old Army joke that goes like this: Q: How many Army Rangers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Three. One to change the lightbulb and two to brag about how much tougher Ranger school was when THEY went through it. Henceforth, Ranger school will NEVER again be as tough as it is was before the first women graduated from it. Why bother then?
Weaponsman's take.
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I'm thinking maybe we can farm out some work to Speznaz. I'm sure they'd enjoy the comic relief.
But God forbid we actually have to face them in combat.
Loading women into body bags would be a soul-destroying
experience.
Agreed, agreed and agreed.
Jeremy,
The silver lining is that our armed forces will be less effective when turned on us. My family has been serving for over 100 years and is now done serving as we are not cannon fodder for a PC dictatorship. The things I saw in the armed forces lead me to believe it was a hollow PC force that succeeded simply because of the incompetence of its enemies.
This may sound banal—actually will sound banal—but, "Wow!"
Sorry to hear that it's gotten so bad that the family is out of the military.
That's my third big surprise this week.