of bonuses and promotions.
A last ditch type of move if you ask me. Five grand immediate cash bonus (less taxes probably), instant promotion to E-6 and if you recruit 24 warm bodies inside 24 months, promotion to E-7. Sounds like bad news to me. They're desperate!
A couple of months ago I heard a high school senior that was basically a redneck type telling me that all his life he wanted to be a soldier but has decided to take up HVAC at a community college instead.
I asked him why and he said he wanted no part of an army full of transgenders, pink haired fat chicks and that sort of thing.
Can't say as I blamed him a single bit.
An army is designed to kill people and break things and anything that enables it to do so is a good thing. Giving a GI a hammer or wrecking bar is a positive step. Giving him access to state of the art firearms and high explosives is better yet.
The army has lost its path and is trying to become some kind of retarded social experiment.
They have done about as good a job as the Bud Light people have in alienating their customer base but it's taken more time. Bud light done went and pissed off the rednecks that used to drink the hell out of it. Now not so much.
The average GI was a basic redneck kid that had a sense of mission, patriotism, whatever. While I suppose things have changed and they are far more apt to treat, say a gay guy, on an individual basis fairly the gay had to hold up his end of the bargain, too. He's not supposed to rub his sexuality in the face of everyone.
The Army is now catering to problem children instead of it's former fairly solid base and the rednecks don't like it even a little bit.
Solid working class families that have supplied soldiers to the country since the Revolution are now encouraging their sons to do something else. The kid I talked to had a grandfather that was a Vietnam vet and a father who served in Desert Storm and said military service in his family had gone back for as long as he knew.
He wants nothing to do with it and I can't say as I blame him.
Those basic working class redneck kids were the backbone of the services. The GI on the Normandy beach that started cutting up steel and making hedgerow cutters for tanks certainly didn't have a PhD in dance studies. He was most likely a fairly bright redneck kid that looked at a problem and figured out a solution and had the skills to make it happen.
Topside looked at the creation and told them to run with it and likely shook their heads and marveled at the creation in amazement. It wasn't the creation of a group of scientists or military designers, it was the creation of an American youngster GI.
Back when I served I ran into two or three different cases running into a gay guy and I simply kept quiet about it and let sleeping dogs lie because they did their jobs well and kept their sexuality to themselves. I figured it was really none of my business and reporting it would create a $hitstorm and get them kicked out of the service which is what the military used to do. We simply would have lost a pretty good surveyor, an excellent clerk and possibly a damned good medic.
So long as they kept to themselves I was good with it. I didn't care.
I'm pretty sure the youngsters today know any number of gays and probably have a couple of gay friends which is fine but you can bet your ass that their friends don't advertise and that's OK. It is what it is. Serving alongside of them would likely be no problem if they simply do their job.
The problem lies when the services start catering to them and rubbing things in the face of everyone else. It gets old and offensive fast and pisses people off.
Bud Light is just a pissy beer and I don't really know why it was so popular but it was. They alienated their customer base and from what I've seen, it's permanent. Now we have the services doing the same damned thing.
Didn't anybody in the DoD look at the demographics of the people that elect to serve?
I also read where someone suggested an American Foreign Legion which is something I have expressed before. Five years honorable service and full citizenship. It could be the second to last vestige of being a pure soldier, the first being the French Foreign Legion and kept as a place of pure soldiering without the social experimentation but in reality it's a pipe dream because Congress would stick their nose into it and screw that up like they do everything else they come in contact with.
What would be interesting to see happen is how many basic redneck kids would try and weasel their way into it. The FFL on paper doesn't take French citizens but in reality they have a number of them. The enlist them as having come from another French speaking country. I understand French Canadian, Belgium or Swiss are generally used. I would not be surprised to find American kids looking for a challenge to try and get in the same way.
As far as the cadre went, it would very possibly become a plum assignment as a lot of GIs wish the services would revert back to real soldiering.
I suppose if you can get the Tooth Fairy, The Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West to get Congress to form it, leave it alone and keep the social experiments out of it you could have a pretty good fighting force but the various fairies and witches are busy elsewhere so why bother?
Until that happens we might as well have to go with a bunch of pink haired fat chicks and other assorted people we seem to be catering to as our current line of defense.
The rednecks we have depended on for generations simply want no part of it.
Nice going, Department of Defense. You're in the process of destroying the best army the world has ever seen.
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