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2022-07-23 -Great Cultural Revolution

Pentagon should end 'woke' hunt for military extremism, says fmr Green Beret

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 All I have to say is that $500,000 would buy an awful lot of tie-down chains……

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-07-23 10:42|| 2022-07-23 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Not gonna happen. The die has already been cast, and we're way down the rabbit hole.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-07-23 11:44|| 2022-07-23 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe it all began with departments of defence. We were all right when we just had war offices.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-23 13:00|| 2022-07-23 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 There is another half of this they are not showing, Retention. Enlistment goals are worked to cover for losses as members leave and don't re-up. So, what are the retention rates for those at 4yrs, 8yrs and 12 years. Those are skilled service members and you don't replace a 8 year experienced vet with a recruit. It's one big calculation of input-process-output in crunching those numbers. If your retention craters and you have terrible recruiting, its over with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-23 16:48|| 2022-07-23 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Reports are Army recruiting is sucking a syphilitic monkey scrotum. The Marines actually exceeded their retention target. Probably because they are not woke (yet).

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-23 16:54|| 2022-07-23 16:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I shudder to think if a situation ever develops, what Austin's 100,000 would look like.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-23 17:19|| 2022-07-23 17:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Going to guess the woke cadres are still a conspicuous minority. While they know the administrative corps has their backs, they still swim in a sea where dangerous stuff goes on every day and accidents do happen.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-23 17:31|| 2022-07-23 17:31|| Front Page Top

#8 # 6 Dron -- Oddly "McNamara's 100,000" was the first thing I thought of when I started reading about the shortfalls. A really terrible idea that had terrible consequences, so it's almost certain to happen again.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-23 17:43|| 2022-07-23 17:43|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem with "McNamara's 100,000" was that they left the recruit's brains in their human bodies rather than using them to manage sensors, weapons and vending machines like we are able to do now thanks to improvements in AI and wetware interfaces.

Posted by SteveS 2022-07-23 17:59|| 2022-07-23 17:59|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ LOL, I think.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-23 18:06|| 2022-07-23 18:06|| Front Page Top

#11 The problem with McNamara's 100,000 was McNamara, Kissinger, and Johnson.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-23 18:18|| 2022-07-23 18:18|| Front Page Top

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