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Guest Contributor – Ed Brault – 01OCT2025 – Military Revival

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Been a long time coming. I saw the “Social Laboratory Syndrome” creeping through the military for over thirty years. The worst started with Obama’s purge of true warfighters and replacing them with careerist toadies who would rubber-stamp his social agenda. Then the loss of standards in dress, fitness, and appearance, and the transgender idiocy. When Biden came in with his policies and appointments of deviants to high office, I was glad I was retired. Now we have leadership that knows what the military’s job is and will enforce standards, performance and mission…at ALL levels. I admit I had put on weight in my later years, but I could still pass the PT tests, and I worked out every day, and could keep up or surpass the younger troops, even working for three hours in a Level-A HAZMAT suit in 90-degree heat.
I’m waiting to see how many of the perfumed princes at that meeting put in for retirement.

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Chemist

“Full disclosure: I have never served.
But I have to believe that the PT standards are different for a logistics specialist than for a Special Forces operator.
So if you have some middle age spread but still can pass the PT test for your specification – that’s all Pete is asking for.
And I think that’s fair.
We’ve all seen the videos of the 110 pound female cop trying to control a 300 pound ‘roided up perp and they are not pretty. (The videos, not the cops. Or the perps.)
But I hope to never see the day when a 200 pound jihadi starts pounding on undersized US servicewomen.

If this makes me a misogynist – then the definition is wrong.”

 

Jess

“My brother was in the Air Force, looked good, not carrying any noticeable weight, achieved Staff Sargent, and was over ten years in service, but was worried because he was notified his weight, and waist size, need to lower or face being removed. That was in the eighties. Seeing some of those in the military over the last few years made me wonder what happened to the discipline, since many looked way beyond anything resembling an effective military member demanded thirty years ago.”

No More Dudes in Dresses

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Pete Hegseth gave “the speech.”

And it was a thing of beauty.  He said everybody had to get in shape including generals and admirals.  And he said women will have to pass the male physical fitness standards.

That was remarkable.

Then he said unless they were in special forces, men would have to shave.  That was pretty good.

Then he declared the end of DEI, dudes in dresses and all the rest of the woke nonsense.  And he said that there would be no more exceptions to the rules so that racial and gender “firsts” could be celebrated.

Music to my ears.

He justified all this by saying that every parent in America whose sons (or daughters) were joining the military should know that their children will be surrounded by Americans that were completely qualified to perform the mission and maximize the prospects for success and returning home alive and safe.

Wow!

So, I’ve been waiting for decades for someone to finally say these things.  Clinton and Bush and Obama and Biden all “celebrated” the freak show that the woke military became.  Pushing weak, unqualified women into combat positions and promoting people just to be the first woman or minority or gay or transgender individual to reach some rank or responsibility.

But does this mean we won’t be getting anymore “Admiral Rachel Levines” going forward?

But more importantly what happens to all those women in combat roles when they fail their PT exams?  Where will they end up?  And will there be any useful work for them to do in non-combat roles?  These are important questions.  Our federal government is a bloated bureaucracy and the military is part of that.  There isn’t room for the military to be some kind of make-work organization for people who can’t find a place in civilian life.  We want strong, smart, dedicated and hard-working people defending this country.  And most importantly we can’t afford to make it a work program for men who think they’re women and women who think they’re men.  I’ll have to say, of all Donald Trump’s many exciting and innovative policy initiatives, straightening out the military may be my favorite.  To my mind the corruption of the warrior role in our society is the most dangerous and disgusting aspect of the woke agenda.  For that reason, this initiative of Hegseth’s is extremely timely and barely in time.

I’m curious to see if this speech, all on its own, results in any resignations or retirements among the upper brass that were represented in that audience.  Specifically, I wonder how many really obese generals will just give up and retire rather than lose the hundred pounds they’d need to shed to conform to the height to weight requirements of the military.

I want to follow up on this incident going forward and try to identify whether his dictates are being faithfully obeyed and what tangible results they produce.  To that effect if any of you guys who were military know of any sources for information on how the military is changing (or staying the same) please put information in the comments and I’ll try to follow up on this post with updates.

Guest Contributor -Chemist – 28APR2025 – Military Women

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I have had two friends with daughters who went into the military.
(Small sample size, I know.)
Both young women were stronger than I am and may well have been physically stronger and in better health than I was at 18.
Neither woman saw combat.
Both washed out within a year of graduating basic training for “Medical” reasons.
Whatever medical issue they had was not obvious nor did it affect their ability to work post service. Both were able to carry to term and deliver healthy baby’s. They both get full VA benefits.

IMHO, for these women, military service was a scam to get benefits that will last them the rest of their lives without really earning them.

Guest Contributor -ArthurinCali – 28APR2025 – Military Women

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There are many well-qualified women in the military.

Alright, now with that said, in almost 30 years of active, reserve, and now civilian DoD experience, the parable of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” is probably the best metaphor regarding women in the armed forces. Every reasonable person who has looked at the requirements and conditions sees that it is not an enhancement to try and put women into every role performed in the armed services. Not one single deployment was enhanced with having females around. In fact, it usually presented unnecessary hindrances and complications to the mission at hand. Military service has one purpose — defense of the country and its national interests. To treat the institution as a grand laboratory for social sciences has been a complete detriment overall.

Women in the Military – God Help Us

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I saw two stories today about the military and both of them were associated in one way or another with women and DEI.

The first one has to do with Defense Secretary Hegseth’s orders to force women to pass the same physical fitness tests as men for combat and other physically challenging roles.

You would think this should already be in place since women claim not to be inferior to men in any way.  But reality rears its ugly head and now this will essentially eliminate 99.9% of female candidates from the special forces organizations and a very large chunk of women from even basic combat roles.

This is one of the first things I see happening in the Trump administration that I can point to as a clear improvement on the status quo.  Ever since Obama the military has been woke and women in command positions has been a big part of the problem.  Hopefully now a lot of combat officer positions will be restricted to men and that should have a very positive effect on our combat capability.  Now if there are women who are physically capable of pulling their own weight in combat circumstances, I don’t necessarily think they should be in combat roles.  There are other problems with mixing women and men in close physical quarters.  But at the very least eliminating women who aren’t strong enough to fight from the equation is a big plus.

The second story is a NY Times article about the investigation of the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter and the civilian airliner near Ronald Reagan airport.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/black-hawk-pilot-rebecca-lobach-ignored-key-instruction-before-dc-crashreportclaims-article-151511950

The first item is that the pilot was a woman who was performing a periodic training flight to maintain her flight status.  The article says she had 500 hours of flying experience at that time.  But the most disturbing aspect of the article was the statement that the control tower had warned her of the collision danger and her trainer told her to change course to the left to avoid the collision and she did not.  She had fifteen seconds to change course and she did not.  In addition, the female pilot had some linkage to the Biden White House.  I didn’t see any details about what her role was.  But that immediately raised a red flag in my mind.

So, it’s very easy for me to immediately take these details and say that this disaster was caused by DEI.  Is that fair?  I don’t know, but as a first approximation I think it’s a reasonable starting hypothesis.  If even the NY Times is throwing this woman under the bus, then who am I not to cast the second stone?  And this goes hand in hand with a number of stories I’ve read of women in the military whose aircraft and naval vessel piloting have been less than adequate.  When I think of Camera Girl behind the wheel of her car and all the times I’ve told her to go left and she’s gone right (or other-left as she calls it) I get the sense that DEI can be a recipe for disaster.

Well, anyway, Pete Hegseth, keep going the way you are.  Put women back in the kitchen and the nursery and everyone will be that much safer and happier.

Update:

Here’s another more detailed article about the female helicopter pilot.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 09JUN2024 – When the CO’s In a Skirt

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They poisoned the well and they also shot themselves in the foot. The US DEPENDS on mostly White, hetero teenagers to fill our military. That’s the majority demographic in the US. Sponsoring combat video games and financing and supporting Top Gun movies can only go so far. The gender agenda is indeed poison. I can imagine the reaction if any of my commanding male officers had shown up at formation in a female officers skirt.

Those who do still join rapidly become disillusioned and leave after their first enlistment. Fewer and fewer make it a career. Reenlistment bonuses are high but that’s not enough. Most of them cannot stand their current C-in-C. They saw running from Afghanistan with our tails between our legs as betrayal. Making the Taliban the best equipped military in the region with our abandoned weapons was close to treason. All Biden taught Russia, China, North Korea and Iran is that if you string it out long enough, America will quit. Even if America wins all the battles, the enemy can outlast our cowardly and self serving politicians.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 04JAN2024 – Military Preparedness

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We may not have to wait. We may be pimp slapped by the Chinese, Iranians, Russians and NK working together. At the rate the youth is quite rightly refusing to enlist, our personnel shortages may prevent us from fighting in two places at once, let alone three or four. Say, the Red Sea and the Taiwan Straits, then Europe and the Levant. If Putin strikes for Poland or Romania or any other NATO member, even as a feint, we’d find ourselves stretched too thin with too few troops to do it all. The left is treasonous and purposely degrading our military. The single objective of the US military is to deter through intimidation. “Come get some!” If that fails we MUST prevail on the battlefield, whether air, space, land, water or cyber. The US military is expensive, but the most expensive thing is a second-rate military. To wit: we must get rid of wokeness and timeouts in training. We need tough sonsofbitches that will wade in and force the enemy to surrender or die. Throat stabbers. Our Secretary of Defense should be an R Lee Ermey sort. Our drill instructors/sergeants/chiefs should be profane, rough, demanding and not afraid to put a recruit in their place by a swift kick in the ass if necessary. Worked for me. Better to train them with stress than bury them because they could not handle stress. There are no time outs and no safe spaces in combat.

Now That Russia Has Taken Ukraine Are the Baltics Next?

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The other day I speculated what our response would be if Russia invaded the Baltic States.  Now that the Ukraine has been occupied and nothing has been done by the West other than some pro-forma sanctions it occurs to me that there really isn’t anything keeping them out of the Baltics.  Not a thing.  Of course, that invites the question, what’s keeping them out of Poland or Germany or France.  Militarily, it’s the same answer.  In each case we only have the threat of nuclear war as a deterrence against Russian military attack and occupation.  By allowing our armed forces to become an LGBTQ poster child instead of a fighting machine we’ve put all our eggs in the nuclear war basket.  And Russia will continue to test us to see where the tipping point is.  Ukraine?  Moldova?  Estonia?  Latvia?  Lithuania?

And once China sees this happening we can forget about Taiwan.  And how about Korea?  Right about now I’m guessing Japan is starting to get a little nervous.  All these dominoes were set in motion when the Left’s world view was adopted by Americans.  When you demonize America and its history and deny the difference between a man and a woman you throw away the basis for the deterrence of an army or even a nuclear stockpile.  Would a woman like Kamala Harris or a feminist man like Joe Biden send troops against the Russians or launch nuclear weapons?  I’m guessing the Russians have decided the answer is no.

Lots of bad things are no longer unthinkable.  Luckily for us the Russians want to sell Europe gas and China wants to sell us everything.  So, they’ll be satisfied to just take the stuff they want.  They don’t have to force us into a fight for our lives.  It’s sort of like the smash and grab attacks on expensive stores.  If the sales staff stays out of the way and lets the thieves take what they want they won’t get hurt.  And what else can you do when you’ve told the police they’re evil.  You’ve thrown away your shield and have to submit to the thieves.

It’s not a happy situation we find ourselves in.  But at least it lays bare the reality of a feminized West.  Without men in charge of the military and foreign policy, non-feminized countries will be free to exert military force as they see fit.  Our safety culture will direct us to take the less dangerous option of hectoring the enemy like a global Karen telling Moscow or Beijing to stop what they’re doing or we’ll tell the UN on them.

But maybe I’m wrong.  Maybe Dementia Joe will stand up on his two feet and take Vladimir Putin behind the barn and lay the smackdown on him.  Maybe he’ll send our tranny brigade against the Russian army.  Size fifteen stiletto heels marching in unison to victory.  The good and bad news is that Biden is responsible and he’ll have to figure this out.  The good news is he’ll take the blame.  The bad news is we’ll have to suffer the consequences.

“O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

Biden Stands Athwart of Ukraine and Shouts, C’mon Man!

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Dementia Joe wants to take Vladimir Putin behind the barn and give him the Corn Pop treatment.  That’s rich.  I can see Republicans trying to get some mileage scaring old ladies and nancy boys by breathlessly claiming that the Biden administration is risking nuclear oblivion by poking the thermonuclear Russian bear.  But I hope no one else thinks Joe Biden is planning on doing anything beyond zooming with his Euro-weenie play pals and saying mean things about Putin.  I mean, “c’mon man,” what in hell could they do?  Germany and half of Europe depends on Russian natural gas just to survive through each winter.  Now that the moronic Greens have shut down all the nuclear power plants outside of France, they all live huddled around their miserable space heaters hoping that the local gas turbine electric plant near them won’t lower the voltage on their hovels to the point where they freeze to death.  I’ve been hoping that Greta Thunberg will ultimately succumb as a hypothermia victim during a brown out in Norway.

Anyway, after the State Department and their European counterparts have a chance to drink a barrel of wine and eat a bunch of caviar and goose liver they’ll send their recommendations to NATO which will say, “We condemn any interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign state of Ukraine and we demand that LGBTQ people be respected, carbon neutral natural gas continue to be pumped into Germany and Hunter Biden receive 10% of all the spoils  divvied up in the aftermath of this tragic but ultimately acceptable bite out of Ukraine autonomy.”

Then Joe will announce this tough but measured response to Russian aggression in a painfully garbled televised speech which will immediately decrease his stature to about where Saddam Hussein was after they dragged him out of his rat hole.  Although I remember Saddam cut a dashing figure in his tighty whiteys in that shot they had of him in the prison.  I doubt Joe would look as sanitary.

All kidding aside.  No one is prying Ukraine from the Russians today.  Maybe before Putin came to power while they were being slapped around by the Chechens.  Not now.  We’ve just spent twenty years degrading our fighting force in demoralizing wars in the Middle East and we’ve filled our ranks with way too many women and sexual deviants and our generals are politically correct bureaucrats who couldn’t even plan an exit from an occupied country.  Our Commander in Chief is a dementia patient and our civilian population is at the point of a cold civil war.

I think the real question we should be asking is what will the EU do when Poland, and the rest of the Eastern European countries desert them and form an alliance with Russia?  Culturally and morally the Russians seem to be much closer to the hearts and minds of the Magyars, the Poles and the other Eastern Europeans.  These are religious people who are repelled by the decadence and nihilism of western countries like Germany and Belgium.  At least the Russians don’t have an ideological reason for forcing third world refugees into these countries the way the EU does.  And the Poles and the Magyars are both disgusted with the EU’s bullying attempts to force them to embrace homosexuality in their culture and especially in the schools.  It would make perfect sense for these countries to equalize their ties with both the East and the West.

And this same situation goes for China.  We’re going to fight a war over Taiwan?  I could see us giving them missiles and aircraft.  But I think the days of us patrolling the South China Sea are over.  What we should do is tell the Koreans and the Japanese to build a few nukes of their own, join the big boys’ club and deal with China as equals.  Our days as the world’s policeman are over.  We exhausted ourselves during the War on Terror (Thanks for nothing W!) and now we need to worry about our own problems.

So, anyone who is worried about Ukrainian Armageddon, relax.  Jo-Jo the dog faced boy may say a bunch of stupid stuff but his keepers won’t let him play with the nuclear football.  Russia is reassembling its western components, Belarus and Ukraine.  The Eastern satellites are also being reined in as we saw with Kazakhstan.  Honestly, I think I’d prefer Russia to China taking hold of those places in Asia.  Russia at least has a European heritage that I find recognizable.  And who knows?  The way things are going Siberia might be a place to live in the future to escape from American cultural dysfunction and lack of freedom.  Think about that.

Who’s Signing Up for the Next War

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I just read today that the House and Senate have bills to mandate women register for the military draft.  Ah, perfect.  Now we’re a hundred percent clear that this is a suicide pact we live under.  But what it got me thinking is who will be volunteering for the next war.

Let’s say that the Taliban hands over some of the military aircraft we gave them, to ISIS-K and they manage to fly it in over the southern border and just for the sake of argument, they fly it into the Freedom Tower in Manhattan.  Now granted, it may take a few weeks before anyone in New York gets around to responding to the huge pile of smoldering rubble.  After all the cops really aren’t welcome in the City anymore.  Back in 2001 New York’s iron workers were the ones who showed up on their own to start cutting up the steel to get at the remains of the victims.  Eventually the government starting paying them for their work but they showed up to try and save lives.  I wonder if there’s anyone who would show up this time.  I doubt it.  But eventually even dysfunctional New York will acknowledge that they’ve been attacked.  Then what?

If the Taliban give a big old belly laugh and say, “What goes around comes around.”  What exactly will Washington do?  If Dementia Joe goes on tv and mumbles about honor and duty and rallying around the flag who is going to sign up to invade Afghanistan?

I’m guessing there will be a big LGBTQ contingent, maybe fifteen or twenty lesbians and a few eunuch-transgendered guys signing up.  But that’s probably it.  That means if they really want to fight a big war they’ll need to institute the draft.  Now even if they haven’t added women to the draft, I’m guessing that the Democrat voters aren’t going to be thrilled about going to war.  I can’t see Brooklyn hipsters taking up the sword.  Nor do I think that the managerial state is willing to let their kids go toe to toe with Ivan (or even Muhammad).  I don’t think Congress is going to authorize the draft.  Is that the end of the forever wars?  I think so.

We no longer live in a country where patriotism has the same meaning.  Nobody is going to sign up to make Dementia Joe look good.  No one.  Not their side and definitely not our side. Flyover country has no interest in avenging Bill de Blasio and BLM.  In fact, Joe should ask Antifa and BLM for volunteers.  Something tells me no hands will go up.

So, that puts a whole new spin on NATO and the other treaties we have in place.  If I were the Japanese or the South Koreans or especially the Taiwanese, I’d be putting together a nuke or two right about now.  And I’m guessing Ukraine, Belarus and even Poland and Germany are re-evaluating their relationships with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

So, in this brave new world even individual US states will need to evaluate what they think the feds can provide for military assistance.  For instance, Texas is becoming aware of just how powerful the Mexican cartels are becoming inside their borders.  Since Biden seems more interested in helping illegals than protecting American citizens from criminal aliens, at some point, I think Texas will need to formalize policies that under normal circumstances would be the responsibility of the federal agencies like ICE and the FBI.  Arresting illegals that are part of the drug trafficking industry will become a very large part of law enforcement in Texas.  Possibly some of the Texans who formerly might have enlisted in the US Army and Marine Corps might end up working for a Texas law enforcement agency that needs tactical skills.

But I think the big takeaway is that Joe Biden and his woke military are on their own.  The real Americans are done.  Joe can send his girls and trannies to keep the peace in Baghdad and Kabul.  The rest of us will stay at home and protect our own right here.  That’s going to make it a very different world.