Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Let’s sum up the state of America’s military brass with one appalling comparison between how the admirals, generals, and civilian leaders chose to treat two different service members. One is a young naval officer, Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, a family man who fell unconscious due to a medical condition while driving and accidentally killed two people in a tragic crash and was railroaded into a Japanese prison for three years. The other one is a creepy pervert who was an Army full colonel who put on puppy sex gear – yeah, that’s a thing – over his uniform in social media pics, and who maintained a litter of similarly bizarre subordinate soldiers/degenerate weirdos.
Now, which one of these do you think our current military leadership is still paying?
You get a medal if you guessed Colonel Kink. Or a Milkbone, as the case may be.
Yes, the young Navy lieutenant caught up in this outrageous injustice is not only going to miss out on three years of his little kids’ lives because the United States government was unable to convince the nation that our blood and treasure lets remain free to indulge in Pokémon, Godzilla movies, and anime tentacle porn, to have some compassion over this awful accident. No, our military leadership has decided to cut off his pay, leaving his family not only bereft of their father but in absolute poverty. They had to start a GoFundMe. Yet COL Rin Tin Sin is still cashing his check.
What a pathetic disgrace.
What a damn embarrassment.
What the hell are you people thinking?
You aren’t.
If you were thinking, we might have unequivocally won a major war in the last 30 years.
If you were thinking, you might not have to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for personnel by allowing in Category 4s, the class of recruit the drill sergeants need to remind to breathe.
If you were thinking, this disgusting backstab would never have happened.
And the consequences of this and similar misjudgments that tell our troops that they don’t matter are manifesting more and more in more and more screw-ups. Our military is a mess and getting worse. Do not fall for the brass’s sunny-day hype and hack clichés about how we are still “The Greatest Military Ever Was.” It’s crap, and they know it’s crap – or worse, they don’t know it.
It’s almost impossible to explain to a civilian just how horrible this betrayal is, how corrosive this kind of REMF policy is. The military is based on trust, trust of the leaders that their troops will follow their commands, and trust of the subordinates that their leaders will support them. This stunning decision undermines that essential dynamic. It is a disgraceful sell-out of an American warrior caught in a situation beyond his control. It’s bad enough that the US government was so impotent that it couldn’t turn to Japan and say “Let this guy out!” and have Japan say “Roger, here he is and we’ve also shined his shoes.” This is not some scumbag who raped a local – let that scuzz enjoy the fun that is Japan’s penal system. This is a guy caught up in a situation outside his control and our military is announcing “Hey troops if you need us to help, forget it. We’re screwing you and your family. So, how about re-upping for another hitch? Hello? Hey, where are you going?”
They not only let our guy be shafted but doubled down on their ineptitude by cutting off his family. It’s mind-boggling. You look at that choice and it’s crystal clear. You take care of your guy. But not this Administration. Not this Pentagon. Not these generals and admirals.
Too bad LT Alkonis isn’t Brittany Griner, an America-hating celebrity pronoun person whose great-grandfather came from an approved continent – something that should have been irrelevant but that Biden’s spokeshack made sure we knew was important. They left the Marines behind in the deal that sprung an international arms dealer. What a shock. The Pentagon’s priorities are clear to our troops, and they are not one of them.
Message to the Troops: You don’t matter. Trust us and you put not only yourself but your family at risk.
And the troops are receiving that transmission, Lima Charlie.
Right now, the military is unable to fill its ranks because it has completely alienated the traditional Americans who used to fill those ranks and were the backbone of the military. Why the hell would anyone join today’s military? To be taught that you are evil because of your skin color? To be told your traditional values are insurrectionist? To suffer prejudice in promotions, assignments, and everything else if you don’t check the right boxes? To serve under a commander who is living his adult-only version of “Pound Puppies?”
Our troops see that when they need the leadership behind them, it will be there to stick the knife in. And right now, military veterans are refusing to recommend that young people join. I will not recommend enlisting. None of my retired colleagues will. Why should we? The Pentagon can’t win a war, is obsessed with college faculty lounge woke nonsense, and tops it all off by letting troops in trouble twist in the wind. That’s a tragedy because we loved serving, but this situation has been brought on entirely by a military leadership that pulls this kind of bonehead maneuver.
Somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon, somebody made this decision and no leader in the chain had the stones to say “Wait a minute, what the hell is this?” I get delegating responsibility. I get supporting subordinate leaders. I was a junior officer about the same time most of the current crop of flag officers was, so we learned the same things in the same places, only I didn’t forget. You back your subordinate leaders until you see them screwing the troops, and then you step in. There’s no deference for decisions like that. You have the stars. Act like it.
Let me tell you how it would’ve gone with Secretary of Defense Kurt Schlichter. One of my myriad minions would have seen this, known to come to my palatial office, and said, “Sir, we got a problem. Some dipsmack down the chain denied this guy his pay and benefits.” And then that dipsmack would have gotten a call along the lines of “SecDef says you are going to have the order reinstating his pay and your letter apologizing to the family for this misunderstanding on his desk by the time he gets back from the coffee bar with his latte or you’ll be handing out volleyballs at the Ft. Polk rec center before sundown.” And it would have been fixed. And the message would have gone out – don’t do stupid things that screw our troops.
The betrayal of LT Alkonis and his family is not just one mistake. This is yet another in an endless series of bad calls that are killing what was once, when I was serving back in the day, the greatest fighting force on Earth. From ships catching fire to ships running into each other, to having to recruit from the paste-eating set to perverts in camo, and to getting run out of Afghanistan on a rail with 13 troops killed because of gross incompetence at the top, our military is in trouble. We are going to lose the next war, badly. Ask the troops – they know. And this is a symptom. But it can be fixed in a second – and whether it is or is not is a test.
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The military has been weeding out conservative officers since Barry Soetoro started his “fundamental transformation” of the United States into the United Socialist States of Amerika.
Bush senior and Clinton started it.
During my career as a teacher, I used to recommend the military quite regularly to high school students as a pathway to getting to college. I stopped doing that several years ago, because I wasn’t comfortable referring kids to an outfit that ultimately didn’t have their best interests at heart. As a former soldier, I’m disheartened at the current state of our military, and every former service member that I know is equally discouraged.
God help us, but I think the only way to rectify this situation is to have a Stalin-like purge of the military, and have officers like Col. Dildodog put on trial and shot. SMDH
He’s more likely to make four stars.
Excellent article. Let me add my two cents. A very large proportion of military officers and enlistees are Southerners. This has been the case for a long, long time. Enough. Let other Americans do what they want but no Southerner with an ounce of dignity or self-respect should join the Federal armed forces. Our region and our people have been subjected to a relentless barrage of hate, discrimination, mockery, and disdain. Our heroes – who used to be America’s heroes – are demonized as traitors and the monuments, magnificent and humble, to the dead of a shattered, ruined, and grief-stricken people, are pulled down. Even supposed “conservatives” like the despicable Californian Victor Davis Hanson, spit on their memory.
There was a time when the American people came to their senses and realized that, although they disagreed strongly enough with other Americans to shoot them, it was best to acknowledged that the other side believed right was on its side. No more.
That is fine with me. Georgia farmboys like my Dad, who served throughout WWII and was wounded twice, should never gain lift a finger in defense of this perverted clown show of a nation, until we have sorted it out.
As for me, my Marine Corps sword will sit in a closest until God punishes the bastards who are destroying our country.
Not one more Southerner to feed the Woke, Marxist war machine.
Agreed. I talked my second son out of joining the Corps last year, and I took down the Stars and Stripes on my porch in December 2020 and replaced it with the Stars and Bars.
But inside my farmhouse, I still display my Marine Corps NCO saber as well as my father’s Silver Star, DFC, Bronze Star (V), Purple Heart, Air Medals (V54) and all of the other decorations he earned in RVN and over his long career. Right alongside a full size replica of the 7th South Carolina’s Battle Flag.
Fuck it SS, you earned that sword. It doesn’t belong in a closet. That’s too much like surrender.
This is the way brother.
Yes. My military family of ‘flyover’ men and women are all of this mind. The afghaniraq forever war and the Barry-Hillary state dept of death sealed it. The covid/jab buried it forever.
Our people’s innate sense of duty, honor, sacrifice, and tradition have been completely hijacked by the same wicked powers who would have us enslaved and run from our own lands in shame for not continuing to fall upon our own swords for the next globohomo cause.
No other institution has both relied upon the goodwill of heritage Americans as much- and turned against it so vehemently, as the military.
It is long past time our people retrenched into our own blood and soil and left the empire to rely upon the fickle mercenaries and invader economic conscripts, as is fitting of those reigns that turn out their own people for the gold on foreign shores.
Why we have our men guarding the business development assets of the MIC in places like Germany and Japan and the other 85 (reported) countries is a question that answers itself when we are honest.
The well-earned legacy, including all its rightful mythology, of our military tradition should not be tarnished by the truth that it is completely decoupled from its duty as defender of our Constitution and way of life. That being a war we already lost. And so indeed many sheathed swords are whetting in wait.
“Why we have our men guarding the business development assets of the MIC in places like Germany and Japan and the other 85 (reported) countries is a question that answers itself when we are honest.”
– D.V.
Really cutting close to the bone here…
Yup, I was going to excerpt it and highlight it as you did — that’s the plain fuckin truth right there…
“by the truth that it is completely decoupled from its duty as defender of our Constitution and way of life. ”
But, ONLY since the Whiskey Rebellion Thingy
Shitlicker obviously didnt pay attention when he was in. That has been the way since at least 1951 and gotten worse by orders of magnitude each decade.
20 years ago we had senior ncos with multiple DUIs and not getting any kind of punishment while Joes would get railroaded for lesser offenses and standard army Joe shenanigans.
Those of us that did pay attention got the fuck out since we saw the system for what it is: corrupt and incompetent. Fail your way up and get kept down if you if you were competent and stayed in conventional line units
ZFG, out.
P.S. no amount of deployments allowing me to be the sociopath I am was worth getting killed by my own side. Wars are not to be won. They are to be milked though.
The Pentagram takes orders from the B3RG*.
Auntie knew it was game over, USA government actually captured by a supra-national force, upon seeing the mask and jab policy of Lloyd Austin.
Col Dogshit (the scumbag in full uniform plus the dog mask) — just moar mockery for the Lumpen’s entertainment.
Pentagon failures go waaaaaaay back but the jab policy was the final straw. How can anyone commit to serving the B3rg?
The “greatest fighting force ever” hasn’t won a war in 75 years and only won that one because the Russians did 80% of the fighting….It’s also still using 19th century tactics, which Rommel and North Vietnam made obsolete long ago…
Unconscionable and reprehensible. It’s clear that there’s a ‘war’ on not only White men in our country but on White men who are patriots and wish to serve their country. I feel only revulsion toward the cowards and scum perpetrating this. The lionizing of perverts like the officer in a dog mask makes me sick and causes me to despair for our brave men who are still in uniform. What a travesty. What a humiliation.
SouthernSage’s comments below are right on target.
they don’t care. they are building a woke army of occupation, not an army of defense. it will ultimately be turned loose on we, the people.
The destruction of our military isn’t an accident. It is intentional. At this late hour anyone still serving who isn’t doing everything within their power to get out is likely a willing defender of the Empire of Lies. This is particularly true of Special Ops, and “CIA Contractors.” These guys know far more of the ugly truth than any civilian, and they actually risk their lives to prop up this evil regime. I wish it weren’t true, but it is what it is.
Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis is probably a victim of the mRNA jab.
There is a very well done fake study that says unvaccinated are more likely to get in car accidents.
Come on, get with it, it is all on the level.
Current military leadership is the same as the GOP. Will stab you in the back every chance they get.
While I agree with the underlying premise of the article, that the military has gone woke and doesn’t have the back of enlisted and junior officers, I gotta say WTF kind of example is Slichter bringing us?
…”fell unconscious due to a medical condition while driving and accidentally killed two people in a tragic crash and was railroaded into a Japanese prison for three years.”
“Fell unconscious due to a medical condition”? Had this condition not been previously diagnosed? Was he not given instruction not to operate a vehicle?
Accidentally killed two people and was ‘railroaded’ into a prison for three years. Sheeeit! If I accidentally killed two people with a big truck or a car, I’d be lucky to get off with less than ten to twenty years. The young Lt was hardly “railroaded.” He did the crime. Three years for two deaths would be considered a slap on the wrist in the U.S.
Three fucking years! Idk for sure, but my guess is Japanese prisons are far safer than American prisons.
If I were in the military, overseas, and killed two nationals in a car accident, my pay and benefits certainly would not continue while I did well deserved time. Neither should Lt Whatsisname’s.
Piss poor egg sample of a victim to rally the home front over imo.
The Propaganda of USA!USA!USA!(hi Stucky) has been used forever in order to inspire young men to join the banker’s military. The bankers are now destroying the military. Asking why the bankers no longer need a military might lead to some interesting people. The MIC has used the military for decades. The current weakened military will not be able to be used against Americans. Physically weak, emotionally unstable, and mentally deficient “persons” will run screaming for their “safe rooms and puppies” if they are placed against Vets and country folks. Even the ferals in big city ghettos can take current military. Look at how the men in Afghanistan ran off USA!USA!USA!(hi Stucky) so easily.
Physically weak, emotionally unstable, and mentally deficient “persons” will run screaming for their “safe rooms and puppies” if they are placed against Vets and country folks.
Maybe they’ve all been MKUltra’ed and have had a warrior personality (or two) “installed” in their woke cerebrum. Or the aforementioned B3RG* have already “perfected” the neural network chip-brain interface thingy, and got the woke troops “wired up” that way… Who knows?
Chaos isn’t a bug,it’s a feature!
They are toast…. Paul Craig Roberts doesn’t really know what he is talking about in reference to Russia… They are doing just fine and draining our resources and Europe’s and thank God, will win the Ukraine objective easily…