Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Right now, many of us vets are looking back on our years of service and wondering what the hell we did it all for. We used to know – for the USA. Yet you look at the disaster that is our country, our culture, and our beloved military, and you just want to go find a wall and pound your head against it. But a lot fewer folks are going to have this problem in the future because a lot fewer young people are joining our military. The Pentagon can’t meet its recruiting goals, and, of course, the fault is our young people, our potential soldiers, for being unwilling to sacrifice their time, and sometimes their lives, in support of the bizarre social pathologies that our garbage ruling class embraces.
The military lost our trust, and it seems uninterested in earning it back. Time for the normals to go on strike until the military becomes a military again instead of a camouflaged faculty lounge.
Why the hell should anybody join the military right now? Don’t tell me that it is “to defend the United States” because that’s not what the military’s primary occupation appears to be anymore. Let’s review. We just had former admiral and current Biden Baghdad Bob, smarmy State Department Spokesperson John Kirby, announce that a “core part” of United States foreign policy is “LGBTQ+ rights.” You know, not a lot of normal people particularly want to suffer and bleed for that blue coastal fetish. Maybe they do in the rich liberal neighborhoods where Kirby’s masters live – actually, they are happy for your kids to suffer and bleed for it, not their own. Oh, and you know what else is a strategic priority? The weather. Who is up to enlist in service of it not being slightly hotter in 200 years? And don’t forget Ukraine – yeah, I know they promise we are just advising and will never get sucked into a war in the Mekong Delta. Oops, I mean the Donbas.
Combine all that with the fact that we aren’t even allowed to protect our border from illegal aliens and the drug smugglers who are killing over 70,000 Americans a year with fentanyl, and normal people are going to shake their heads at the priorities of the ruling class and count themselves out of being its enforcers. Our national interest seems to be anything but protecting our own people. Young folks have noticed, and they are not signing on the line which is dotted.
Our military, which, not coincidentally, has failed to unequivocally win a war in 30 years, did what it always does when it faces a problem. It makes the problem worse by hiring contractors to help them solve it. They hired people to go out and poll young people to find out why young people were not willing to commit their lives to the hands of people whose gross incompetence and total corruption have been on display for the last several decades. And here’s a surprise. You’re gonna be shocked. The answer was exactly what the brass wanted it to be, exculpatory. Turns out the answer the contractors delivered is nothing that challenges the ruling class’s established prejudices or preferences. No, the answer is that American kids are too fat and too sick and mostly too scared to man up and die in the service of our trash, ruling caste fantasies. Phew! No change or reform required by our military. What a relief, and how convenient! And how disgraceful.
Go tell the dead in Kabul that they were “scared,” forced by the gross negligence of senior leadership to mingle in close proximity to unvetted Afghans so that a bomber could get close and blow 13 of them apart. They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t falter. They deserved better.
Here’s what’s missing from the polls – the reality. Even in the past, the vast majority of Americans can’t or don’t want to serve. They have their reasons. Mostly, the reason is that it’s hard, and you can make more money doing much easier things out on the outside. Service is not for everyone or even most people. So really, when you poll about recruiting, you should be polling just the target audience, the segment of people who might actually ever join the military, to find out why those select folks now refuse to.
And a big reason might be that our ruling caste believes – and the military teaches – that these select folks are bad people. The majority of potential recruits are traditional and conservative rural kids, poor kids, and suburban kids, mostly looking to serve their country, maybe make some money for college, and have a life adventure. That’s the reality. And a huge number of them are family members of vets since the military has become a family business in America. So it’s these people you should be polling if you want to find out why these people aren’t showing up anymore.
Here’s what you won’t find in the poll results. You won’t find any reports of potential recruits’ concerns about incompetent military leadership. Kabul, anyone? That part about not winning a war in 30 years? That’s important. I was there the last time we unequivocally won a war. I highly recommend it. It’s much preferable to these long conflicts with inevitably disgraceful exits under the leadership of those medal-be-decked losers in the Pentagon. Nobody wants to be part of a losing team, but that’s what we are right now. You flag officers can tell each other that we are still the most lethal powerful fighting force ever and watch the Chinese laugh.
The potential recruits are particularly disgusted by the gross betrayal of our soldiers over COVID. These idiots threw out thousands of dedicated military personnel because they wouldn’t take an unproven vaccine that actually doesn’t stop transmission and doesn’t prevent you from getting the disease. They were lied to by the generals and admirals and betrayed by the generals and admirals, and now the generals and admirals are scratching their close-cropped heads, wondering why young people won’t commit their lives to their care.
Don’t even get me started on how the military abandoned Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis to the Japanese “justice” system. When I trained in Japan 20 years ago, our allies had far too much respect for us to reject a request to return an unjustly imprisoned American. Now they just laugh at us. And our military nearly cut off his family’s pay! But hey, recruits, totally put your life in the Pentagon’s hands! It’s got your back!
And let’s talk about wokeness. Supposedly wokeness isn’t even a consideration among the recruiting base. Baloney. It’s a huge problem because it’s the conservative Americans who actually serve who are being denigrated and insulted by this DEI crap. Normal people take one look at what is happening – they hear about it from vets and the currently serving – and say, “Hell no, I am not going to devote four years of my life to sitting around being indoctrinated into trans awareness.” The fact that we have a military so essentially frivolous that it allows men pretending to be women to share close quarters with females is proof plenty to the recruiting base that the American military is no longer receptive to normal people.
Here’s how bad it is and how thoroughly this idiotic ideological mind virus has penetrated the leadership. Let me share with you a recent email sent by an active-duty command sergeant major to his/her/xir troops. You need to understand something about a command sergeant major. That’s the guy who stands beside a colonel or a general and has the respect and gravitas to take that officer behind closed doors and say, “Listen up, sir, you’re being stupid.” And a good officer listens. A CSM was once a legend, but the “C” now stands for “clown.” This is an actual email sent by a US Army CSM to American soldiers:
Spread the word.
Tell the ENTIRE formation.
Emma Watson’s HeForShe campaign invites men to join the conversations. “Gender equality is your issue too… Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.” We should all feel empowered to “take action against all form of violence and discrimination faced by women and girls.” (Emma Watson UN speech)
When all of us gain traction on this first step we will all inherently afford this alienable right to all people that raise their right hand, and serve.
Take that, People’s Liberation Army!
R. Lee Ermey himself (unbelievably NSFW) did not possess adequate reserves of profanity to adequately describe this woke nonsense. Now, who is the young man who dreams not of tough training and camaraderie in a band of brothers but of being lectured about the perfidy of his penis for the duration of a four-year hitch? Not the kind you want in your infantry company. Perhaps the military should be spending its time studying Hannibal instead of Hermione.
Now, I’ve got 20 bucks that say half of these brass buffoons don’t even know who the hell Hannibal is. And half of those don’t think Hannibal is worth studying because he was cis, though some may get past that because he was also African.
And let’s not even get into the rest of the racial garbage and the political garbage where you get told you are trash and a traitor because of your race and your politics, particularly conservative, traditional politics. No wonder most vets are telling young people not to go where they are not welcome. You won’t get that from the talking head generals on CNN. You will get it from us retired colonels, majors, captains, and senior noncommissioned officers. When young people come up to us and ask, “Hey, what do you think of me joining?” we tell them that if they join, we will support them, but we don’t recommend it because you can’t trust this military leadership.
Congratulations on losing our trust, generals and admirals and woke E9s – just like you lost the wars you ran. This strike does not make us happy, but sometimes people only learn the hard way, and maybe if the generals and admirals don’t get their fresh meat, they might change course.
As for the rest of you, support our troops. You can best do that by electing someone who will ruthlessly fire most of the generals and admirals and make America’s military great again.
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Normals (We call them SWMWA) much accelerate non-participation, not just in military, but in all activities sanctioned by the borg.
My family has a lineage of citizen soldiery that goes back to the War of Indpendence.
I was the last generation to volunteer to serve and there will definitely be no others if I have anything to do with it.
If you can turn off an historic loyalty to serve your country that runs over two centuries, you’re in deep shit.
I suspect they flooded the country with immigrants in order to pull off a Roman-style mercenary corps to replace us. They certainly weren’t caught off guard by this, they saw it coming for decades.
They can try setting up such a foreign legion, but with the border as wide open as it is, I am betting that very, very, few barbarian invaders will be interested in serving in the military. The reason most of them are here is free stuff and to a lesser extent to work and displace Americans. IF they can hop the border and gain access to all of that without negative consequences, why would they want to join the military and risk their lives and put their liberty on hold. All the military has to offer foreigners is pay, legitimacy, and citizenship. At one point in time that might have been attractive to some of them, now that is just sucker bait.
Assuming the folks pouring over the border are not simply being paid to come over and sit and wait for their moment to become an army of occupation. Because if people and fentanyl are pouring over the border, guns and support likely are too. Thanks Brandon.
AND LETS NOT FORGET ALL THE CHINESE MILITARY AGED MALES THAT HAVE BEEN FLOWING ACROSS THE BORDER SINCE OCTOBER 2022. THEY GET PICKED UP AND THEN DROPPED OFF AT THE LOCAL NGO OFFICE AND THEN DISAPPEAR INTO THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA.
And I can’t even get decent chink food anymore WTF is going on.
Biden, they can’t get need ingredients
That is entirely more likely to be the case than seeing them incorporated into the standing Army. I can easily see irregulars of Chinese origin sent here as immigrants to be Chinese sleepers. Same with Mexicans and other Hispanics who owe allegiance to the drug cartels, same with many moslems who may be aligned with AQ , Iran, or ISIS or whatever. The witches brew of factions potentially operating in a post collapse FUSA is quite varied and volatile. It makes sense that someone commanding within these various introduced factions will organize them into paramilitary formations.
My son is the last in our family to serve after nearly every male has at least served, myself included (actually my boy is still serving but after closing in on a decade is not reupping even after his last promotion and up till a few years ago had planned to serve till retirement)
I’m close to a 12 year old boy whose dream is to be a soldier in the military one day.
And I must say he is phenomenal when it comes to his knowledge and ability with weapons (his marksmanship is superb), his physical ability is outstanding, he has very high pain tolerance, his ability to think strategically is incredible, he’s obsessed with battles of the past and thinks through them…he’s an impressive kid. All in all, he would make an excellent soldier with his talent, skills, and ability.
However, there is no way in hell that the family surrounding this child will let him pursue this career at this point in history.
So…how do you guide a child with this passion and interest in these times? What should he focus on? How else could he use these skills?
Steer him towards the Les Stroud, SurvivorMan series.
Learning to survive in a battle against the elements and the mind. Want to know strategy then survival in the worst conditions is not only physical but mentally as challenging as well. Adding people is another level of difficulty, its ain’t easy.
These are skill sets he may need in the near future, hunter, guide, mad skills with a lot of MacGyver thrown in.
Often people lost in the woods are found by the trail of the very items they could have used to save themselves. They panic and start throwing off items as they try to run out of the forest. Thats part of the mental battle.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SurvivormanLesStroud
Oh, I don’t think I’ve heard of him. Sounds interesting and might be right up his alley.
His b-day is soon and he’ll be a teenager. I want to get him something special, but not sure what. Something that symbolizes a rite of passage-like, so to speak. He already has many weapons (under adult supervision, of course). Maybe something having to do Les Stroud is a good idea.
Btw…if anyone has book recommendations for a 13 year old boy, let me know. Something very masculine…not for a young boy, but not ‘too adult’ either. If that makes sense.
The series covers arctic to tropical survival, solo. ALL of it is practical life saving information, watch a few episodes. None of the fake BS cons like Bear Grills and other fake as shit survivor ‘shows’. The SurvivorMan series is for serious survival, not for play or pretending, its based and you build on that.
Later he gets into adding extra hardship by adding people. Want to be a leader then you can’t get any tougher than this. At twelve most of his dreams of military exploits come from video games, movies, various books, its the ultimate soldier in my mind thing. Immaturity.
Give him a book of matches and ask him to catch and fry a fish for you. seriously
The SurvivorMan sounds excellent. Thanks for letting me know about him.
For something involving becoming committed to a worthwhile cause — say the saving of our Nation (and, by implication, the White race) — there’s always the Tolkien books starting with The Hobbit and at least through The Lord Of The Rings series.
That’s not too heavy — but the message is clear … and it’s a good one …
You’re speaking my language, Anthony. Thank you!!
Private security? That will be a valuable, lucrative skill in the near future.
Protecting politicals, bankers, scum like gates, soros and other parasites??
That is a tough call. I would say continue to encourage the traditional skills like shooting, hunting, fishing, etc. They will always be useful. Given the age of 12, there is a long enough period of time before this boy reaches adulthood that there is still plenty of time to provide good guidance to him in the years ahead. Frankly, I don’t thing there will be a United States in a year or 2, so 6 years from now seems like a long time. If the boy was about 16 and still dead set on joining it would be much more of an uphill fight with a short window available. That might require some drastic persuasion to keep him out of Uncle Sam’s clutches, but it would be worth it.
Yes, you’re right. There is plenty of time still.
But, he’s already searching up military schools and what it requires to get accepted to these schools. This kid is homeschooled and is trying to make sure he checks the boxes to get the requirements.
BUT…it’s not something he should worry about, because he won’t be going to these schools if his family has a say. #dreamcrushers
#dreamcrushers or dream-redirectional. Nobody has been to the moon, so we’re told, so thats an open field too. 🙂
Nobody has been to the moon
😂 True. I’ll present that as an option.
He sounds like a smart kid, the kind this country used to produce in great numbers and took for granted. Far too many of them ended up killed by the military machine. The Home schooling is the way to go, I would make sure he is aware of the evil being taught and practiced in the public schools and the wider society that is designed to make him a 2nd class citizen. It seems to me that he is likely a prodigious reader of history, and that is a good thing, but the positive light shown on our American Military and its history in the past reflects something that is no longer what it once was. He should be encouraged to read about it through the prism of our current predicament, which is that the military is no longer an honorable institution of excellence, and no longer serves the American People. Once stripped of the prideful mystique of past glories, it can be seen clearly as merely an instrument of tyranny. That pride based upon the accomplishments of the past is the prime motivator for military service in young men coming of age. So it is critical that he understands all of this and does not become entranced with silly things like the Marine Corps dress uniform or jumpwings and Ranger tabs. He is probably smart enough to read the old and the new and come to that conclusion himself, the contradictions are stark after all. Still, in a matter of such importance, he needs enough gentle guidance to keep the legendary teenage infatuation with war and adventure in check. It sounds like he has a bunch of thoughtful adults looking after him, which bodes well.
What an excellent comment and so true. I’m printing that out for his family to read.
Thank you for your insight!
Give him a Black Sabbath album, a Hustler Magazine, twelve pack of Budweiser, and a hit of acid on his next birthday.
😂 Lol.
I said NOT “too adult”. Still want to protect his sweet mind.
Maybe his folks could give him help filling in other life skills like survival and living sort of off the grid and in a few years he and his folks could teach those skills to his peers … raise a whole group of teens … sort of like ‘Red Dawn’ …
Who knows, maybe his peers will know other skills that will enable self-sufficiency and love of our Nation to spread …
I like the way you think. 🙂
Teach him about the truth of this world and let him decide by himself when he come to age.
And, Why? The administration wants weak puppets in key spots. Then you need to ask yourself, why do they need that?
That helps in the Bidet administration following the occupying power’s commands and orders.
Mercans are hurting democrat party boss mark milleys feelings by not joining his mighty faggot force for freedumb.
At least he can find comfort in the loving arms of admiral levine.
Those the gods would destroy they first make mad. Either a quote or a paraphrase but either way a light on current events.
Mad? Moar like fukking criminally psychotic looney tunes.
But, yes; Kurrayzee!
Best way I can think of to end up with a 100% fag military.
Fine! Let the fags lose the next one.
I got no problem sending fags into a meat grinder.
Sometimes things work out really well. 🙂
If you want to fuck something up, put a nigger in charge.
…or, dare I say it? A woman.
Really want to screw it up, put a big fat black womanly in charge. She already has a chip on her shoulder the size of a redwood.
That’s dark…pun intended!
Good.
War is a Racket.
Unfortunately, Americans still trust the rest of .gov, apparently:
I’ve seen it in the workplace, too. People naturally crave strong leaders and they intuitively know whether the leader has the best interest of the followers at heart. It gets back to cave man times. You don’t want to entrust your life to someone who runs at the sight of a sabre tooth tiger or to a guy that does nothing but schedule useless meetings, shuffles paperwork and takes coffee breaks. If someone rises to his level of incompetence and you find yourself having such a boss, you can set the clock to a half a year and people are going to leave or quiet quit.
I’m going to the legion for a beer . I love how the military exploits expand with alcohol intake.
Interesting fact.
Honestly, I wouldn’t trust the Pentagon with my dog…too many freaks and sodomites.
… and too much expenditure of our hard-earned tax dollars and weapons and personnel for ‘our friend and ally’ who’s never done anything either friendly or in alliance with US …
Remember The Liberty …
Remember the Liberty…I bet the little Khazarian Jew Zelinsky could play that on his piano…
Who wants to go fight a war for people who would just as soon see you dead. These fools can go fight their own wars. Common sense seems to be a rare commodity these days.
Stopped trusting the Pentagon?
Never started.
YA KNOW, AT LEAST GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD HAD THE DECENCY TO FLEE TO ENGLAND AT THE END OF THE REVOLUTION.
Fear for one’s own life is not decency.
He knew the punishment for his treason. So did our forefathers if they lost, yet they fought, and won.
People Are 3D Printing Anti-Tank Rocket Launchers Now
For those without a national defense budget or security clearance, a knockoff AT4 is poised to enter the market. Developed by hobbyist designers in Texas using a 3D-printer and other homemade parts, the weapon is not yet ready to take out a tank—or even a flimsy plywood target, as a recent test demonstration revealed. But the unveiling of the cloneable launcher and its powerful plastic rockets could have major implications for modern warfare, providing armies and insurgencies with easy access to cheap and disposable anti-armor weapons.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3wxa/3d-printed-rocket-launcher
The author forgets to mention that about 70+% of all potential recruits are unfit for active duty … even with all of the relaxed and dumbed-down enlistment requirements.
That hasn’t changed in decades. They were saying that when I joined in the 90s.
Wow, even that faggot douchebag Kurt Schlichter sees that the US military serves in no defensive capacity, but of course the fool still thinks it did in the recent past.
“As for the rest of you, support our troops.”
Nope