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    Guess you just never know.

    If true, then we are really in for some truly horrific times.

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    Higher ranks were always more politically than they were anything else and to become a career military person you HAVE to support the Leftist ideology, or at a minimum put on a face.

    None of this should surprise anyone who was in the service since 2000.


    If you wanted to get promoted, you needed to play the PC game, which meant supporting the ideology and if you didn't at least put a face on it, you were looking at UCMJ action. I remember a policy letter coming down from the president's office (probably around 2009 or so) which prohibited any army personnel from speaking ill about Obama, even on non-duty hours as a matter of disrespecting an officer.
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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    As stated, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Yes, like corporate America, you need to be PC and very political to get ahead. I have a feeling that the more you rise the less “military” you become.

    What will this portend for the future? Time will tell but it is alarming.
    "Erosion of our rights just takes a few good men doing nothing"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Piratesailor View Post
    What will this portend for the future? Time will tell but it is alarming.
    We all know what it means, we just don't like it.
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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    Quote Originally Posted by juskom95 View Post
    Higher ranks were always more politically than they were anything else and to become a career military person you HAVE to support the Leftist ideology, or at a minimum put on a face.

    None of this should surprise anyone who was in the service since 2000.


    If you wanted to get promoted, you needed to play the PC game, which meant supporting the ideology and if you didn't at least put a face on it, you were looking at UCMJ action. I remember a policy letter coming down from the president's office (probably around 2009 or so) which prohibited any army personnel from speaking ill about Obama, even on non-duty hours as a matter of disrespecting an officer.
    I got out in DEC 2000, and it hadn't spread it's vile fingers thru the upper echelon's back then. We still had folks talk about things like the Constitution and Lawful and Unlawful .
    orders.

    Guess times have changed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge7402 View Post
    I got out in DEC 2000, and it hadn't spread it's vile fingers thru the upper echelon's back then. We still had folks talk about things like the Constitution and Lawful and Unlawful .
    orders.

    Guess times have changed
    Talk about unlawful orders, sure, but actually refuse to follow one? Nah.

    I think you've all heard my story on here about the Obama era mission about policing the civilian population? Officers/senior NCO's were %100 for it, lower enlisted not so much; we only heard about the details because a few of us (like myself) were covering down on O2/O3 & E7/E8 positions so we were in the meetings and got copies of the mission.

    Then there were the reprimands (Article 15/UCMJ) if you said ANYTHING negative about Obama, even if you were out of uniform and discussing politics.

    Then there was the Obama era draw down, where the pushed out those who had multiple combat tours and even ended contracts early.
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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