R.C.

Murray – Our Military is Facing a Perfect Storm

OUR MILITARY IS FACING A PERFECT

STORM

By R.C. Murray
Date: July 3, 2010
http://www.newswithviews.com/Murray/randy121.htm

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient…” -
Romans 1:28

Storm clouds have gathered against our military forces before, and in every case, American
Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, Airmen and Coasties have met the challenge and protected us from
every outside threat. But a new storm, an internal, perfect storm, if you will, now threatens to
destroy our military and the country with it.

Soon the U.S. Senate will vote to repeal the Clinton-era policy of “Don’t ask; Don’t tell,” thus
opening our military to the most terrible social experiment in U.S. history.

Those who support this paradigm shift in military policy don’t realize they’ll destroy unit
morale, cohesion and discipline and cause tens if not hundreds of thousands of God-fearing,
flag-waving servicemen and women to leave the military en mass. Then again, maybe they do
know this, and that’s why they’re trying to destroy the country by destroying the military.
Maybe they want to replace real Americans in our military with Obamunist storm troopers
ready and willing to do That One’s dirty work.

A confluence of three serious but not-by-themselves-lethal pressure systems – multiple

deployments, manpower deficiencies, and one, already failed social experiment – has put
our military in a position for a monster storm to develop instantaneously should a fourth
pressure system be added to the fray.

For nine years our armed forces have been involved in a protracted war in Afghanistan and
Iraq, not to mention humanitarian missions like the one to Haiti. Constant deployments have
taken their toll on both service members and their families. It’s not easy leaving your spouse
and children behind for a year at a time, and it’s just as hard on spouses and children who
worry their loved one might be the next victim of IED ambush or whether the war will change
him or her when he comes back home (a.k.a., TBI or PTSD).

Consequently, divorce rates1 are way up among military families, as is domestic violence,
child abuse and child neglect. Binge drinking2 is a big problem too. Those of us willing to
suspect there’s a connection between increased divorce rates and binge drinking with
continual family separations and the stress of multiple deployments are not the least bit
surprised by an even greater problem – an increase in the number of suicides.3 So nine years
of war have already put morale at an all-time low. And the effects of low morale have

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manifested itself in military’s ability to attract and maintain those who would serve, causing
manpower deficiencies.

Since the early ‘70s, we’ve had an all-volunteer military. Everyone who enlists or accepts a
commission in one of the services does so of his or her own free will. Yeah, it cost a little more
than a military draft, but it relieves the public at large of any responsibility to defend this
country, and it fits well with Americans’ attitude that says, “Let somebody else do that.”

In fact, the only thing most Americans know about military service or life in the military is
what they see on the anti-military news every evening or Hollywood’s fictional garbage on TV
and the big screen. They can’t possibly understand why anyone would want to jump from a
perfectly good airplane or spend weeks at a time in a tin can under the ocean. What they
might like to know, however, is there are fewer and fewer people willing and wanting to do
these things, which is forcing the services to lower their recruiting standards.

You probably didn’t know the Army had stopped accepting high school dropouts back in the
‘70s. Didn’t need them. They do now. Since fiscal year 2009, 25 percent of the Army’s recruits
can be high school drop outs. Other services are having to make the same kind of
compromises. Those of you who’ve read my other NWVs articles or especially my last book,4
know today’s high school graduates have some very serious academic deficiencies.

Those who drop out have any bigger problems, one being an inability to finish something
they’ve started. School was too stressful, so they quit. But do you think the military is less
stressful than high school, particularly during a war and a bad economy under a president
that has only contempt for those in uniform, even the hundreds of thousands of service
members who voted for him? I’ll talk about the demographics problem in a moment.

My neighbor is an E-7 motor pool sergeant, currently deployed to Iraq. Before leaving, he
talked with me about the new soldiers he has to train and discipline – physically unfit5 high
school drop outs who can’t understand why they can’t just “quit” being a soldier when they
get “stressed out.” Too many of his new soldiers not only lack the academic skills to
understand how to inspect and maintain a vehicle, they’re too immature to be trusted with
doing the simplest task without direct, constant supervision.

When he returns from this deployment, my neighbor said he’s going to submit his retirement
paperwork. He’s had enough “baby sitting.”

He wasn’t surprised with some information I shared with him about disciplinary actions
being taking during one month at our nearby installation. Being a much older soldier of an
Army much different than today’s Army, I was appalled at the number of general courts
marshal being tried in a given month and sickened by the outrageous number of non-judicial
punishments being handed out under Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. As I
said, he wasn’t surprised.

My first reaction was that NCOs were not doing their job and enforcing discipline then I
remembered the kids I used to deal with in my classroom as a high school teacher. As surely
as my hands were tied when it came to maintaining classroom order, so now are the hands of
NCOs. What’s left is not discipline at all but punishment. There is a difference, but I won’t
pause to explain it in this article. Maybe later.

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Back to the demographics problem I mentioned earlier. It is a problem, depending on who is

looking at it. Five years ago, Charlie Rangel thought it was problem enough to suggest a need
to return to a draft. He noted as do folks equally concerned but for opposite reasons that the
proportion of blacks and Hispanics in the military do not reflect the same proportions as the
U.S. population. That is, depending on which branch of the service, military occupation
specialty and whether enlisted or officer, blacks and Hispanics tend to represent as much as a
third of our military.

Had these proportions been achieved through a draft, the news media would have been all
over the story, but as this is an all volunteer military and since, even in the military, blacks
and Hispanics tend to favor left leaning politicians, nothing is said. In fact, to suggest a
problem at all will cause some to reach for the Race card.

Every member of the military is sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies,
foreign and domestic, and we are also sworn to obey the orders of the president and officers
appointed over us. But – somebody has to ask this question – what if the president orders our
military to do something unconstitutional? It has happened before.

In a hypothetical situation I pray never happens, will the 99 percent of black Americans who
voted for Obama in 2008 and are currently serving in the military defend the Constitution, or
would obey an unconstitutional order to attack the people of Arizona, Nebraska, Missouri or
any other state currently exercising states rights?

Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and the Grand Army of the Socialist Republic chose their president
over the Constitution. If you know anything at all about American history, you know Mr.
Lincoln’s War Against the Southern People was an unconstitutional war. Though he may
have saved what he considered a Union, Lincoln destroyed the Republic founded by
Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison. A similar war caused by a Lincoln wanna-be
would destroy everything left.

I’d hope many black American servicemen and women are having the same sort of “buyer’s
remorse” as Gen. Stanley McChrystal,6 and I know their zeal for That One would be tempered
by the other members of the services. But what if a majority of those other members have left
the service because of a repeal of Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell and the number of Obama supporters
in the services was doubled or even tripled?

Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell has been called a meaningless policy that did nothing to change military
tradition. However, it opened the door to future social experimentation, and that was the plan
all along. A current social experimentation already proven a failure is getting very little media
coverage, as if that’s a surprise. I mentioned MOSs earlier. For non-military types, they’re
broken down in three categories: combat arms, combat support and support MOSs.

Combat arms are the fighters, the ones who close with and destroy the enemy – infantry
artillery, armor, etc. Combat support back up the fighters and ensure they can do their jobs –
combat engineers, combat medics, aviators, intelligence, etc. Quite often these guys are part
of the fighting, if only because of their proximity to those they support. Support MOSs are the
beans and bullets folks – the clerks, cooks, mechanics, supply specialists, public affairs, etc.

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As a general rule, females in the military were found in this latter category, but starting back
in the ‘80s, a politically correct push was made to bring women to the front – literally. About
five years ago, the Army’s modularization program and creation of combat brigades changed
the whole complexion of the Army.

The concept was simple. Instead of the above three-layer categories spread out over an entire
theater of operation, give the brigade commander all the support he needs to fight and defeat
an enemy. That brought thousands of women from the rear to as close to the front as they’ve
ever been. Sure, there are still no women actually in combat MOSs and certainly not in elite
units, like Rangers, Special Forces, Marine Recon or Navy SEALs. Still, though you won’t find
any female infantry paratroopers, there have been female clerical, medical, logistic – you
name it – paratroopers since December 1974. Has there been problems? You betcha!

Having women working next to you in an office environment or even in a motor pool is not
the same as having a women working next to you in the close quarters of combat. Our
military is now as much at war against human nature as it is against
terrorism.

Six months ago, Task Force Marine Commander Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo7 came under fire
for suggesting female soldiers who get pregnant in a combat zone or male soldiers who
impregnate a female soldier in a combat zone might face a general court marshal. Apparently,
women’s equality is far more important than the good order and discipline necessary to
conduct a combat mission. You can bet the extra-constitutional rights being written for
homosexuals will supersede the good order and discipline of any unit to which even one of
these federally-protected species is assigned.

An even bigger problem than consensual pregnancies is sexual assault.8 Sure, those who
commit these assaults deserve to be hit with every statute under the UCMJ, but the military
should never have been forced to put women in traditionally male roles, to put our country at
risk for the sake of a social experiment! The radicals who put these women in harm’s way are
just as much to blame as those committing the assaults. Now the radicals want to go for broke
and add homosexuals to the mix. Do you think there won’t be more assaults and subsequently
more court marshals? When will our military have time to fight a war with so much of its
resources dedicated to the courtroom?

I’ve talked with soldiers and recently one young Marine. All agree with quiet discretion that if
the government opens its doors to homosexuals, they’ll submit paperwork for retirement or
leave the service at the end of the current enlistment. When these real heroes are gone, who
will fill their boots? The hooahs and ooh-rahs we’re so used to hearing when a military
formation marches by will be replaced with whoopee!

Your fellow soldier, Marine, sailor, airman and coastie is supposed to be someone you can
trust to watch your back – not your butt. If Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell is lifted, yet another scenario
I depicted in Prole Nation9 will come to pass. Our military as we know it will be washed away
with the storm, and what’s left will become a tool for new Fuhrer.

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End Notes:

1 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/28/divorce-rate-in-military-
continues-upward-trend/

2 http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51241

3 http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123185434

http://www.newswithviewsstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Co
de=NWVS&Product_Code=B47&Category_Code=BOOKS

5 http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/army_basic_101709w/

6 http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/gen-stanley-mcchrystal-apologizes-for-
rolling-stone-magazine-story/19525656?ncid=webmail

7 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trish-kinney/general-cucolo-women-at-
w_b_404964.html

8 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/17/eveningnews/main4872713.shtml

9 http://www.amazon.com/Prole-Nation-R-C-Murray/dp/1448925398

R.C. Murray is a disabled veteran and former public school teacher. He left a good job as
a technical writer for a satellite manufacturer in order to teach high school English, only to
immediately be told he could not expect, much less require his students to read their
literature assignments. After four years of fighting The System and having a stroke then a
mini-stroke, he decided he was safer in the airborne infantry and returned to being a
technical writer for a military contractor.

He has also dedicated the rest of his life to exhorting parents about what’s really going on in
their local public school, the one they think is a good school. R.C. Murray is the author of
two books, “Golden Knights: History of the U.S. Army Parachute Team” and most
recently, “Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read.”

Website: www.voicefromthepews.com

E-Mail: bakea3@aol.com

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