The Deliberate Emasculation of Our Armed Forces

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery once said, or rather warned, “We must be very careful what we do with British infantry. They are the people who do the hard fighting and the killing… Their fighting spirit is based largely on morale and regimental esprit de corps. On no account must anyone tamper with this.” Although we are not the British Army, this statement can allude to the current and deliberate destruction or emasculation of traditions, discipline, and morale that are the foundations of our Armed Forces, by misguided folks ranging from our Commander-in-Chief, certain high ranking officers in the Pentagon, the Senate, politicians and the mainstream media. First off, some people upon reading this will point out that attacking the C-in-C is taboo, and that is true - to a point. He is not a sacred cow and, to be perfectly honest, the rot which is slowly devouring the core values that we hold sacrosanct begins at the top, aided and abetted by politically-motivated senior military and naval officers and the aforementioned others.

It is very sad when veterans like myself and those who are actively serving look at social media sites and watch soldiers call out their own peers. These are NCOs and officers who don’t care about the welfare of their soldiers, discipline, or tradition because people are scared to enforce regulations due to political correctness. Political correctness has, in my opinion, turned the U.S. Armed Forces (especially the Army) into one vast petri dish open to absurd social experiments that will not help our warriors out in the battlefield.

When personnel have to go to social media in order to air their grievances, you have to wonder where the team leader is. Where is the squad leader? I am quite sure that some of the junior and senior NCOs are doing their jobs, but why are other senior NCOs and officers being reactive instead of proactive? We are all sick and tired of reading about the morale problems plaguing all five branches of the Armed Forces, commanders being sacked for not leading by example, not being politically compliant, etc. We are sick of hearing about junior enlisted whining about NCOs trying to discipline them, NCOs whining about not being able to do their jobs, and officers who don’t like their NCOs or Petty officers. The list goes on, and each day, our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen and Marines wind up suffering for the mess created by this disease that affects training, how they operate on the field, and so many other aspects of military life.

We need to have officers with collective intestinal fortitude to stand up to the C-in-C, their politicized fellow officers, spineless politicians and the mainstream media in order to fight for our traditions. Every service member in the U.S Armed Forces lives by these traditions and core values; they are the warrior ethos, the raison d’etre for all of us.