A plan for rooting out extremism in the military: report

MSG Greg Kelly Totally agree. I feel the top leadership and those pushing this stuff are just the loudest voices and not the biggest voices. The overwhelming majority of service members do the right thing. If you read the actual report this is based on, they looked at 10+ years and were able to find 80 some odd cases of extremism. Of those 80, 75% of them were from people who were out of the service at the time of the "finding extremist actions." My #'s are generalized because I don't remember the actual ones but that was the cereal take on it...lots of years, very small number of cases vs. the total # of the force, and overwhelming majority of the cases were found after the service member was out of the service. Essentially, they are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Acts should be punished when they happen. Just like every other crime in the military.

LT Brad McInnis Well said, LT.

Agreed.

PFC David Foster that would be the MSM and social media platforms.

CW3 Michael Bodnar - Probably so, all the news outlets and social media platforms constantly antagonizing people. We need another Walter Cronkite.

I was not sure I wanted to say anything to to your question. I was not sure your being serious. But let me start at the top and work my way down. Our Government is pushing the hate and racism card like its free candy to diabetics. which has spread to the military and government sector you can see that on here. The Marines seem the lest effected. Our Government education system is being bombarded with this CRT issue. We have gangs roaming our streets called Antifa and BLM doing what ever they want and no local, state or federal effort has or is being made to stop them. while their numbers grow. The only ones giving resistance to them are other citizens. Now just for shits and giggles I want you to see how many shows on TV show people fighting, stealing, having sex or just plain acting like assholes to each other are on TV and are praised as good TV. These issue may have something to do with much of the anger and hate.

MSG Greg Kelly - IMHO, your comment is very one sided. It would be like a liberal saying it's all caused by people like Trump and his antagonizing and feeding fuel to white supremacy etc etc.... In my view, it takes two sides to create hate, one can't do it by themselves. I think more of the hate is coming from the division of the political parties than the government in general. I agree with you on the stuff they play on tv being a bad influence. It seem human nature is playing a big roll as well, because there was plenty of hate before tv and even before Democracy. Even all the way back to Cavemen, one caveman hate another for stealing his woman. I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, I believe people are becoming more tolerant with people who are different from them, but I also believe we have a long ways to go..... Thanks for you comment.

Indeed.

SFC James Welch facts brother. It's somehow only labeled a terrorist organization if it fits the narrative of one side of the isle - usually the left.