Seeing as how everyone’s getting all “defund this” and “defund that”, allow me to offer a few candidates out of this lot:
A U.S. Army email, sent after the Fourth of July to its military and civilian members, included a graphic which claimed saying the phrase “Make America Great Again” is evidence of “white supremacy.”
The graphic listed other behaviors it deemed evidence of white supremacy, including, “Celebration of Columbus Day,” the “Denial of White Privilege,” “Talking about ‘American Exceptionalism,’” and saying “There’s Only One Human Race.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL, duh) is all over this, and he:
…has sent a letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, demanding an investigation.
Brooks asked McCarthy to answer the following:1. Who within the Department of the Army is responsible for the creation of the email and document?
2. Who within the Department of the Army approved the email and document?
3. Pursuant to the creation and approval of the document, was there a violation of either the Hatch Act or DoD Directive 1344.10?
4. If a violation of the Hatch Act or DoD Directive 1344.10 is found to have occurred, will those responsible be held accountable for their actions?
5. If it is found that a violation occurred (which seems pretty obvious), how will those federal employees be held accountable for their illegal conduct?
The Army needs to stamp out this bullshit toot sweet, and defund the people responsible (every single one who falls into the above five questions), i.e. either by court-martial and dishonorable discharge, by RIF-ing their asses out of existence or (if some civilian asshole is involved) fire them with loss of all benefits and privileges. (I leave it to my .dot-mil veteran Readers, e.g. Staff Martin, to offer the precise details in Comments.)
I’m not going to go overboard and throw the “treason” word around — it’s been used way too cavalierly just recently — but if we take on faith that the “MAGA” expression belongs to the C-in-C (and it does), what’s going on here is (at best) gross insubordination.
I’m being quite serious, here. This nonsense does not belong in our Armed Forces; their job is to help keep America great, but if they can’t be trusted to do that — and this is a prime indicator that they can’t — there needs to be some kind of ill wind that blows all the non-essential, and even the marginally-essential, REMFs out into the fucking trash can.
ArmySec McCarthy needs to jump on this quickly, have answers for Brooks with 24 hours, or face termination himself.
Army response was written by weasels. No condemnation of message, just process stuff.
Daughter has decided to not reenlist in the air guard as she says it is too army where her duty station is. Does not speak well to the current army structure
The military trade schools, West Point, Annapolis and Air Force Academy have been turning out a lot of woke weasels for a couple of decades, I about threw up when I was told a few years ago during Obama time that the new Air Force Academy commandant was a woman who was living on campus with her wife and their child.
The upper brass are well conditioned in not hurting feelings of their underlings and kissing backsides of those above them as they through their peers under the bus. Not too much attention to actually doing a good job of killing rat’s assed, bastard commies and fellow travelers. I have a few friends who went to those schools in the good old days, 1950’s, 60’s before serving in Nam and they are not what they used to be.
We keep complaining that the people doing these things don’t know the history, and are ignorant of the danger of the Army becoming political and the Colonels and the army leaving the barracks, as in Spain and Argentina, for two notable examples, but maybe it isn’t ignorance, but the gradual erosion of values and steps towards that same result.
OGNTSA
It’s difficult to keep values from eroding when every statement has to comply with PC culture, and the entire structure seems to be under the thumb of the HR harridans that are ruining private enterprise.