Diversity military not ready to fight, even among themselves.

                          DEI = DIE

...if they ever have to see actual combat to defend our nation...

THIS is what Demotarded race warriors do to OUR real warriors:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/combat-readiness-suffers-while-biden-harris-administration-pursues/

According to documents shared exclusively with The Daily Wire, “the 
Biden-Harris Defense Department paid outside organizations millions of 
taxpayer dollars to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion 
initiatives, including race-based career advancement programs, in the 
U.S. military.”

The Daily Wire reported that the University of Missouri Kansas City was 
awarded $760,000 by the Department of the Navy to “design a program that 
would give preferential treatment to non-white students and women in 
STEM applying for Defense Department jobs.”

In a second example, Cornell University was awarded approximately 
$202,000 to “provide Diversity training that is mission imperative to 
ensure readiness and addressing discriminatory behavior from a cognitive 
perspective.” Between 2022 and 2024, nearly $270 million was requested 
by the Pentagon to fund the DEI agenda of the current presidential 
administration.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to recent Army retiree Col. Nicholas Braun (a 
pseudonym) on the condition of anonymity who admitted being somewhat 
surprised that nearly $270 million was requested for the promotion of 
DEI in the military. For him, it was a gut punch to see such a massive 
amount of taxpayer money being used for the leftist DEI agenda, while 
combat readiness suffered.

According to Heritage Foundation’s executive summary of the 2024 index 
of U.S. military strength, readiness across the Navy, Air Force, and 
Marine Corps is suffering. Interestingly, the think tank reported one 
exception, concluding that the Army is “very strong” in the category.

But Braun offered a different assessment. For example, he pointed out 
that for service members go into a Combat Training Center (CTC) 
rotation, they have specific standards that must be met. And in recent 
years, he said brigade level training has been slashed to focus on 
training at the platoon and company level.

“We didn’t have the budget to conduct live training events to standard 
at the battalion level and all brigade level live collective training 
was cancelled at home station because it was too expensive,” he 
explained. “While we’re stepping back on our training standards because 
of monetary constraints, an entire armored brigade combat team could be 
getting a year’s worth of top-level training with the money they’re 
using for this DEI crap,” he lamented.

“Every single brigade that deploys overseas has a minimum [percentage 
of] personnel that’s required to be on the ground,” Braun shared. 
However, he has firsthand knowledge of brigades that have deployed in 
recent years, not able to meet the minimum personnel threshold for their 
Department of the Army assigned mission.

“At the division level,” he said, “they pull people from one brigade to 
fill another right before they leave, or after they’ve left to get to 
the minimum number required.” Describing this as “a constant shell 
game,” he pointed out, “you now have other units with shortages and no 
scheduled backfills of personnel.”

Rather than addressing the problem, he said commanders lie. “A unit 
status report, a classified report, goes up to the Pentagon for every 
unit in the Army, informing them of where they stand with regard to 
readiness,” Braun said. “Numbers are reported, but there’s also 
something called the commander’s subjective upgrade that also gets 
reported.”

“[In these reports], they’ll say they’re going to meet the required 
threshold [for deployment] when, in fact, they’re not getting any more 
people, because they have no inbound personnel,” he disclosed. “This 
kind of lying happens every month on unit status reports.”

“The problem is commanders that are honest don’t get top ratings and 
their careers end, but those that just say ‘everything is fine’ are the 
ones that get the top ratings,” Braun pointed out. “Everyone 
understands: to get ahead, you don’t report honestly.” According to him, 
“Candor—which is an Army value—is not appreciated by senior commanders.”

“If the balloon went up right now and every unit had to deploy,” Braun 
said, “we would get an Army at about 75 to 80 percent strength on a good 
day.”  With that, he offered “the ugly secret that no one wants to talk 
about: We can’t get out the door with a 100 percent of our people, yet 
we’re blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on DEI classes and 
sensitivity training and a whole bunch of other stuff that’s not 
necessary to fight and win a major conflict.”

“The precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan did nothing to bolster 
confidence in U.S. military capabilities,” Braun admitted. “On top of 
leaving massive amounts of weaponry in their country, we’re now giving 
arms and ammunition to the Ukrainians and the Israelis.”

“The expenditure of 155-millimeter ammunition in Ukraine is about 90,000 
rounds per month,” Braun said, while disclosing “the United States is 
producing about 14,000 rounds a month.” From a strategic perspective, he 
said, “If I’m the Chinese or the Russians, I’m going to sit back until 
the U.S. Army depletes itself, then I’ll make a move.”

“The U.S. better start paying attention to these things and nix the DEI 
craziness before it’s too late,” he warned. “$300 million dollars would 
be better spent on training or backfilling ammunition expenditures, 
rather than the divisive politics of the DEI agenda.”