Re: Diversity military not ready to fight, even among themselves.

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
says...
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>                           DEI = DIE
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> ...if they ever have to see actual combat to defend our nation...
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> THIS is what Demotarded race warriors do to OUR real warriors:
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> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/combat-readiness-suffers-while-biden-harris-administration-pursues/
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> 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.?
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> 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.
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> ?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.
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> ?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.?
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> ?[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.?
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> ?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.?

and the rest of the world is watching and waiting, Iran is pulling no 
punches. Thanks Joe.