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

Skeeter wrote:
> 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...
>>
>> 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.?
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>> 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.?
> 
> and the rest of the world is watching and waiting, Iran is pulling no
> punches. Thanks Joe.
> 

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