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

Chips Loral wrote:
> Skeeter wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> says...
>>>
>>>                            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.?
>>
>> and the rest of the world is watching and waiting, Iran is pulling no
>> punches. Thanks Joe.
>>
> 
> An empty magazine is no way to fight a war.

neither is a bible any way