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

% wrote:
> 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

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