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

Chips Loral wrote:
> % 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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> non sequitur
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