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

Chips Loral wrote:
> % wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> non sequitur
>>>
>> pusillanimous
> 
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