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The Washington Post chatted with the outgoing chief of woke armed forces to hear his latest excuses.
Gen. Milley showed off his usual excuses, admitting and denying, spinning and blaming everyone else.
“There’s clearly a recruiting challenge ongoing and you saw numbers. And the Army is particularly challenged to meet its numbers.
So why is that? I think there’s a lot of reasons. There’s never a single causal factor. So anyone who out there is saying that this is the reason, I would challenge them on that…
I think another contributing factor is clearly this perception of quote, “wokeness,” and I personally think that it’s overstated. There are things that are done in the military that certainly, you know, raise that as an issue, but the actual facts suggests that it’s much less significant than perhaps the perception is.”
When Milley is admitting that perception of wokeness is the issue, he’s admitting it’s a problem while claiming it’s only a perception issue. Like most officials who have to argue that the issue is perception, not reality, it’s spin to cope with a real problem caused by those same officials.
“I’ll use drag queen shows as an example. That’s been out there. I don’t agree with drag queen shows being on military bases. I don’t think that’s appropriate. And neither does Secretary Austin. So Secretary Austin put a stop to it. How many times it happened? It happened a few. That’s true. Probably shouldn’t happen. But it did. But to say that that is, you know, somehow the entire military went woke because a handful of drag queen shows that shouldn’t happen to begin with, I think is an overstatement.
The drag shows are the least of it. As is the whole Pride Month mess. It’s top military officials like Milley’s replacement, Gen. Brown, giving talks about how racist America is. It’s the push for racial and gender quotas. It’s the injection of radical political indoctrination amid the so-called ‘stand down’ on racism.
Milley knows all this and just keeps spinning.
“Same thing with critical race theory. So agree or disagree with critical race theory, it is not a theory that the Department of Defense or the military is embracing and shoving down people’s throats.”
That’s quite a shift from Milley championing the study of white rage and critical race theory.
“I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?” Milley said. “And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, ‘woke’ or something else, because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”
Reading Mao and Marx was about understanding the enemy. Critical race theory, in Milley’s words, is about understanding America.
Now, Milley is dismissing the idea that critical race theory is in the military. He was for critical race theory before he was against it.
“wokeness is overstated”!! Well, YES IT IS – it should NEVER BE STATED!! What a piece of crap and a disgrace to the uniform that is also worn by REAL WARRIORS who get the job done while political officers like Millie Vanillie reap the big credits and pay!! What a HYPOCRITE and still an ass hat even on his way out!!
MIlley is so thoroughly modern in telling his (pronoun alert) truth that he (trigger warning) is leading America’s enemies to form the perception that they have won the next war.
Genital Milley read Mao, Marx and Lenin because he’s a fan boy.
Milley is doing the same thing all high ranking military as well as Gov. officials and even corporate exec’s. do and that is a commonly invoked policy called CYA. If something you said turns out to be false… CYA. If you make a bad decision, CYA. If you botch a withdrawal from Afghanistan, CYA. One great CYA policy, in the face of total failure, claim victory and close the subject. Any rebuttal to your claim then is called “disinformation”, just another form of CYA.
Thank God this perfumed tub ‘o lard with all the fake medals is finally retiring.
Yeah, I know, right? Has he ever fought in combat? What are those medals for? Wind surfing? What a bitch.
I tried to look up his combat record, couldn’t figure out what he did. He was on a lot of staffs in various locations.
Yeah, a couple of drag shows is all there was to the perception that the Pentagon had gone all in on woke. Well, that and a new Chairman, JCS who wants to cap the officer corps at 43% white, the constant hammering of pronoun, gay and transsexual issues, the reduction of performance standards, the lack of accountability, the appointment of women and minorities to most of the high positions in the military (did you get a load at the new – at least I think she’s new – Director of Naval Operations?), and on and on.
My father bought me a T t-shirt once that said on it “I am a veteran, like my father and grandfather before me.” It was very common when i was in that some ones father had been to Vietnam and their grandfather WW2. In other words we had a military lineage, many of us stretching back far beyond WW2. It is a matter of family pride that we stood and defended this nation, we were the ones who protected our people, we were the ones who would do the things many could not or would not do. We did not do it for medals, or glamor, or even a simple thank you. We did it becuase it was our duty. When i was a wee lad if someone would ask what i wanted to be when i grew up my answer was a soldier.
It was not called that then but i got out becuase of “woke”. It started before clinton but it was his “dont ask, dont tell” that really put it into high gear. Drag shows are just a symptom of the problem. The problem is a lowering of the standard. My reason for getting out was that as a white male i would have never made it past the rank of E-7. If i made it that high. The focus became public perception and not the ability to break things and kill the enemy. The face of the military has went from Audie Murphy to now rachel levine. And with what our military has become many of us would never suggest to our sons or grandsons that they join now. And when the majority of those who serve and fight come from families that did, and those families quit sending their sons to serve and fight, you are going to have a tough time filling the ranks.
Thanks FatherGuido! Love your comments!!!
Couldn’t agree more. I was born on an Army Air Base in Germany shortly after WWII.
Good to see you again FatherGuido.
That a guy this dumb got to this position is embarrassing. Too bad Trump’s base refuse to grasp that it was Trump who put him there, as it was Trump who gave the country over to FauXi, lockdowns, house arrest, deathjabs, etc. Milley Vanilley is SO dumb he doesn’t get that ONE CAN OF BUD LIGHT destroyed $BB of shareholder value. Is he so stupid as not to grasp that ONE DRAG show or ONE PRIDE display is EXACTLY THE SAME?
Yes. Yes, he is.
Unfortunately, one has to agree with you —- I voted both times for Trump but I have criticized him to a great degree (and Gen. Flynn, who needs to wise up andpractice keeping quiet)!
Beyond all his pro–CCP and pro–WEF appointees, the DEI systems —— communist political minder systems —— were implemented at the Pentagon and military by Trump’s SecDef, MARK ESPER —— yes, Trump fired him and vetoed the NDAA, which incorporated it, but his veto was overridden!
Placing communist political minder systems in the US military (or now the Milleytary) to restructure it like the PLA was insane, but did not happen by accident!
Milley, Gilday, Gen. DeAnna DeAnna Burt, Saltzman, Q. Brown, plus too, too many others, are all substandard individuals whomshoulsn’t have risen above major rank!
It looks like the administration pushed Ukraine into its strategically bizarre counteroffensive, or whatever it’s called. A potential scandal if it ever comes out in public. I thought it was bizarre from the start, but didn’t say anything, because I wasn’t sure what was really going on.
The kind of people who will volunteer to make themselves “Property of the U.S. government,” and sacrifice their own bodies, if necessary, demand meritocracy, not DEI. Meritocracy saves lives and has a higher rate of success in life or death situations, DEI, or any other influence based system, wastes it.
Historically speaking, bad economies are always “good for business” in regards to the American military and it’s recruitment. I know quite well of what I speak. So, something has upset that delicate balance. What could it be?
1) Forced COVID jabs: While any current or former service member can tell you stories about “The Gauntlet”; walking in our underwear like cattle, going from station to station, getting jabbed in both arms at the same time, receiving every inoculation known to man…but they WERE known to man and had been in use for years. In the light of so many “dying suddenly”, folks forget that 95% of the COVID jabs were formulated by/with the use of aborted fetuses. That’s a religious exemption waiting to happen, but 99% of religious exemptions are and were denied. I would have never signed up.
2) Critical race theory: One thing that could always be relied on in the military of the past was, if you were a “go-getter”, the military was your oyster and you could achieve anything. Now, with the guy next to you being told that YOU and your race suck, how might that person hope to achieve anything? I would have never signed up.
3) General wokeness and Major stupidity: There was no such thing as transgenderism in the Navy back in the day (and thank a merciful heaven), but occasionally some idiot would “come out” and then mysteriously start having a lot of accidents. There’s no place for it in a fighting force and it wasn’t tolerated. Today, tolerance is mandatory and I would have not signed up.
4) A fat General or an Admiral is like a toothless wolf. It projects weakness to those they (used to) hope to shape and mold into America’s fighting men and women. No one says, “I wanna be like General Milley”, but they might say, “I don’t need to outrun that tank battalion, I just need to outrun YOU.” I would have NEVER signed up.
So, the reasons for bad recruitment numbers are self apparent is one chooses to look honestly.
Unfortunately, one has to agree with you —- I voted both times for Trump but I have criticized him to a great degree (and Gen. Flynn, who needs to wise up andpractice keeping quiet)!
Beyond all his pro–CCP and pro–WEF appointees, the DEI systems —— communist political minder systems —— were implemented at the Pentagon and military by Trump’s SecDef, MARK ESPER —— yes, Trump fired him and vetoed the NDAA, which incorporated it, but his veto was overridden!
Placing communist political minder systems in the US military (or now the Milleytary) to restructure it like the PLA was insane, but did not happen by accident!
Milley, Gilday, Gen. DeAnna DeAnna Burt, Saltzman, Q. Brown, plus too, too many others, are all substandard individuals whomshoulsn’t have risen above major rank!
Anyone, especially experienced veterans, need only look closely at the horrendous debacles of:
The USS Connecticut Incident
The USS Bonhomme Richard Fire/Ship Destruction
The Chicom Balloon overflight
. . to ascertain just how pathetic the US High Command has become, a collection of near–useless rubes and clown acts!
Milley says about drag queen shows: “Probably shouldn’t happen.”
Probably???? No wonder Milley’s major achievenent was the training of the PHANTOM ARMY of Afghanistan which never showed up except on paydays!?
Milley was a terrible chief of the
JCS