What’s happening to the Marines?
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
3/27/2022 9:06:11 AM
Lately, when we think about what’s happening to America’s military under Biden, we’ve been focusing on the Pentagon’s obsessions with race, LGBTQ+++ issues (especially transgenderism), women’s rights, and political “wrong think” (i.e., conservativism). That obsession has consistently put progressive social policy ahead of military cohesion and readiness. However, Jim Webb, who was a Marine infantry officer while in Vietnam, then the Navy secretary under Ronald Reagan and, lastly, a Virginia senator during the Obama years, has written an op-ed about a different concern: The potentially damaging, purely operational changes Marine commandment Gen. David Berger intends to impose on the Corps.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/27/2022 9:30:48 AM (No. 1111371)
Back when we invaded Iraq, Jim Webb was very critical of the action and said that he wanted to punch out George W. Bush. We trashed him, and I remember posting that I wondered "what happened to him."
I have a much different take on Webb now. He was right all along.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PostAway 3/27/2022 9:42:39 AM (No. 1111395)
We are watching our country being eaten alive. We can’t rely on Donald Trump for help forever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/27/2022 9:43:55 AM (No. 1111397)
Remember when the "best and the brightest" removed guns from fighter aircraft?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coyote 3/27/2022 10:00:05 AM (No. 1111420)
This leftist administration is trying to neuter the proud marines.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/27/2022 10:09:44 AM (No. 1111436)
trees, fish, whatever
everything rots from the top down
who's in charge?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Socio 3/27/2022 10:10:28 AM (No. 1111438)
We make fun of how Putin's forces are apparently struggling and we are not watching the other hand. The US Marines were handed their ass and forced to surrender in war games to the Royal Marines back in November.
Marine Gen. David Berger is one of many intentionally and systematically undermining our militaries ability to defend our country and themselves for that matter.
You have to wonder who's payroll is he on the Great Reseter's or Communist China?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/27/2022 10:11:00 AM (No. 1111439)
The US has no need for a military the size it has. Its purpose is supposed to be defense, not defending everyone and her sister in the world.
Let's start with Europe. Our NATO partners are military jokes. They allowed themselves to deflate after the fall of the Soviet Union becasue they saw little/no threat. They can increase spending, but manpower and expertise are major issues. Meanwhile, the US provides Europe's defense umbrella. Who pays for that?
It's long past time to back down from the Cold War era. The world needs to get on with its business, without the US garrisoned damn near everywhere. It's expensive, and it spells endless trouble. NATO is such that it looks for business to make itself "relevant". It foolishly seeks to expand an alliance targeting one country, Russia, to its doorstep. And now we see 1) NATO has few Euro teeth, and 2) The Russians just aren't that good. Offensively, they never have been except pursuing an exhausted enemy beaten by its winter.
This has all the earmarks of a bunch of brass circling to defend the $$$ flowing to its service. No service can ever afford a cut. Nation building isn't cheap. Neither is the high-life in Brussels.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 3/27/2022 10:25:11 AM (No. 1111457)
It is obvious to me that Berger is merely the Rat's Paw for the treacherous cabal that comprise Brainstem's minders.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 3/27/2022 11:09:48 AM (No. 1111496)
I provided Webb's article to my Kansas electeds. It will be the 2nd time I've tried to get them to recognize the issue at all, let alone to acknowledge it as a grave threat to our Corps and national security. Maybe if we keep pushing, the door will finally crack the tiniest bit for light to get in.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
columba 3/27/2022 11:17:53 AM (No. 1111504)
God created 2 sexes only, and we have all known this for about 6,000 years.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/27/2022 11:30:15 AM (No. 1111507)
I would not be surprised if Berger received the order from the higher-up leftists to do this, thus bypassing the normal channels. Milley and Vindman are unqualified and Joe hasn't a clue about what it takes to fight battles. This could be a fatal flaw if done in the face of Chinese, Russian, Iranian and North Korean aggression.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 3/27/2022 11:46:57 AM (No. 1111526)
My father was 20 years enlisted so I make this comment from a military family perspective. Do we really see a large ground force war as the best tactic? The United States has never faced a ground invasion. Ever. Is a large manpower based force practical? Drones, missiles, cyber force….. seems more likely.
Nothing anywhere in this world outside of my country’s border is worth one of my sons getting so much as a skinned knee.
We have not fought a battle for liberty since 1947. Every conflict since has been politicians sending our citizens to death and dismemberment for NOTHING but greed and power. I don’t trust these clowns and they will never get one of my sons in their clutches.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/27/2022 11:50:47 AM (No. 1111531)
The current Commandant of the Marine Corps should be court-martialed for dereliction of duty, and drummed out of the Corps, for his lack of leadership and his apparent intent to relegate his comrades in arms into insignificance.
America may not “need” the Corps, but it damn sure wants it. The Marine Corps wins battles. More than that, it turns callow wayward youth into men. I know, because they did it to me and a lot of other guys I served with. And I’m “Semper Fi” until I die.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldborezero 3/27/2022 12:06:25 PM (No. 1111541)
I served in the peacetime Marine Corps (Marine is capitalized, people). Never saw combat, but I was proud of being a Marine. Like many other Marines, I did not refer to the Corps as THE Marine Corps; I called it MY Marine Corps.
It's not mine anymore.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/27/2022 12:08:05 PM (No. 1111543)
If you don't support the movement in the military with a rebuff you will lose. You have to be woke to be in the 'woke club' with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lose your pension, go to jail, dishonorable discharge if you 'wrong think'. It's over folks Afghanistan is the marker of our military future. I wouldn't wear a uniform today to support the losers in the military and the likes of fraud Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. No sir not me not ever again. It was bad enough I did it for Lyndon Johnson but not this cabal of misfits.
I understand why the troops of the 82nd Airbourne looked like they did at the idiot Biden in Poland. It's all lost militarily so don't mourn for something that is gone maybe forever.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/27/2022 12:21:25 PM (No. 1111552)
No doubt Biden and the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats, in a minute if they thought they could get away with it, would either completely eliminate, or combine the extreme Marine Corps with the new “woke” Army, downsize what would remain and go from there.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 3/27/2022 1:39:31 PM (No. 1111610)
Rope. Tree, Commandant.
Some assembly required.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NotaBene 3/27/2022 2:25:10 PM (No. 1111653)
Look Mommy, and all this in high heels !
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 3/27/2022 2:43:21 PM (No. 1111666)
Two of my young nephews who were/are in the Marines are done. One has left in disgust and sadness, the other will be mustering out in about six months.
Another family member is a USMC pilot, I don't know what he thinks, he's overseas now for several years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 3/27/2022 2:44:26 PM (No. 1111667)
Just lay off this clown Berger and send him off to a long retirement, such as the end of his life. No one needs another clown on stage besides the big jackass potted plant sitting in front of a window in his poop chair! Berger, whilst you are still at it, why don't you send extra keys to all our enemies.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/27/2022 4:02:25 PM (No. 1111710)
Why do we have a standing army (be it Marines or Army) anyway? Keep the special forces, Navy and Air Force. The Founding Fathers' didn't want a standing army. Why should we? We've got the draft to bring up large numbers of troops, quickly, if we get in another World War. Standing armies become play things for politicians. Why are senators like Lindsey Graham so quick to want to go to war with Russia? Well, for one thing, we've got a standing army. If he had to submit a bill calling for a draft, how far would that go?
If all else fails, we can go full Henry the V at the battle of Agincourt and empty all the prisons for warm bodies.
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