US Military Needs Political Re-Education to Remain Apolitical

[Husky_Khan]

Must be tough maintaining an apolitical organization while also mandating political re-education sessions.

Those conducting the sessions wanted "to make sure that military members understand the difference between Seattle and [the Jan. 6 riot in] Washington, D.C.," Colón-López said. "But some of our younger members are confused about this, so that's what we need to go ahead and talk to them about and educate them on, to make sure that they know exactly what they can and cannot do."

Colón-López also noted the military was called to respond after the Capitol attacks, but was not called up to support law enforcement during the Seattle protests.

And he drew a distinction between those who lawfully exercised their First Amendment rights to protest during last summer's protests in support of racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement, and those who "latched on" to the protests to loot, destroy property and commit other crimes.

Some Troops See Capitol Riot, BLM Protests as Similar Threats, Top Enlisted Leader Says

Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman Ramón "CZ" Colón-López said the confusion some younger troops have expressed shows why the training sessions are needed.

www.military.com

 

[Bacle]

The rank and file realize they way the woke brass are gearing up for a Soviet style military, and are asking questions/making observations that are making said woke brass panic.

Hopefully this trend continues, and makes it hard for the woke brass to implement their Soviet-style military.

 

[DarthOne]

Either way, I suspect we're going to see some Interesting Times.

 

[Zachowon]

That was also the Air Force who are eh.

 

[PsihoKekec]

And Army changes ACFT, to make it more ''inclusive''.

 

[Zachowon]

And Army changes ACFT, to make it more ''inclusive''.

They are thinking about it.
Most people hate that they are doing it except females

 

[Aaron Fox]

Actually, here's the thing, the lower ranks are actually taking seriously the 'enemies within and without' comment overall, and Trump and his supporters are pretty much would be textbook (if there was any) 'enemy within'.

From what I've heard and seen, the closer 'to the ground' the member is, the more likely that you're seeing Trump as bad due to said textbook 'enemy within' actions. The only exception to this is the USMC, surprisingly enough which is basically Trump-Land.

 

[Zachowon]

Actually, here's the thing, the lower ranks are actually taking seriously the 'enemies within and without' comment overall, and Trump and his supporters are pretty much would be textbook (if there was any) 'enemy within'.

From what I've heard and seen, the closer 'to the ground' the member is, the more likely that you're seeing Trump as bad due to said textbook 'enemy within' actions. The only exception to this is the USMC, surprisingly enough which is basically Trump-Land.

From lower enlisted, it varies a good bit in the Army. Most don't agree with them being a direct enemy or threat, or deem those that also rioated over the summer as them as well.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

I expect they will break the power of the NCOs soon.

 

[Zachowon]

I expect they will break the power of the NCOs soon.

Yeah no.
NCOs are to valuable for the US military

 

[Aaron Fox]

From lower enlisted, it varies a good bit in the Army. Most don't agree with them being a direct enemy or threat, or deem those that also rioated over the summer as them as well.

From what data has been passing around, the majority of the US armed services are getting more and more anti-Trump and associates (and thus anti-GOP).

I expect they will break the power of the NCOs soon.

Do that and you'll have basically no military.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Yeah no.
NCOs are to valuable for the US military

The Us military is being reconfigured to something different. Loyalty and ideological adherence will become more important. The way this is handled in the communist world and third world dictators is through the introduction of political officers and by breaking the power of the NCO corps and handing much of thier responsibility to the more politically reliable junior officers.

 

[Aaron Fox]

The Us military is being reconfigured to something different. Loyalty and ideological adherence will become more important. The way this is handled in the communist world and third world dictators is through the introduction of political officers and by breaking the power of the NCO corps and handing much of thier responsibility to the more politically reliable junior officers.

Then you haven't been looking at reality. Right now the situation is that the 'ground level' staff are having growing anti-Trump sentiments and Trump -believe it or not- has become the GOP via his base (which is the reversal of what usually happens in big-tent parties, where the radicals are the clingers while the moderates are the base).

The people you have to worry about right now are the upper echelons near the top.

 

[Zachowon]

From what data has been passing around, the majority of the US armed services are getting more and more anti-Trump and associates (and thus anti-GOP).

Do that and you'll have basically no military.

Data is not very good. Trust me first hand, I AM LOW LEVEL ENLISTED!.
Mist just don't do data requested of them. We get asked to do surveys all the damn time and generally don't care to do it.

And plenty of people have issues with the riots both Jan 6th and over the summer. Trust me

The Us military is being reconfigured to something different. Loyalty and ideological adherence will become more important. The way this is handled in the communist world and third world dictators is through the introduction of political officers and by breaking the power of the NCO corps and handing much of thier responsibility to the more politically reliable junior officers.

Yeah no, nit gonna happen. NCOs run the Military

Then you haven't been looking at reality. Right now the situation is that the 'ground level' staff are having growing anti-Trump sentiments and Trump -believe it or not- has become the GOP via his base (which is the reversal of what usually happens in big-tent parties, where the radicals are the clingers while the moderates are the base).

The people you have to worry about right now are the upper echelons near the top.

Look. You both are wrong from my first hand experience

 

[Bacle]

Everything I've seen points to the lower levels being annoyed at the idiots who tried to breach the Chamber during Jan 6th, not Trump supporters or Trump himself.

It also points towards the lower levels seeing what happened in Seattle and the other riots over the summer as a bigger concern than any 'right-wing' groups, with questions about why BLM and Antifa aren't classified as domestic terrorists becoming more and more common during the 'anti-extremism training'.

Enough of the lower levels have read 'The Gulag Archipelago' and studied Soviet history to see the parallels in what the 'anti-extremism training' is actually trying to do via trying to paint Trump supporters as domestic enemies.

 

[DocSolarisReich]

Enough of the lower levels have read 'The Gulag Archipelago' and studied Soviet history to see the parallels in what the 'anti-extremism training' is actually trying to do via trying to paint Trump supporters as domestic enemies.

LOL, no. No enlisted lads in the army aside from a few weirdos has read any Solzhenitsyn. In garrison they're entirely too preoccupied with drinking and whoring and spending their pay on boondoggles; and deployed, they're too stressed for heavy reading. I managed Polybius in Iraq in 2002, but I was one of those few weirdos, and anything Russian is way too much like work to read in the kitty litter, unless you just happen to actually like Russian lit, <shudder>.

 

[Zachowon]

LOL, no. No enlisted lads in the army aside from a few weirdos has read any Solzhenitsyn. In garrison they're entirely too preoccupied with drinking and whoring and spending their pay on boondoggles; and deployed, they're too stressed for heavy reading. I managed Polybius in Iraq in 2002, but I was one of those few weirdos, and anything Russian is way too much like work to read in the kitty litter, unless you just happen to actually like Russian lit, <shudder>.

It also depends on the person and if they are smart or dumb, as well as MOS and the like.
More people in my Field are likely to actually read that stuff where as a HR person won't.

 

[PsihoKekec]

USSOCOM welcomes it's new commissar

 

[Zachowon]

Ah SOCOM.
You always fuck up when not needed too.

I can see this backfiring horribly when they try and get more females to be SF...

 

[Husky_Khan]

Ah SOCOM.
You always fuck up when not needed too.

I can see this backfiring horribly when they try and get more females to be SF...

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