Fwd: America's top General resigns
>>> By Ray Starmann
>>>
>>> Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, in concern for the lives of
>>> current and future US military personnel and to honor those who
>>> have gone before, I must speak to the nation today.
>>>
>>> I’ve called this press conference to announce that I am
>>> resigning as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I am
>>> retiring after 39 years on active duty, which included combat
>>> service in Iraq leading the finest Marines in the world.
>>>
>>> I am resigning as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
>>> retiring from the Marine Corps for the following reasons:
>>>
>>> For the last seven years during the Obama Administration:
>>>
>>> I have watched and remained silent as hundreds of senior officers
>>> were forced to resign or were forcibly retired because of their
>>> disagreements with the current policies wrecking the military.
>>>
>>> I have watched and remained silent as people who have never served
>>> a day in uniform laid siege to the glorious traditions of the US
>>> military.
>>>
>>> I have watched and remained silent as male ROTC cadets paraded in
>>> red high heels, male soldiers conducted physical training wearing
>>> pregnancy simulators, combat units dealt with breastfeeding and
>>> lactation issues in the field and sensitivity training became the
>>> standard operating procedure of the US military.
>>>
>>> I have watched and remained silent as trans-genders were
>>> authorized to serve in the ranks, and three females graduated from
>>> the US Army Ranger School, under what I believe are the most
>>> dubious of circumstances.
>>>
>>> My predecessors in the JCS chose to look the other way, and like
>>> Pontius Pilate, wash their hands of these egregious affairs.
>>>
>>> My predecessors in the JCS were more concerned about their careers
>>> than about the welfare of the nation and the troops they led every
>>> day.
>>>
>>> Now the final nail in the coffin of the US military has been
>>> hammered in. On April 1, 2016, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter,
>>> with the full backing of the President of the United States,
>>> authorized the legal inclusion of women in the combat arms
>>> branches and special operations units of the United States Armed
>>> Forces.
>>>
>>> In good conscience, I can no longer remain silent. The stakes are
>>> too high for this nation and for the women in the US military who,
>>> I believe will be greatly harmed by their inclusion in the combat
>>> arms and special operations.
>>>
>>> I can no longer watch the US military be annihilated. While many
>>> have chosen to sit on the sidelines, I must step forth and report
>>> to the nation concerning the mortal danger the US military is in
>>> tonight because of its commander in chief, President Barack Obama
>>> and his cabinet and advisers.
>>>
>>> The evidence against women in direct combat from the Center for
>>> Military Readiness and the Marine Corps’ 36 million dollar, 9
>>> month study and the performance of women at the Marine Infantry
>>> Officers Basic Course is overwhelming. Yet, the President, the
>>> Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary
>>> of the Army refuse to acknowledge that the evidence even exists.
>>>
>>> It does exist and it indicates that while women perform
>>> spectacularly in 80% of the jobs in the military, the combat arms
>>> and special operations should be closed to them; permanently.
>>>
>>> Women are simply prone to more injuries than men, have less muscle
>>> mass, do not have the upper body strength, the same aerobic lung
>>> capacity and the aggressiveness to fulfill the military’s combat
>>> readiness requirements and missions.
>>>
>>> The so-called experts often say that women have already served in
>>> combat. In the last two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, females
>>> did engage the enemy and many performed heroically and beyond the
>>> call of duty. But, returning fire during a military police
>>> security operation is not the same as being in a combat arms unit
>>> that has the mission of finding, fixing and killing the enemy.
>>> That is like comparing Pop Warner Football with the NFL.
>>>
>>> Reality says that women serving in the combat arms and special
>>> operations is not just a bad idea, but a horrific decision that
>>> puts this nation in mortal danger.
>>>
>>> The President and the Secretary of Defense are not dealing with
>>> reality, but with a feminist based fantasy based on false premises
>>> of gender neutrality. They see the world the way they want it to
>>> be, not the way it is. These policies are based on the illusion
>>> that genders are neutral and that none of this will affect the
>>> military’s readiness, esprit de corps and ability to wage and
>>> win wars.
>>>
>>> There is no gender neutrality on a battlefield.
>>>
>>> It is the responsibility of America’s military leaders to
>>> protect the nation and to obey the lawful orders of those
>>> appointed above us. But, our military leaders are not martinets.
>>> There is no Fuehrerprinzip in America. An order is not just an
>>> order. The nation’s military leaders have a moral duty to inform
>>> our elected officials when policies they support and implement are
>>> destructive to the nation itself.
>>>
>>> Silence is not golden. It is pure and unadulterated moral
>>> cowardice.
>>>
>>> Congress also has a duty to protect the nation and to insure that
>>> the military is strong and readiness is maintained. On the issue
>>> of women in combat, Congress has been full of sound and fury,
>>> while signifying nothing. Except for a few concerned veterans like
>>> Senator John McCain and Congressman Duncan Hunter, Congress has
>>> remained silent because a majority of Congress has never served
>>> and is largely ignorant of the issue itself.
>>>
>>> I cannot in good conscience promote policies that will order
>>> American women, ages 18 – 26 to register and be eligible for a
>>> military draft which could place them in combat arms units in
>>> wartime.
>>>
>>> I cannot in good conscience serve as the highest ranking military
>>> member of the US military, when I am completely at odds with the
>>> social engineering directives emanating from the Secretary of
>>> Defense and the President.
>>>
>>> The military has one sole mission. That is to wage war and to
>>> vanquish the enemies of this nation on land, on the seas and in
>>> the air. It must never be used as a social engineering project by
>>> naïve and uninformed politicians and lobbyists.
>>>
>>> As the military prepares for this cataclysmic change, the enemies
>>> of this nation are lining up against us. They know that this is a
>>> lose, lose situation for us and a win, win situation for them.
>>> They know that we are now going to wage war with a much weaker
>>> force and that our readiness is withering by the hour.
>>>
>>> It is very possible that the United States of America may never
>>> win another war. I do not believe this is hyperbole. I believe
>>> this is a fact.
>>>
>>> The fate of the republic hangs in mortal jeopardy. I pray that my
>>> successor and a new President elected in 2016 have the courage and
>>> the wisdom to amend the policies that might very well destroy this
>>> great nation I have served for nearly four decades.
>>>
>>> I bid you farewell. Semper Fi.
>>>
>>> | April 9, 2016 at 10:18 pm | Categories: , , , | URL:
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