Bill Wenger: Our Woke Military Will Get Us Killed

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With war on the horizon it would serve us well to get our act together before Biden and the Democrats hand us a massive military defeat on two fronts:


Our Woke Military Will Be Deadly for Us.
Bill WengerBill Wenger|Posted: Dec 12, 2021 12:01 AM

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There are numerous other such leadership and training failures caused by a lack of focus on warfighting and mission while genuflecting at the altar of Wokeness.

General Mark Milley, during the last months of the recent Presidential election, called the Chinese to tell them if former President Trump initiated hostile action against the PRC, Milley would inform them of the action. This is obvious and absolute sedition and near treason (treason must be against a declared enemy by the Constitution). Milley was not held accountable as he should still be, properly tired by a military tribunal and sentenced, minimally, to a long term in Leavenworth Prison.

The sad fact is, as I experienced last week, from the very top of DoD down to and including mid-grade officers and senior non-commissioned officers the military has bought into political wokeness and the propaganda of the left at the expense of training to, “… to close with the enemy by means of fire and maneuver to defeat or capture him .” We may well pay the price very soon for that failure to plan and train for war by having our collective butts handed to us by the Chinese over Taiwan, and by the Russians invading and conquering Crimea on the way to further Black Sea area dominance.

Bill Wenger is a retired commercial real estate executive, college professor, and U.S. Army Infantry Airborne Ranger Colonel. He voluntarily served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan after initial military retirement. He served 42 years commissioned service. He earned five Master’s Degrees and has taught National Strategic Planning, the Operational Level of Warfare, business and U.S. History. His latest book is on Amazon: The Key to American Independence: Quantifying Foreign Assistance to the American Revolution.
 
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Another right wing thread disrespecting the military???

Shocking.

:rolleyes:
 
No it won't.

#grievancePorn

Yea, how could lowering standards and combat effectiveness for equity sake possibly have any consequences ..... participation trophy culture is the end all be all right IL74?? :D
 
There isn't any war on the horizon. We're not going to go to war over Ukraine or Taiwan.
 
What happened to the last guy saying he was gonna toughen up our military :confused:

Oh yeah, the smart people punted before him got a chance :D
 
How can you serve 42 years and only be a Colonel?

Must be an Army thing. In the Navy it's up or out. No loitering.
 
Ukraine will probably turn to a shooting war. None of our business though and I doubt we will get involved, other than perhaps a strongly worded email.

The South and East China Seas is a powder keg and we are right in the middle of that because of our right to freedom of navigation.

Ukraine is 80% chance of war

The Taiwan area is 50-50

That's my opinion. No cite.
 
How can you serve 42 years and only be a Colonel?

Must be an Army thing. In the Navy it's up or out. No loitering.

Do you have to move up, though? Like a game piece on a board?

can't you just like where you are, serving in your niche?

I'm just saying, some people quit Wall Street to become a baker or the garage band guitarist that was on their bucket list.
 
Ukraine will probably turn to a shooting war. None of our business though and I doubt we will get involved, other than perhaps a strongly worded email.

The South and East China Seas is a powder keg and we are right in the middle of that because of our right to freedom of navigation.

Ukraine is 80% chance of war

The Taiwan area is 50-50

That's my opinion. No cite.

Yes. Many players on the world stage are Biden their time to strike...

They sense weakness, vacillation, senility...,

;) ;)
 
That's not a good reason to lower standards for equity sake.

Well the so called lower standards are at least twenty years old, probably much older than that and they don't make a fucking real difference anyway. They are in large part for the luls.
 
What happened to the last guy saying he was gonna toughen up our military :confused:

Oh yeah, the smart people punted before him got a chance :D

Undermined by partisans who disgraced their uniform, I'm not at all shocked you cheer the weakening of our military.

Anti-American in every way possible.

How can you serve 42 years and only be a Colonel?

Must be an Army thing. In the Navy it's up or out. No loitering.

Nah just a 1%'er kinda thing.

Navy details, scale and needs differ, but they do the exact same thing for their special needs positions.

Specialized jobs or people with particular skill sets can get extended loiter time waivered to whenever. Effectively tops them out at E7 or O6 in the Army but they get their waivers and usually some fat bonuses to re up pretty much as long as they want.

So your regular whatever we got those by the thousands all day every day.

No, up or out.

If you're some crypto super geek, linguistics expert or surgeon? You'll not only get your waiver but you'll probably get a fat ass bonus to re-up too.
 
I never thought of a paper-pusher. The write up in the OP said combat tours and I assumed he was on the tip of the spear. I guess "combat tour" is subjective. Someone has to peel the potatoes up front, I guess.

I didn't have much interaction with officers. The navy keeps officer and enlisted pretty separated. But a Navy O-6 at 20 is getting pretty nervous about being retired. At least the ship drivers.
 
Well the so called lower standards are at least twenty years old, probably much older than that and they don't make a fucking real difference anyway. They are in large part for the luls.

In some cases I agree, but in others absolutely not.

Do we need high PT standards for office clerks and dental assistants?? No. A low key normal health standard is more than sufficient.

Super basic PT 3x a week. More focus in the classroom.

Want to be a fire fighter? Probably need some better physical standards like carrying a 180lb dummy in full gear for x distances and through x obstacles, because job.

You want to be in special ops? Well, that SHOULD be the most physically demanding and psychologically agonizing thing that makes most the people who try quit and or fail out. Absolutely fucking hardcore standards and practices. Special ops are special for many reasons, none of which are compatible with participation trophy culture. Fine for the logistics clerks, nobody cares if they can carry 100lbs of gear over miles of terrain, win a fight and then make another however many mile hump to extraction. Airborne Rangers? That's the fuckin' job so if you can't you're out, go drive a truck.

Military standards and proficiencies should be centered around their job, not anything else.

All the other bull shit is bull shit.
 
How can you serve 42 years and only be a Colonel?

Must be an Army thing. In the Navy it's up or out. No loitering.


He was a reserve component officer, looks like he had a break in service. You’re correct, it’s move up or move out, general officers do get extensions though. The other way is critical MOS shortages like doctors, intel or teaching at academies.

42 years continuous service is rare indeed.
 
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I never thought of a paper-pusher. The write up in the OP said combat tours and I assumed he was on the tip of the spear. I guess "combat tour" is subjective. Someone has to peel the potatoes up front, I guess.

I didn't have much interaction with officers. The navy keeps officer and enlisted pretty separated. But a Navy O-6 at 20 is getting pretty nervous about being retired. At least the ship drivers.

Yea it just means he was deployed to a FOB in a declared combat zone, almost certainly Iraq/Afghanistan.

IDK what kind of special he is but he's got something special going on to be an O6 that long, that's for sure the exception not the rule.

Same for regular army. You might occasionally see your butter bar but other than an occasional mass briefing but if you weren't an E7+ you pretty much never interacted with any higher ranking officer. And yea an E7 or O6 with 20 and a couple passes on advancement? About time to take that retirement and move on.
 
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He was a reserve component officer, looks like he had a break in service. You’re correct, it’s move up or move out, general officers do get extensions though. The other way is critical MOS shortages like doctors, intel or teaching at academies.

42 years continuous service is rare indeed.

Ahhh.... yea. That too, I forgot about that.

You can kind of just exist in the guard/reserve and float there forever.
 
And take that second career at the Post Office where you don't have to do much
and still retire again at a relatively young age and double-dip for the rest of your life.
 
Poor lil Dumb-Dumb still backing 45's failures by blaming others. I bet he teaches his wife's kids that cowardly system as well.
 
There isn't any war on the horizon. We're not going to go to war over Ukraine or Taiwan.

The way you prevent war is to prepare for war. Wokeness and Democrat leadership send a signal to our enemies that we aren't ready for war. So like wolves, they begin to circle.:rolleyes:
 
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