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A Woke Military Is Not a Fighting Force
A Woke Military Is Not a Fighting Force
Note: SF stands for Special Forces
I’m retired and I don’t think they’re looking for seniors — it’s not Ukraine yet. True I was never so inclined, but a brother died from Camp Legeune contamination.
What specific missions of the US armed services are you referring to when you criticize some of those currently serving?
Posted by: Lavieja | Mar 16 2024 6:01 utc | 58
Three and a half years as cadre at the Special Warfare Training Center aka USAJFKSWCS. Selecting and training Green Berets. Selection classes were typically over 400 candidates. Mostly from 18th Airborne Corp ie 82d, 101st, Tenth Mountain and 75th Rangers. So we’re already starting out with the most elite infantry and paratroopers in the entire US military ecosystem.
Over 70 percent of these elite infantry would be weeded out of SFAS aka “Selection” 77 percent in my personal class. Of those who were “Selected” two thirds of those men would fail out of the year long SFQC aka the “Q Course.”
So out of every hundred of the most elite infantry soldiers in the world only five or six ended up getting Tabbed. Then they marry up with an actual SFODA. Even at that camouflage, a significant percentage of graduates end up getting fired once they land on a Team and get screened through real world missions. They show up to work one morning and find all of their kit sitting outside the Team Room with a post-it note saying “Report to the Sergeant Major’s office for out processing.”
So yes I do know of what I speak. Granted, this was 1997-2001 timeframe. Today the standards have been abolished. Not hyperbole. To begin the Q-Course a candidate doesn’t have to pass the physical fitness test. Doesn’t have to find any points on the legendary Star Land Navigation course. Doesn’t have to pass any patrols in phase one. Officers don’t have to pass TroyTrek etc. There are literally no standards. Why did they do this? Because the number one priority of the current Command is for women to be able to graduate the Q-Course and wear a Green Beret.
They did the same thing to the Rangers. So all of the Special Forces Groups and the 75th Rangers are now a complete fucking joke. Sleep well America.
However. My understanding is that the Navy SEALS have refused to lower their standards to comply with this woke agenda. God bless the Frogmen!
But this crap was even encroaching in the 90s under Clinton. Back then it was all about blacks. Why aren’t there any blacks in SF? Well it mostly had to do with the fact that the minimum measured IQ to even be considered as an SF Candidate was 115. Average IQ of American blacks is 80. But Command forced the issue.
They wanted to make an SF diversity recruitment poster but there weren’t enough available blacks within the ranks. So they ordered us to go COSCOM (support and logistics for SF) and find some athletic looking strapping young black boys.
So we did. The recruitment poster was an “SFODA” in arctic camouflage on the ridge line of a snow capped mountain led by a black “Team Commander” with several other black “Operators” in the background.
True to their guerrilla warfare training, the SF NCOs who were tasked with dressing up these impostors. Ha! These SF NCOs mounted the AimPoint sights backwards on the rails of the M-4s. And the Army brass actually published the poster! It was a quietly hilarious open secret in the SF world for weeks until the retard Army brass finally figured it out and yanked the poster. Some of you all out there might be old enough to remember that poster.
Posted by: RLTW | Mar 16 2024 20:13 utc | 101