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Was that your big takeaway from this speech? There’s a significant retooling of the American military in the works and I strongly support it.
Might want to pose that question to the DC residents who can now walk around safely.
Or the people from Chicago, or better yet, Memphis, who have been wearing themselves out at council meetings asking for more law enforcement in their neighborhoods.
Or even the parents of children who've been raped, murdered, or shot during random drive by gang bullshit.
Ridding our nation of the millions of criminal illegal aliens, and the entrenched criminal elements, paid protesters,
Getting the freaks out of our military.
Getting illegals out of our healthcare system.
By whatever means necessary is what we voted for.
And exactly what's being deliverd.
And it's not even the end of year one !!!
/End Thread
Do you have any clue what fascism is?
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More than likely not.
It's just the catch phrase used by the throngs of anti Trumpers.
Anything he's doing is facist in their eyes.
What's funny is, with the schumer shutdown looming, all of the video clips of him, hillary and others stating that illegal aliens are not worthy of getting our healthcare benefits.
Pretty much saying they were MAGA before MAGA was cool.
No, he read the interweb and found out the buzz words of the day and raced to start a thread.
I’ve enjoyed the ignorance from those that throw that word around along with Nazi, Gestapo…etc., etc., etc. …as they support the anarchy, crime and villainy that’s taking place in Big City America and they support policies that are, in themselves, fascist mandates that defy logic.
No worries. I’ll continue to call them what they are…
THEY
If you spent the last 20 or so years in the US, through the Floyd/Gray/Brown/et al riots, Antifa, social media censorship, social credit score/digital ID talk, ‘Rona shutdowns, various active shooter/sniper events, and on and on, and still think that the R’s are the fascists, seek professional help…because you’re not living in reality.
Watching a recap of Trump & Hegseth addressing military leadership at Quantico. Hegseth was embarrassing, and Trump is borderline inappropriate. These admirals and generals left commands and traveled multiple time zones to pump Hegseth’s ego and hear Trump whine. It’s objectively bad, and serves almost no practical or operational purpose.
Why are there soooo many 0-7 and up these days?
What the actual fuck?
What’s so embarrassing about telling the military to shape up, look, act and be professional and capable, or ship out? 🤷♂️
What’s the right number? Serious question as I have zero involvement or engagement with BUPERS (or whatever it’s called now). With zero intel I cannot make an assessment, and I’m hesitant to rely on a guy who’s had the gig less than a year.
Exactly, this isn't some drag queen parade, or hollywood red carpet poser group.
It's our "warriors".
The MEN, and badass women, who are tasked to defend our nation, and its interests.
And... all of these blue haired protesters have overlooked one key phrase in their creed.
All enemies foreign and domestic.
Go look at the acceleration of those ranks over the last 40 years…it’s insane.
Remember when a 3 or 4 star was rare? I do.
Yep, too many chiefs.
And too many Indian's with jelly doughnuts in their foot lockers.
It's nice your back
I love that todays message was…
Woke is dead.
No more dudes in dresses.
No more beardos.
No more Fat Generals. 🤣
Meanwhile, the defenders of the old guard, including those that gave us Biden…and gave us KJP…and gave us…all that wonderful “Dudes swimming on the Women’s team” woke bullshit…
Those folks want us to care about their “feelings”?
Bwaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa
You Can Not Make This Shit Up💩
Pit Row
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Holy Jesus! What is that? What THE FUCK is that? WHAT IS THAT, PRIVATE PYLE?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, a jelly doughnut, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
A jelly doughnut?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, yes, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
How did it get here?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, I took it from the mess hall, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Is chow allowed in the barracks, Private Pyle?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Are you allowed to eat jelly doughnuts, Private Pyle?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
And why not, Private Pyle?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, because I'm too heavy, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Because you are a disgusting fat body, Private Pyle!
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, yes, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Then why did you try to sneak a jelly doughnut in your foot locker, Private Pyle?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, because I was hungry, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Because you were hungry...
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Private Pyle has dishonored himself and dishonored his platoon. I have tried to help Private Pyle. I have failed. I have failed because YOU have not given Private Pyle the proper motivation! So, from now on, whenever Private Pyle fuckss up, I will not punish him! I will punish all of YOU! And the way I see it, ladies, you owe me for ONE JELLY DOUGHNUT! NOW, GET DOWN ON YOUR FACES!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Open your mouth!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
They're payin' for it; YOU eat
The available numbers show that the total of O-7 and above is actually lower than 40 years ago.
"A summary of the number of active-duty GFOs and the proportion of GFOs relative to the total force over the past five decades is provided in Table 5. A review of GFO levels indicates a 2.8% increase in the number of four-star officers (36 on September 30, 1965, versus 37 on September 30, 2023) and an 11% increase in the number of three-star officers (119 versus 132), with variations over time related to current events. At the same time, the number of one-star and two-star officers has decreased by about 43.3% (1,129 versus 640).
During this time, the size of the total force dropped by approximately 51.5%, from 2.66 million on September 30, 1965, to 1.29 million on September 30, 2023. Thus, a more salient measure may be the proportion of GFOs to the total force.
Looking at the data from this perspective, it is clear that although GFOs have always made up a very small percentage of the total force, the GFO corps has increased as a percentage of the total force over the past five decades. GFOs made up about one-twentieth of one percent (0.048%) of the total force in 1965, whereas they made up about one-sixteenth of one percent (0.063%) of the total force in 2023, indicating that the share of the total force made up of GFOs has increased by 31%. This historical trend is more pronounced with respect to four-star officers (which grew from 0.0014% of the total force to 0.0029%, a 107% increase) and three-star officers (which grew from 0.0045% of the total force to 0.0103%, a 129% increase). One- and two-star officers as a percentage of the total force increased less demonstrably (from 0.0425% of the total force to 0.0500%, a 17.6% increase).
These increases occurred at the same time that the size of the officer corps in general was increasing as a percentage of the total force. As indicated in the last column of Table 5, between 1965 and 2023, the officer corps increased from 12.76% of the total force in 1965 to 18.22% in 2023, indicating that the share of the total force made up of officers increased by 42.8%."
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44389
*I added the bold
Yeah, the percentage of those higher officers may be a bit higher. I was referring to the actual number of officers O-7 and above.
The overall force is smaller by over 50%, so using the percentages of the force is the only real way to compare them. You could argue that the officer corps has grown by almost 43% since 1965, but that increase doesn't keep pace with the percentage increase of GO/FO across the board.
I can't remember where I read it, but the overwhelming majority of GO/FO across the 5 branches are in staff positions, and don't actually have direct command over anything.
I didn’t look at the full number of officers, only the O-7 and up. If you look at the numbers in your original reply, the total of flag officers is down a little over 37%. I have the spreadsheets for the other ranks but it’d be at least tomorrow before I could look at them.
I was originally replying to the statement about there being so many more O-7 and above officers and I suppose that it may seem like there are more of them because they are a slightly higher percentage of overall manpower.
Hahaha....seriously? C'mon, dude.
Good post!👍🏻💯
It’s your opinion and that’s great. I think you’re wrong.
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People will only understand once these authoritarian methods affect them or people they care about. But that time will come rather sooner than later, as deporting immigrants or oppressing lgbtq people won't appease their crowd forever.
It's about leading by example, the Commander in Chief should set the example.
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