The U.S. military has a manual for everything, from how to dress to how to wage war.
Now the Pentagon has sent out a detailed written instruction to commanders on how a service member can change his or her sex in a step-by-step process that allows for extended time off.
The directive restricts personnel from living their “preferred gender” lifestyle, or “Real Life Experience,” on a military base among peers until the sex change transition is complete.
The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy must set up a bureaucracy — dubbed the Service Central Coordination Cell — to guide commanders overseeing sex change transitions.
A service member’s commander plays a big role in shepherding the patient through the sex transition. This starts with approving government-funded medical treatment of genital reconstruction surgery and hormone therapy, and then recovery, and then the final phase of determining the member’s fitness to return to duty after he or she receives a new official “gender marker.” (continued here)
The Federal Government primary job is to defend our country. So what are our military forces suppose to worry about? Paying for soldiers to have sex change operations?
Remember this?
Obama and the Democrats have different priority than the one that they tell us to our faces. Their first priority is to rule us. So they bankrupt our nation buying our votes, and they neglect our defenses. While they conquer us themselves, they tell our enemies to sit tight and wait.
Perhaps, when they have a lock on power — when we are properly enslaved — the Democrats will worry about defending their property. Meanwhile, they remained focused on the conquest that most interests them, the United States of America.
Large majorities of Republicans in the US Congress support drafting women for combat based on their support of the House and Senate versions of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Acts. There is still time to eliminate the provision to draft women from the final bill.
The Senate Committee NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) Report summary does not list the drafting of women for combat in the bill. But, on page 11, it does acknowledge that:
”The NDAA includes a provision that amends the Military Selective Service Act to include women in the requirement to register for selective service, to the same extent men are currently required, beginning January 1, 2018. Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men.”
The only Virginia Republican Congressman to vote against the NDAA was Morgan Griffith, while 237 House Republicans voted yes! Only four other Republicans voted no in the House, and only six of 54 Senate Republicans voted no.
Please ask Democrat Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who supported NDAA passage, as well as your own Congressperson whether or not they publicly supported a position in favor of drafting women into military ground combat when they last ran for office.
This is the first time in American history such a radical policy has been approved by Congress. Where was the groundswell for, or even the public debate for this misguided radical policy which mandates that men and women must register for the draft on identical terms?
The Senate bill (John McCain, R-AZ) provides that after January 1, 2018 female citizens or legal residents 18 and over “shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as are applicable under the provisions of this Act to similarly situated male registrants …[because of] … the continuing need for a mechanism to draft large numbers of replacement combat troops.”
How can pregnant women (married or not) or young mothers, aged 18-26 avoid being drafted for combat duty under such provisions? This is not a matter of young women voluntarily enlisting in the military. This would be a mandate upon every young woman aged 18-26 whether or not they had any intention of ever serving in combat.
The House and Senate must approve final versions of the 2017 NDAA bill. Please contact Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Tim Kaine and your own Congressperson today. Firmly and with civility demand that they vote NO if provisions for drafting women are contained in the final NDAA bill, unless you are fine with having your daughters, granddaughters sisters and nieces conscripted into the military for front line ground combat!
I encourage you to contact Senators Kaine and Warner to voice your opinion on this issue. You can contact each of them through their websites at the links or you can reach Senator Kaine at (202) 224-4024 and Senator Warner at (202)224-2023. To find your Congressperson check out Who’s My Legislator.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much for your continuing support!
Sincerely,
Delegate Bob Marshall
I have seen how the all-volunteer military operates. Therefore, I wonder why we need a draft. Draftees are people put into service whether they want to be or not. To keep them in their service, their masters don’t have to treat them well. Hence, I think any serious effort to return to a draft military would reveal that drafted soldiers are treated more poorly than volunteers (Has everyone forgotten Vietnam?). On the other hand, our volunteer military forces have demonstrated the capacity to fight both bravely and effectively. It is a civilian leaders who have failed.
At the same time, we have seen that even in a volunteer military it is too easy for men to abuse women. So why would we want to draft women?
What this effort tell me is that too many of our leaders don’t know what they are doing. They just want to look good so they can stay in office. So they do what seems popular to the news media. Yet if we ever institute a draft, drafting women will just create problems that will blow up in our faces. The people in the news media don’t know anything about fighting a war.
Look at WWII. When they felt America was threatened, the Americans of the 1940’s fought bravely and effectively. Because they were so eager to fight their nation’s enemies, young men eagerly volunteered. Were some drafted? I suppose many were, but those who could not get in to the military were ashamed. Hence, we effectively had a volunteer force. Yet hardly anyone seriously considered drafting women. Somebody had to stay at home. What needed to be done at home was just as important as what needed to be done at the front. And that involved much more than just rivets.
Yet a pretty girl flexing her muscles certainly draws attention and makes good copy. Imagine how cute she would look in Hollywood designed body armor waving a sexy assault weapon.
Oregon Army National Guard, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Soldiers from load onto a C-17 Globemaster III Aug. 13, 2013, bound for Afghanistan from Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania. The flight is one of more than 500, deploying and redeploying transportation missions, that the U.S. Army Europe’s 21st Theater Sustainment Command and Air Force’s 780th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron have supported since opening the transit hub in February 2014. (U.S. Army photo/Sgt. Brandon Hubbard — from here)
I did not especially like what I saw in Chapter 4. What concerns me is Trump’s determination to get the “best deal.”
There is another way to pay to modernize our military forces. If other countries are depending upon us to protect them, shouldn’t they be willing to make sure we have the capability to do it? Shouldn’t they be willing to pay for the servicemen and servicewomen and the equipment we’re providing?
Depending upon the price of oil, Saudi Arabia earns somewhere between half a billion and a billion dollars every day. They wouldn’t exist, let alone have that wealth, without our protection. We get nothing from them. Nothing.
It’s time to change all that. It’s time to win again.
We’ve got 28,500 wonderful American soldiers on South Korea’s border with North Korea. They’re in harm’s way every single day. They’re the only thing that is protecting South Korea. And what do we get from South Korea for it? They sell us products — at a nice profit. They compete with us.
What Trump is suggesting is that if we are going to be the world’s policeman, the world ought to pay us. That’s a very bad idea. Do we really want our soldiers to be mercenaries?
Because they are just human beings like us, our allies will never be perfect. Therefore, when we station troops in another country or come to the defense of another nation, we must set aside our prejudices. We must objectively consider what is in our own nation’s best interests. Did Donald Trump? No.
An Aside On Immigration Policy
What is it that blinds Trump? Is he blind? I don’t know. I just see a pattern developing, and it is about silly things. Before we continue, let’s briefly consider another example, from Chapter 3, “Immigration: Good Walls Make Good Neighbors.” Trump wants Mexico to pay for the wall. Why would we want Mexicans to pay for the wall? To screw them? Because their leaders have encouraged their poor and their troublemakers to go north? That’s laughable!
Our problem is that our politicians won’t enforce our immigration laws. That is our fault, not Mexico’s, but Trump does not want to pay the bill. He refuses to admit we are at fault. So in addition to passing the bill for the wall to Mexico, he wants to pass the blame. Yet it is our own corrupt politicians — American politicians — who control who crosses into the United States and who stays here, not corrupt Mexican politicians.
Working With Our Allies
Trump did not even bother to consider the contributions our allies already make. He just looked at the bill and suggested someone else ought to pay.
As far as I can tell, Ted Cruz has not proposed a scheme to get other nations to help pay for our military forces (see American Resolve: Rebuilding America’s Military). Why not? I can only guess, but consider what would happen if other nations actually were to give us money for the use of our soldiers, regular payments for services rendered. Consider how too many of our politicians look upon money. Are they not always ravenous for more to spend?
Currently, Congress looks upon military spending as a grim necessity. From the
Strykers teams with the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regment prepare 1st Armor Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division armored vehicles for offloading March 18, 2015 in Poland. (from here)
perspective of corrupt politicians, military spending doesn’t have much bang for the buck. That is, there are much more efficient ways to buy votes However, if other nations suddenly realize they can pay for the use of the world’s finest…..
When so many of our leaders already believe they exist just to spend other people’s money and as much money as they can spend, do we really want to let them use our nation’s armed forces as an excuse to solicit funds from other nations?
The Grim Necessity Of War
The United States Armed Forces exist to protect the vital interests of the United States. That is, military service is supposed to be about duty, honor, and country. Hence when we station our military forces in another nation, we should be doing so only for these three reasons:
Duty. We have may a valid commitment. We have a moral or legal obligation that requires our forces to be in that nation.
Honor. In addition to treaty obligations, there are crimes and atrocities we cannot honorably ignore. When we have the capacity to stop a mass murder, we should seriously consider doing so.
Country. Few Americans long to be stationed for years, especially to fight, in faraway lands. Yet our soldiers volunteer to do so. They know it is far better to fight in a faraway land than it is to watch their own people suffer in their own country.
So what is the true cost of our armed forces? Is it money? No. We must always keep at the forefront of our minds what our nation’s soldiers have signed up to do, risk life and limb for us. Therefore, when we deploy our armed forces, we should always remember it is not about money. It is about duty. It is about honor. It is about country. It is about our friends and neighbors going into harm’s way for our sakes.
130320-N-TG831-099 WATERS TO THE WEST OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA (March 20, 2013) The Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7), left, performs a replenishment-at-sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85). McCampbell is part of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, and is underway to conduct exercise Foal Eagle 2013 with allied nation Republic of Korea in support of regional security and stability of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Declan Barnes/Released) (from here)
Sculptures of (left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln represent the first 130 years of the history of the United States. (from here)
Consider leaders such as those shown above. Why did men risk so much to follow them? Was it merely their good looks or their charm? That’s doubtful, I think. Read about them, and you will find that their deeds matched their words. Because they were honorable men, they walked as they talked, and they made personal sacrifices to keep their word.
Contrast that with the words of our current Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter.
Here is the crux of it.
In a scathing critique of the performance of the ISF to date, Carter said, “The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight” in fleeing Ramadi last weekend.
In an interview with CNN’s Barbara Starr that aired Sunday, Carter said, “They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight,” abandoning their equipment, large stores of ammunition, more than a hundred U.S. Humvees and other vehicles, and several tanks — reportedly including M1A1 Abrams tanks.
What is happening in Iraq? Whose fault is it? Why won’t the Iraqis fight? Are they cowards? What is this “will to fight” that the Iraqis apparently lack? I fear it is something we are slowly losing in this country. What the Iraqis lack is honorable men and women, people they respect and trust, to lead them. What the Iraqis lack is the wisdom to exercise honorable behavior towards each other.
Consider how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Hussein did not seek to lead men. He drove his people to obey by making them afraid for their lives. For decades Hussein taught the Iraqi people that to survive they must docilely obey the strong man.
Saddam Hussein succeeded by dividing and conquering the Iraqi people. He pitted the various factions in Iraq against each other. Thus, each Iraqi citizen learned that at best he could trust only a small circle of friends and relatives.
Consider how ISIS has behaved. Similar to Saddam Hussein, ISIS seeks to conquer by terrorizing any who would oppose it. Instead of members of the Ba’ath Party, the leaders of ISIS claim to be devout Muslims. Nevertheless, the leaders of ISIS model the behavior that tyrants have displayed since men first learned to conquer and enslave other men.
When Americans put boots on the ground and took over Iraq (following the Second Persian Gulf War), we did not know what to expect, but we soon learned the people of Iraq did not trust each other or their elected leaders. Hence, we could not simply pack up and leave. If we did, we understood opportunists would slip into Iraq and take advantage of a weak Iraqi government. Unfortunately, when President Barack Obama pulled out our troops, the inevitable happened.
Why should we have stayed in Iraq? Consider what happened when Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt. After living as slaves for centuries, the Hebrews did not know how to fight.
Israel Driven Back into the Desert (illustration by B. Barnards from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons) (from here)
Hence, even though they knew God Himself would fight for them, the Hebrews were still afraid to enter Canaan. Therefore, God let them march in the wilderness for 40 years, waiting until all those who had refused to enter the Promised Land had died.
Honor, wisdom, self-discipline, self government….these are things we must learn, and that learning is not easy. It takes time. Like it or not, the Iraqi people cannot suddenly understand how to be good citizens. Like it or not our children will not learn just because we think that they should do so. Like it or not, if we want our government to work, we have do to what we want the Iraqis to do. We have to be good citizens. We have to make it work. If we want to be a free people, we must choose good people to lead us, and we must hold them accountable to our laws. And, with our own example, we must teach our children how to be good citizens in a free country.
If this article, Pentagon issues sex change manual, allows extended time off for process, were just a joke it would be hysterically funny. As it is, this is an occasion for sadness and shame.
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