Yesterday I was greeted with a large Black History Month banner at the local VA hospital. There should be no question that the VA leadership got the direction to stop all DEI related activities. They put the banner up in defiance of President Trump.
The usual "civil rights" groups are now suing the Trump administration for racial discrimination based on the claim that the rapid demise of DEI has a "disparate impact" on blacks and other minorities. Wonder if Sal's OK with that as well. "Good people on both sides," anyone?
Gundog15: I saw a Black History Month table-top display last week while making my way to my gate for a flight at Salt Lake City Airport. I think some people simply have not gotten the message, yet. While some of us are hyper-attentive to what's going on in Washington, DC, many people simply go about their lives. Personally, I don't mind private displays. It's the overbearing, "in your face," gubmint and corporate pandering that bothers me.
SLC isn't Federal. SFAIK, they can do whatever they want, Black History Month, DEI, LGBTQ. It's their business. At least until whatever government does have authority over them (presumably the State of Utah or City of Salt Lake City) decides they aren't playing anymore.
And that's fine. Except it doesn't work the other way generally. Want to put up a display for Daughters of the Confederacy (if that's really a thing)? Nope, racist, bigoted, Nazi, white nationalist militia stuff there. That's grounds for doxxing, protests on your front lawn, and public libel.
I don't have any problems celebrating the successes of black folks. There as some who are as important as Edison and Ford. But it should be in the context of "everyone can do this" even if it's more special as a "rags to riches" type of story.
While I find it unhelpful and somewhat offensive (to blacks, who have participated in the same "history" as everyone else), this one is a grey area, because President Trump himself officially acknowledged "Black History Month" this year.
Today I went back for another appointment at the same VA hospital. This time I notice the Chain Command Board at the building entrance was literally ripped off the bulkhead. No photos of the new POTUS, VP, etc. Nothing.
CDR Sal, politeness costs little, agree with you that far. Question: how does the side of (conservative, libertarian, not the "Republican" party) values actually "win" this fight when the progressive, post modernist, Marxist, socialist side is playing by a totally different rule book. Alinksy's "Rules for Radical" is not the Marques de Queensbury version of political discourse. Our war in the Pacific was fought under different "rules of surrender" than the war in Europe. We remade Germany's and Japan's societies to buy peace at great cost in lives, treasure...and national psyche, IMO. It worked, because we didn't repeat the mistakes of Versailles and set the conditions for WW II. Still, at great cost. Have to ask, if the election had gone a different way, would there be a similar discussion on the left? Call me a cynic, doubt it. Not saying we don't try to rise up and preserve the core of what we are. But winning and maintaining what we are without simply laying the foundation for the next "collapse of western civilization" election is perhaps (boy is that an optimistic take) at stake. How far do we take the chemo to kill the cancer?...I'll be quiet now...
The problem with chemo versus directed therapies is that you have to poison the entire body when you are really just trying to rid yourself of one or more tumors. I propose that Congress repeal the 1839 law prohobiting dueling in the District of Columbia. People are policy. Let see if the individuals manipulating the system to their nefarious ends are willing to put up. /sarc
Are you assuming that enough people in D.C. have a sense of honor, Sicinnus? That those challenged wouldn't go into hiding, or those who accepted would abide by Code Duello? I'd like to see the gentlemen in the D.C. halls of power thrash each other with canes when provoked into (biblical) righteous indignation. Matthew 21:12-13-ish.
“Also, along the way, let’s treat each other with at least neutral respect. If someone gets exceptionally personal or mean, that’s different—but that’s not the case here. Business is business. Adults understand it. Return the email. Pick up the phone. It is a challenging year for everyone.”
You and I have agreed for six out of seven days per week for the past three years. One hallmark of our relationship is that you have always put your money where your mouth is. You have been respectful and you have answered the phone.
Aside from the usual banal courteous greetings demanded by a polite society it is very difficult to imagine being sincerely polite to people who promulgate and monetize this;
"Challenges at the Intersection of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change"
After all we know the marginalized and vulnerable population of Aurora Colorado must be more concerned by nuclear weapons and climate change than they are about the totally nonexistent problems of Venezuelan Gangs that absolutely don't exist.
The DEI commissars and their BLM red guard did a lot of real damage to ordinary people. What do we tell the young man who didn’t get into West Point or some medical school because he was guilty of events that happened before he was even born? What do we tell the soldiers or patients who died because of the inept DEI company commander or surgeon?
The leftists need to appear before a Nuremberg-like tribunal to answer for their crimes.
Or missing air traffic controllers once the DEI candidates displacing more competent trainees eventually washed out, leaving desperately needed ATC positions unfilled? DCA and 67 dead people anyone?
Makes sense. Wait for the report overseen by the folks who instituted the policy that caused the accident in the first place. Who else would you believe...?
They'll never fess up to the severe damage the combination of COVID-induced blood-letting of pilots and maintenance crews coupled with what the DEI-generated mal-, mis-, and nonfeasance has done to the entire FAA and related organizations. We're the laughingstock of the world and can no longer hide our many go-arounds, runway incursions, RAs, "numbers to call," and needless deadly crashes (esp. in general aviation). Let alone our aircraft manufacturers doing everything they can (and some things they can't) to avoid the cost-prohibitive delays and absurd testing and retraining regimes associated with minor changes in aircraft operations and features.
It'll take the discovery process attending the numerous lawsuits percolating up through the system to lay bare the fetid rot at the heart of the FAA.
You're wrong on this one, Sal. If we're going to have any chance of returning to a healthy set of societal norms, the diversicrats and grifers who inflicted so much unnecessary pain on innocent people and hollowed out our vital institutions need to feel the full fury they unleashed.
After being forced to take two courses shortly before I retired (one on general DEI nonsense and the other on Critical Race Theory) I sometimes find myself quoting Gen. Jackson: "Sweep the field with the bayonet."
I think it is better to "Return the email. Pick up the phone" for a couple reasons.
1. I can politely let them know why we are not participating any more, and perhaps redirect their energy in more useful pursuits.
2. If my company or I were happy to treat them as legitimate when the wind blew from the left, it is only decent to return the correspondence now that the winds of change have arrived. I think it is cowardly to not do so.
How about, "it's not personal, it's just business. Just like it was when we went along with your...DEI...diktats. To do business with the federal government, we had to comply. Our bottom line drove our behavior, despite our beliefs and disagreement. Now we don't so we won't be attending." How does that sound to everyone? Stunning and brave? Craven? Something for everyone, I guess...
Also, it's good to let people know why. It is rather craven to be polite and attentive when the winds blow from the left, yet ghost them when the winds shift. It indicates a lack of character.
Civility, yes. The handshake, that peaceful intent that shows no weapon in hand. Always the preferred choice of good men. Good men should also know when to draw their sword.
A remarkably balanced piece, and the call for maturity is not misplaced. That said, it may be hard to heed. The DEI believers have operated with such thoughtless conviction of their rightness that they’ve burned many bridges, not to mention the real harm done; an orderly unwinding may be too much to expect. Also, once the scope of the coming changes becomes clear, I believe we’ll see a much uglier response from the losing side.
Alinsky and company rely on, and use, our reasonableness and maturity against us. I propose going full Genghis Khan on them on the legal front. Lawsuits intended to bankrupt the primary DEI agents seem appropriate, given the financial harm they have caused to people not fitting into one of their little diversity pockets. Quotas were, and still are real. And they cause financial damage. Make them pay.
Could be Ghengis Khan, could be Wrath of Khan, but legal action is entirely in bounds. So are cuts to government funding, which I think will be even more effective. The apparent widespread support for DEI-type policies and positions might just evaporate once the money dries up.
I have often said that the law abiding citizen is at a major disadvantage in the culture war due to the very nature of them being law abiding. They assume that the Law is on their side and if they have done no wrong they will be vindicated. And sometimes they are, but are also left bankrupt, isolated, and depressed.
Good point! This is probably why it seems so remarkable to see the law deployed on the side of the law abiding, as with these executive orders enforcing bans on discrimination even in its modern, euphemistic (DEI) forms.
Appreciate the acting Undersecretary's actions but can we get the Senate to move on the confirmation of Brigadier General (Ret) Anthony Tata? The man pssd off all the appropriate groups while he was superintendent of Wake County schools in NC.
"District administrators proposed a plan that shifts back to linking students’ school assignments to their home addresses, while also factoring in student achievement, but the board’s Democrats worried that it didn’t go far enough to ensure diversity and equity."
WCPS needed all the help it could get— still does. Tata had the enmity of many Senators on his last go-round, and that lack of support may still exist. "Critics pointed to inflammatory statements Tata made, including calling former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and “Muslim,” labeling Islam as “the most oppressive violent religion,” and promoting conspiracy theories about a “deep state” targeting Trump. " is commonly used against Tata- though I think Tata was accurate. Trump's current leverage and goodwill may be enough this time to get Tata confirmed.
To the organizers of DEI conferences and confabs, I say, welcome to the real world. While I practice uncommon courtesy in my business dealings and do not condone rude behavior, the none-response of corporate sponsors to solicitations from the DEI world means it's time find a new hustle.
"Panelists discussed how traditionally marginalized and vulnerable populations are often overlooked by policymakers and politicians, and thus lack access to decision-making processes that impact their communities."
- Frankly? I'd bet that very few members of marginalized and vulnerable population are giving much thought to "Challenges at the Intersection of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change."
Remember these young PhD candidates/PhD are the ones contributing government policy.
As an E-7 on a Frigate, this high school dropout got roped into a PACE course by an aggressive ESO. Changed my life trajectory. As a W-2 on another Frigate, I was the ESO. We deployed with a PACE professor and upon return to CONUS we had PACE courses aplenty while stateside. There was no downside to PACE. Hard to imagine that Pecksniffian bean counters ever got a veto in the program.
That conference 20 months ago looks like a cornucopia of bat-guano nutbar flavored insanity.
I agree completely that correspondence should be returned, if only to state politely why attendance will not occur. It takes more courage to say "No" and state why, than to simply ghost a prior relation.
With respect to the #NatSecGirlSquad conference, I'm not in a position to argue about her motives or character, and happily take your word on the subject, but the name itself screams, to me, "high school prom committee".
I am completely turned off by it, as by smoothies, and by the whole "we have to make national security activities friendly to a teen aged girl psyche" attitude.
Correspondence should be returned. But it's really awkward when you have to say "The only reason we supported you to start with is that we felt we needed to check off that box to get contracts. It was cheap lobbying.
"Now that not only is that box gone, but there's the anti box to be checked off, we're kicking you to the curb."
Don't know about you, but I'd really hate to have to deliver that news. As bad as I'd feel about ghosting them, I think it would be less bad than telling them we never valued you and just used you.
Well, every organization needs to have that one person who can be blunt when dealing with other people. It's kind of out of style these days, but has always worked with me. I've had some incredibly blunt, but yet cordial, conversations over the years.
We do "have to make national security activities friendly to a teen aged girl," it's called recruiting. The women of our society are not resuming second class citizenship. Hang with some teen-aged lady athletes. These are precisely the kinds of ladies who could heed the call to service were it transmitted in the right pitch.
Teenage girls are wonderful, I have one. No chance I want her or her friends in the military, sorry. And a military that is “pitched” to appeal to teenage girls is not going to do well against a military that is designed by and for fighting men.
I saw "Bay of Fundy" in the lead, and it gave me a flashback to the tidal flats off Inchon in 1971. The stink. And when I clicked the link in paragraph 3 I had to comment before finishing the article. Here's the deal. If any DoD or DoN document has a picture of Anthony Blinkin in it, or someone of a similar woke ilk, it should immediately get the Stalinist photoshop treatment until the whole document can be reviewed with an eye toward composting it if it doesn't support the values we are seeking to restore. It's not really enough that roaches get stampeded by turning on the kitchen lights, they must be stepped on. Dirty work, yes. But you know it's necessary.
Yesterday I was greeted with a large Black History Month banner at the local VA hospital. There should be no question that the VA leadership got the direction to stop all DEI related activities. They put the banner up in defiance of President Trump.
The usual "civil rights" groups are now suing the Trump administration for racial discrimination based on the claim that the rapid demise of DEI has a "disparate impact" on blacks and other minorities. Wonder if Sal's OK with that as well. "Good people on both sides," anyone?
I saw that too.
Gundog15: I saw a Black History Month table-top display last week while making my way to my gate for a flight at Salt Lake City Airport. I think some people simply have not gotten the message, yet. While some of us are hyper-attentive to what's going on in Washington, DC, many people simply go about their lives. Personally, I don't mind private displays. It's the overbearing, "in your face," gubmint and corporate pandering that bothers me.
SLC isn't Federal. SFAIK, they can do whatever they want, Black History Month, DEI, LGBTQ. It's their business. At least until whatever government does have authority over them (presumably the State of Utah or City of Salt Lake City) decides they aren't playing anymore.
And that's fine. Except it doesn't work the other way generally. Want to put up a display for Daughters of the Confederacy (if that's really a thing)? Nope, racist, bigoted, Nazi, white nationalist militia stuff there. That's grounds for doxxing, protests on your front lawn, and public libel.
I don't have any problems celebrating the successes of black folks. There as some who are as important as Edison and Ford. But it should be in the context of "everyone can do this" even if it's more special as a "rags to riches" type of story.
While I find it unhelpful and somewhat offensive (to blacks, who have participated in the same "history" as everyone else), this one is a grey area, because President Trump himself officially acknowledged "Black History Month" this year.
Today I went back for another appointment at the same VA hospital. This time I notice the Chain Command Board at the building entrance was literally ripped off the bulkhead. No photos of the new POTUS, VP, etc. Nothing.
Huh? Sounds kinda like Patton after the end of WWII. Even kids know about cooties.
CDR Sal, politeness costs little, agree with you that far. Question: how does the side of (conservative, libertarian, not the "Republican" party) values actually "win" this fight when the progressive, post modernist, Marxist, socialist side is playing by a totally different rule book. Alinksy's "Rules for Radical" is not the Marques de Queensbury version of political discourse. Our war in the Pacific was fought under different "rules of surrender" than the war in Europe. We remade Germany's and Japan's societies to buy peace at great cost in lives, treasure...and national psyche, IMO. It worked, because we didn't repeat the mistakes of Versailles and set the conditions for WW II. Still, at great cost. Have to ask, if the election had gone a different way, would there be a similar discussion on the left? Call me a cynic, doubt it. Not saying we don't try to rise up and preserve the core of what we are. But winning and maintaining what we are without simply laying the foundation for the next "collapse of western civilization" election is perhaps (boy is that an optimistic take) at stake. How far do we take the chemo to kill the cancer?...I'll be quiet now...
The problem with chemo versus directed therapies is that you have to poison the entire body when you are really just trying to rid yourself of one or more tumors. I propose that Congress repeal the 1839 law prohobiting dueling in the District of Columbia. People are policy. Let see if the individuals manipulating the system to their nefarious ends are willing to put up. /sarc
Oh, I *definitely* like that idea. I suggest someplace very public for the events.
Are you assuming that enough people in D.C. have a sense of honor, Sicinnus? That those challenged wouldn't go into hiding, or those who accepted would abide by Code Duello? I'd like to see the gentlemen in the D.C. halls of power thrash each other with canes when provoked into (biblical) righteous indignation. Matthew 21:12-13-ish.
Sal, thank you very much for this:
“Also, along the way, let’s treat each other with at least neutral respect. If someone gets exceptionally personal or mean, that’s different—but that’s not the case here. Business is business. Adults understand it. Return the email. Pick up the phone. It is a challenging year for everyone.”
You and I have agreed for six out of seven days per week for the past three years. One hallmark of our relationship is that you have always put your money where your mouth is. You have been respectful and you have answered the phone.
Let’s keep the dialogue going.
Good COA.
Aside from the usual banal courteous greetings demanded by a polite society it is very difficult to imagine being sincerely polite to people who promulgate and monetize this;
"Challenges at the Intersection of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change"
After all we know the marginalized and vulnerable population of Aurora Colorado must be more concerned by nuclear weapons and climate change than they are about the totally nonexistent problems of Venezuelan Gangs that absolutely don't exist.
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-documents-revealing-colorado-officials-downplayed-threat-posed-by-violent-venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua-shielding-dangerous-criminals-and-endangering-u-s-citizens/
Sorry Sal but neutral respect is impossible.
The DEI commissars and their BLM red guard did a lot of real damage to ordinary people. What do we tell the young man who didn’t get into West Point or some medical school because he was guilty of events that happened before he was even born? What do we tell the soldiers or patients who died because of the inept DEI company commander or surgeon?
The leftists need to appear before a Nuremberg-like tribunal to answer for their crimes.
Or missing air traffic controllers once the DEI candidates displacing more competent trainees eventually washed out, leaving desperately needed ATC positions unfilled? DCA and 67 dead people anyone?
Agree that government positions should meritocratic but I'll wait for the final NTSB report.
Makes sense. Wait for the report overseen by the folks who instituted the policy that caused the accident in the first place. Who else would you believe...?
Read the bios of the top two people at NTSB. Political hacks. Don’t expect much from the report beyond boiler plate.
They'll never fess up to the severe damage the combination of COVID-induced blood-letting of pilots and maintenance crews coupled with what the DEI-generated mal-, mis-, and nonfeasance has done to the entire FAA and related organizations. We're the laughingstock of the world and can no longer hide our many go-arounds, runway incursions, RAs, "numbers to call," and needless deadly crashes (esp. in general aviation). Let alone our aircraft manufacturers doing everything they can (and some things they can't) to avoid the cost-prohibitive delays and absurd testing and retraining regimes associated with minor changes in aircraft operations and features.
It'll take the discovery process attending the numerous lawsuits percolating up through the system to lay bare the fetid rot at the heart of the FAA.
Spot-on, Pete. I give these DIE Marxist tyrants no quarter. They gave none, created this toxic mess. Let them reap what they’ve sown.
You're wrong on this one, Sal. If we're going to have any chance of returning to a healthy set of societal norms, the diversicrats and grifers who inflicted so much unnecessary pain on innocent people and hollowed out our vital institutions need to feel the full fury they unleashed.
https://open.substack.com/pub/neociceroniantimes/p/the-left-must-be-crushed?r=20vpp2&utm_medium=ios
What we need is the equivalent of a denazification program.
After being forced to take two courses shortly before I retired (one on general DEI nonsense and the other on Critical Race Theory) I sometimes find myself quoting Gen. Jackson: "Sweep the field with the bayonet."
Imagine being a senior officer and summoned to the principal's office because you used the wrong pronoun.
I think it is better to "Return the email. Pick up the phone" for a couple reasons.
1. I can politely let them know why we are not participating any more, and perhaps redirect their energy in more useful pursuits.
2. If my company or I were happy to treat them as legitimate when the wind blew from the left, it is only decent to return the correspondence now that the winds of change have arrived. I think it is cowardly to not do so.
How about, "it's not personal, it's just business. Just like it was when we went along with your...DEI...diktats. To do business with the federal government, we had to comply. Our bottom line drove our behavior, despite our beliefs and disagreement. Now we don't so we won't be attending." How does that sound to everyone? Stunning and brave? Craven? Something for everyone, I guess...
Civility is fundamental to a healthy society. Good for you to reinforce that.
Also, it's good to let people know why. It is rather craven to be polite and attentive when the winds blow from the left, yet ghost them when the winds shift. It indicates a lack of character.
Civility, yes. The handshake, that peaceful intent that shows no weapon in hand. Always the preferred choice of good men. Good men should also know when to draw their sword.
A remarkably balanced piece, and the call for maturity is not misplaced. That said, it may be hard to heed. The DEI believers have operated with such thoughtless conviction of their rightness that they’ve burned many bridges, not to mention the real harm done; an orderly unwinding may be too much to expect. Also, once the scope of the coming changes becomes clear, I believe we’ll see a much uglier response from the losing side.
Alinsky and company rely on, and use, our reasonableness and maturity against us. I propose going full Genghis Khan on them on the legal front. Lawsuits intended to bankrupt the primary DEI agents seem appropriate, given the financial harm they have caused to people not fitting into one of their little diversity pockets. Quotas were, and still are real. And they cause financial damage. Make them pay.
Could be Ghengis Khan, could be Wrath of Khan, but legal action is entirely in bounds. So are cuts to government funding, which I think will be even more effective. The apparent widespread support for DEI-type policies and positions might just evaporate once the money dries up.
That punishes only the actors, not playwrights.
Ask the feds. You lean on the little guys, and they rat out the bigger fish.
And the legal liability for open discrimination attaches (like a hungry alligator).
I have often said that the law abiding citizen is at a major disadvantage in the culture war due to the very nature of them being law abiding. They assume that the Law is on their side and if they have done no wrong they will be vindicated. And sometimes they are, but are also left bankrupt, isolated, and depressed.
Good point! This is probably why it seems so remarkable to see the law deployed on the side of the law abiding, as with these executive orders enforcing bans on discrimination even in its modern, euphemistic (DEI) forms.
Perhaps all of the individuals will have been fired by June.
Appreciate the acting Undersecretary's actions but can we get the Senate to move on the confirmation of Brigadier General (Ret) Anthony Tata? The man pssd off all the appropriate groups while he was superintendent of Wake County schools in NC.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/superintendent-fired-in-wake-county-n-c/2012/10
"District administrators proposed a plan that shifts back to linking students’ school assignments to their home addresses, while also factoring in student achievement, but the board’s Democrats worried that it didn’t go far enough to ensure diversity and equity."
WCPS needed all the help it could get— still does. Tata had the enmity of many Senators on his last go-round, and that lack of support may still exist. "Critics pointed to inflammatory statements Tata made, including calling former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and “Muslim,” labeling Islam as “the most oppressive violent religion,” and promoting conspiracy theories about a “deep state” targeting Trump. " is commonly used against Tata- though I think Tata was accurate. Trump's current leverage and goodwill may be enough this time to get Tata confirmed.
To the organizers of DEI conferences and confabs, I say, welcome to the real world. While I practice uncommon courtesy in my business dealings and do not condone rude behavior, the none-response of corporate sponsors to solicitations from the DEI world means it's time find a new hustle.
That’s exactly what DEI is all about ~ hustle and shakedown.
"Panelists discussed how traditionally marginalized and vulnerable populations are often overlooked by policymakers and politicians, and thus lack access to decision-making processes that impact their communities."
- Frankly? I'd bet that very few members of marginalized and vulnerable population are giving much thought to "Challenges at the Intersection of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change."
Remember these young PhD candidates/PhD are the ones contributing government policy.
One more comment. You know what I find offensive?
The USN had money to send the civil service Zampolit to this crap, but raised barriers to education for the enlisted.
"To enroll in PACE, most sailors need to have at least two years of service in the Navy and be stationed on a ship that supports the program."
Money for me but not for thee - certainly seems inclusive don't it?
Seems like the Navy could have better spent our money to form a partnership with MikeRoweWorks than a lot of this intersectionality nonsense.
"Inclusive" always had qualifiers; they were just not spoken out loud.
Diversity meant divisions.
Equity meant payback. Z
You were never included.
I say dei gratia not DEI!
As an E-7 on a Frigate, this high school dropout got roped into a PACE course by an aggressive ESO. Changed my life trajectory. As a W-2 on another Frigate, I was the ESO. We deployed with a PACE professor and upon return to CONUS we had PACE courses aplenty while stateside. There was no downside to PACE. Hard to imagine that Pecksniffian bean counters ever got a veto in the program.
Just another tick mark on why the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.
That conference 20 months ago looks like a cornucopia of bat-guano nutbar flavored insanity.
I agree completely that correspondence should be returned, if only to state politely why attendance will not occur. It takes more courage to say "No" and state why, than to simply ghost a prior relation.
With respect to the #NatSecGirlSquad conference, I'm not in a position to argue about her motives or character, and happily take your word on the subject, but the name itself screams, to me, "high school prom committee".
I am completely turned off by it, as by smoothies, and by the whole "we have to make national security activities friendly to a teen aged girl psyche" attitude.
Correspondence should be returned. But it's really awkward when you have to say "The only reason we supported you to start with is that we felt we needed to check off that box to get contracts. It was cheap lobbying.
"Now that not only is that box gone, but there's the anti box to be checked off, we're kicking you to the curb."
Don't know about you, but I'd really hate to have to deliver that news. As bad as I'd feel about ghosting them, I think it would be less bad than telling them we never valued you and just used you.
I agree it wouldn't be a fun conversion, but my spouse mentioned I thrive on conflict:)
Well, every organization needs to have that one person who can be blunt when dealing with other people. It's kind of out of style these days, but has always worked with me. I've had some incredibly blunt, but yet cordial, conversations over the years.
We do "have to make national security activities friendly to a teen aged girl," it's called recruiting. The women of our society are not resuming second class citizenship. Hang with some teen-aged lady athletes. These are precisely the kinds of ladies who could heed the call to service were it transmitted in the right pitch.
Teenage girls are wonderful, I have one. No chance I want her or her friends in the military, sorry. And a military that is “pitched” to appeal to teenage girls is not going to do well against a military that is designed by and for fighting men.
The ladies are not returning to inferior status.
Sal,
Luv ya like my Dutch Uncle, but in this case I'm going to continue beating my plowshare back into a sword...
I saw "Bay of Fundy" in the lead, and it gave me a flashback to the tidal flats off Inchon in 1971. The stink. And when I clicked the link in paragraph 3 I had to comment before finishing the article. Here's the deal. If any DoD or DoN document has a picture of Anthony Blinkin in it, or someone of a similar woke ilk, it should immediately get the Stalinist photoshop treatment until the whole document can be reviewed with an eye toward composting it if it doesn't support the values we are seeking to restore. It's not really enough that roaches get stampeded by turning on the kitchen lights, they must be stepped on. Dirty work, yes. But you know it's necessary.