15 Comments

The purge has started in all the services. Unreliable’s must be driven out.

Expand full comment

Great ammo to use in writing peer grease!

Expand full comment

We had a good run, you guys. 170 something years ain’t too bad.

Expand full comment

Groupthink. Is that the best place to start? Or will newspeak at USNA begin with softer, kinder words that are just as much a straight jacket on thought? Now, I fully realize that as an NROTC grad, and a self-defined Anglo-Saxon heterosexual male Christian USN retiree, I have no voice in this or any other topic that may or may not touch on diversity of any flavor. But, seriously, people! If this development isn't enough for FOs to stand up on their hind legs and go public, will they ever do so on ANY topic? The core site for naval leadership has just been co-opted. The enemy is not at the gates. The enemy has taken your position and will do with it whatever they choose.

Expand full comment

My son is considering USNA and NROTC. He has been fed a milder version of this in high school and it doesn't seem to bother him, but he hasn't had a life event yet that caused him to miss an opportunity or told he is inherently racist. He has what is called for other than no special status and coming out of an area with thousands of aspiring young men and women, so as a 3 star flag told me, it is almost impossible and that his son went to Duke then joined the Navy. My son went to the summer seminar and liked it but I have prepared him for potential disappointment, and after seeing things evolve over the last couple of years I am not sure myself it is best, but in the end it is his call. Since we funded his tuition already and only ever really wanted UVA for him, the only advantage to going NROTC really is to get into an IVY. My gut tells me that I should tell him to aim for early acceptance to UVA, have fun and join the rowing team there.

Expand full comment

What a morale boost! Like political officers in the old Soviet Army

Expand full comment

Any future R president should just say carte blanche any dei faculty or officers will be terminated effective immediately upon his/her election. Run and hide. Your jobs are not secure.

Oh and serving on any of these cancerous politburo boards should be viewed as very negative to future advancement.

Expand full comment

The CNO has another corrosion problem and doesn’t even recognize it. I am certain that all of our Official Wokeness terrifies our adversaries. When they are overrun by trannies, simps, LMNOP+++, gender bent reverse transvestites, and other assorted mentally ill and unstable individuals, they will repent their wicked ways and see the rainbow. Sarc off.

Expand full comment

Another way to Destroy good order and discipline in the Navy

SUCJS

CAPTAIN USN (RET)

Expand full comment
Nov 1, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022

Been here for over a decade. We're so deep in the S Curve of Destruction, I genuinely, depressingly feel its past the point of no return.

Expand full comment

The ample body fat of all these “inclusive” “equity” commissars will sizzle and smoke when their ships are set ablaze by Chinese missiles.

Expand full comment

34% of white kids now claim minority status in college applications. Native Americans had an 80% plus population growth from 2010 to 2020 census. People are hip to the game. Asians are claiming Hispanic heritage- Philippines are full of Spanish names. It's like South Africa, the Nazis, or the antebellum South. The one drop rule is back. The system is rotten and it's making liars of the kids. Svetlana Stalin told us all about it in her memoir.

Expand full comment

It's well past time to shutter the service academies. Keep ROTC/NROTC in place to commission cadets/midshipmen and prepare them for follow on officer training. USNA/USMA/USAFA can remain as a sort of "Sandhurst" (or the USMC Basic School) for newly commissioned officers out of ROTC. Get the academies out of the degree producing business. Marines already have this model in place via OCS and The Basic School.

Expand full comment
Feb 9, 2023Liked by CDR Salamander

I appreciate CDR Salamander's coverage on these issues. The Center for Military Readiness just published a new Policy Analysis on the latest advances (in the wrong direction) for the transgenders in the military cause:

CMR: Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military (4-Page Summary)

https://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/DoDTransgender4-pager_020623.pdf

The only good news: Some members of Congress really do want to do significant things to end woke-ism in the military. Best, Elaine Donnelly, Pres. Center for Military Readiness

Expand full comment