Green Berets Targeted After Anonymous Email Exposed Lowered Standards

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2019-01-16 01:53

Article here. Excerpt:

'The anonymous email, signed, “A concerned Green Beret,” accused the leaders of the school of “moral cowardice” for lowering the standards, and weakening instructors’ ability to discipline students as they look to get further through the pipeline.

“[The school] has devolved into a cesspool of toxic, exploitive, biased and self-serving senior officers who are bolstered by submissive, sycophantic, and just-as-culpable enlisted leaders,” the email said. “They have doggedly succeeded in two things; furthering their careers, and ensuring that Special Forces [are] more prolific but dangerously less capable than ever before.”
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"Although Micah and I had nothing to do with it, it spoke true to what’s happening in the regiment. This guy Sonntag, who’s basically the one who’s trying to screw us over — he’s trying to make his career about putting a female through the course,” Squires said. He added that he did not oppose women in Special Forces, but opposed lowering the standards.

“Not only doing that, he’s changed it to where the guys who are coming through the Q course are not even the same quality of guys we had back in the day. Guys who should have been kicked out for several different things … As instructors, they took our power away.”'

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... the bulk of the US armed forces, incl. elite units, are turning into the Scouts BSA for Adults. The big draw to military service is what? Loads of easy benefits esp. post-hitch. Once you do 2 years in you get to be called a "veteran" even if you never fired a rifle past basic training and just collect the bennies from the VA.

There's plenty of easy money for doing just two years. Basic isn't nearly as hard as it used to be even in the Marines. That the GB are sissifying comes as no surprise. And the Navy has become a bunch of floating armed Love Boats with female sailors coming back knocked up in droves.

Why again does the US have literally millions of people in uniform when clearly we don't need them? Further, what are they doing? A small percentage of our armed forces is actually combat-ready. The rest are collecting pay and playing soldier.

What, we're going to be fighting another huge conventional war some time? No.

I know: we're all suited up like this to fight off the space aliens.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2019-01-16 06:29