Quote: (07-01-2016 09:53 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:
Quote: (07-01-2016 08:36 AM)scorpion Wrote:
To call this measure "relatively harmless" is, frankly, bullshit. You should know better. Go read Adonis' post for an active duty perspective.
If you read that post, you'll see that the real poison is not the actual presence of fags or trannies in the military but the endless Year Zero propaganda about it -- endless posters about "LGBT pride", "sensitivity training" by political commissars, lectures about "harassment", and so on. That is certainly poisonous to esprit de corps, as it is indeed to civilian life. But as great an evil as it is, it's a peacetime indulgence and will be gone in a heartbeat if we are seriously challenged. And it's -- of course -- much less pervasive to nonexistent in elite units that have to do real fighting.
As for actual fags and trannies: there are so few trannies -- and so few of them that would even think about enlisting in the military -- and so few of those who would be accepted -- that it literally makes no difference. Male-to-female trannies are intensely effeminate creatures and combat is usually not foremost on their minds. If anything, you'll get a few hard minded and hideous female-to-males, essentially dykes on steroids -- quite literally. They'll do their uninspired bit for the cause. And of course male gays have always been present in the military.
The thing that does a good deal more damage than any of this is simply women in the military -- especially the YZ attempt to drag women into combat roles for which they are not qualified and where they are a danger. Trannies are few but women are many, and in current American society they are godlike creatures whose every whim must be catered to. They're not making it into real elite units either, of course, but the fact that because of political orders a couple of them had to be babied through Ranger school is f'ing ridiculous. But this, too, is something that will fall away swiftly when we are seriously challenged -- though likely not until then.
Not exactly, those 2 stories were just the tip of the iceberg. Here is another one, one that in hindsight is more apropos to this thread. Each service has their own peculiarities as to the billeting of troops. I can tell you without reservation that fags wreak havoc on the berthing situation on ships. I share a living space the size of a standard 2 car garage with 15-20 other men, and this is with 15 years seniority and at the top 5-10% of the enlisted rank structure. Those junior to me are in various sized living spaces that accommodate 30-80 people. These include 3 shitters and 3 showers, maybe a couple of urinals. So you can imagine if you have 79 straight dudes and one militant homo in that environment what can happen. Ive seen as many as half a dozen known gays in some of the larger berthings. This doesn't even touch on the lesbian mafias that run the female berthings and prostitution rings onboard carriers. This is a problem. Now that the stage is set...
#3. I was choppered to another ship while deployed to the Gulf of Oman to work on a system that I had a lot of experience on. So I was on this ship, and they had a problem with an individual that was groping different males as they were sleeping. They called this cat "The Phantom Hand". He would wander through a berthing at night, reach in through someones curtains, and cop a feel. The first few victims played it very low key but soon the word got out after there were maybe 4-5 people who were visited by this fellow. There was a huge risk of vigilantism happening the next time this guy pulled this trick. The upper chain of command was playing the wait and see don't do anything drastic approach. The guys were not having any of it. They set up their own watches in the berthings and they caught this fucker eventually in the middle of the night in engineering's berthing (the worst place to get caught) and beat the holy shit out of him. The offender got a ticket home, and the last victim was if memory serves, reduced in rank and restricted to the ship at NJP. The command had a stand down for sexual assault training as well as CMEO topics that wasted at least 600 man hours (crew size x 2 hours).
So what are the problems with this scenario?
-You have one person with a socially deviant condition living among a majority that has no way to escape it. As in the above scenario
one single person can cause extreme issues for the entire crew of a ship that has to be in such close proximity for 6-9 months at a time. Above took place over maybe 4-6 weeks while underway.
-You have a fag sexually assaulting straight guys, but the command doesn't want to open pandora's box and be seen as persecuting gays so they play softball with the issue.
-Junior guys lose faith in the chain of command, after you are left out to dry long enough you take matters into your own hands consequences be damned.
-Junior guys lose sleep, off time, and work time to stand anti assault watch. This degrades the ship's combat readiness at the absolute worst time. You have guys getting in trouble for falling asleep on their "real" watches because they were up at night standing this bs anti-homo watch.
-Sailor gets in trouble for defending himself, this leads to an attitude that "hey if Im going to get busted for it, Im going to make it worth my while", whats next a lynching?
You are right that this type of problem will be non existent in elite units. The problem with that is that the majority of the military are not elite units, NSW (SEALS, EOD, SWCC) numbers maybe 15,000 out of a service end strength of the upper 200,000 close to 300,000 range. So what about the masses of rank and file that are in the colosseum? How are these trans sickos going to be integrated into afloat units? Will they go in male or female berthing? Will they get a private stateroom? What PT standards will they fall under? Is the service expected to put up with emotional instability while they "get their hormones right"? Who will take their place on the duty section watchbill until they do?
When DADT was in effect, they kept their shit quiet. Now they don't have to, now they can rub that shit in everyones faces and have very little worry of repercussions because they can play the discrimination card. It may seem like Im asking a lot of what ifs and stating a lot of hypotheticals, and you may be right. But I have seen with my own eyes, and will have to deal with the fallout from this bullshit.