The military’s place is to do the bidding of the United States citizenry…period! It is not for them to criticize the American population for deciding they no longer want to fund a war.
This, of course, is a point I have brought up many times and the Milblogs when crazy then. You, the military, are the servants of the people. That is what you signed up for. We send you to war and we bring you home. We tell you when to wake up and when to go to bed. If you do not like that, GET OUT. But, that is the life you chose.
The next thing the milblog right wingers were upset about was when Arkin called our Military a mercenary force. Well, guess what, it is!! To get people to fight this war we have had to add all sorts of additional benefits, bonuses, insurance etc. The only way to get people to go was to pay them a lot more - the definition of a mercenary. Also, if you count the 100,000 or so “contractors” over there, that is even more evidence of a mercenary force. I called it at this post last year.
If the military is going to “take on” the American public by saying we have no right to change how we want to deploy them then they have joined the fight. I have said all along, and in the book, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War the idea that the American military has lost contact with the United States Citizens has been proven. They have. Arkin called it right!
So in short, this asshat is saying "Shut up, you blood-thirsty mercenaries! We own you and we'll tell you want to do!"
Uh, no. We do NOT do the bidding of the US Citizenry, because the majority of the US citizenry isn't fit to direct a military operation! There's a reason officers need a degree to wear that metal on their shoulder. There's a reason officers and NCO's have to go to school after school after school. Most Sergeants Major have a Master's degree. You can barely sniff Sergeant First Class if you don't at least have a BA. To even get into Warrant Officer Candidate school you must have an Associate's Degree. We have the best educated, highest trained force the world has ever seen, and it's that way for a reason! Military operations take skill, coordination, and INTELLIGENCE, and I guaran-damn-TEE that the majority of Leftists babbling about the military couldn't even begin to do what a junior enlisted soldier does on a regular basis.
The military follows the orders of the Commander in Chief, and that CinC has the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who represent the branches of the military. The Joint Chiefs are all generals, the top of their profession. Every Joint Chief has a Command Sergeant Major on his staff (Or a Command Master Chief Petty Officer) so that both enlisted and commissioned soldiers can give their experience and wisdom to a decision that will effect millions of people. If the military is going to go to war, it will be on the orders of the President, after careful consideration with the Joint Chiefs. It will not be because some brain-dead fucktard from Berzerkley thinks that he can give orders to people who are ten times his better!
We do not do the citizenry's "bidding". If we did, we wouldn't have much of a military left. Let's look at the Oath of Enlistment, shall we?
I, Raging Dave, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
No mention of the peepul in there at all, is there? I support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I obey the orders of the President and the officers appointed over me. I do NOT serve at the whim of some half-baked craptard who thinks that the military is a bunch of mercenary brutes.
It's that simple.
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