Edits taken from Special Operations Speaks’ Op Ed of January 15 by Capt Joseph R. John, on January 19, 2016

 

On December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter relayed orders from Obama to the US Armed Forces to integrate women into tip of the spear combat units (SEALs, Green Beret, Ranger, Delta Force, Marine Corps Infantry, Spec Ops Units, etc.) regardless of whether the current physical qualification requirements prevents the integration—this latest Obama order will negatively affect the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces. 

 

On January 1, 2016, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus ordered the US Marine Corps to provide plans by January 15, 2016 for boot camp to go coed. That decision is destructive, and Mabus tried to shroud it in silence.  ABC.com reported that “Mabus also warned US Marine Corps leaders not to openly express any concerns about integrating women into combat jobs as ways to delay the process.” The problems with integrating boot camp to go coed are much more serious problems than integrating the combat arms; the US Marine Corps has not been allowed to talk about it; Mabus is employing a Soviet Style Leadership technique.  

 

A decorated and endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Duncan D Hunter. Maj-USMCR (R-CA-52), who served combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, called Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus “a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS”; he said he’s eyeing legislation to try to address women in combat, but wasn't sure yet what that would entail.

 

The US Congress has the authority and power in Article 1., Section 8, Clause 14 of the US Constitution "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the Land and Naval Forces" to stop Mabus in dead in his tracks.  Will the Republican Leadership in Congress support Congressman Hunter, and finally take a stand “for the first time in 7 years to prevent Obama’s Social Experiment On Diversity that has been destructive to the US Armed Forces”; will the Congress employ its Constitutional authority to put a stop to Obama’s intent to degrade the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Marine Corps.  

Obama and Valerie Jarrett are driving this latest directive order right from the White House through Obama’s Secretary of Defense and his Secretary of The Navy.  The order appears like a vindictive action to punish the US Marine Corps for their reluctance over the last 7 years to prevent the degrading of the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Marine Corps Infantry units, by being reluctant to place physically unqualified women in tip of the spear front line units. 

Prior to December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter employed the same Soviet Style Leadership tactic as Mabus, by ignoring a US Marine Corps 9 month exhaustive study ordered by DOD on the ability to “Integrate Women In Front Line Marine Corps Infantry Units.  It appears that Carter followed orders from the White House, and ordered all services, including the US Marine Corps, to open all combat billets to women, Carter also issued a gag order to all Service Branch Flag and General Officers warming them not to discuss the order to open all combat billets to women.  The US Marine Corps’ 9 month integration study showed that compared to males in combat tasks, female Marines were slower, couldn’t lift as much weight, were less accurate shooters and sustained more than twice the injuries. 

Now the US Marine Corps must comply not only with integration of the combat arms but, suddenly, the integration of boot camp, post-haste.  Any problems that develop with such “an impossible” order will either be blamed on military leadership and inadequate training.  The failure of leadership to control the havoc that will result, will result in the leadership being “purged and purged again”, until everyone is singing the right tune.  If you are wondering what a Communist-style dictatorship looks like, the US Marine Corps is about to be exposed to Obama’s version of it.  Hundreds of Military Senior Officers in the US Armed Forces, listed in the attachment, have been purged, because they opposed Obama’s inept and destructive “Social Experiment On Diversity” over the last 7 years; their respectful and well intentioned cautions resulted in their summary removal, and the destruction of their once successful military careers. 

In an Op Ed published on Fox News Friday January 8th, Congressman Hunter said the Marine Corps findings, after 9 months of intensive study with women Marine participants in the US Marine Corps study, who agreed with the findings of the study, were ignored, and the study was summarily swept aside because the results of the study did not fit in with the Obama and Valerie Jarrett’s political agenda.  Congressman Hunter charged that the Obama administration’s move to open all combat posts to women was “ripping apart” the fabric of the US Marine Corps and prompting some well trained and experienced combat Marines that the Corps wanted to retain for their corporate knowledge, were leaving the service----what Congressman Hunter meant by “ripping apart” the fabric of the US Marine Corps.

As a nation and in extensive Congressional studies, the US Armed Forces had already compared separate-sex and coed boot camps and found that the US Marine Corps’ methods of separate boot camps for male and female recruits was far superior to an integrated coed method of boot camp training.  In the 1999 Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues, the Commission’s Chairman, Anita Blair said, “gender-integrated training entails special problems that simply do not arise in gender-separate training. These problems revolve around the difficulties of providing appropriate privacy for both sexes, accommodating fundamental physiological differences, and controlling sexual conduct.”

“The reason the military is there is not to be a transgender, corporate organization,” Congressman Hunter said, referring to the Pentagon’s plans to allow transgender service members to serve openly.  “The military is there to execute American policy overseas, protect our allies, and kill our enemies. It’s not a corporation. We’re not all treated equal.”

Having separate boot camps allowed the US Marine Corps to postpone or at least greatly minimize the opportunity for all the sexual harassment problems until after recruits finished their training and earned the title of Private.  The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has worked to sexualize areas that were once neutral, worsening their negative impacts.  Same-sex sexual assaults have gone out of control since its repeal; 11,000 straight young 18 year old males have been sexually assaulted by gays, resulting in poor retention, recruits going AWOL to get away from sexual predators, and in some cases military personnel committing suicide because they are required to live in their barracks with no privacy with multiple predators attacking them in showers, on liberty, etc.

The US Army knows intimately what can go wrong combining young end-of-teen-aged kids together in the formative period of boot camp.  Remember Aberdeen?  Multiple Army drill sergeants were abusing their authority and having sex with or raping females under their charge.  Even when relationships were consensual the damage was just as great.  The expenses are high in time, money, and effort to shuffle personnel due to improperly relationships, fraternizing, pregnancies, misconduct, and the litigation, let alone the destructive impacts to the personnel themselves and their units. The US Armed Forces have to deal with this terrible mess the coed boot camps created, and with the conflicts unisex policies have created.  

 

For instance, coed manning of ships at sea has been creating havoc in the Navy Fleets resulting in rampant pregnancy, ships being unmanned due to intentional pregnancies just before deployment so female crew members can avoid deployment, sex in submarines, groups of gay females predators in ships driving straight females to leave the US Navy, Navy families being fractured because of married crew members having sex with single crew members, etc.  The destructive policies being created by having coed boot camps followed on by other lax gender policies in the other services is a good reason to prevent the US Marine Corps from following their same destructive policies.  Following “Common  Sense” policies by Obama’s civilian appointees at DOD to manage military personnel in the US Armed Forces is not so common.

 

If there’s one thing that is primal and unchanging, it’s that men and women are distracted by each other.  The second you throw them together they’re checking how they look and competing for each other’s attention.  The fallout can run the spectrum from marriage and/or babies to serving in the brig for rape.  It’s as predictable as the sun rising in the East, and all the ripples created detract from the objective: training military personnel to become the nation’s enemy-killers.  Advocates for total integration insist “we’re professionals,” as if professionals don’t hook up and mess up their lives and jobs.  Regardless, new recruits are hardly professionals, and boot camp is not an office job.  Harassment? That’s what boot camp is: you can’t train young recruits to attack and defend without some touching in boot camp---it’s impossible.  A drill instructor’s simple correction or instruction can be misconstrued as sexual harassment when done by the opposite sex, creating major problems for Drill Instructors in boot camp.

Congressman Hunter said that many Congressional colleagues — Republicans and Democrats alike — were avoiding the issue.  “Other members of Congress don’t want to talk about this,” he said.  Congressman Hunter has the courage to speak out and oppose Obama’s destructive personnel policies, will the Republican leadership in Congress follow suit?  The Congress has the Constitutional authority to prevent Obama’s destructive personnel policies for the US Armed Forces that is destroying “Combat Effectiveness.”

 

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Politico

Navy Secretary a 'greater threat' to Marines than ISIS 
By Jay Westcott
Rep. Duncan Hunter has had enough of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus' strong support for opening all Marine combat posts to women, declaring him "a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS.”  

The Republican Congressman and Marine veteran from California, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is furious with Mabus for pushing through an end to the ban on women serving in all combat positions over the Marine Corps' objections. Particularly, he's taking exception to memo Mabus sent to the Marines Corps this week, instructing it integrate Marine boot camp, which has been separate for men and women, and change job titles so they’re gender neutral.

 

“These are long lasting,” Hunter told POLITICO. “These changes that they’re making are not thought out, they’re not researched, they’ve not been debated. The American public has no idea what’s going on … It’s going to get people killed.”

 

A spokesman for Mabus declined to comment on Hunter’s remarks.

Last month, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all military combat positions opened to women, and the services are currently in the process of figuring out how best to do that. The move was a controversial one for the Marines, which wanted to keep some infantry positions closed to women.

 

The Marines conducted a study that found integrated units underperformed compared those with only men. But Mabus and others argued the study was flawed.

 

A member of the House Armed Services Committee, Hunter has long been critical of the Navy Secretary on a range of issues. And in September he called for Mabus’ resignation after his criticism of the Marines’ gender integration study.

 

In an op-ed published on Fox News Friday, Hunter said the Marines’ findings were swept aside because they did not fit the White House political agenda. He charged the Obama administration’s move to open all combat posts to women was “ripping apart” the fabric of the Marines and prompting some to leave the service.

 

“The reason the military is there is not to be a transgender, corporate organization,” Hunter said, referring to the Pentagon’s plans to allow transgender service members to serve openly. “The military is there to execute American policy overseas, protect our allies and kill our enemies. It’s not a corporation. We’re not all treated equal.”

 

Hunter said he’s eyeing legislation to try to address women in combat, but wasn't sure yet what that would entail.

 

House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) have said they want to hold hearings on the issue, but neither has suggested they'll try to block the changes.

 

Hunter said that many congressional colleagues — Republicans and Democrats alike — were avoiding the issue. “Other members of Congress don’t want to talk about this,” he said.

                             
Military Brass Purged by Barack Obama
 

For the first time in US American history, the occupant of the Oval Office, Barack Obama, disdains the military from the Oval Office.  Obama’s repeated public mispronouncing of the military word “corpsmen” displayed his obvious ignorance of the US Military.  Obama’s new and dangerous Rules Of Engagement have increased US Combat Forces in Afghanistan Killed In Action increased by 458% and Wounded In Action increased by 378% (including 15 members of SEAL Team SIX shot down of Flight Extortion 17 on August 6, 2011).  Obama’s Social Experiment On Diversity has driven gays into the US Armed Forces resulting in 11,000 annual sexual assaults on new young 18 year old straight males, creating suicides and increases in AWOLs.  Obama’s failure to authorize “Cross Border Authority” to rescue Americans under attack by 120-150 Radical Islamic Terrorists in the Battle of Benghazi that resulted in the death of 4 Americans.  Obama initiated sequestering that resulted in the huge and dangerous reductions in the strength of the US Armed Forces that resulted in a US Navy Fleet at levels that existed before WWI, the US Army at manning levels that existed before WWII, and the decimated and understrength US Air Force flying 71 year old aircraft, even as the military threats mounted by China, Russia, Iran and ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist grows.  Obama has shown his contempt for warriors. The Joint Chiefs of Staff obviously had that fully in the front of their minds as they listened to the misrepresentations of Obama at his last State of The Union address:

 

A Partial Listing Of Military Brass Purged by Barack Obama: General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012) Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013) Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013) Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013) Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011) Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013) General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013) Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013) Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013) General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013) Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico’s Security Battalion (Oct 2013) General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010) General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009) General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012) Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013) Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013) Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013) Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

 

Commanding Admirals fired: Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012) Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)  Naval Officers fired: Captain David Geisler-U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011) Commander Laredo Bell-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs, NY (Aug 2011) Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011) Commander Nathan Borchers-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011) Commander Robert Brown-U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story, VA (Aug 2011) Commander Andrew Crowe-Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011) Captain Robert Gamberg-Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011) Captain Rex Guinn-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Legal Service office Japan (Feb 2011) Commander Kevin Harms- U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 137 aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (Mar 2011) Lieutenant Commander Martin Holguin-U.S. Navy Commander mine countermeasures Fearless (Oct 2011) Captain Owen Honors-U.S. Navy Commander aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (Jan 2011) Captain Donald Hornbeck-U.S. Navy Commander Destroyer Squadron 1 San Diego Rear Admiral Ron Horton-U.S. Navy Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific Commander Etta Jones-U.S. Navy Commander amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011) Commander Ralph Jones-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Green Bay (Jul 2011) Commander Jonathan Jackson-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 134, deployed aboard carrier Carl Vinson (Dec 2011) Captain Eric Merrill-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Emory S. Land (Jul 2011) Captain William Mosk-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Station Rota, U.S. Navy Commander Naval Activities Spain (Apr 2011) Commander Timothy Murphy-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA (Apr 2011) Commander Joseph Nosse-U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky (Oct 2011) Commander Mark Olson-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer The Sullivans FL (Sep 2011) Commander John Pethel-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock New York (Dec 2011) Commander Karl Pugh-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 141 Whidbey Island, WA (Jul 2011) Commander Jason Strength-U.S. Navy Commander of Navy Recruiting District Nashville, TN (Jul 2011) Captain Greg Thomas-U.S. Navy Commander Norfolk Naval Shipyard (May 2011) Commander Mike Varney-U.S. Navy Commander attack submarine Connecticut (Jun 2011) Commander Jay Wylie-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Momsen (Apr 2011) Commander Alan C. Aber-Executive Officer Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 71 (July 2012) Commander Derick Armstrong- U.S. Navy Commander missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (May 2012) Commander Martin Arriola- U.S. Navy Commander destroyer USS Porter (Aug 2012) Captain Antonio Cardoso- U.S. Navy Commander Training Support Center San Diego (Sep 2012) Captain James CoBell- U.S. Navy Commander Oceana Naval Air Station’s Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (Sep 2012) Captain Joseph E. Darlak- U.S. Navy Commander frigate USS Vandegrift (Nov 2012) Captain Daniel Dusek-U.S. Navy Commander USS Bonhomme Commander David Faught-Executive Officer destroyer Chung-Hoon (Sep 2012) Commander Franklin Fernandez- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Aug 2012) Commander Ray Hartman- U.S. Navy Commander Amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry (Nov 2012) Commander Shelly Hakspiel-Executive Officer Navy Drug Screening Lab San Diego (May 2012) Commander Jon Haydel- U.S. Navy Commander USS San Diego (Mar 2012) Commander Diego Hernandez- U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (Feb 2012) Commander Lee Hoey- U.S. Navy Commander Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego (May 2012) Commander Ivan Jimenez-Executive Officer frigate Vandegrift (Nov 2012) Commander Dennis Klein- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Columbia (May 2012) Captain Chuck Litchfield- U.S. Navy Commander assault ship USS Essex (Jun 2012) Captain Marcia Kim Lyons- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic New England (Apr 2012) Captain Robert Marin- U.S. Navy Commander cruiser USS Cowpens (Feb 2012) Captain Sean McDonell- U.S. Navy Commander Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 FL (Nov 2012) Commander Corrine Parker- U.S. Navy Commander Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (Apr 2012) Captain Liza Raimondo- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, MD (Jun 2012) Captain Jeffrey Riedel- Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program (Jan 2012) Commander Sara Santoski- U.S. Navy Commander Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (Sep 2012) Commander Kyle G. Strudthoff-Executive Officer Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (Sep 2012) Commander Sheryl Tannahill- U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Nashville, TN (Sep 2012) Commander Michael Ward- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Pittsburgh (Aug 2012) Captain Michael Wiegand- U.S. Navy Commander Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (Nov 2012) Captain Ted Williams- U.S. Navy Commander amphibious command ship Mount Whitney (Nov 2012) Commander Jeffrey Wissel- U.S. Navy Commander of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (Feb 2012) Lieutenant Commander Lauren Allen-Executive Officer submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013) Reserve Captain Jay Bowman-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Fort Dix, NJ (Mar 2013) Captain William Cogar-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Mercy’s medical treatment facility (Sept 2013) Commander Steve Fuller-Executive Officer frigate Kauffman (Mar 2013) Captain Shawn Hendricks-Program Manager for naval enterprise IT networks (June 2013) Captain David Hunter-U.S. Navy Commander of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 12 & Coastal Riverine Group 2 (Feb 2013) Captain Eric Johnson-U.S. Navy Chief of Military Entrance Processing Command at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL (2013) Captain Devon Jones-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Air Facility El Centro, CA (July 2013) Captain Kevin Knoop-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Comfort’s medical treatment facility (Aug 2013) Lieutenant Commander Jack O’Neill-U.S. Navy Commander Operational Support Center Rock Island, IL (Mar 2013) Commander Allen Maestas-Executive Officer Beachmaster Unit 1 (May 2013) Commander Luis Molina-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Pasadena (Jan 2013) Commander James Pickens-Executive Officer frigate Gary (Feb 2013) Lieutenant Commander Mark Rice-U.S. Navy Commander Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013) Commander Michael Runkle-U.S. Navy Commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 (May 2013) Commander Jason Stapleton-Executive Office Patrol Squadron 4 in Hawaii (Mar 2013) Commander Nathan Sukols-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013) Lieutenant Daniel Tyler-Executive Officer Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013) Commander Edward White-U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (Aug 2013) Captain Jeffrey Winter-U.S. Navy Commander of Carrier Air Wing 17 (Sept 2013) Commander Thomas Winter-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Montpelier (Jan 2013) Commander Corey Wofford- U.S. Navy Commander frigate Kauffman (Feb 2013)

 

Geoffrey Grider | January 14, 2016 at 1:31 pm  URL: http://wp.me/p1kFP6-ajT