{"id":1781418,"date":"2022-12-20T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781418"},"modified":"2022-12-20T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:20:04","slug":"kurt-schlichter-the-pentagons-latest-leadership-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-the-pentagons-latest-leadership-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Schlichter: The Pentagon\u2019s Latest Leadership Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkurt-schlichter-the-pentagons-latest-leadership-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4beb4812-b33b-4a3d-83c6-a172f3ab3dc5.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let\u2019s sum up the state of America\u2019s military brass with one appalling comparison between how the admirals, generals, and civilian leaders chose to treat two different service members. One is a young naval officer, Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, a family man who fell unconscious due to a medical condition while driving and accidentally killed two people in a tragic crash and was railroaded into a Japanese prison for three years. The other one is a creepy pervert who was an Army full colonel\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/army-investigating-officers-who-wore-fetish-dog-masks-while-in-uniform-on-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">who put on puppy sex gear<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u2013 yeah, that\u2019s a thing \u2013 over his uniform in social media pics, and who maintained a litter of similarly bizarre subordinate soldiers\/degenerate weirdos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now, which one of these do you think our current military leadership is still paying?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You get a medal if you guessed Colonel Kink. Or a Milkbone, as the case may be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Yes, the young Navy lieutenant caught up in this outrageous injustice is not only going to miss out on three years of his little kids\u2019 lives because the United States government was unable to convince the nation that our blood and treasure lets remain free to indulge in Pok\u00e9mon, Godzilla movies, and anime tentacle porn, to have some compassion over this awful accident. No, our military leadership\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/navy\/2022-12-16\/navy-alkonis-prison-japan-pay-benefits-8438359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">has decided to cut off his pay<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, leaving his family not only bereft of their father but in absolute poverty. They had to start a GoFundMe. Yet COL Rin Tin Sin is still cashing his check.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What a pathetic disgrace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What a damn embarrassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What the hell are you people thinking?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You aren\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you were thinking, we might have unequivocally won a major war in the last 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you were thinking, you might not have to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for personnel by allowing in Category 4s, the class of recruit the drill sergeants need to remind to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you were thinking, this disgusting backstab would never have happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And the consequences of this and similar misjudgments that tell our troops that they don\u2019t matter are manifesting more and more in more and more screw-ups. Our military is a mess and getting worse. Do not fall for the brass\u2019s sunny-day hype and hack clich\u00e9s about how we are still \u201cThe Greatest Military Ever Was.\u201d It\u2019s crap, and they know it\u2019s crap \u2013 or worse, they don\u2019t know it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It\u2019s almost impossible to explain to a civilian just how horrible this betrayal is, how corrosive this kind of REMF policy is. The military is based on trust, trust of the leaders that their troops will follow their commands, and trust of the subordinates that their leaders will support them. This stunning decision undermines that essential dynamic. It is a disgraceful sell-out of an American warrior caught in a situation beyond his control. It\u2019s bad enough that the US government was so impotent that it couldn\u2019t turn to Japan and say \u201cLet this guy out!\u201d and have Japan say \u201cRoger, here he is and we\u2019ve also shined his shoes.\u201d This is not some scumbag who raped a local \u2013 let that scuzz enjoy the fun that is Japan\u2019s penal system. This is a guy caught up in a situation outside his control and our military is announcing \u201cHey troops if you need us to help, forget it. We\u2019re screwing you and your family. So, how about re-upping for another hitch? Hello? Hey, where are you going?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">They not only let our guy be shafted but doubled down on their ineptitude by cutting off his family. It\u2019s mind-boggling. You look at that choice and it\u2019s crystal clear. You take care of your guy. But not this Administration. Not this Pentagon. Not these generals and admirals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Too bad LT Alkonis isn\u2019t Brittany Griner, an America-hating celebrity pronoun person whose great-grandfather came from an approved continent \u2013 something that should have been irrelevant but that Biden\u2019s spokeshack made sure we knew was important. They left the Marines behind in the deal that sprung an international arms dealer. What a shock. The Pentagon\u2019s priorities are clear to our troops, and they are not one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Message to the Troops: You don\u2019t matter. Trust us and you put not only yourself but your family at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And the troops are receiving that transmission, Lima Charlie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Right now, the military is unable to fill its ranks because it has completely alienated the traditional Americans who used to fill those ranks and were the backbone of the military. Why the hell would anyone join today\u2019s military? To be taught that you are evil because of your skin color? To be told your traditional values are insurrectionist? To suffer prejudice in promotions, assignments, and everything else if you don\u2019t check the right boxes? To serve under a commander who is living his adult-only version of \u201c<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pound_Puppies_(2010_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pound Puppies<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Our troops see that when they need the leadership behind them, it will be there to stick the knife in. And right now, military veterans are refusing to recommend that young people join. I will not recommend enlisting. None of my retired colleagues will. Why should we? The Pentagon can\u2019t win a war, is obsessed with college faculty lounge woke nonsense, and tops it all off by letting troops in trouble twist in the wind. That\u2019s a tragedy because we loved serving, but this situation has been brought on entirely by a military leadership that pulls this kind of bonehead maneuver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon, somebody made this decision and no leader in the chain had the stones to say \u201cWait a minute, what the hell is this?\u201d I get delegating responsibility. I get supporting subordinate leaders. I was a junior officer about the same time most of the current crop of flag officers was, so we learned the same things in the same places, only I didn\u2019t forget. You back your subordinate leaders until you see them screwing the troops, and then you step in. There\u2019s no deference for decisions like that. You have the stars. Act like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let me tell you how it would\u2019ve gone with Secretary of Defense Kurt Schlichter. One of my myriad minions would have seen this, known to come to my palatial office, and said, \u201cSir, we got a problem. Some dipsmack down the chain denied this guy his pay and benefits.\u201d And then that dipsmack would have gotten a call along the lines of \u201cSecDef says you are going to have the order reinstating his pay and your letter apologizing to the family for this misunderstanding on his desk by the time he gets back from the coffee bar with his latte or you\u2019ll be handing out volleyballs at the Ft. Polk rec center before sundown.\u201d And it would have been fixed. And the message would have gone out \u2013 don\u2019t do stupid things that screw our troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The betrayal of LT Alkonis and his family is not just one mistake. This is yet another in an endless series of bad calls that are killing what was once, when I was serving back in the day, the greatest fighting force on Earth. From ships catching fire to ships running into each other, to having to recruit from the paste-eating set to perverts in camo, and to getting run out of Afghanistan on a rail with 13 troops killed because of gross incompetence at the top, our military is in trouble. We are going to lose the next war, badly. Ask the troops \u2013 they know. And this is a symptom. But it can be fixed in a second \u2013 and whether it is or is not is a test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Look, you need to keep up the fight against the radical left. We cannot let their woke ideology destroy our great military and country. Join\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/subscribe?tpcc=kurtcolumn121922\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Townhall VIP<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0right now to help us report the truth and promote conservative values. 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