📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Patricia, no worries. I wasn’t insulted. Dear Tammie, Yohanan and all, I never meant to insult your family members. I'm sure there are many. many good and godly men and women in our armed forces. Thank God for them! I think it's a combination of both. There are some treacherous people in the military and I think it should be pointed out but by the same token I also have family members serving who are devout Christians. I don't take any of the news articles at face value but instead see most of them as opinion pieces mixed with events or circumstances since that's about all most news is today. Patricia - I get that you are posting what you find and think is news worthy but … True the military is different today than in years gone by but there are still good people in every level of the military. I work with, live with, am friends with, and have family in many venues of the military and every branch. My son (a believer) is a Colonial at the Pentagon. He is one of several thousand. I have family members that have died to give us the freedom to post our thoughts and the garbage of others. So please, as our country is and must die, and as many of us find this very difficult to watch because of our patriotism and love for the country and the men and women who sacrificed for it, remember that not everything posted on the internet is true or news worthy. Thank you, a still proud American and Mother of two service members and the wife and daughter of service members and a co-worker with active duty members and friend of military in my church and neighborhood. Blessings …. :prayer-hands: Until Jesus comes! Soon. Horowitz: Conservatives must stop conserving a military that no longer exists: Being pro-military was the hallmark of a Reagan conservative that informed the minds of the past two generations of conservative policy. However, conserving and even growing a military that is now irrevocably woke – a military in which you must carry a vaccine card and mask on base but can’t carry a weapon; a military where Christianity is scorned and transgenderism is embraced – is not conservative at all. Rather than Republicans throwing more money at a woke and broken Pentagon and military-industrial complex, the time has come to make systemic reforms to the purpose of the military. Then we can discuss the dollars and cents. Our military today resembles nothing from its Gulf War-era culture. It is unhospitable to Christians and conservatives and imbued with racism, transgendersim, and coed social engineering, and nearly every official above the rank of lieutenant colonel is to the left of a Hollywood actress. Moreover, for an entire generation, the mission of our military has been muddled and primarily focused on social change, refereeing sectarian civil wars, and nation-building. More recently, there are growing concerns that the NSA is spying on Americans, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is engaged in unbridled biomedical security experimentation and hyper-obsession with vaccines, and the medical-industrial complex is inextricably tied into the transhumanist endeavors promoted by Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum. We have all taken pride in our military for most of our lifetimes, but what happens when the most powerful and expensive apparatus of your government is captured by the left? Well, now, sadly, it has become the greatest menace to our liberties. . . . we must clean up the military culture itself. Here are some policies that the Armed Services Committee should focus on beginning this week rather than simply debating top-line spending levels: Ban the Pentagon from ever instituting a mask mandate.
Force reinstatement and back pay for those terminated under the vaccine mandate.
Expand parameters of religious and medical exemptions for other vaccines and permanently ban mRNA shots in the military.
End the weaponization of the military medical system forcing behavioral evaluations on service members as forms of retaliation for whistleblowing, per the Seth Ritter story at Fort Benning. The entire Defense Health Agency needs to be overhauled to focus on military readiness rather than the biomedical Karen agenda.
Allow our own soldiers to carry weapons on U.S. bases.
End the Saudi training programs on U.S. military bases. After one such trainee killed three Americans in a terror attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019, the Trump administration failed to terminate the program.
Prohibit all transgender or critical race theory training and programs.
Cancel all green energy mandates on military hardware and vitiate any military mission “combatting” the climate.
Terminate all NSA programs spying on Americans.
A full audit of the mission and activities of DARPA and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, particularly as it relates to their work on gain-of-function pathogens and vaccines in biolabs across the world.
Terminate all social engineering programs lowering standards to place women in combat.
Craft a religious liberty bill of rights ensuring that no soldier is forced to violate his religious conscience through his tour of duty in the military.