It is the American culture not the military culture that needs changing

Headline from the AP:


Pentagon trying to change culture to allow gays

OK, you’ve got the biggest baddest and best – something. Makes no difference, a soft drink, beer, screwdriver, anything, it’s the best. One day the CEO comes in and says we need to change the culture around here. What’s your reaction? What are you nuts?

It reminds me of the story of two owners standing around lamenting the fact that they sell so many canary yellow purses. “Who would buy such a thing,” laments one. “I don’t know they are just awful,” says the other. They agree that even though they sell a ton of the purses, that they shouldn’t reorder. The third partner steps in and says, “Hold on. I don’t care if they are the ugliest thing ever. If they sell, we’re stocking them.”

The military could make the same case.  We're not the most sensitive bunch, but we can kick @$$ on behalf of the American people when asked to do so.  But instead of arguing the need for good order and discipline in the military as an argument to reject social experimentation in the armed forces, the nut jobs want to change the culture.

You can almost hear it down in Alabama, under Bear Bryant. “Bear the times are changing. We need to change the culture around here a bit.” Bear, “Huh? Oh you mean from a winning culture to a losing culture?” “Well no. Not necessarily. Just a kinder gentler culture.” Bear, “Yeah, that’s what I said. From winning to losing.”

And look we are not talking about purses or football here. We are talking about the defense of the nation. Seems to me we need to set people’s feelings aside here and do what is best for the force and the country.

The last thing the military needs at this point is to inject another protected class into its midst.  How do you think we got murdering scumbag Maj Hassan? He was a protected class. No one in the Army from the Chief of Staff all the way down to Hassan’s immediate supervisor would confront the bastard for fear of being labeled an Islamophobe. Hell Gen Casey spoke out against any Muslim backlash before he’d admit that Hassan was $h!thead. Something about a troubled man, we don’t know what his motives were, blah, blah, blah.

So the military will not confront a Muslim murderer. What makes anyone think that it will confront an openly gay colonel for doing the gay orderly on the parade deck before formation?

Things may have changed, but you could see hard core military men bite their tongues and change their demeanor when women were on the scene. At one briefing a female general told a friend that the reason most women couldn’t handle a 60 pound pack was because the pack wasn’t designed correctly for women. Yeah sure. And the only reason I’m not an all-pro NFL linebacker is because the shoulder pads don’t sit right on me.

Dare I say it? It’s not the military culture that needs to change. It’s the culture of me first that needs to change. The culture of no matter what it is, it is a right. The rent is too damn high. I have a right to live wherever I want free. Tuition is too damn high.  I have a right to a college education paid for by my neighbors. Arugula is too damn high. I have a right to food subsidies.  The military is the last bastion of good order and discipline.  Gays have a right to destroy it.

Leave the military culture alone. Change the American culture back to one of personal responsibility.