The military will not be our saviors.

Fighting men are embarrassed by this picture.

Anyone who thinks the military will sit out a shooting revolution, guess again. Let’s review a couple of things.

Most recently, the military allowed themselves to be used as window dressing for her royal pain in the @$$ Mooochy Moochell fly me out 10 minutes ahead of his royal dumbassness to the same location Oscar night performance. That picture of Moochell at the Oscars surrounded by sycophantic military officers grinning just to be in the presence of royalty and dressed in their finery as if they belonged in the court of King Loius XIV could not have sat well with most Americans. Can you say “out of touch?”

Did that picture remind anyone of the “Hunger Games” where starving kids from around country are pulled into the capitol where all of the swells are living high and very wastefully on the hog? I was waiting for an arrow to come whizzing in from somewhere.

What’s most interesting and disturbing for me was checking the rank of the props. The props were not the usual crowd of wannabe generals who got to the top by being smart for sure but also by going along with every hare brained plan ever proposed by anyone so much as 10 numbers senior to them on a lineal list kept somewhere. They appear to be company grade officers – youngsters – teenagers of the military.

Looking at the picture, I think the military ought not to wear their butler/doorman suits while engaged in active wars. It sends the wrong message to our enemies:  Look at us!  Aren’t we pretty!? We’re much prettier than you.

I think they should have had a couple of real warriors with missing limbs, a hook for hand and an eye patch or two in the background in the common olive drab service uniform. A picture of men who had felt the sting of battle and remained committed to the just cause would have sent a strong message to our enemies. But then I don’t think the 1st hag ought to be able to interrupt prime time tv at her whim in the first place – even if it is an event orchestrated for lib swells.

The services should get rid of the mess dress. It looks ridiculous, but more importantly, I paid about $800 for mine and wore it about 5 times for official business. But hey I still have my mess dress uniform mothballed in the barn. If push comes to shove it can be cut up into pieces and sewn into a quilt, which is the only way it’ll ever be able to cover my ever expanding belly at this point.

While lamenting the affect the sequester will have on the military budget, outgoing SecDef Panetta offered to pay for “benefits” to unmarried “committed” same sex couples but not to unmarried “committed” heterosexual couples. I assume the “benefits” to be housing, medical, transportation etc. for “committed” gay couples but not for “committed” heterosexual couples.

OK let’s just forget about equal protection and treatment and the coming and endless litigation this will kick off. HELLO, Leon, YOU’RE BROKE! You’re saying you don’t have enough money for operations and maintenance of the force, but you arbitrarily expand the pool of non-combat “benefits.” At what cost? Any idea? No. No idea what-so-ever. Don’t worry Mr. & Mrs. America the kids in the picture will figure it out.

ASIDE: Much is being made of allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Even before don’t ask don’t tell, gays have always served rather openly in the military. Not in the - march at the front of the gay pride parade in uniform kind of openness, but certainly everyone knew there were gays serving. No one picked at that scab. Unless the gay guy wanted to use his orientation as means for an early discharge, essentially outing himself, life went on pretty much normally. 

There was the case of Marines throwing a gay guy off the second story of the barracks.  But it was as likely that the guy owed them money or he was barracks thief as anything. 

We currently have a coward serving as the Chairman of a Joint Chiefs of Staff who tells an American citizen to stop exercising his right to free speech that the coward has sworn to protect and defend. While the irony of his request apparently never dawned on wannbe general Dempsey, the inappropriateness of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff haranguing a private citizen sure as heck should have set off a bell somewhere in his empty head.

Dempsey and Panetta are the same great minds that ran the traps on a policy of allowing women to serve in combat units and decided that it would speed the demise of the finest fighting force in the world. I can think of no other serious reason for that BS decision. There simply is not a better answer.

Fired and disgraced wannbe general McChrystal tried to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the lapdog media and Dope pols by embracing gun grabs. Here’s another guy who swore to support and defend the constitution but some how neglected to read the document he swore to support.

Mr. & Mrs. America our military is now in the business of promoting the preening show ponies in the picture while dumping on the shaggy heavy footed war horses. They are in the business of successful social engineering rather than successful combat operations.