The fifth column at work.

Spineless military general and flag officers are complicit in the decade long decline of the American military.  Sequester is only part of the problem and not the most destructive force working against the American military.  As Napoleon noted, the moral is to the physical as 3 is to 1.  What is harming the American force these days is a corrosion of standards and discipline from within. 

Right now, as you read this, there is an anti-American, commie loving, 2^nd Lt WEST POINT GRADUATE serving in the 10^th Mountain Div.  Ah but Lex how do you know?  There are probably a lot of subversives serving.  They are hard to weed out.

That may be true in many cases, but in the case 2^nd Lt. Spencer Rapone it doesn’t hold water. Rapone made his political views known to the “leadership” at the Point and to anyone else who would listen to him.

Rapone’s case of openly subversive activity at the Point led to this open letter by a former faculty member, retired LTC Robert M. Heffington.  If even only partially true, it is a damning account of how far the Point (read: the academies) have slid down the sewer.     

From what I witnessed during my brief visit, the current version of the Naval Academy seems no different than the version of West Point outlined in Heffington’s letter.  I witnessed scores of Middies falling out of formation.  The ones who remained seemed to have only the loosest understanding of drill movements.  But the thing that cut to the core was the address to the Middies by Navy Secretary Ray Maybus.  The thing was full of social justice BS – the exact thing you’d expect from a Navy Sec that surrenders US Navy vessels to Iranians, maintains a state of training that has its ships running aground and into cargo ships.  Maybus went on to offer Navy’s NCAA record holding quarterback a service deferment if drafted by the NKL.  There was not one word about combat readiness.   

At the US Air Force Academy, the superintendent recently berated the entire student body for a racial slur being scrawled on a mino cadet’s door.  I haven’t seen that kind of military group punishment since the entire platoon was made to get down and give the sergeant instructor 10 because everyone was out of step with Candidate Sanfilipo. 

The USAFA super went on to say that there would be a full investigation into the matter.  I’m no ring knocker.  I’m not even an ROTC guy.  I’m but a run-of-the-mill graduate of the Marine Corps Officer Candidate’s School, but it seems to me a leader might wait until the investigation is complete to start chewing azz.  My guess and hope is that the USAFA “racial slur” case will come back, as so many of these things do, to the supposed “victim.”  That outcome would be much preferable to having actual racists in the ranks.  But hey, avowed communists or racists in the ranks, what’s the difference?

The military academies seem to have devolved into nothing more than typical leftist universities with stricter PT requirements and fancy uniforms.  The moral decline is not surprising.  What do you expect from a society that believes it is not only okay but necessary, for the sake of social engineering, to send its mothers and daughters off to war?

Heffington’s letter is a must read to get a sense of just how far these institutions have fallen.