Sailors leaving Navy over stress on social issues, Top Gun instructor says
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Washington Times ^ | 3/25/2014
A Navy F-18 fighter pilot and former Top Gun instructor is publicly warning admirals that retention is beginning to suffer from the military’s relentless social conditioning programs.
Cmdr. Guy Snodgrass, until recently a Pentagon speech writer for the chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said sailors are becoming fed-up with the constant emphasis on social issues — an apparent reference to gays in the military, women in combat and ending sexual harassment.
“Sailors continue to cite the over-focus on social issues by senior leadership, above and beyond discussions on war fighting — a fact that demoralizes junior and mid-grade officers alike,” Cmdr. Snodgrass wrote this month on the U.S. Naval Institute website, an independent forum for active and retired sailors and Marines.
It is a remarkably frank assessment from an upwardly mobile fighter pilot who is due to become the executive officer of a F-18 unit in Japan.
He says one troubling sign already has emerged: a drop in applications to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis last year.
“The U.S. Navy has a looming officer retention problem,” Cmdr. Snodgrass writes, adding there is an “erosion of trust in senior leadership.”
He says retention racked up its “worst year in history” for the special warfare community, including Navy SEALs, with a record number of lieutenants declining to stay.
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In a related blast from the past: Casey said: “I think that’s something that we have to look at on an individual basis. But I think we as an Army have to be broad enough to bring in people from all walks of life.”
The bottom line is the military benefits from diversity, he said.
“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.
1 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:47:55 PM by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.
Obama’s one success story...
2 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:49:26 PM by moovova (The British equate aborted baby bodies to BTUs.)
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To: moovova
Just as Obama planned. He and Valerie knew exactly what would happen. Also helps to dump the top brass.
3 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:50:25 PM by ilovesarah2012
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To: Altura Ct.
This will be happening to ALL of our once fine military!! Who wants to fight for this crap anymore....all the country has come to is ABORTIONS and GAY SEX!
4 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:50:25 PM by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Who in their right mind would accept Bammy as their Commander in Chief?
5 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:50:31 PM by Paladin2
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To: moovova
Yep, another feather in Obama’s cap.
6 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:50:42 PM by trubolotta
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To: Altura Ct.
I’d be getting out, too, and heading for some commercial right seat.
7 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:51:28 PM by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Altura Ct.
Mission accomplished.
8 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:52:27 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Altura Ct.
The leftist and emasculating social engineering of everything that made and preserved this country.
Hey, Obama, you got your wet dream. You POS.
9 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:52:49 PM by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Altura Ct.
The next CIC needs to order dishonorable discharges for ever fag and lesbo in the military and put women in their place to restore our military might.
10 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:55:01 PM by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Deja vu 1976-1980.
11 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:56:34 PM by vetvetdoug
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To: grobdriver
USAF is bombarded with the crap too. Even DOD civilians have to attend the classes. It used to be optional and only mandatory for supervisors who had active duty in their sections.
I haven’t seen any homo related training yet. Will advise if I do.
12 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:56:39 PM by USAF80
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To: ilovesarah2012
Just as Obama planned. He and Valerie knew exactly what would happen. Also helps to dump the top brass.Very perceptive.
This then strengthens the argument for a civilian force equal to the military, like Obozo told us back in 2008.
13 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:57:26 PM by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Altura Ct.
You call me old fashioned, but I want an American military that can go out, kick ass and come home safe! I'm not real enthusiastic about having a military that's known for it's empathy. Empathy won't keep you alive when someone wants to kill you. "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
More Patton, less Dr. Spock!
14 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:57:50 PM by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Altura Ct.
UNEXPECTED! /sarc
15 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:58:11 PM by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Altura Ct.
It is sad. My son, born and raised in a small rural town planned on making a career in the Navy. He was very disalusioned by the “diversity,” the Navy was full of gang bangers, thieves and trouble makers. He left after four years and is now in his final year of college.
16 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:01:47 PM by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Altura Ct.
Putin smiles.
17 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:02:27 PM by kaehurowing
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To: Altura Ct.
The two Fortune 500 companies I worked for had diversity campaign posters. One read, “Strength and joy through diversity.” An in-house magazine ran a multi-page article about the communist “labor hero” Eugene V. Debs. A document we had to sign said we could not discuss anything “inappropriate.” I barely avoided being written up for a conversation with a machinist who made his own guns for a conversation at lunch. It was overheard and the HR manager took offense.
All of this is going on because the military contracts require diversity and they’ve pretty well defined it as something similar to living and working as a Soviet communist who is afraid to speak any of their own thoughts.
Oh, my last company forbade any mention of religion under any context. Several people kept a tiny cross on their desk which I interpreted as a silent protest.
18 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:02:44 PM by Gen.Blather
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To: Altura Ct.
“Come on Sailor, suck it up,” just doesn’t have the same meaning as in my day ...
19 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:03:56 PM by 11th_VA (Decrimminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: Altura Ct.
... the military benefits from diversity,...The Balkans have lots of diversity.
Doesn't benefit them at all.
20 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:03:59 PM by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: USAF80
I haven’t seen any homo related training yet. Surprising.
It's just a matter of time.
21 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:04:22 PM by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Altura Ct.
Doubly bad for retention of pilots in the military is that the demand for air transport pilots is at record levels worldwide with tremendous numbers projected for the next 20 years.
22 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:05:58 PM by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Altura Ct.
What's Russia or China going to do with all of our 100% female and gay male military after they take custody of all of them after their surrender? Isn't that where this is going? I blame the military top brass and SEALs for not remedying this problem 5 years ago.
23 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:06:17 PM by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: vetvetdoug
Deja vu 1976-1980. Yes, I saw it firsthand.
24 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:09:06 PM by colorado tanker
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To: grobdriver
I’d be getting out, too, and heading for some commercial right seat. Not as easy as you might think. Entry level pay is not very good, and major airlines won't be hiring in large numbers for a couple more years.
25 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:10:34 PM by SeaHawkFan
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To: Paladin2
Who would want to work in an environment where your competency is secondary to you PCness.
26 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:12:57 PM by JimSEA
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To: Ann Archy
That’s all liberals care about. Plus marijuana, of course.
No wonder our welfare rate is so high and our workforce participation rate so low.
27 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:13:44 PM by heye2monn (MO)
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To: Altura Ct.
The military will become like the college campuses, the men will be driven out and quit showing up.
The females and the freaks will own it in time.
28 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:14:17 PM by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: vetvetdoug
Deja vu 1976-1980. Much worse actually. Neither Ford nor Carter forced straight men to tolerate Fags living and working among them onboard ship. 1980 getting caught playing Rump Ranger in the rack or elsewhere would be an instantly taken off ship and discharged under less than honorable offense.
1980 the going retention bonus for a Snipe was $15K-$18K next rank and if possible some shore duty. Chiefs were begging short timers to re-up. By late 1982 under Reagan's watch {when I considered going back in} the retention issue had resolved itself along with the other issues the Ford/Carter era created.
Our military has been in an ongoing state of decline since the day GHW Bush took oath as POTUS. We need another Ronald Reagan to pull of military and this nation out of this mess. We're in a much deeper crisis both nationally and military wise than has been seen since WW2.
29 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:16:23 PM by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Altura Ct.
Will our military soon be 50% limp wristed noodle heads and Napolitano lookalikes?
30 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:16:52 PM by Viennacon
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To: SeaHawkFan
Not as easy as you might think. I don't know... I race with a lot of airline captains - a lot are South West but other carriers as well - and they see not enough first officers coming through. Don't know how the regionals are doing... that's where a lot of the major carriers get their FOs from: right seat regional, left seat regional, right seat major, Captain.
Alternatively, Military, right seat major, Captain.
31 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:18:59 PM by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim, I served during the Nixon, Ford , Carter and Reagan years in the Army. The worst social experiment in the Military happened in the early ‘80’s when the Army started co-ed basic training, it was a farce, the women couldn’t keep up with their male counterparts in the physical strength area, so standards were lowered. And what do 18 year old boys and girls like to do after hours??? Pregnancy rates soared and morale plummeted. And here we are 30+ years later. Mission acomplished Indeed! Liberalism is antithetical to common sense.
32 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:20:52 PM by PROCON (Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Everything is proceeding according to plan.Just like ACA is intended to blow up the health insurance industry to replace it with single payer, tossing out don't ask don't tell in favor of normalizing flagrant homosexuality & gender integration is intended to destroy the military to replace it with Obama's Civilian National Security Force.
I'm not even half kidding.
33 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:22:03 PM by skeeter
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To: exit82
Not an Obama civilian force.
34 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:23:21 PM by ilovesarah2012
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To: Altura Ct.
Marines and Army too .....
Let’s hope these good men and women decide to re-up
once this fool is out of office and all his lame policies have been tossed out and reversed .
That day cannot come a moment too soon .
35 posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:27:04 PM by LeoWindhorse |
