Greyhawk, supposedly a military officer, continues to lie and deceive the American Public. In his new post, he remarks that the enlistments are good and retention is good. He fails to acknowledge the fact that the Army is consistently reducing its standards to meet these goals. If the standards remained the same, the enlistment numbers would be a lot worse.
Those are facts. What is unknown is why Greyhawk continues to purposefully mislead and lie to the American Public? And this is the guy who is supposed to be "defending" our way of life? Sounds a lot like a propaganda spinner designed to continue the growth of the dangerous American Militarism.
Officers such as Greyhawk are dangerous. They are dangerous because they are cunning in their deceit and they hold high rank in our military. More reason why we need to CRUSH the American Military. At least at the leadership levels, it is an absolute mess and it is starting to become dangerous to our way of life. I am not sure if I am more afraid of Osama or our officer corps in the Army.
Please read on as I have posted a great reply from IRR showing the errors of Greyhawk's ways:
IRR's Comments:
You neglect to add a few pesky facts:
1. The Army has taken "double digits" of Category IV enlistees over the past five months.
2. In order to make mission, the available pool of potential enlistees had to be greatly expanded, e.g. taking enlistees up to 39, felony waivers etc.
3. The junior officer attrition in the Army is at 2000 and 2001 levels - WITH stop loss/stop move! Given the fact that over 40% of RA LTs/CPTs are barred from resigning at any given point because of stop loss, those numbers should be sobering.
4. Only 2 of the USAR Regional Readiness Commands (RRCs), the 77th and 65th, finished FY05 with more gains than losses. Some of the most severe gain to loss stats have happened in former hotbeads of volunteers like the 81st RRC.
5. Are you aware the USAR, authorized 205,000 bodies from O-9 to E-1 is currently short 10,554 LTs and CPTs?
6. Active Duty Army OCS has had a 100% selection rate since November of 2004.
7. The Active Army forecasts being 3,500 officers short in FY07.
8. The USAR and ARNG are both seeing unprecedented retirements of senior NCOs. We are losing our most seasoned vets while attrcating an inferior cohort of new enlistee.
These are but a few facts that you should be aware of. You are a propagandist that repeatedly refuses to see the true state of our personnel readiness for what it is - precarious. The fact is that our military is entirely too small. We are barely able to "make existing mission" with lowered standards and are incapable of expanding the force. The USAR and ARNG have been mostly "blown through" and the remaining nondeployed forces are individuals - not units. They are human spackle to fill gaping force structure holes.
As an officer, why do you lie to the American people?
You Can Resist Even if You are In The Military!
