Sad I have never in my life done or said one single thing that could be considered "politically correct." I was reared by a single mother, I was raised in the barracks. Altogether I spent 9 1/2 years in barracks, bunkers, tents, foxholes, ditches, and one tree. Life in the barracks was life by consensus. Consensus was normative. Feel free to offer any opinion, but be prepared to defend that opinion. Certainly the officers set the requirements, interpreted by the "enlisted swine." "Everyone knows that all enlisted men are cases of arrested development." There were no females! I was in the service four over four years before I was allowed to address an officer in the first person. Should you feel the need to offer a point of view contrary to the "consensus," you were often required to engage in what was known as a "soldier's conference." I spent 20 months at Lowry AFB in Denver being schooled in Weapons Control Systems. Then assigned to the 465FIS at Griffiss AFB, Rome New York, where we had F-94C, F-89D,H,J. We also had 22 B-29s and the Rome Air Devopment Center, which had at least one of everything ever flown. It was a good first base. Then I went to Itazuke AB, Japan to the 68FIS, part of 8TFW. Japan was still occupied at the time (following WWII). Then the democrats (lower case does not denote atheism) came to power. Suddenly, we had insufficient supplies of fuel and weapons for adequate training. We had single-seat aircraft who had difficulty navigating up and down the coast of Red China. And that is how we went to Vietnam. On 10 Jan, 66 I climbed on a Dirty-Thirty Hercky Bird (C-130D) for the brown and green paradise (with red dirt) along with one other man, as cargo couriers. Our cargo included ammo, rations, and one very interesting Aim-26 with a nuclear warhead. Oh boy, fortunately I told the driver, who took it back to the Philippines. They never got it off the aircraft. Can't you imagine the joy of dangerous dan rather or walter cronkite upon hearing this joyous news. And so the cycle continued. Republicans in power, peace and a sufficiency in all things. Democrats in power, conflict and shortages. It was a democratic congress that abandoned American troops on the field of battle with inadequate stores of food, fuel, , and medical supplies, not to mention the POWs. It was in Vietnam that I sustained certain physical injuries (no right patella, little remaining of left patella, two torn rotator cuffs, four crushed vertebrae) and (the debilitating effects of a complete drenching in Agent Orange).
And so,it went, year in and year out: up, down, up, down, down, down. Up, down, down, down, down, and then the democrats sell off the bases to developers, with an accompanying reduction in qualified personnel. And then - POLITICAL CORRECTNESS rears its ugly head. The universities which became havens for draft dodgers and perverts of every stripe (a little over the top there) invented political correctness or PC. There have been rumors about the PC movement being the result of unnatural relations taking place between baboons and professors, but no one has been able to verify this, yet.
And there we stand, a demoralized military and an incompetent political leadership. A recipe for disaster? I believe that you either trust God or you don't. And so, we wait and we pray. It has always been that way. We cannot give to the inadequate, the incompetent, or the lunatic.
In 1934, the Archbishop of Munich publicly endorsed Hitler. A stringer for British paper the Guardian (actually a spy for MI-6) asked the kindly old Archbishop how he could do such a thing? The Archbishop replied: "It is the function of the Church in every age to be aware of the working of the Holy Spirit. Today, the Holy Spirit has chosen to work through Adolf Hitler!" And so it goes.
All we have to do, is what we have been told to do, "Watch and pray." The proper answers alre always that simple. And, the simple tasks are often the most difficult for those of us who "Watch and Wait." And remember the 2nd Amendment, a God given right.
