LEDE: The General Milley years were a disaster. But things are about to get much worse.
I’m in the middle of an excellent biography of General of the Army George Marshall, volume three of four, George C Marshall: Organizer of Victory 1943-1945 by Forrest C. Pogue. While I’ve read multiple books on Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton, I’ve just never gotten around to reading deeply of the World War II Army Chief of Staff until now. If you want to learn of this man, and get an excellent narrative of the county leading up to and during World War II, this series is superb.
“One of the issues the Chief of Staff handled was ‘the question of the place the Negro should occupy in the armed forces, an issue that was not settled then, despite his efforts to gain equal treatment for all men in the Army.’ With the support of Secretary of War Henry Stimson and the assistance of Army Chief of Personnel Major General John Hilldring, they focused on increasing the number of black officers in the Army, by working on insuring equality of opportunity. The Secretary’s office recruited four black leaders from civilian life to assist in the efforts, and these men were very impressed with the effort of the Chief of Staff:”
General Marshall’s advocacy of this policy was eloquent and persuasive, magnificent…We adopted the policy, Mr. Stimson watched it, McCloy watched it like an eagle for a year or so, and I think the remaining days I was in G-1, worked harder on this than…anything else, to get the word across to every commanding general in the field that this was the law and that regardless of their attitude about it, the colored man would be given an equal opportunity. Of course, the policy worked well, and probably northing we did in the war helped the colored man more than this policy. We commissioned thousands and thousands of officers, colored officers, …they did very good jobs because they were qualified before they were commissioned.”[1]
Equality, not equity, General Milley. Perhaps you should have read some more of GA Marshall’s wisdom before you became Chief of Staff.
One of the great successes in the post war era, particularly the post-Vietnam era, has been the volunteer military. No question, there were serious racial issues that all the services had to get through. More than a few of my mentors who served in the 70s told me of classes, group discussions, etc. Perfect, no, but nothing with people ever is. But it worked, because the men at the top were determined to rebuild the Army after Vietnam, remembering we have one reason to exist: “To Win Our Wars.”
Fast forward forty-fifty years, and the “leadership” in the Pentagon seems to have missed that point. From integration and bringing the races together to complete our mission, the higher ranks (I won’t call them leaders) are focusing on pushing people away with Critical Race Theory, having soldiers wear pregnancy suits on training, opening core combat branches to women just to please the radical left in this county, and not only allowing transexuals in the service, but having the taxpayer pay for their surgery and follow on care.
Sorry, you want to mutilate your body like that, fine. Do it on your own time and your own dime.
General Milley (thank you God) is on his way out, but unfortunately his nominated successor is likely even worse. President Biden has nominated the current Air Force Chief of Staff, General Charles Brown as General Milley’s replacement.
In the years as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have wound down, it would be logical to start to rebuild our services, learn from our experience, try to build a better force. You would be wrong. Without question, the Air Force is the most woke of the branches (US Space Force is too new to judge), and
General Brown’s focus has been where you would expect it to be. Quotas, DIE, and CRT.
In August 2022, the then AF Chief of Staff signed a letter directing quotas on the composition of USAF personnel, sorted by race and sex. A summation:
Similar quotas had been issued by political appointees in a politically correct military, but they had focused on slowly boosting minority officers rather than calling for a purge of white men.
The 2014 quotas had looked for an 80 percent white, 10 percent black and 8 percent Asian officer corps. While choosing officers by any racial category rather than merit is racist, wrong and illegal under civil rights legislation, this fell short of Brown’s proposed racist purge.
Brown’s quotas limit the number of white officers to 67% and cut white men down to 43%.
The Air Force officer corps is currently 77% white: getting it down to 67%, a reduction of 10%, would require serious effort to purge white officers and bar the doors to any new ones.
Here is the letter, click to enlarge:
While this letter and his desire for quotas and boards by sex and race is disturbing, I find this even more troubling. The then commanding general of Pacific Air Forces took to YouTube, in his uniform, to comment on the George Floyd riots.
Respectfully General Brown, you have no business making those comments in uniform, or identifying yourself as an officer while doing so. You must have missed something during your college years at Texas Tech. Officers must stay out of politics. Your speech on social media did not come close to the edge, it blew over it at Mach 5. At that moment, the Secretary of Defense should have relived you.
I’m not going to say “Well, we’re not the only ones this screwed up” by this. This is very bad news. It’s not just the US Air Force infected with this stupidity. The United Kingdom is also dumping white men in their air force:
The United Kingdom‘s Royal Air Force is being pressured to filter out “useless white male pilots” in an effort to hit diversity targets, according to leaked emails obtained by local media.
The messages seen by Sky News also show that a number of selection boards used to place new recruits were canceled if they didn’t include women or minorities.
“Selection standards were not and have not been altered and there was no compromise of entry standards and no impact on the frontline or operational effectiveness,” an RAF spokesperson told the news outlet.
The military branch is also paying more than $123,000 to 31 White men who it found had been disadvantaged by the new policy. The payments contradict statements by Air Chief Marshal Wigston that the diversity push would not discriminate against White men, sources told the news station.
God Save The King!
One of the failures of the Trump administration was not moving the Obama people out immediately upon entering office. Perhaps it was naivete on President Trump, or a belief that the military was not as badly politicized as it is. Unfortunately the last few years have shown that is not the case with the Pentagon, or other institutions we used to respect (e.g., the FBI, Department of Justice, etc.).
I have not made my decision of whom I’m supporting in the GOP primary yet, but one comment by Governor DeSantis gave me some hope. He said on day one, he would fire FBI Director Christopher Wray. My suggestion is right after that, fire the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, then conduct a purge of the Pentagon that would make Joseph Stalin jealous.
Since the Clinton years, but especially during the Obama years, public servants serving America have been replaced by political appointees whose duty is to party first, last, and always. China is laughing at us, as well as Iran and Russia, but the GS-15s don’t care, and they have to go. We need to rebuild what was destroyed by Obama and his underlings before we are at the point of no return, and it will not be pleasant, easy, or cheap. But it has to start fast.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.
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- Pogue, Forrest, George C Marshall: Organizer of Victory 1943-1945, New York Viking Press 1976, Page 96 ↑
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