Proceding Downhill

In case you weren't aware of the Military Leadership Diversity
Commission Report... interesting reading. God help our country.

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A 31-member Military Leadership Diversity Commission, set up by
Pelosi's Lame Duck Congress a year ago, requested that the Secretary
of Defense, Robert Gates, execute a "social experiment on
diversity"; the goal of the recommendations is to change the make-up
of the leadership of the US Armed Forces. The Commission contains a
sizable number of civilian-equal opportunity professionals, as well
as some retired and active military personnel.

Because ethnic minorities are less likely to meet eligibility
requirements for entrance into the US Armed Forces, the Commission
is urging the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force to either
lower or eliminate the standards that have always been used for
acceptance of recruits into the military. The Commission proposal
states education, entry test level scores, criminal records, and
drug use that up to this time have been used to disqualify a large
numbers of applicants, including some minorities and all felons,
unfair and should be eliminated.

The commission completed a 162-page report and strongly recommended
that the Secretary of Defense and the Congress endorse the proposals
that they act to execute the Commission's "social experiment on diversity."

The Commission wants Secretary Gates to appoint a "Diversity Czar"
who will bypass the Congress on all future matters concerning their
proposed "social experiment on diversity" and that in the future the
Diversity Czar be permitted to by-pass Congress and report directly
to the Defense Secretary.

Another of the many recommendations is that at confirmation, all
future flag officer selectees be required to demonstrate to the
Senate Armed Services Committee that they have a rich background in
promoting the "social experiment on diversity"; future promotions to
flag would no longer be based upon what senior officers are best
qualified to lead military personnel into combat and/or would be
most effective at improving their command's "Combat Effectiveness."

While the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is driving the current
aggressive indoctrination of the US Armed Forces, in order to turn
the US Military into an openly homosexual organization, the Military
Leadership Diversity Commission is pressing the Pentagon to make
additional destabilizing changes to the US Armed Forces in the midst
of three theatres of armed conflict. Among the many initiatives in
its study, is a recommendation to open infantry and armor units to
women; the study said that women should be allowed into male-only
units to "create a level playing field" in promotions "for all
service members who meet the qualifications."

Hardened Combat Veterans say that "direct ground combat" is not like
an MP being subjected to exchange of small-arms gunfire with
insurgents, or of military personnel being wounded by an IEDs when
transiting in a convoy, or a service member being abducted by
terrorists while on patrols or on guard duty. There is a true lack
of understanding of exactly what direct ground combat entails, what
closing with and destroying an enemy combatant by the most violent
means available is; often it is a direct eye-to-eye confrontation,
then being required to employ upper-body physical strength that
physically fit US Marines, US Army Rangers, or US Navy SEALs train
for. Direct ground combat is defined as an action when opposing
forces engage in violent, intense, close-in, hand to hand combat.
According to former Commandant of the US Marine Corps, General Carl
Mundy, units which are trained repeatedly into fine-tuned teams to
engage and defeat the enemy directly, exist and operate on the basis
of masculine cohesion. "I believe that female service members bring
tremendous skills and talents to many sectors of our armed forces,
but I believe equally strongly that they are not best suited for the
unique demands associated with direct combat units."

Congressman Allen West as well as Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, 2 of
the 12 endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress who were elected in the
2010 mid-term election (out of the full slate of 27 endorsed
candidates who won their primary elections), have already gone
public on their view of the proposed "social experiment on
diversity"; they feel the proposal is intrusive and inappropriate.

"This is the last thing the military should be thinking about," said
Cong. Duncan D. Hunter, a member of the Armed Services Committee who
saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine Corps Officer.
"Our military is engaged in a shooting war," the California
Republican stated. "This is just another distraction that can't
interfere with what's most important - winning in Afghanistan.
Congressman Duncan added, "Some people seem to think the military is
a staging ground for social testing, and that attitude only puts
lives at risk."

Congressman Allen West, a Florida Representative, who as a senior
Army officer completed a 1 year combat tour of duty in Iraq, and a 2
year combat tour of duty in Afghanistan said, "The US Military is a
merit based organization where anybody can succeed." Congressman
West said the report "is a slap in the face to those minorities who
have achieved seniority." In an interview with The Daily Caller,
Congressman West, who is black, was not pleased with the report, and
said that the military is not a social experiment for outside groups
to impose their theories.

The US Naval Academy Admissions Office now openly practices the
"social experiment of diversity." The Naval Academy Admissions Board
now admits student with SAT scores in math as low as 410 and verbal
scores as low as 370; the SAT score cut off for Midshipmen had
normally been around 600 out of a possible 800 score.

A former Admission Board Member agreed to make the following
statement on conditions of anonymity; he said " The unfairness is
absolutely real." The "social experiment on diversity" has been
driven by the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff's and the CNO
since their appointments, and has resulted in the admittance of
marginal students, mostly athletes and minorities, while by-passing
fully qualified white students in the pool of 15,000 applicants
annually. The results of the admittance of marginal students has
been an increase in serious violations of regulations such as drug
use (resulting in multiple dismissals), excessive use of liquor and
inebriation on weekend liberty, increased violations of the Honor
Code requiring retraining to retain minority students (as a former
member of the Honor Committee there was no such thing as honor
retraining; Midshipmen do not lie, cheat, or steal) and recently,
one Midshipman lied to a law enforcement officer when in custody for
a federal offense.

The Brigade of Midshipmen have been negatively affected by the
"social experiment of diversity," and now the US Armed forces will
be subjected to that same experiment during a wartime environment.
The Supreme Court has ruled that admission procedures at
institutions of higher education that consider percentages of race
and gender as a consideration for selecting and making up an
entering freshman class is discriminatory and those actions by a
college Admissions Board are a violation of federal law.

The Brigade of Midshipmen have been negatively affected by the
"social experiment of diversity," and now the US Armed forces will
be subjected to that same experiment during a wartime environment.
The Supreme Court has ruled that admission procedures at
institutions of higher education that consider percentages of race
and gender as a consideration for selecting and making up an
entering freshman class is discriminatory and those actions by a
college Admissions Board are a violation of federal law.

The "social experiment on diversity" imposed on the Brigade at the
US Naval Academy, pushing an openly homosexual environment on the US
Armed Forces, and now the proposal by the Military Leadership
Diversity Committee have all put the US Military under unreasonable
destabilizing pressure. The proposal by the Commission to select
future flag officers of the US Armed Forces using some type of
litmus test on diversity will not improve the "Combat Effectiveness"
of the US Military.

By recommending that senior military officers only be selected for
flag if they pass a test on diversity, and considering their race
and gender by some percentages, will not result in the promotion of
the most qualified senior officers who would improve the "Combat
Effectiveness" of the US Armed Force (there will be no more Admiral
Bull Halseys, General Pattons, General Chesty Pullers, General Jimmy
Doolittles, etc., because they would not be "politically correct"
selectees).
The American people are unaware of the aforementioned coordinated
assaults on the most effective and professional military force in
the world, they are not aware that the agenda that is being driven
by socialists and liberals who oppose the US Armed Forces high
standards of duty, honor, country, and its support for the
Judeo-Christian religions is hurting the stability of the force.
Those coordinated assaults by progressives, pushing a "social
experiment on diversity", will weaken the US Military over the long term.

The actions of outside forces supported by the Obama Administration
are continuing to push the above listed changes that are
marginalizing the "Combat Effectiveness" of the US Armed Forces. The
US Military has protected and defended the US Constitution, the Bill
of Rights, and the Republic for 234 years, experimenting with the
structure and make-up of the US Military organization and assaulting
its leadership structure will destabilize the US Armed Forces. We
must rely on the judgment of the 12 elected Combat Veterans For
Congress and other Congressmen to coordinate their efforts to halt
the above listed dangerous experiments with the US Armed Forces.

Joseph R. John, USNA '62
Captain, USN (Ret)
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC
Reagan Associate/Reagan Administration Alumnus
Former FBI/Former DHS Federal Law Enforcement Officer
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Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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