“Too Damn PC For Me”

Team work and camaraderie are some of the most essential elements that made this Navy the finest the World had ever seen. The esprit de corps of ship’s company is the symbiosis of the finest group of lads you’d ever laid eyes on. But it’s also one of the most misunderstood dying arts the likes of this ol’ boys club has ever had.

People often forget we are in the business of War. In today’s military it seems that “Political Correctness” (PC) rules the day. I read a story recently about a group of Marines who were put on trial for killing over twenty civilians in the line of duty in Iraq. It seems the upper echelon felt these sorry bastards didn’t follow the rules of engagement and were appalled in their reports that suggested the presents of civilian Iraqis were not as important as the lives of our soldiers fighting in faraway lands. There was also the story about a few good Navy Seals who were put on trial for abusing a few terrorists already known to kill some of our Black Water brethren. In this business of war the chain of command damn well better consider soldiers’ lives more important than Iraqi or Afghani civilian lives or we will lose this war and the U.S. will forever be threatened by the terrorist mentality for future generations to come! Some of those whiney ass progressive commie bastards would have you believe that we have no business hiring Black Water to do our bidding but their sorry ass butts are too gaudamn sissy to join the military and do there part so what else is our country to do but hire mercenary types to help fill in the ranks.

If those post-Vietnam Era Hippies don’t want the Draft to come back upon us then why are they ever so insistent to balk at every endeavor we make to do our jobs as servicemen and let us fight our battles to the best of our damned abilities. It calls into question our ability to fight these wars. It also calls into question our continuity with our forbearers who fought in the wars of days gone past. No one questioned who, what, how or when we killed the enemy during the Great World Wars. If you think there was nothing political to gain during the Civil War then do you question its purpose? Give us the guns, ammo and troops to get the job done so the poor bastards that lost an arm, leg, or their lives didn’t do it in vein. As a leader among troops in this Navy I’ve learned one thing,

“You might not agree with how the mission is handled but once we’ve accepted our orders and walked out that door to carry them out we better gaudamn well support them 100%!!”

Sometimes I get so damned fed up with all these bleeding hearts about how we should or shouldn’t fight our battles. Yet these same arm chair whiners sit at home and don’t contribute to the effort but instead criticize how we do business. If they ever got their asses shot at in substandard conditions not knowing who the enemy really was maybe they would see things differently. Imagine walking out in the crisp morning dew in your robe to get the paper at the end of the drive way and your neighbor who you thought was a trustworthy kind of guy took a shot at you with his shotgun as you bent over just because he didn’t like the fact you parked your car so damn close to his fence. That would get your gaudamn attention. I had a buddy who was shot and killed in Iraq while passing out candy to the local children. The sniper bastard didn’t even have the courtesy to take his cowardly shot when children weren’t present. He fell dead right there in a crowd of kids. You see... those bastards don’t fight by our rules.

But it doesn’t stop there. The Army Officer in Fort Hood was reported to have a radical fundamentalist Muslim ideology but the PC police were out to muffle those reports because we didn’t want to come off too damned callus and hurt any ones feelings. So the bastard was given the opportunity to waste the lives of thirteen unarmed soldiers who had no warning of his actions. Why aren’t the son-of-a-bitches who failed to act on these reports up on charges? Is it because they’re untouchable, or was there no way they could have known that shit was gonna happen.

In recent years I’ve seen young men undergo Article 15 hearings for having a bit of underage liquor on their time off to a little pat on the ass from a fellow shipmate with the proverbial good game. I’ve seen witch hunts go down that have brought down the morale of an entire command. I’ve seen young men pay for an old joke they once told two years ago. All of this in the name of Political Correctness. When will this mayhem stop? No wonder the battlefields are torn apart more by political nonsense than enemy fire.

Aaah, but it’s the rules of the game. Don’t make waves and be PC to a fault while we make sure we keep Preparation H on our noses to prevent inflaming the superior brown pucker spot of the Marxist progressive assholes lobbying Capital Hill. I guess the sense has gone out of sensitivity. Stuff that used to result in knock that shit off now leads to Court Martial and possibly a Dishonorable Discharge.

It’s this kind of horse shit that convolutes the team work and camaraderie we have relied on in the military over the past generations. We need to learn to keep the PC out of it. We’re warriors not panty wastes. If we can’t handle a bit of foul language and some bantering every once in a while then how can we handle the blood & guts of war? If we can’t drink a beer during liberty then how can we be expected to carry a gun? If we have to go through a series of fine print lawyer jargon before we can fire on the enemy then how can we expect to win a war? It’s a different military these days and I’m glad I didn't fallen prey to it before I retired!