Not your father's United States Armed Forces

This is a brief pictorial explanation of the evolution of our military from WWII to the present day.


This picture helped win WWII.


23 February 1945

Marine PFC Ira H. Hayes, Marine PFC Franklin R. Sousley, Marine Sergeant Michael Strank, Navy Pharmacist's Mate Second Class John H. Bradley, Marine PFC Rene A. Gagnon and Marine Corporal Harlon H. Block in the iconic photo by Joseph Rosenthal of the second flag raising on Mt. Suribachi , Iwo Jima. Back then, it was called "The United States Department of War". On August 10, 1949 it was renamed a kinder and gentler "Department of Defense". Following, you can see how well that turned out.



14-18 November 1965

LTC Harold Moore, commander of the 1st Battalion/7th Cavalry, inspecting bodies of dead NVA after the battle of  Ia Drang, South Vietnam. This was the first major battle of the Viet Nam war using U. S. ground forces and the debut of air mobile tactics employing  helicopters for transport, supply and fire support. After four days of bloody fighting against overwhelming odds and heavy casualties, U. S. forces prevailed continuing the tradition of a strong U. S. military.


This picture helped lose the Viet Nam War.


1 February 1968

Eddie Adams photo of  General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. Walter "The Most Trusted Man in America" Cronkite, "Hanoi" Jane Fonda, John "I've got three Purple Hearts and movies to prove it" Kerry, SDS, SPU, Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman of the Yippies,  William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground, the majority of the news media, a preponderance of Hollywood celebrities,  a Democratic congress and a biased academia were so effective in their propaganda and subversion that they turned the American public against the war. We won the war in Viet Nam, but lost it at home. For more details, read "The Two Viet Nam Wars" by Jim Guirard.



5 November 2009

Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Hassan variously known as "Soldier of Allah" and the "Fort Hood Shooter" who, while screaming "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest"), opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood located just outside Killeen, Texas killing 13 people and wounding 29 others in the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base before being taken down by civilian police officer Sergeant Kimberly D. Munley.



May 2010


August 2013

Army PFC, Bradley Manning who, in a snit over having broken up with his gay lover, used his access to military secrets in Iraq and gave them to his accomplice, Julian Assange who, as editor and founder of Wikileaks, publishes information from "whistleblowers".  While homosexuals have ALWAYS been in the military, being openly gay is bad for morale.


Chelsea Manning, formerly Army PFC Bradley Manning, after being tried and convicted wants to live the rest of her/his life as a woman in federal prison and wants the taxpayer to foot the bill for hormone therapy, and most likely, sexual reassignment surgery. Gives new meaning to supporting our troops, doesn't it?



Early 21st Century

I have no idea as to the origin of this photo or who this person is, but it's the obvious and natural evolution and what we will be seeing in our "Department of Touchy-Feely, Completely Diversified, Non-Judgemental Peace" since our "First Gay President" got reelected.


June 2015

Success at last! Our "Department of Touchy-Feely, Completely Diversified, Non-Judgemental Peace", along with our "First Gay President", and the whole freak show of Leftists, Progressives and Democrats have succeeded in gender bending our country in general and our military in particular.


It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
--General George S. Patton, Jr.

A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in their life, signed a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount of "up to and including my life". That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
-- Author Unknown

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