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Subject: Mighty Mickey Makes Him Move
SYSOP    4/24/2012 5:41:34 AM
 
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Gerry       4/24/2012 11:49:51 PM
Not always a bad thing. During times of peace discipline and physical fitness as well as vigorus training are paramount to a ready force. Imagine a military without it.
 
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Dave_in_Pa       4/28/2012 5:36:59 AM
"But overall, emphasis will shift from being combat ready to appearing (especially to politicians and the media) combat ready. The troops call this "mickey mouse"  No, they call it chickenshit.
 
"This time around the brass promised to change promotion standards to see that more pro-mickey mouse officers and NCOs rise in the ranks." And they generally call them assholes. With them, there's usually an inverse correlation between professional competence and assholishness.
 
I personally observed this in the USAF while still serving in the first few years after the Vietnam War ended. after 1974-5, when the Democrats controlling Congress surrendered South Vietnam to their not-too-distant cousins, the North Vietnamese Communists. We're seeing a repeat of this Democrat behavior today in Af-stan.
 
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Gerry       4/28/2012 9:31:20 PM



"But overall, emphasis will shift from being combat ready to appearing (especially to politicians and the media) combat ready. The troops call this "mickey mouse"  No, they call it chickenshit.

 


"This time around the brass promised to change promotion standards to see that more pro-mickey mouse officers and NCOs rise in the ranks." And they generally call them assholes. With them, there's usually an inverse correlation between professional competence and assholishness.

 

I personally observed this in the USAF while still serving in the first few years after the Vietnam War ended. after 1974-5, when the Democrats controlling Congress surrendered South Vietnam to their not-too-distant cousins, the North Vietnamese Communists. We're seeing a repeat of this Democrat behavior today in Af-stan.
I guess that makes me an asshole, since I was in both before and after that period of time. (I spent 6 years in Asia including my one year in Vietnam) I thought the transition to an all volunteer force during that time was a great advancement. A professional military, along with the end of the draft,  was in its beginings at that time. It became a much better Air Force as time went by. You should have stayed in.
 
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