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ANCHORS AWOKE: Navy Fights to Surface Extremists in the Ranks

The Chief of Naval Operations orders and stand-down to allow the U.S. Navy to surface extremists in the ranks.

ANCHORS AWOKE: Navy Fights to Surface Extremists in the Ranks

The Chief of Naval Operations orders and stand-down to allow the U.S. Navy to surface extremists in the ranks. Do the men and women fighting to defend our Constitution enjoy the protections expressed in it?

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34 replies on “ANCHORS AWOKE: Navy Fights to Surface Extremists in the Ranks”

I retired from the Marine Corps in ‘05. While in, I took the oath of enlistment numerous times & not just when I reenlisted. That doesn’t bother me so much. What bothers me about the CNOs statement is the insinuation that his sailors, and by extension all members of the military, are incapable of treating each other with dignity, courtesy & respect unless they’re being forced to. I’m a woman & we made up about 7-8% of the Corps when I served. The men I served with were my brothers. Did I run across some dinosaurs & insufferable a-holes? You bet! But that’s life, and you don’t tag whole swaths of good, decent people as bigots because of the occasional bad actor. You deal with the bad actor! Then get back to training how to kill people and break things. 🙂

I wonder how long before each ship and sub will not only have a captain but also a “political officer”…After all, it worked so well for the Soviet navy… Oh, wait…

I guess my old joke about the Navy and the Marines won’t play in Peoria anymore.
Q: I thought the Marines were are Department of the Navy?
A: It is. It is the Men’s Department.

The enemies of our great country have made sure to not to miss a single target of opportunity as far as weakening, and then destroying what has made us strong, and this includes our military. I never thought I would see the woke crowd permeate even our armed forces, but it has. My family has a long history of military service, including Sergeant York, my father was a fighter pilot, my uncle was in charge of a c-130 unit, other relatives have flown combat missions in Korea and Vietnam, my son served for 10 years in the Air force, and I served as a crew chief on F-111’s in England. It is sad and disgusting that our military is becoming a social experiment.

OMG! I just spent over 2 hours reading that history and reviewing the battle off Samar! I had known about the Johnston and the Samuel B. Roberts, but not the Hoel. My dad knew a pilot that was on the St. Lo and went thru the loss of that ship also. The sheer tenacity of those ships scared the Japanese into withdrawing when they could have overwhelmed that little fleet. In later years the Japanese admiral said he withdrew because I didn’t know where the rest of the heavy ships were and decided it was an ambush.

That was the spirit of the Navy after being attacked by a savage and cruel opponent at Pearl Harbor. If we ever get into that kind of conflict again, our adversary will find that type of unit cohesion facing them again, but not in the beginning. Our command structure has had way too long to become complacent with being the big kid on the block to be an effective force. China poses a huge threat at present, but I doubt they have the stamina for a prolonged conflict, just as Japan didn’t.

The only thing I worry about is if Biden will just hand over the country without a fight.

Bill you might appreciate this. I read these articles on my facebook page called WWII uncovered. They have great stories about veterans and heroes from WWII. There is one of a black American sailor named French who saved a group of 15 sailors by tying a rope around his waste and pulling this rescue boat as he swam through shark infested waters for 6-8 hrs getting them to safety in the Solomon Islands. Incredible! I couldn’t find a website but you can look it up on facebook or as I call it fascistbook

I’m not sure I’ll be willing to admit to being a Navy veteran anymore.
And I can no longer promise that if I am told “thank you for your service” that my answer won’t be surly and downright rude.
I am deeply ashamed to be associated, however tenuously, with the people propagating this. One of the things we considered “given” when I was in, with good reason, was that if you were set upon in a liberty port, even the person on the ship who hated you most venomously would come to your rescue if he saw you in trouble.
Apparently that is no longer true.
For the first time in my life, I would tell young people to avoid military service like the plague.

Note for clarification’s sake:
“One of the things we considered ‘given’ when I was in, with good reason, was that if you were set upon in a liberty port, even the person on the ship who hated you most venomously would come to your rescue if he saw you in trouble.
Apparently that is no longer true.”
I suspect it’s still true of your fellow junior enlisted folks, and it may even still be true of the chiefs.
But it quite obviously is not true of the senior officers. The CNO himself has made it clear that his underlying assumption is that we are not all shipmates who will stand together against all comers. Rather, we are a bunch of bigoted cliques anxiously awaiting any opportunity to get members of the other cliques in trouble, thrown out, injured or killed.
And as the saying goes, shit rolls downhill. So you can expect that attitude to quickly show up in all the command officers and then in the JOs.

Bill, you are right to condemn this standdown. And trust me, I’m waiting for my “turn” and I will let the Chain of Command have it. But I’m over 20 years and can drop my papers, so I have nothing to lose. But there are some issues where you’re either dead wrong, or lack knowledge.

First, the values you speak of did not “sail away” from the Navy between Evans and now. I have served with many Sailors who are absolutely of the “run towards the fire” types. And, as a former Fire Team Leader in Repair Locker 5 aboard two carriers, and later the Locker Officer for Repair 1F on another carrier, I mean that literally. I won’t ask that you apologize, but I do believe you should reflect on why you felt it necessary to throw shade at the men and women who volunteered to serve our great nation.

Second, military service has ALWAYS come with a degree of voluntarily surrendering your rights. This was true when the nation was founded and it remains true. I don’t know many other jobs where failure to show up for work could result in prison time. I’m not saying we give up all of our rights, but I am saying that the issue is far more complicated than you suggest.

Third, we reaffirm our oaths fairly often throughout our careers. Every time an enlisted Sailor reenlists, they take the oath of enlistment anew. Every time an Officer promotes, they reaffirm their oath of office. What’s galling isn’t that we take these oaths again, but the reason for it.

This garbage started with Clinton and his focus on gays in the military. He made it a priority. Up till that time, gays served and most did so honorably. I served with several in my 20 years in the U.S. Army. But to focus on it and to draw attention to it in the manner in which Clinton did soured many and, in my view, began the destruction of the U.S. military. I decided then in the early 90s that I was going to complete my career and retire. This utter nonsense had reached critical mass, but I see now that the issue of “equity” and “diversity” and “inclusiveness” now drives the military in ways that uranium cannot.
Admiral Gilday, the CNO today, has had a career that appears to have groomed him nicely for his position. Flag and general officers must be politicians in order to succeed, i.e., achieve higher rank. Some choose to adhere to their own core values and ethics and where that runs afoul, they wind up checking out – but not because of their sense of duty.
Obama’s purge of the U.S. military during his reign of terror did a magnificent job in creating the senior officer and noncommissioned officer levels of today.
This is what we have today, and this is Obama’s legacy. Disgusting on so many levels.

Clinton and Obama have a lot to answer for in regard to disturbing and distorting honorable service and the capabilities of our military, but …
One aspect of treating gays as human beings with human rights, even if their orientation is not the normal one, is that the national security risks associated with blackmailing a gay military man or a DOD or intelligence civilian basically goes away once there is no, or reduced, stigma for “outing” oneself. I don’t recall ever hearing about a case of such blackmail and compromise (spying, transfer of classified information to our enemies, etc.), but I am pretty sure it has occurred. And it may well be that most of us would never learn of it afterwards if it was discovered.

In order to put over its malevolent authoritarian nonsense, the left wing engages in intellectual and moral blackmail. If you oppose left wingers in their pursuit of a soclalist police state in America, you suddenly become a ‘racist’, a ‘homophobe’, an ‘Islamophobe’, and now the new epithet ‘domestic terrorist’. Yet all the while the left is hurling this new accusation, they give a free pass to the cheap violent thugs of Antifa, BLM, etc., as they destroy cities and commit rape and murder.
Two hallmarks of ‘wanna be’ tyrants are attacks on freedom of speech and abandoning equal enforcement of the law to use the law against one’s politcal opponents while exempting one’s political allies from the rule of law. The left is clearly guilty of both and is to be comdemned for it.

If I remember correctly, the Captain of the USS Johnston stated at his change of command ceremony when taking command of her was “This is a fighting ship and I intend to go in harm’s way! If any man has a problem with that, he should ask to be transferred off my ship now!” He didn’t have a single request come forward. This was the spirit of the Navy at that time, but has slowly changed after WWII. Now the command structure and even the enlisted ratings are more focused on personal advancement than being a cohesive fighting unit. It’s not that the mission of the Navy has changed because today war can come in a split second when we least expect it. It seems the requirements for service have changed to entice enlistment so much so that Naval personnel don’t have the commitment to give everything for their country anymore but are looking for a career path at the expense of the government.

To put this into perspective, the husband of one of my wife’s coworkers was an Air Force captain. He volunteered for duty in Fairbanks AK. When I asked him why he would do that, he told me because it will look good in his service jacket when he got to the Pentagon!

As a veteran, I am sickened by what the military has become. We still have the best hardware in the world, but we don’t have the skill to use it to our best advantage anymore. We have become complacent and will pay for it someday.

As I read about the Alaska assignment, I was thinking it would be in the vein of “I want to go there because such an undesirable duty station would have fewer, if any, senior woke jerks to boss me around.” There could be positive reasons, too, such as providing experience operating in Winter environments and extended night time situations, or use of specialized equipment. And some people really like isolation and/or Winter …

i got the distinct impression he did this so he would get an advantage on promotion so he could get a soft billet on some Pentagon general’s staff later in his career. This was a 4 year assignment and he was taking his new wife with him. She was definitely not looking forward to it. She later sent my wife pictures of her skinning out a bear on a float trip down a river, so she must have adjusted to the environment.

When the attack comes, our military will be unable and unwilling to defend us. Will we defend ourselves?
This was supposed to be a goofy 80s movie.

How far have we fallen since Admiral Nelson “turned a blind eye” at the Battle of Copenhagen? Yeah, he was a Brit, but what the hell…

As Kurt Schlichter pointed out, replacing our troops with the woke mob is going to get our military members killed in their next war.
Of course, based on vids like this, it looks less & less likely that the “enemy” they’ll be directed to attack will be a foreign one

Of course, based on vids like this, it looks less & less likely that the “enemy” they’ll be directed to attack will be a foreign one

In that case, they will still die at the hands of their “enemies.”

It won’t be long before there are political officers alongside the naval ones. As was present in the Russian military the intent was to insure compliance with government directed culture more than to develop combat readiness. The expressions highlighted in this podcast actually carry a veiled threat, that of retribution if not fully compliant. Promotion will be determined with these principles addressed and valued. What is missed, of course, is that a real leader already incorporates valuing his sailors but accepting that job performance rather than their political or cultural views matter. What will happen when someone on board is called before the mast if another reports that person as harboring views the plaintiff deems “extreme”? The Siren song of uniformity is driving our culture when our blessing has been our diversity. There always will be a bell-shaped curve in any population but always cutting the tails simply shifts the tail inward. It doesn’t create a cliff at either end. The codes of military behavior and justice may need changing, the most generous interpretation of the directive, but the actions required to achieve these goals are more likely to lower morale and performance than improve them.

Why bother installing Policital Officers when one can simply make that role the top priority for the naval ones? That’s what’s happening before our eyes. This is just like having some of Biden’s* Praetorian Guard sent to sleep in parking garages over questions of loyalty to Dear Leader

Sorry about the delay. I lost track of notifications. I agree we are unlikely to have designated political officers but the training and mindset will be instilled and force compliance. What is likely to happen is a reduction in volunteers and with growing need force a major change in ethos, bringing in those whose ambition is to use the military as a step to power.

I left the military under a “reduction in force” mandated by Congress.
The Air Force decided to target the “middle ranks” and leave the newbies and senior enlisted. In other words, the people who weren’t yet competent in their jobs and the ones who were about to finish their careers.
No one to TEACH the newbies, reduced numbers who would be eligible to retire after 20 years of service, and senior enlisted who’d not done “hands on” for perhaps years because they were “management” level.
They have been wussying the military for years. When I left the AF there was already a breakdown of respect for rank and military discipline.
The Army suspended its physical fitness standards (watch Angry Cops on YT) and changed their basic training so it’s now a joke (ask a Drill Instructor).
The services lowered their standards at basic and other programs to accommodate women being able to “pass” because of “feminist pressures”. Women wanted to serve, but couldn’t pass the requirements (not all), so the requirements were changed to appease the harping far left.
I see active military members now on vids and interactions with them leave me shaking my head.
I have a friend who did 20 years in the reserves and told me about how incompetent and disorganized various units were. Not ready for combat, but deployed anyway. Women that refused to carry their own weight, race card pulling, me too shenanigans, LGBTQ drama, etc.
And yes, the true patriots and those with integrity leave because they can’t deal with all the politics and “readiness” that’s a joke.
It’s been a slow, methodical process over the years to weaken our military. Just like the indoctrination of our kids at school, the SJW culture screamers, and all the rest.
Why simply dumb down the population, degrade morals, limit religious practice, ruin the economy, etc. if our military can still defend (and win) any opposition?
We’ve been set up. A plan that took many years and is almost perfect in its execution.
They want America on its knees and seem to have no limit on the number of American citizens who are more than willing to participate for a price.
As we’ve seen over the last 4 years or so, the “deceptacons” are at every level of our culture. From “woke” parents and Carins to the POTUS.

That’s what fills me with terror , we are beset on all sides with this nonsense. They either have already or are actively engaged in destroying everything of worth. Termites and boll weevils eating out every organization from within. It’s hard to believe this isn’t being directed under orders by a single source .

Excellent observation. It IS being directed by a single “plan” in which there are multiple players (high up “useful idiots”) and those who fund all the chaos.
High up “elected” officials believe they are the “rulers”, but they are pawns for a price.

Thanks. I understand some of what the Navy personnel go through. BTW, the book “Behold, A Pale Horse” was written by a Navy vet.
Turns out all my Navy friends were SeaBee’s. 🙂

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