I appreciate your offer and request for assistance in encouraging qualified young men and women to volunteer for military service. I devoted my entire adult life to. A lack of effective leadership is causing the military to purchase weapon systems that do not work. Equipment no longer needed is being purchased as a result of political considerations and decisions. The leadership is supporting questionable deployments that have no link to our national security.
Promises made by the civilian leadership are as empty as the West Texas rain gauge.
Feminization boneheaded policies have reduced military effectiveness and lowered morale. Today's senior military leadership has mutated to a heel-clicking, politically expedient group that lacks the courage to speak truthfully about difficult military issues. Because so few senior military officers possess the courage to speak truthfully about political decisions that impact military effectiveness, congressional managers will continue to micromanage our armed forces, repeating past mistakes, wasting our most cherished resources. Without doubt, declining numbers of quality recruits represent a serious problem for all military planners and commanders. But the current recruiting approach of offering more money, lowering entry standards and reducing training intensity creates more problems for an already overstressed armed force.