By Michael A. Thiac, retired Army intelligence officer
Purging the armed forces of the Obamaites must continue till all these weeds are pulled out.
“And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable – it is to win our wars. Everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication. All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment; but you are the ones who are trained to fight; yours is the profession of arms…”
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Address to the US Military Academy Corps of Cadets
May 12, 1962
Earlier this year I posted on items I’m grateful for under the Trump administration. Last week I found something else that makes me thankful we don’t have a President Harris in the White House.
I retired from the Army Reserve in 2010, and many events afterwards made me grateful I was gone. I was seeing an institution I loved and served poisoned by the president and one Defense Secretary after another.
It hit rock bottom with Obama allowing transexuals in the service. We don’t need to have openly mentally ill people in uniform. Thankfully, for the foreseeable future, they are not going to be putting pronouns on their email signatures.
Now one thing that was damaging was the entrance of DEI and other political infections in the service education systems. From service academy training plans to the curricula of our higher education systems, DEI infected the instruction of our personnel.
I remember then Vice President Kamala Harris addressing the graduating class of the Air Force Academy lecturing the new officers, “We are strongest when everyone can serve.”
No madam, we are strongest when we only allow the strongest and most qualified to serve. You have issues, like you think you’re not a male in spite of your genitalia, I wish you well. You have issues, but the armed forces are not the place to have them worked out.
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth handled that issue early in 2025. Now Secretary Hegseth is handling another matter needing purging, DEI at upper-level military education.
HEGSETH PUTS THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE ON NOTICE
“Let’s just read the list out loud one more time. Seminars on genocide through the analytic of gender. Whiteness studies. Courses celebrating the history of H-m-s where a professor called terrorist attacks astounding and incredible. Graduate studies on abolishing law enforcement. Leadership classes built on recycled DEI frameworks.
This is what some of our senior military officers were being taught at institutions like the Army War College and National Defense University. The people who will command American forces in the next major conflict were sitting in seminars on whiteness while China was studying how to sink an aircraft carrier.
Hegseth just directed the Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness to establish a task force with a 90-day clock to audit every senior service college — Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, National Defense University — and rip out anything that doesn’t belong there. Professors. Administrators. Curriculum. All of it on the table…”
Here is Secretary Hegseth’s full address. Some of the comments under his post:
A retired Army chaplain:
“THANK GOD I never went to “War College.” I despised Command and General Staff College and the Chaplain Career Course for some of the same reasons. I probably would’ve punched an instructor at War College if they pushed that garbage. Wowz”
Another person:
“(Former Chairman of the JCS Mark) Miley’s fingerprints are still there.”
Classes on “whiteness” or privilege do not belong in any educational system, but particularly in armed forces training. There is no question race and sex are an issue in the service, as they are in society. But not to castigate a race or sex because of “privilege.”
When I was a ROTC cadet at Tulane University, the Professor of Military Science was an incredible officer. He oversaw the ROTC programs of six universities in the New Orleans area. Three were historically black colleges, two were private universities, and one was a local public university. Our ROTC program was diverse before diversity was a thing.
The colonel, during a weekend field training exercise, did something that made a lifelong impression on me. He directed his staff to mix the platoons as much as possible. “A black woman from Dillard with a white man from Tulane. A Hispanic male from the University of New Orleans with an Asian female from Loyola. He said, “The army they will serve in will be every race and culture in this country. They have to be used to operating with people they are not used to.” He was handing matters of race, sex, and culture to develop soldiers. Not as club to hit currently unfavored people.
Back to the current issues in our higher military universities. Beginning in the Obama first term, he infested the armed forces with one political hack after another. The only branch of the government not infected with the disease of political correctness. Removing this will take years and the purging of political hacks from all levels of the service. Secretary Hegseth’s directive is another step forward.
At the beginning of Patton, George C Scott says in that famous speech, “Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap!”
That applies to all the armed forces. Anything that makes you less of a team member must be corrected or scrapped. Like classes on whiteness or allowing people to get elective surgery making them non-deployable for years.
Hopefully this process of correcting the damage of the Obama/Biden years continues. The safety of the nation is too critical for the political games of wild leftists.
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Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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