Your quote of the day...and one I wholeheartedly agree with...
There needs to be something of an Inquisition brought to the USMC these days. Amos and the Flyboys need to be purged from the Flag Officer ranks and be brought low before the Altar of Infantry. That such Douhet dilettantes can be found in the organization is a travesty--PARALUSI don't know how it happened and I hate using trendy terms, but when did Group Think become fashionable in the USMC? I first noted it with the issue with gays in the military. Whatever your opinion it should be observed that the Sgt Major of the Marine Corps and General Amos squashed any contrary opinion.
The same has occurred with women in the infantry. Marines are aware enough of danger to know that speaking out on these issues...and others...will be career killers.
A looming recruiting crises is on the horizon and I for one couldn't be happier. The institution is broken and is in need of a return to its moral roots! If the Marine Corps is going to become a laboratory for social experiments then its usefulness to the country as a war-fighting organization is over.
