On the classic sitcom M*A*S*H, Maxwell Q. Klinger wanted to go home from Korea, so he dressed in women’s clothes, in the hope that the military would regard him as too crazy to serve. He didn’t grasp Catch-22: anyone sane enough to want out of war is sane enough to serve.

Nowadays, the military prioritizes political correctness over sanity. As a result, it is becoming infested with kooks as wacky as Corporal Klinger pretended to be. The national interest is not served:

The U.S. Army’s first transgender officer and his wife, a Maryland doctor, were indicted on conspiracy charges Wednesday for allegedly attempting to transfer confidential military medical information to Russia.

The eight-count indictment was unsealed Thursday upon the arrest of the defendants, Major Jamie Lee Henry and anesthesiologist Anna Gabrielian, according to a Department of Justice press release. The Army granted Henry’s request to officially change his name in accordance with his gender preference in 2015. Prior to Henry’s case, identifying as a sex different than the one on one’s birth certificate made a soldier unfit for military service, warranting discharge.

It still makes a soldier unfit for service, but no longer warrants discharge under moonbat rule.

The pair are accused of stealing patient health files from Johns Hopkins and Fort Bragg and giving them to an individual they believed to be working for the Russian government. They aimed to show that they could access classified information and readily provide it to Moscow to demonstrate their allegiance, according to the indictment.

Henry’s arrest puts the liberal media in a quandary. What to do about his pronouns?

Media outlets went to great pains to avoid “misgendering” a former Army doctor who attempted to give medical information about members of the U.S. military to Russia. …

CNBC described Henry with masculine and feminine pronouns in various article versions before finally settling on “their.”

The indictment against Henry uses accurate male pronouns, rather than defying reality by referring to the cross-dressing man as if he were a woman, as we have come to expect of our government. Maybe it is because Henry’s own wife uses male pronouns for him. More likely, it is because, as with Jeffrey Dahmer, his association with fellow sexual deviants must be downplayed, because it does not help to promote the LGBT agenda.

On tips from Anonymous, ABC of the ANC, Jack D, and KirklesWorth.

No worries about Biden stumbling into a nuclear war with China or Russia. Our Air Force can easily handle both of them, thanks to its strategic emphasis on trans-inclusive language:

A diversity and inclusion training by the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado instructs cadets to use words that “include all genders” and to refrain from saying things like “mom” and “dad.”

A slide presentation is entitled, “Diversity & Inclusion: What It Is, Why We Care, & What We Can Do.”

“Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mom and dad,'” the presentation states. “Use words that include all genders: ‘Folks’ or ‘Y’all’ instead of ‘guys’; ‘partner’ vs. ‘boyfriend or girlfriend.’”

Meanwhile, our adversaries are still bogged down in outdated constructs like the conventional nuclear family.

Not everyone grasps the strategic importance of the Pentagon’s approach:

Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., a Green Beret and Afghan War veteran… pointed out during an interview with Fox News Digital that “it’s been a tradition in the military to get letters from mom and dad or your boyfriend and girlfriend for as long as there’s been a military.”

“Now we’re instructing every cadet entering the Air Force to not say ‘mom’ and ‘dad,’ to not say ‘boyfriend’ or ‘girlfriend,’ and this kind of drive towards gender neutrality,” he said. “I think the Air Force should be worried about the macro aggressions against America that are happening all over the world.”

You can see why Lloyd Austin’s first priority upon becoming Secretary of Defense was to purge the armed forces of dinosaurs who think like Waltz.

The cultural Marxism goes beyond wasting time on PC silliness at the expense of constructive training.

The academy also offers a “Cadet Wing Diversity and Inclusion Program,” where graduates are given a purple rope to wear across their left shoulder “symbolizing their position as a diversity representative” so that they can “advise students on diversity,” according to a press release.

Democrats are reducing the military to cross between a religious cult and a fanatical political sect. It has been weaponized not to fight America’s enemies, but to fight on behalf of the worst enemy we have ever had, moonbattery.

Waltz, a ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, told Fox News Digital that the program’s structure is particularly concerning because it appears to create a “separate, parallel chain of command.”

“To those of us who are a little bit older, it reminds us of what the Soviets used to do or what the Chinese do today, where they literally have political commissars inserted at every level end of the chain of command, but they have a separate reporting chain to ensure that the military is abiding by their ideology and their political doctrine,” Waltz said.

Maybe we don’t have to worry about being conquered by the ChiComs. Maybe we have already been conquered by Marxists from within.

On tips from Franco and Varla.

With hardcore leftists like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley atop the military, its enemies are no longer America’s enemies; on the contrary, its enemies are America’s core population. It would have no use for George Patton now. It would rather have Kelisa Wing:

Kelisa Wing is the DEI [diversity equity inclusion] chief at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world.

Wing’s job is to teach children to share her hatred of whites.

She wrote in June 2020, “I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.”

“[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e are not the majority, we don’t have power,” she continued.

If black supremacists don’t have power, how did she get her position?

“Caudacity” is a slang term that is used to describe audacity demonstrated by White people.

Cudacity is when a white dares question Critical Race Theory, our state religion under moonbat rule.

Wing snarls that “being antiracist means being active against racism.” In context, this literally means that being antiracist means being racist against Caucasians.

More antiracism from Wing:

“I am exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women. Where can I get a break from white nonsense for a while?”

I know where: in any of the dozens of countries run by blacks. But emigrating would dramatically lower her standard of living, so she stays put.

Racial epithets employed by Wing include calling Betsey DeVos “the queen of Karens” and Donald Trump the “whole boy version of a Karen.”

Among her qualifications to oversee the indoctrination of the children of military personnel, Wing cocreated a children’s book advocating the violent Black Lives Matter movement and another denouncing racially incorrect children for having “white privilege” and encouraging them to hate themselves for their race.

Wing demands that all teachers participate in “dismantling racial oppression” and shouts that “racism is ingrained in the very fabric of our country.” That is, she advocates an ideology that is destructive to the nation’s cohesion.

Weakness abets aggression. Unless we can pry liberals out of power, we are likely to lose the inevitable war with communist China.

On a tip from JackisBack.

Even as Biden and his leftist handlers weaken America from within by driving up inflation with $trillions upon $trillions of wasteful spending and by pushing divisiveness to alarming extremes…

…they weaken us militarily by subordinating the armed forces to depraved moonbattery:

A division of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered its senior leaders and commanders to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting force’s “lethality.”

As they make their designs on Taiwan and beyond, the ChiComs are unlikely to agree that complying with LGBT ideology on pronoun usage enhances our military’s lethality.

The policy change is part of a larger effort by the Biden administration and U.S. military to foster what it says is a more culturally sensitive environment. The U.S. Navy, for instance, recently published a video instructing its sailors on proper gender pronouns. The Army also mandates gender identity training and trains officers on when to offer subordinates gender-transition surgery…

As a defense policy expert, Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs can’t figure out what our rulers are up to:

“It is painful to think about the amount of time servicemen have already spent writing these rules instead of figuring out how to beat China,” Henrichs said. “Somebody needs to remind DoD leadership that they’re in the business of preventing and winning wars and not in the Oberlin lounge.”

Actually, under the control of leftists like Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin, the Department of Defense is in exactly the same business as the faculty at pernicious liberal arts colleges: the business of weakening America.

China isn’t the enemy. As Biden has been making increasingly clear, we are.

On a tip from Franco.

One nice thing about Canada is that having succumbed to moonbattery more quickly than the USA, it provides a window into our future under liberal rule. This story indicates where healthcare and the treatment of veterans are headed:

A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee…

The unnamed vet has been recovering from injuries and trauma received in the line of duty. Being told that he might want to just die was not helpful.

The department also did not answer Global News’ questions about how many times assisted dying has been offered to veterans through this particular VAC employee or others at Veterans Affairs, or what guidance employees have been given about providing such advice.

Assisted suicide is the closest thing to medical innovation you can expect under socialism. Its purpose is to make free healthcare affordable.

On a tip from Troy H. Hat tip: Task & Purpose.

The Royal Air Force earned the world’s admiration by holding off overwhelming Nazi airpower to win the Battle of Britain. Don’t expect similar accomplishments in the foreseeable future. Defending the British nation is no longer the priority — quite the reverse. Consequently,

The head of RAF recruitment has resigned in protest at an “effective pause” on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities, defence sources have claimed.

This unnamed officer is a woman herself. Like any patriot, she prefers combat readiness to Cultural Marxism.

The senior female officer apparently handed in her notice in recent days amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring … could undermine the fighting strength of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the sources said. …

The defence sources accused Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the head of the RAF, of appearing willing to compromise UK security at a time of growing threats from Russia and China in pursuit of albeit important goals such as improving diversity and inclusion.

Why diversity and inclusion should be regarded as “important goals” for the military rather than a security threat given massive Islamic immigration to Britain is not explained.

Successive governments have been challenging all three armed services – the RAF, the army and the Royal Navy – for years to improve their diversity statistics in what has traditionally been a predominantly white, male profession.

Until such a time as robots do the fighting, an effective military will always consist mainly of men. As for the charge that the RAF allows in too many white people, it apparently needs to be noted that Britain is located in Europe.

Senior leaders appear to be prioritising diversity over operational needs, according to defence sources.

Looks like the USA is not the only country whose military recruitment has been crippled from within by Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin types and their moonbattery.

As British top brass focuses on wokeness…

…the military’s flying training system – a fundamental part of a functioning air force – is in crisis, as revealed by Sky News earlier this month.

The Chinese and Russians watch and plan accordingly. Joel Abbott is correct that with the current lot in charge of the RAF, Britain would have lost to the Nazis.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

The most prominent characteristic of moonbats may be not their psychotic delusions, moral depravity, or festering malice, but their hypocrisy, which lack of self-awareness allows to reach astonishing proportions. The hyperpolitical Chairmoonbat of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a case in point.

As noted earlier,

If Bob Woodward’s reporting is accurate, the absurdly overdecorated Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley committed straightforward treason during the Trump Administration in collusion with our communist Chinese adversaries. He has publicly espoused antiwhite race hate, and openly regards tens of millions of American citizens as enemies of the government.

As a result of an egregious staffing error, Milley was among the advisors and cabinet members who accompanied Trump when he enraged liberals by being photographed with a Bible in front of St John’s Church near the White House. The house of worship had been cleared of the Black Lives Matter scum that tried to burn it down the day before.

Afterward, Milley told the graduating class of National Defense University,

“I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”

As the debacle in Afghanistan illustrated, Milley is of no use to anyone except to Democrats as a rabid partisan who aggressively involves himself in domestic politics.

Milley was so upset about being part of the photo op, he penned a letter of resignation, which he regrettably never submitted, choosing instead to be apolitical by undermining the administration from within. The letter strongly implied that Trump is a racist, a Nazi, a thought criminal, et cetera. Barked Milley:

“The American people trust their military and they trust us to protect them against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and our military will do just that. We will not turn our back on the American people.”

This from a guy who was reportedly conspiring to side with our most formidable enemy in the case of war.

Even by the standards of his fellow Democrat pols, Milley’s hypocrisy is staggering. No wonder he has had such a successful career in the Swamp.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Meanwhile, as we teeter on the verge of WWIII, with the ChiComs firing ballistic missiles into Taiwanese waters in response to a visit by Nancy Pelosi, American Military News describes how our military prepares for total war with a superpower:

The US military’s Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) hosted a drag show on Saturday during its first-ever kid-friendly “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summer Festival.”

Under Democrat rule, the Pentagon has embraced the LGBT agenda. This heavily emphasizes the corruption of children. And so,

Organizers encouraged children to attend the festival, advertising that there would be “bouncy houses and face painting for the children.”

Colonel Gregory Beaulieu authorized the use of taxpayer-financed military resources for the event, which featured drag queen Joshua Kelly, a.k.a. Harpy Daniels.

The military’s LGBT push, which includes mandating the use of biologically incorrect pronouns, is part of the broader Cultural Marxist campaign to bring down America. As Daily Wire reports,

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have gained ground in the military in recent years, a development that critics say is gutting the unity, meritocracy, and mission readiness of the U.S. military. …

The U.S. Air Force created an Office of Diversity and Inclusion in January last year.

Democrats exploit the fact that members of the military have to do as they are told without complaint. But in the age of cancelation, even civilians hesitate to speak out against the imposition of wokeness.

[T]he festival was advertised to all who work at JBLE, civilian and military, through a mass email. A person who works at JBLE and received an invite to the festival was furious over the military-sponsored drag show for an event advertised for families.

“It’s burlesque, it’s hyper-sexualized, it’s not something appropriate for children,” said the person, who requested to not be named over potential retaliation from base officials.

Must be a civilian. Someone in the service would risk court martial with that sort of thoughtcrime.

The ChiComs are watching what liberal social engineers have done to the US military and will act accordingly. Good-bye, Taiwan. It’s been nice having you in the free world.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Blackjack.

The effect on the military of allowing Biden and his leftist handlers to take control has been devastating:

[E]very branch of the military is facing a drastic shortfall of new enlistees. As of late June, the Army was 60% short of its target numbers. The Air Force is 4,000 short on new recruits. Though the Navy and Marine Corps won’t release figures until later this year, they have also acknowledged that they are unlikely to meet recruitment quotas.

What is driving people away from the armed forces? The moonbattery and incompetence (if not treason) that are personified by Joe Biden:

On this front, nothing looms larger than President Joe Biden’s disastrous evacuation from Afghanistan last year, which left 13 American service members dead. Following the debacle, a report on the attitudes of Afghanistan veterans found that “73% feel betrayed, and 67% feel humiliated.”

Wokeness under Democrat control is suffocating:

Pentagon bureaucrats and Biden administration officials have also plowed ahead with their plans to “wokeify” the military, alienating vast swaths of Americans in the process. The Army and Navy have both pushed Critical Race Theory texts like Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist on their “recommended reading list.” CRT has also made its way into the curriculum at West Point and other military academies. Just last month, the Navy was slammed for forcing new recruits to watch training videos on “proper pronoun usage.” Several Republicans in Congress have also raised concerns about woke policies in this year’s military funding bill.

Those who want to be homosexualized and preached to about the racistness of their white skin go into academia or journalism, not the military.

To be an effective soldier, you have to believe you are fighting for something worthwhile. Who in their right mind would risk their life for the agenda of people like Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, and Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby, a damp bureauweenie willing to pretend that the real enemy is climate change?

The leftist kooks who rule over us do not engender patriotism.

On tips from Blackjack and Wiggins.

The Fourth of July is the perfect time to resolve to pry moonbats’ claws loose from Lady Liberty’s throat and restore the country this gent fought for:

On tips from Anonymous and seaoh.

Taiwan has been an island of freedom and prosperity, thriving beneath the looming shadow of communism thanks to implicit protection by the USA. This will not last. An invasion is imminent — if the ChiComs have seen this:

The Navy is training its members to create a “safe space” by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children’s show.

“Hi! My name is Jony, and I use he/him pronouns,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center engineer Jony Rozon, who sports a rainbow-colored t-shirt, states in the video’s opening.

It isn’t just the Navy.

The Army mandates similar gender identity training and trains officers on when to offer subordinates gender-transition surgery, the Washington Free Beacon reported in March. These programs are part of a larger push by the Biden administration to make the military more welcoming to transgender individuals.

Watch in horror at what the enemy within has done to the Armed Forces:

Then there is this:

Less than a month after a US Air Force base in Germany cancelled a series of drag shows, including a Drag Queen Story Hour for kids, nearby army base Kleber Kaserne is hosting its own drag story time event, for kids.

The event is being hosted by the KMC Theater Guild on June 30 and will feature “Drag Story Time for all ages,” a “history of drag,” and a “discussion on theater inclusivity.” The “out of character family-friendly Pride event” will be held live on stage, and is touted as a “family friendly Pride event.”

We have seen what “family friendly” means in the context of events featuring drag queens.

The military has been repurposed. Once it defended American liberty. Now it has a new objective: to promote degeneracy on behalf of liberals.

While our military devotes itself to pandering to the sexually deranged, China’s has other priorities:

China’s launch of a new aircraft carrier, its third and the second built entirely at home, speaks to Beijing’s ambitions to become a military power of global standing and reach.

A consequence of Biden and the moonbattery he personifies being allowed to take power will be the end of Taiwan. This will produce further consequences, including a crisis closer to home due to our reliance on Taiwan for computer chips.

On tips from Franco, Chris Neilson, and Wiggins.

Actions have consequences, which in turn have further consequences. The US military puts political hacks like Mark Milley in charge, identifies white men as the primary enemy, christens a ship after an infamous child molester, and runs recruiting ads like this:

The butt-sniffing apparatchiks at the top of the command structure systematically purge the ranks of those likely to resist leftist indoctrination and follow with a purge of those unwilling to submit to an unreasonable vaccine mandate.

All this moonbattery has produced an unsurprising consequence:

The Army is reducing its total active-duty force numbers over the next several years due to recruiting difficulties — an unprecedented step, according to some military experts.

Even as foreign threats grow in seriousness, Army manpower is at its lowest level since World War II.

Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) called it “more serious than any recruiting challenge that I’ve experienced in the years that I’ve been here.”

The source of the problem has been identified:

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, told Breitbart News in an interview in March, “There is a sense among the American public that the military is becoming increasingly political and that topics such as race and gender equity, critical race theory, and wokeism in general are commanding more attention, at the cost of readiness.”

The good news is that what recruits the Army does get show a lot of flair when they make TikTok dance videos.

This consequence will in turn have consequences. It’s not clear what these will be, but it couldn’t hurt to learn some Chinese.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Looks like the USA has been providing military advice to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Under Commander in Chief Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, the Pentagon does not provide the same advice it did back in the days when its purpose was to win wars rather than to implement social engineering schemes on behalf of the radical left:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

The USA still has a much larger economy than China, generating far more wealth per capita. We still have the best equipped and most powerful military in the world. How long our advantage will last is an open question, given the ravages inflicted by moonbattery.

While China develops hypersonic missiles, US armed forces under Democrat rule focus on officially recognizing troops “whose gender identity is nonbinary.”

Military.com approvingly reports:

The Pentagon has asked the Institute for Defense Analyses, or IDA, which operates federally funded research centers, to study the issue…

SPARTA President Bree Fram, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, likened the effort to the study the Pentagon asked Rand Corp. to conduct in 2015 before lifting the ban on transgender people serving in the military.

SPARTA is “an advocacy group for transgender troops.”

China’s People’s Liberation Army is unlikely to find itself tangled up in the demands of bizarre advocacy groups. It won’t be getting distracted by depraved foolishness like preferred pronouns.

On tips from Franco and Greg O.