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<\/a> recipient of the U.S. military\u2019s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President Obama\u2019s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.<\/p>\n\u201cThere is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him\u201d over such issues as \u201chomosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,\u201d Brady told WND.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,\u201d one source told WND.<\/p>\n
Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks\u2019 overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration\u2019s purge of key leaders, colonels \u2013 those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals \u2013 are quietly taking their careers in other directions.<\/p>\n
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. \u201cJerry\u201d Boykin, who was with Delta Force and later Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush, says it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,\u201d Boykin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe there is a purging of the military,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is worse than we have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boykin points out that the military adheres to the constitutional requirement of a civilian leadership over the military. As a consequence, officers are not allowed to criticize their civilian leadership, as occurred when Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal was relieved in 2010 of his command of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
He was relieved due to what has been described as unflattering remarks made about Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials in a Rolling Stone magazine article. He was recalled to Washington where Obama accepted his resignation as commander in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Boykin says that because of the fundamental civilian leadership over the military, McCrystal was \u201cappropriately forced to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some officers were involved in adulterous affairs and those situations, Boykin said, also were grounds for dismissal.<\/p>\n
Boykin specifically said that because of the civilian-military relationship, he did not see any prospect for a \u201ccoup\u201d coming from the military ranks.<\/p>\n
Boykin said that no one in the military has ever raised the issue of a \u201ccoup.\u201d However, civilians with no military experience have raised this issue with him and commented that the military needs to \u201cfulfill [its] constitutional duty and take over the government,’\u201d Boykin said. He added that he has never raised this issue but only has responded to anyone who has raised this questions by saying that, \u201cOur Constitution puts a civilian in charge of the military and as a result a coup would not be constitutional. You\u2019re not going to see a coup in the military.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Boykin said the future of the military is becoming more and more of concern, since colonels who would be generals also are being relieved of duty, if they show that they\u2019re not going to support Obama\u2019s agenda, which critics have described as socialist.<\/p>\n
\u201cI talk to a lot of folks who don\u2019t support where Obama is taking the military, but in the military they can\u2019t say anything,\u201d Boykin said.<\/p>\n
As a consequence, he said, the lower grades therefore have decided to leave, having been given the signal that there is no future in the military for them.<\/p>\n
Boykin referred to recent reports that Obama has purged some 197 officers in the past five years.<\/p>\n
These reports suggest these officers were suspected of disloyalty or disagreed with the Obama administration on policy or force-structure issues. As Boykin pointed out, a number of them have been relieved of duty for no given reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorale is at an unprecedented low,\u201d Boykin said, part of which is due to sequestration.<\/p>\n
Sequestration has seriously cut back operational readiness for the military to the point where Boykin said that often they have no ammunition and are unable to conduct training because of the planned cuts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese officers want to train for war but are not be allowed to\u201d because of the preoccupation not only with sequestration, but what Boykin said were other concerns surfacing in the military under Obama as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n
He referred specifically to the recent repeal of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell,\u201d which now allows openly homosexual personnel in the military. In addition, he said the integration of women into the infantry \u201cwill reduce readiness of units.\u201d He also was critical of the rules of engagement which he says favor \u201cpolitical correctness over our ability to fight to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time we won an all-out war was in 1944,\u201d Boykin said. \u201cNow, we don\u2019t have the will to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brady, who was a legendary \u201cDust Off\u201d air ambulance pilot in Vietnam and detailed his experiences in his book, \u201cDead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam,\u201d<\/a> said, \u201cThe problem is military people will seldom, while on duty, go on the record over such issues, and many will not ever, no matter how true.<\/p>\n \u201cI hear from many off the record who are upset with the current military leadership and some are leaving and have left in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Brady referred to additional problems in today\u2019s military including \u201cgirly-men leadership [and] medals for not shooting and operating a computer. This president will never fight if there is any reason to avoid it and with a helpless military he can just point to our weakness and shrug his shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n Brady made similar references in a recent article<\/a> he wrote for WND in which he said \u201cjust when you thought the leadership of this government could not get any worse, it does. Never in history has an administration spawned another scandal to cover the current one.\u201d<\/p>\n The reference was to the recent firing of a number of generals to mask \u201cObama\u2019s serial scandals, all prefaced by lies \u2013 Fast and Furious, Benghazi, NSA, IRS\u201d among others.<\/p>\n