Under a new ordered Obama Health Care Bill mandate, that was just issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS is mandating that religious employers provide health care coverage for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs at no cost -- thereby trampling upon the religious employer’s constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion.  If you review the below listed article, the Social Experiment On Diversity driven by the civilian appointees of the Obama Administration at the US Defense Department (DOD) continues to expand; it is now forcing US Army Chaplains to violate their religious consciences and freedom of speech by preventing them from telling their parishioners from the pulpit that they oppose mandating catholic run institutions to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs for their employees at the religious institution’s own expense, even though their religion opposes that action.  That is a clear violation of the freedom of religion that the U.S. Constitution guarantees.  The Social Experiment On Diversity is also responsible for Military Academies’ admission policies that are a clear violation of a Supreme Court’s ruling, that entering students at all institutions of higher education shall no longer be admitted by allocating acceptance percentages using race and gender as one of their criteria. 

If you have a daughter or granddaughter, this latest, never ending expansion by the Obama Administration’s Social Experiment on Diversity in the below listed article, driven by the Obama Administration’s civilian appointees at the Department of Defense will concern you.  Assigning women to direct combat will eliminate the rational why the US Supreme Court exempted young women from Selective Service registration, which the court upheld as Constitutional, because women were not assigned to direct ground combat.   By changing the policy, the Department of Defense is inviting another ACLU lawsuit challenging young women's exemption from Selective Service registration.   Every day another shoe drops in the never ending Social Experiment on Diversity driven by the Obama Administration; the constant assault on the US Military establishment is negatively affecting combat effectiveness and continues to skew the admission policies forced upon the Boards of Admission at US Service Academies.

— On Dec. 18, Tribune-Democrat Editor Chip Minemyer called for someone in our military to step forward and acknowledge that “Murtha got it right” on Haditha.

He cites a New York Times report that classified documents found on an abandoned base in Iraq “support assertions by the late congressman that Marines – stressed to the breaking point by the nature of that conflict  – killed 24 people, including women and children, on Nov. 19, 2005.”

Mr. Minemyer is dead wrong. The only fact in his assertion that the documents confirm is that 24 people, including women and children, were killed in a combat engagement on that day.

A review of the documents on the Times website reveals there is absolutely nothing to support the late congressman’s repeated and breathless assertions that Marines “murdered innocent civilians in cold blood” – long before the investigation was completed. 

But the interviews with members of the chain-of-command – which the Times did publish – do confirm what I asserted throughout my campaigns against John Murtha:

That there was a continuing and concerted effort on the part of the Islamic insurgents to create a My Lai-type incident as part of their information operations (called “IO” by Marines interviewed) at the height of the war in Iraq. 

The interviews also document the Marines’ frustration with the number of civilian casualties and confirm the efforts of the enemy to put civilians in harm’s way, in order to have civilian casualties that could be photographed and displayed in both the United States and the Middle East to discredit the American war effort. 

The true effects of Murtha’s comments were characterized in my interview on Fox News’ “Happening Now” on April 8, 2008 (posted on YouTube):

“… when he threw the Haditha Marines under the bus, he put the United States Congress’ ‘stamp of approval’ on enemy propaganda. And certainly John Murtha, of all people, should understand this. 

“Having served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam, he should understand enemy propaganda; as a savvy politician, he should understand propaganda … and when he takes the enemy’s story, puts it out as the gospel truth, accuses our Marines of ‘cold-blooded murder,’ he has reinforced their message on the Arab street and undermined the support for the troops at home.”

This interview put the lock on Murtha’s political cage; it  was created by the candidacy of an Iraq War veteran for his seat. He remained silent in the public debate on the Iraq War issue – until his last interview with The Tribune-Democrat the week before his death in February 2010.

The incidents at Haditha occurred at a time and place where the insurgents were pursuing a strategy that included the tactic of using human shields in the cross-fire between themselves and U.S. forces. 

It remains a terrible tragedy that approximately half of the Iraqis who were killed in that firefight were innocents who were inserted into the cross fire by the insurgents. 

Whether they died as a result of insurgent gunfire or U.S. gunfire is irrelevant. The innocents died because the insurgents had a tactic of using human shields while trying to kill Americans, in order to cause civilian deaths and produce the kind of propaganda Murtha endorsed. 

The fact also remains that seven of the eight Haditha Marines were not only found “not guilty,” but they have been fully exonerated.

In the case of Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt (one of Murtha’s own constituents), he was found to have conducted himself to the highest standards of the Corps for a Marine in combat. 

The eighth Haditha Marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, is still awaiting trial. The politically appointed leadership at the Department of Defense will not dismiss the charges against Sgt. Wuterich because of the political liability to the current administration. 

Highly ironic, given that even John Hugya, Murtha’s former chief of staff, has acknowledged that Murtha got it wrong by calling for Wuterich to be exonerated last October.

Also ironic, is the Obama administration stating that one of the major issues preventing the United States from maintaining a presence in Iraq was the Iraqi refusal to allow American forces to maintain immunity from Iraqi law.

The major issue raised by the Iraqis: Haditha.

After all, how could they trust America’s military court system when it acquitted seven Marines whom a senior U.S. congressman and military veteran had already    pronounced as guilty of murder? 

The strategic military and economic vulnerabilities created by our abrupt and poorly planned withdrawal from Iraq all have a direct cause that can be attributed to Murtha. 

In spite of the evidence that he was wrong while he was alive, Murtha never apologized to the Marines he falsely accused, and went to his grave defiant and unapologetic. 

This is, and should remain, his legacy.

Minemyer’s suggestion to rehabilitate Murtha’s reputation by having the Department of Defense say “Murtha was right about Haditha” would only smear, denigrate and insult the brave sacrifices of the men and women who gave their lives and limbs in their service to this nation in Iraq. 

William T. Russell is a former Republican candidate for the 12th Congressional District seat formerly held by John Murtha. He is an internationally published columnist and has been a featured guest on a number of national television and radio news shows. He is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and veteran of Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and the Balkans. He and his wife, Kasia, were both in the Pentagon on 9/11.

“There Are Two Ways To Enslave A Country.... One Is By The Sword. The Other Is By Debt." — John Adams

Please click on the below listed link to view a video which will explain exactly what President Obama has in mind for the Republic.                   http://www.youtube.com/v/LdTyUvY66Mw?version=3

The American voters must elect an “Optimist”, a new President with President Ronal Reagan’s “optimism”, who will approach the desperate situation President Obama has placed the Republic in.  Obama’s flawed judgment, mismanagement, and determination to “change” the tested 235 year successful Free Enterprise System into another failed Socialist State has placed the Republic in very serious danger.   We need a new President who can look past the despair the American people feel, and view the current situation as an excellent opportunity to improve the economy in just about every sector that the Obama Administration has destabilized.    

Respectfully,
Joseph R. John
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

The Washington Post August 18, 2011

Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner) 

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most  consequential job?    Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?  

Dear Friend,

I want to pose a question to you: “Are America’s best days now behind us or ahead of us?”

I strongly believe we can and must do better to ensure that our Nation’s best days still lay ahead. But there are some who powerfully argue that we are in the twilight of America’s years.

They say that President Obama and his allies’ massive big government expansion is so damaging and irreversible that it has forever stifled the ingenuity, energy and free enterprise spirit that built this great nation.

They proclaim that because President Obama’s tripling of the deficit to $1.6 trillion and the course he has charted to double the national debt, we must now recalibrate our hopes for our nation and our children.

They point to the government healthcare takeover, the failed economic
stimulus program, and the astounding expansion of government and say that because
we spent so lavishly on ourselves and saddled our children with crushing debts that
we have sentenced them to a lower standard of living. They sadly say that ours will
be the first generation of Americans that does not hope for a better life for our
children and our grandchildren.

Ominously, they also show the figures that demonstrate that despite President
Obama’s decision to OK the mission to eliminate Osama bin Laden, the President has
so slashed defense spending and weakened our defenses that we will fall behind the
Chinese and Russians and see our power and influence in the world forever eclipsed
while the dangers around us grow.

Has Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on the hill” gone dark? Are we rapidly
losing our place as the freest, most generous, most productive nation on Earth that
has stood for freedom and lifted the fate not only of its own people but of billions of
others around the globe?

While it is clear that America is in dire straits, I strongly reject the idea that
America’s best days are behind us.

In the coming election, if we can capture not only the White House but also
take control of Congress, we can turn our nation’s course and leave a better America
to our children and grandchildren. However, such a victory will be a huge challenge.
At the close of President Jimmy Carter’s presidency when there was doubledigit
inflation and interest rates and our defenses had seriously deteriorated, there
were similar questions about whether America could ever look forward again to
greatness.

We very well could have entered a long period of further serious decline if it
were not for the election of Ronald Reagan with the Republican takeover of the Senate
and critical gains in the House.

If we are to rescue America we must elect men and women to both houses of
Congress who understand that peace comes through American strength but who are
also individuals of integrity and courage.

We need men and women who will serve this country in Congress who can
stand the withering attacks of the far left special interests and have the courage of
their convictions to do what is right for America.

We cannot and must not have men and women who promise to set America on
a course to restore our economic and national security but who are co-opted and
compromised once they come to Washington.

I know of a unique breed of Americans who have demonstrated they have the
integrity, courage and convictions to help restore America’s greatness and who have
demonstrated they can withstand more than the attacks they will encounter as a
member of the House or Senate.

They are America’s Combat Veterans. These brave men and women who have
fought on the frontlines for America are just the people we need in office.
Increasingly we are seeing a growing number of fiscally conservative Combat
Veterans seeking election to Congress and I believe that America needs these battletested
individuals in Congress.

It is going to take enormous courage to turn America away from the failed
course it is now on and we urgently need these special individuals who will help
wage this historic battle for us. That is why, I want to ask you to join me in
supporting the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.
(www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org)

More than just electing men and women who promise to stand strong for
America, this is the one political action committee that only supports individuals who
have already proven their commitment to this country under the most difficult
conditions.

The Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee (CVFC) is
headed by Retired Navy Captain Joe John who served in Vietnam, Desert Storm and 9
Counter Terrorist Operations and was a Counter Terrorist Intelligence Analyst with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He and his Board of Directors, which
includes Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (Ret.), a friend of mine whom I met while a
POW in Vietnam, do not receive a dollar in compensation and do this solely for the
sake of our nation.

Started in August 2009, the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC made a
significant impact in the 2010 mid-term election. Twenty-seven of the endorsed
Combat Veterans For Congress won their primary races and they are listed on the
CVFC website.

Included in the 87 new freshmen members of Congress who were sworn into
office earlier this year, 12 were among the 27 battle hardened candidates that CVFC
supported during the 2010 primaries. I expect these 12, who have demonstrated their
love of this country and are committed fiscal conservatives, to be leaders in the fight
to restore fiscal sanity to our nation and repair our defenses.

If you, like me, are outraged that at a time when 43 cents of every dollar the
federal government spends is borrowed, the government is rapidly expanding and
increasingly intruding on our lives and freedoms and our nation’s defense are being
exhausted and not adequately replenished, I urge you to join me in supporting
Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.

Often when you give your hard earned dollars to a political action committee,
you do not know very much about the candidates who will ultimately benefit from
your support.

This is not the case with the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action
Committee. You can be sure that every dollar you donate will go to individuals who,
as the CVFC motto says, have “Embedded Integrity.” When CVFC candidates say
they are fiscal conservatives that will work to return us to a nation of limited
government they mean it. They also will be individuals with the courage to stand up
to the bullying of the liberals and the smear tactics of their allies. They possess
extraordinary patriotism that will guide each of their decisions.

If you agree that at this most critical moment in our nation’s history when our
nation’s finances have been grossly mismanaged, our freedoms infringed and our
defenses made vulnerable, we need a new breed of extraordinarily patriotic men and
women serving in Congress, I urge you to make the most generous contribution
possible.

I believe that with quality men and women CVFC is helping to elect, we will
not only redirect this nation but we will definitively answer that America’s best days
are not behind us but truly lay before us.

Your dollars will enable these Combat Veteran For Congress to purchase the
television and radio advertisements they need to win. Your dollars will also help
them to organize voters in their districts and states and counter the massive voter turn
out efforts by the far left special interests in this nation.

Again, this is the one political contribution you can make that you can be
absolutely sure will support fiscal conservatives with the convictions and courage to limit
government and rebuild our nation’s defense. If we are going to elect these Combat
Veterans, CVFC needs your support today. Time is short. Please answer right away.

Sincerely,

John McCain
United States Senator

P.S. I believe the 2012 election will decide the fate of this nation for a long time to come.
This nation is terribly off on the wrong track. If we are going to put us back on a path to
prosperity and security, we are going to need to return to our Founding Father’s uniquely
American vision of fiscal responsibility and limited government. To do that we need men
and women who have fought for the flag of this nation. That is why I am going to say to
you that the most important lapel pin you can wear in this election is not a campaign
button but the American flag. If you will join in supporting CVFC today, Captain Joe
John will send you a special American flag lapel pin that I hope you will wear with
enormous pride since you will know that you are helping to insure that America’s best
days are indeed before us.

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ACTION COMMITTEE. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.

This letter is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Contributions
by corporations and foreign nationals are prohibited. Contributions by individuals are
limited to $5,000 per calendar year.

Since the Revolutionary War, it has been estimated that 1.346 million American Patriots pledged and delivered their lives to make the ultimate sacrifice in combat to defend their brothers in arms while protecting our Republic and its values.  Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery; it was about coming together as one nation to honor those who gave their all.  On May 30^, 2011 millions of Americans paused in solemn reverence, they participated in respectful commemorations across the nation, in order to remember those who for 235 years, by their actions, have protected and defended the rule of law enshrined in the US Constitution.  

Those who have gone before us, have entrusted us to safeguard and be the caretakers of the most precious liberties and freedoms we all enjoy. General Douglas MacArthur’s description of the fallen in his Farewell Address to the Corp of Cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962 is so appropriate on Memorial Day: “From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage”.  If you click on the below listed link you will be able to view scenes that honor military personnel of all services who were lost in combat, and you will also be able to listen to a stirring rendition of “Mansions of The Lord” by the West Point Glee Club.

http://youtu.be/47NW7nu9BnU

Very few Americans are as articulate when trying to relate the depth of meaning that Memorial Day holds for the families of those who were lost in combat as was Lt Gen John F. Kelly, USMC, Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, when he addressed the Semper Fi Society of Missouri on November 13, 2010. None of those individuals present who heard Lt Gen Kelly’s address could have possibly understood the enormous grief Lt Gen Kelly held quietly within himself as he spoke; his address was given just four days after, his son, Lt Robert Kelly, USMC, was killed by an IED during his 3^rd Combat tour in Iraq.  During Lt Gen Kelly’s address, he never mentioned the loss of his own son.  We honor all those American Patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice, those US military personnel involved in combat who today go “In Harm’s Way “ in Iraq and Afghanistan, all military personnel serving in the US Armed Forces who continue to protect and defend the Republic, and the 26 million Veterans who, at one point in their lives wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount “up to and including their life.”    

Semper Fidelis,

Joseph R. John, Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

RADM James J. Carey of the National Defense PAC deserves a great deal of credit for alerting us to the below listed background information, that attorneys would need to document points of authority to defend returning military personnel who were college students when they were mobilized to go into combat, and found upon release that they are being prevented from picking up their education by left leaning college professors who do not want to re-instill them into their courses or protect their course grades previously compiled before they were recalled.

Professor Wackerfuss:
A general E-mail was sent reminding students of Georgetown University policy about attending classes, and you included a line to the effect that the policy even overrides “military deployments.”  I want to bring to your attention that a federal law enacted in 2008 protects students in this situation, and a college or university that violates the law risks losing all federal funding. 
I invite your attention to www.roa.org/law_review.  You will find more than 700 articles about the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), and other laws that are particularly pertinent to those who serve our country in uniform.  You will also find a detailed Subject Index and a search function, to facilitate finding articles about very specific topics. 
I invite your attention specifically to Law Review 1052, about section 487 of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008.  I have written most of the “Law Review” articles on the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) website.    For questions, contact Capt Samuel F. Wright, JASGC, USN (Ret), Director, Service Members Law Center at (202) 646-7730,  SWright@.org Please do not treat this communication as legal advice.  If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your state. 

If you had the opportunity to watch Sean Hannity's evening program on April 12th on the FOX News Network, you would have been pleased to listen to the comments of 3 of the 12 elected Combat Veterans For Congress who are among the 87 new Freshman Congressional members.  Millions of voters viewed their relevant comments and principled stands that evening; on Sunday night on FOX there will be another program concerning the same issues with Freshmen Congressmen.  The nation is so fortunate to have representatives in Congress like Cong Adam Kinzinger, Cpt-AFNG (R-IL-11)  http://www.electadam.com, Cong Michael Grimm, USMC/FBI (R-NY-13) http://www.grimmforcongress.com, and Cong Allen West, Lt. Col-USA (Ret) (R-FLA-22)   http://www.west.house.gov as well as the other Combat Veterans For Congress.  The three Congressmen took firm and courageous stands on reining in the out of control spending by the Obama Administration and said they will insist on reductions in spending before they consider voting to raise the national debt limit.  In the November 2012 election, we encourage all American voters to support the re-election of these three courageous patriots and the other elected Combat Veterans For Congress listed on our Web site at http://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org, as well as the new slate of Combat Veterans For Congress we will endorse going forward.  They continue to be true to their pledge to protect and defend the US Constitution, and deserve our support for their dedication to the Republic.  Please pass this on to those in your address book who reside in their home states.

A 31-member Military Leadership Diversity Commission, set up by the Lame Duck Congress a year ago, requested that the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, execute a “social experiment on diversity”; the goal of the recommendations is to change the make-up of the leadership of the US Armed Forces.  The Commission contains a sizable number of civilian-equal opportunity professionals, as well as some retired and active military personnel.  Because ethnic minorities are less likely to meet eligibility requirements for entrance into the US Armed Forces, the Commission is urging the Army, Navy,  Marine Corps, and Air Force to either lower or eliminate the standards that have always been used for acceptance of recruits into the military.  The Commission proposal states education, entry test level scores, criminal records, and drug use that up to this time have been used to disqualify a large numbers of applicants, including some minorities and all felons, unfair and should be eliminated.  The commission completed a 162-page report and strongly recommended that the Secretary of Defense and the Congress endorse the proposals, that they act to execute the Commission’s “social experiment on diversity”.  The Commission wants Secretary Gates to appoint a “Diversity Czar” who will bypass the Congress on all future matters concerning their proposed “social experiment on diversity” and that in the future the Diversity Czar be permitted to by-pass Congress and report directly to the Defense Secretary.   Another of the many recommendations is that at confirmation, all future flag officer selectees be required to demonstrate to the Senate Armed Services Committee that they have a rich background in promoting the “social experiment on diversity”; future promotions to flag would no longer be based upon what senior officers are best qualified to lead military personnel into combat and/or would be most effective at improving their command’s “Combat Effectiveness”.  While the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is driving the current aggressive indoctrination of the US Armed Forces, in order to turn the US Military into an openly homosexual organization, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission is pressing the Pentagon to make additional destabilizing changes to the US Armed Forces in the midst of three theatres of armed conflict.  Among the many initiatives in its study, is a recommendation to open infantry and armor units to women; the study said that women should be allowed into male-only units to “create a level playing field” in promotions “for all service members who meet the qualifications.”

Hardened Combat Veterans say that “direct ground combat” is not like an MP being subjected to exchange of small-arms gunfire with insurgents, or of military personnel being wounded by an IEDs when transiting in a convoy, or a service member being abducted by terrorists while on patrols or on guard duty.  There is a true lack of understanding of exactly what direct ground combat entails, what closing with and destroying an enemy combatant by the most violent means available is; often it is a direct eye-to-eye confrontation, then being required to employ upper-body physical strength that physically fit US Marines, US Army Rangers, or US Navy SEALs train for.   Direct ground combat is defined as an action when opposing forces engage in violent, intense, close-in, hand to hand combat.  According to former Commandant of the US Marine Corps, General Carl Mundy, units which are trained repeatedly into fine-tuned teams to engage and defeat the enemy directly, exist and operate on the basis of masculine cohesion.  “I believe that female service members bring tremendous skills and talents to many sectors of our armed forces, but I believe equally strongly that they are not best suited for the unique demands associated with direct combat units.”

Congressman Allen West as well as Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, 2 of the 12 endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress who were elected in the 2010 mid-term election (out of the full slate of 27 endorsed candidates who won their primary elections), have already gone public on their view of the proposed “social experiment on diversity”; they feel the proposal is  intrusive and inappropriate.   “This is the last thing the military should be thinking about,” said Cong Duncan D. Hunter, a member of the Armed Services Committee who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine Corps Officer.  “Our military is engaged in a shooting war,” the California Republican stated.  “This is just another distraction that can’t interfere with what’s most important – winning in Afghanistan.  Congressman Hunter added, “some people seem to think the military is a staging ground for social testing, and that attitude only puts lives at risk.”  Congressman Allen West, a Florida Representative, who as a senior Army officer completed a 1 ½ year combat tour of duty in Iraq, and a 2½ year combat tour of duty in Afghanistan said “The US Military is a merit based organization where anybody can succeed.” Congressman West said the report  “is a slap in the face to those minorities who have achieved seniority”. In an interview with The Daily Caller, Congressman West, who is black, was not pleased with the report, saying that the military is not a social experiment for outside groups to impose their theories.

The US Naval Academy Admissions Office now openly practices the “social experiment of diversity”.  The Naval Academy Admissions Board now admits student with SAT scores in math as low as 410 and verbal scores as low as 370; the SAT score cut off for Midshipmen had normally been around 600 out of a possible score of 800.  A former Admission Board Member agreed to make the following statement on conditions of anonymity; he said “ The unfairness is absolutely real.”  The “social experiment on diversity” has been driven by the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff’s and the CNO since their appointments, and has resulted in the admittance of marginal students, mostly athletes and minorities, while by-passing  fully qualified white male students in the pool of 15,000 applicants annually.  The results of the admittance of marginal students has been an increase in serious violations of regulations such as drug use (resulting in multiple dismissals), excessive use of liquor and inebriation on weekend liberty,  increased violations of the Honor Code requiring retraining to retain minority students (as a former member of the Honor Committee there was no such thing as honor retraining; Midshipmen do not lie, cheat, or steal), and recently one Midshipman lied to a law enforcement officer when in custody for a federal offense.  The Brigade of Midshipmen have been negatively affected by the “social experiment on diversity”, and now the US Armed forces will be subjected to that same “social experiment on diversity” during a wartime and combat environment.  The Supreme Court has ruled that admission procedures at institutions of higher education that consider acceptance by setting percentages of race and gender in the make-up of an entering freshman class is discriminatory and those actions by any College Admissions Board is a violation of federal law.

The “social experiment on diversity” imposed on the Brigade at the US Naval Academy, pushing an openly homosexual environment on the US Armed Forces, and now a proposal by the Military Leadership Diversity Committee have collectively put the US Military under unreasonable destabilizing pressure during a wartime environment.  The proposal by the Commission to select future flag officers of the US Armed Forces using some type of litmus test on diversity will not improve the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Military.   By recommending that senior military officers should only be selected for flag if they pass a litmus test on diversity, and selecting race and gender in some preset percentages, will not result in the promotion of the most qualified senior officers who would improve the “Combat Effectiveness “ of the US Armed Forces (there will longer be flag officers like Admiral Bull Halsey, General Patton, General Chesty Puller, General Jimmy Doolittle, etc., because they would not be “politically correct” selectees, besides they are all white males).  The American people are unaware of the aforementioned coordinated assaults on the most effective and professional military organization in the world, they are not aware that the agenda that is being driven by socialists and liberals who oppose the US Armed Forces’ high standards of duty, honor, country, and its support for the Judeo-Christian religions teachings is hurting the stability and effectiveness of the USD Armed Forces.  Those coordinated assaults by progressives, pushing a “social experiment on diversity”, will weaken the US Military over the long term.  The actions of outside forces supported by the Obama Administration have continued to push the above listed changes that are marginalizing the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces.  The US Military has protected and defended the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Republic for 234 years, experimenting with the structure and make-up of the US Military and assaulting its leadership structure will certainly destabilize the US Armed Forces.  We must rely on the judgment of the 12 elected Combat Veterans For Congress to coordinate their efforts with other C0ngressmen to halt the above listed dangerous experiments with the US Armed Forces. 
  

Joseph R. John, USNA ’62

Capt           USN (Ret)