Lt Gen WILLIAM “JERRY” BOYKIN
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military! The U.S. Senate must reject Marxist leaders for the U.S. Military Services
Lt Gen WILLIAM “JERRY” BOYKIN
U.S. Army (Ret.): Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense; former Commander, Delta Force
I'm Jerry Boykin. I spent over 36 years in the United States Army. And in that time, I think I learned a lot about what it takes to win on the battlefield, what it takes to defeat the enemy and to do what the mission of our army and our military in general is, and that is to win our nation's wars. That hasn't changed since our military was created.
I'm very concerned about what I see today, though, with this administration and how they see our military, because it's clear to me that they don't have the same understanding of the responsibilities of our military as I do.
I look at, for example, the confirmation of general CQ Brown, an Air Force officer that is going to become the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And this fellow has made his name and his career on DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion. And if you look at this and you look at it realistically and objectively, there is nothing in those kinds of woke classes that are being given to and taught to our young men and women that serve in our military. There's nothing in there that's going to help our young men and women be real warriors, be able to defeat our enemies. And in fact, what we have going right now, because of this, is what I consider to be a disaster, a recipe for total failure.
You see on the battlefield, there are several things that are really, really important.
Key to winning, key to being victorious on the battlefield, and it's not just the weapons that you have, the technology that you have that's all important. All that's important. But what it is that separates us from so many other countries is [that] our men and women have something that we call ‘a transcendent cause.’
[W]hat we've got to do is get back to building teams that are ready to go to war. Rough, tough individuals, men and women that are ready to go to war and defeat our enemies and know that they have a transcendent cause, and that is the Constitution of the United States and the guy on the right and left.
They have something to fight for and that's something to fight for is, among other things, each other. The man on your right and your left, the woman on your right and your left. Those are things that have to be thought through so that we understand that in our training we have to build the teamwork and the camaraderie that will help us to survive and to be victorious on the battlefield.
And when you take people into a room under this critical race theory, you take them into a room, you set them down, you divide them, and then you tell them, all of you on this side, you are the oppressors. And by the way, all of you on the other side, you're the ones that were oppressed. That does not build teamwork. It does not build cohesion. And what we've got to do is get back to building teams that are ready to go to war. Rough, tough individuals, men and women that are ready to go to war and defeat our enemies and know that they have a transcendent cause, and that is the Constitution of the United States and the guy on the right and left.
Thank you.
Thank you for holding the line.
What it builds, General, is units and organizations that exist simmering on the edge of mutiny. I served 40 years, between commissioned officer time and Army intel civilian time, and I have first hand experience. I wish you luck with your efforts, but fear the rot is to the heartwood at this point.