WASHINGTON – Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S.  military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired  officers, say President Obama’s 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.

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“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will  fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as “homosexuals, women in  foxholes, the Obama sequester,” Brady told WND.

Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’  overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key  leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are  quietly taking their careers in other directions.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” 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.

“Over 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,” Boykin  said.

“I believe there is a purging of the military,” he said. “The problem is  worse than we have ever seen.”

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.

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.

Boykin says that because of the fundamental civilian leadership over the  military, McCrystal was “appropriately forced to retire.”

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Some officers were involved in adulterous affairs and those situations,  Boykin said, also were grounds for dismissal.

Boykin specifically said that because of the civilian-military relationship,  he did not see any prospect for a “coup” coming from the military ranks.

“People I’ve spoken to would like to see the military ‘fulfill their  constitutional duty and take out the president,’” Boykin said. “Our Constitution  puts a civilian in charge of the military and as a result a coup would not be  constitutional. You’re not going to see a coup in the military.”

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’re not going to support Obama’s agenda, which  critics have described as socialist.

“I talk to a lot of folks who don’t support where Obama is taking the  military, but in the military they can’t say anything,” Boykin said.

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.

Boykin referred to recent reports that Obama has purged some 197 officers in  the past five years.

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.

“Morale is at an unprecedented low,” Boykin said, part of which is due to  sequestration.

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.

“These officers want to train for war but are not be allowed to” 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.

He referred specifically to the recent repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”  which now allows openly homosexual personnel in the military. In addition, he  said the integration of women into the infantry “will reduce readiness of  units.” He also was critical of the rules of engagement which he says favor  “political correctness over our ability to fight to win.”

“The last time we won an all-out war was in 1944,” Boykin said. “Now, we  don’t have the will to win.”

Brady, who was a legendary “Dust Off” air ambulance pilot in Vietnam and  detailed his experiences in his book, “Dead  Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam,” said, “The 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.

“I hear from many off the record who are upset with the current military  leadership and some are leaving and have left in the past,” he said.

Brady referred to additional problems in today’s military including  “girly-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.”

Brady made similar references in a recent article he wrote for WND in which he said “just 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.”

The reference was to the recent firing of a number of generals to mask  “Obama’s serial scandals, all prefaced by lies – Fast and Furious, Benghazi,  NSA, IRS” among others.

WND  reported that three of the nine firings by Obama this year alone were linked  to the controversy surrounding the Sep. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the CIA  special mission in Benghazi, Libya.

In one case, U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, who commanded U.S. African Command  when the consulate was attacked and four Americans were killed, was highly  critical of the decision by the State Department not to send in  reinforcements.

Obama has insisted there were no reinforcements available that night.

But Ham contends reinforcements could have been sent in time, and he said he  never was given a stand-down order. However, others contend that he was given  the order but defied it. He ultimately was relieved of his command and  retired.

Now, new information in the Washington Times reveals there were Delta Force  personnel in Tripoli at the time of the attack and two members volunteered to be  dispatched to Benghazi to assist in protecting the Benghazi compound, contrary  to stand-down orders from the State Department.

Another flag officer involved in the Benghazi matter – which remains under  congressional investigation – was Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette. He commanded the  Carrier Strike Group.

He contends aircraft could have been sent to Libya in time to help the  Americans under fire. He later was removed from his post for alleged profanity  and making “racially insensitive comments.”

Army Major Gen. Ralph Baker was the commander of the Joint Task Force-Horn at  Camp Lamar in Djibouti, Africa. Baker contended that attack helicopters could  have reached the consulate in time on the night of the attack.

“To understand the insufferable assaults on our military and veterans, who  should be exempt from political squabbles but are often at the forefront of  Obama threats, we need to understand the psyche of the elite in this country led  by Obama,” Brady said.

“It is no accident that the president used the Obama sequester and shutdown  to punish the military family,” he said. “It is part of his DNA. In fact it is  in the psyche of the entire liberal/progressive establishment – the elite.  President Clinton outed himself and this ilk when he declared his loathing of  the military. Who could believe progressives/liberals care about veterans and  military?”

Brady said that some people who fear for the future of the United States  believe it needs to be “re-moralized.”

“We cannot survive without increasing patriotism, a youth schooled in the  Constitution,” Brady said. “If the uncommon common American is to prevail  against the elite, we need to return to the truths of our Constitution.

“We need to realize that this recent assault on the military and veterans is  no accident,” Brady added. “It is purposeful. The elite loathe our military, the  one sure guarantor of our freedom. These elite – not a shutdown or default – and  their assault on the Constitution and our military are the real threat to our  future.”

Army Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely similarly has been very vocal in his  opposition to the Obama administration.

Vallely said the White House won’t investigate its own officials but finds it  easy to fire military commanders “who have given their lives for their  country.”

“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have  bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their  own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious,  Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military,  Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees  or speaks out is being purged.”

Vallely served in the Vietnam War and retired in 1993 as deputy Commanding  General, Pacific Command. Today, he is chairman of the Military Committee for  the Center for Security Policy and is co-author of the book “Endgame: The  Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.”

Duty personnel seem to back up this concern, suggesting that the firings are  meant to send a message to “young officers down through the ranks” not to  criticize the president or White House politics.

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