You mean because there was a true moral of the troops concern and potentially opens to door to worse.
Being gay was not really acceptable to society at thw time even though it was allowed by the country
The DoD hung onto DADT far after the rest of society stopped treating homosexuals and bisexuals as dangerous and untrustworthy.
The DoD changed, but only after wider society forced it to.
The US military was never truly de segregated until Ike. That was due to Wilson yes, but also racial tensions at the time.
In Korea we had de segregated units.
wW2 and WW1 we didnt.
we had fewer de segregated units pre ww1.
Black Jack Pershing and his Harlem Hellfighters ring a bell. The fact there were desegregated units was because of people like him who didn't want to let the overt racism of the DoD/DoW leadership keep black soldiers from serving.
And I will be blunt, the fact the DoD and wider society was having racial issues is because ex-Confederates were allowed back into the US military and gov, but not told to stop the racist bullshit because it would hurt the feelings of the former slaver-owners and their kin.
That is not something the military should try to defend as a 'good' thing.
The laws against cannabis also originate in a lot of racist bullshit, and I don't think the modern DoD wants to have to deal with that part of the legacy and modern racial politics mixing, and tries to ignore it.
Does the DoD want to keep fighting this saying 'federally illegal', when the actual historical fact of how it became illegal is a set of massive lies perpetuated for largely selfish and racist reasons by Gilded Era yellow-journalism?
okay...that has nothing to do with them going against the feds.
The US military was going towards air power even during when they wee shtting on Mitchell.
damn near every plane built pre and during the war were built because of things Mitchell proved.
He proves hiw effective dive bombing was against ships. Dive bombers were a thing.
I took JROTC AF.
We learned a lot about Mitchell.
It's about not wanting to admit change needs to happen, because of prior priorities and assumptions, as well as pure stubbornness.
The DoD doesn't want to confront it's entire cannabis ban, the entire federal cannabis ban, is based on lies and yellow-journalism from the Gilded Age.
I mean, like I said the US military was de segregated before the nation was in Korea.
it had women pilots in WW2 with the WASP program. Yet they were barley able to do much back then.
The stuff with women is not the same as the racial stuff, even if intersectionality of today would like to act like it is.
WASPs did vital work, not many black women got to be WASPs, because of the legacy racial issues that the DoD didn't want to get rid off, even if officers like Pershing decided to get rid of the racist bullshit. People like Pershing were the exception to the norm till the Civil Rights Act came about, because of the legacy racial issues the DoD had and frankly the cannabis ban is part of that legacy too, even if the DoD doesn't want to admit it or deal with that angle.
and technology aspect? You wanna go there?
the internet was built by the military for the military. The jet engine was due to tje war.
Atomic power due to war necessity.
The aspects of modern satellite GPS and imagery?
Military.
The aspect if a hand held computer?
Military was looking inti that back in the 90s and earlier.
just because we may be slow to roll out certain things, doesn't mean we don't learn and arnt planning ahead.
That is all the stuff easily accessible as well.
Yes, and I said tech change is where the US military at least learned it's lesson about needing to get ahead of the curve.
It still hasn't learned that lesson about the wider social or political landscape.
What civie side stuff is holding the DoD back?
Well, let's see, the farce of the DoD insisting it's people put political blinders on in a civie culture where that is very much not the case, and is in fact counter-productive.
Fewer and fewer people will give up their political voice and association rights in order to serve; being in uniform shouldn't stop someone from being able to publicly engage in politics like the rest of the nation, and that part of the UCMJ needs to change.
In fact , a brand new UCMJ, created by the civie side to deal with the modern world and how the modern public operates, instead of a nearly fossilized relic the military mostly built in-house, would go a long ways to dealing with a lot of military/public PR issues of the modern era.
That's the real problem, the social and political viewset of military leadership is mostly fossilized, and what isn't are mostly Lefty activist officers.
Why? It is prescribed for medical stuff.
The main thing is that it effects the body and mind.
And yes, alcohol does too, but the duration of which is often a lot shorter then thay of weed, and can often be negated all together.
You shouldn't need a prescription to have THC or CBD legally in your body; the human body has a fucking endo-cannabanoid system for a reason. Making cannabis illegal was stupid, based in racist lies, and done for profit-driven motives.
Rescheduling is a prelude to full legalization, and removing a restriciton based on previous scheduling of the drug, which was again based on racist lies told for personal gain by Hearst and Anslinger, would help the DoD's social PR.
Or does keeping a ban in the UCMJ that is based on racist lies and profit motive benefit the DoD's public PR?
Doesn't change the facts I stated about the DoD
Pain management for VA vet's easier if the DoD isn't treating cannabis as taboo, as well as opening up more CBD options.
CDB isolate is...ok, but it's sort of a 'diet soda' effect, compared to normal CBD, which needs like around .001% THC just to open the proper chemical pathways for CBD to be fully effective as a pain killer or anti-inflammatory.
But CBD in some areas of the country still have THC.
Because not every place is able to get it all out tje military doesn't want to risk it.
As I said, CBD isolate is a 'diet soda' in effectiveness compared to normal trace THC in it. The isolate simply cannot open all the proper chemical pathways without an initial THC molecule to activate the needed receptors.
The other cannabanoids besides THC are very, very good at helping with certain issues, but the all need a trace amount of THC in them to have full medical effectiveness. Isolates are just a 'diet soda' option, that gives you some medical effect, but not all it could be.
That I agree with, but that isn't DoD.
For recruiting purposes it may as well be.
After all, part of what the DoD sells it's service on is how the vets are taken care of after their service, and that is exactly what the VA is meant for.
When the public can see a systemic failure in the VA system, it has a direct impact on people's perception of how they will be treated if they are injured during their service, and trying to claim it's not DoD does exactly nothing to help that, and just makes it seem like the DoD wants to pretend VA issues don't factor into propensity to serve in the nation.
Your acting like smoking weed stops recruits.
It doesn't. Recruiters will just say flush your system before you drug test.
Well, see, that's the rub, the recruiters also know MP's and groups like NCIS still will nail people for it if they catch them with THC in their system.
So once again the recruiters are knowingly giving either bad info, or bad advice, to people trying to join, just to keep the numbers up, which has a direct effect on how people view military recruiting initatives.
Black mold in the barracks.
Something that congress hasn't helped in fixing so it doesn't matter if it breaks EPA. Congress okays the budget.
The dining facilities are a mess.
Bacle, I am actively in the life.
Unless you have been in and seen it for yourself, it ain't rumors.
Few civie establishments would get the 'I'm to low on funds' pass from a health inspector, particularly for dining facilities and living quarters on a permament and active location.
It's a very sad state of affairs.
Ohhh that you mean.
Black projects Bacle.
Do you know how dangerous working on satcom equipment is?
DoE facilities?
Especially in modern times with how easy phones are to being hacked Black ink to make sure people don't know is all we can do.
This has been an issue for awhile. Agreed it is bad.
I know contractors at Groom Lake won their lawsuite for being exposed to things they had not signed off to be exposed to.
See, that's the thing, if someone signs off for exposure and knows what's going on, that's one thing. Unknowingly exposing people to harm they are not made aware of or signed of on is where the black ink ends up falling away in lawsuites and public PR.
Informed Consent is something that the black projects people could do well to remember applies to their work in relation to public safety and the safety of their own workers, not just trying to keep out enemy spies. Because if they don't, the courts have presendent and case law against them now.
That was the only way to get rid of shit and stuff in the ME. What else were they to do?
Issued effective and useful PPE for people dealing with the pits, but that would mean admitting people were being harmed by what was being burned.
CIA is state, not DoD.
They don't work together as much as people think. ESPECIALLY domestic. We don't operate domestically except on federal land.
And JP8 isn't good for the environment either, yet we still use it for everything.
Again, just like the 'VA isn't DoD' argument, the fact is there is enough overlap of personnel, history, and leadership that in the public mind the CIA is a tool of the DoD, not a separate entity.
As for JP-8, it's not great, but few fuels are, and it's more lack of care/thought give to keeping said harmful stuff from becoming a long-term problem environmentally where the DoD keeps having issues.
Yes, because if it invovled the DoE it invovles nuclear stuff. Aka, stuff that even I can't see, as in stuff that has a net positive for the nation
Except there are civies down wind of places like that, and there are chunks of the northern Denver metro that effectively got a fallout blanket dumped on them because of all the fucking black ink.
Some neighborhoods have to sign a contract stating they won't dig below a few inches in their lawns or gardens, because of the radio-nuclulides sitting in the soil from the fires at the plant.
The black ink that the DoD and DoE share in regards to environmental fuck ups caused by lax and reckless policies at classified/sensitive areas are part of why there are a so many Superfund Sites in this nation. I've seen the inspection reports that got declassified, behind the black ink the plant hid so much waste and poor condition of equipment they couldn't figure out what to do with most of it.
We need nukes, we need nuclear reactors and the facilities to support them all; we do not need so much black ink getting in the way of sane environmental protection and public safety measures, espcially inside CONUS and US territory.
The DoD and it's various sibling agencies are very slow to accept/deal with political and social changes that are happening in the wider public, in their recruitment pool, till some outside force makes them.
Hanging on to the cannabis ban based on 'federal law' arguments, one's that neglect to mention said federal ban is the result of racist lies and yellow-journalism, is trying to pretend the cannabis ban is not one of the biggest, stupidest mistakes the federal governement ever made and a racist legacy left by people who had profit and racial motives at heart.
