“Our past experience as military leaders leads us to be greatly concerned about the impact of repeal [of the law] on morale, discipline, unit cohesion, and overall military readiness. We believe that imposing this burden on our men and women in uniform would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the All-Volunteer Force.” - Statement in support of retaining the current law signed by over 1,000 retired flag and general officers.

While the entire country remains distracted over the long-overdue finale to the ObamaCare debate, the Obama Administration and Progressive Democrats are already moving full-speed ahead with efforts to further transform the United States by doing everything in its power to hobble our defense capabilities by allowing openly-gay people to serve in the nation’s armed forces. Despite the hurt feelings and emotional arguments of those intent on socially-engineering alleged “equality” into the ranks, there are literally a thousand reasons I can think of why this is an extremely bad idea. Read More »

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US Army Ranger First Lieutenant Michael Behenna comes from a long line of public servants. Like many young men today, he joined the military and became a US Army Ranger after seeing our country ruthlessly attacked on September 11th, 2001 . Sadly, like far too many soldiers and Marines of this politically-correct era, he was thrown into a deep, dark hole to die - not by the terrorists he was sent to fight in Iraq, but by the US military’s dysfunctional justice system. Read More »

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USMC Sgt. Edwin Ehlers

As a veteran who spends a great amount of time advocating for other veterans, nothing is more painful than hearing from a service member’s family that their soldier, sailor, airman or Marine - good and patriotic American men, who perform some of the most dangerous work imaginable to defend us, are devoured whole and then spit out by the insidious disease of political correctness, simply because they had the courage of their convictions to stand up and serve their country.

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UPDATE - 5/8/2009 - Sgt. Foster will not face trial on remaining charges. 

Due to the outrage provoked by this colum and the efforts of yours truly, War of Wits has scored a giant victory and helped a Marine get opne step closer to freedom. Thanks to all of you who supported this Marine.

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No military prosecutions in recent history have garnered as much negative publicity for the U.S. Marines as have the cases of the Marines of 3/1 Kilo Company, ambushed in Haditha, Iraq, in November of 2005. But the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of another Marine further reinforces the public perception of something institutionally corrupt about the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps’ application of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Read More »

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On March 17, 2009, the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals (NMCCA) unanimously upheld the dismissal of all charges against USMC Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani. Like those who sat in judgment of Chessani’s criminal trial, the appeals court found exactly what those of us who stood by him already knew back when this witch hunt began; That this case was indeed tainted by the foul stench of Unlawful Command Influence (UCI), the mortal enemy of military justice. It was not a fair trial. Read More »

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