by Sierra Marlee | July 27, 2017 3:08 pm
A wounded veteran has decided to address the Donald Trump transgender ban for the United States military. Everyone and their mother has an opinion on this, with some of the most extreme reactions being published in the media. In fact, some opinions (generally those belonging to soldiers and veterans who agree with the ban) are being ignored altogether.
JR Salzman – someone who has experience fighting for our nation – took to Twitter to unleash his views on the world.
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Liberals like to say that the United States military is a hub of toxic masculinity that exists so that men can prove how tough they are by killing brown people in the desert over some oil. They then lament that transgender people aren’t going to be invited into that environment because… logic. Or something.
Salzman explains why soldiers aren’t going to automatically oppose the transgender ban just because some people say that they should.
I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[2]
Everyday was Groundhog Day. Wake up and do the same patrols, the same shifts, every single day. It was so damn hot. 150° in the gun trucks.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[3]
Tracer fire would go overhead occasionally at night. IED's on the road were a daily threat. We got resupplied food every 8 days.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[4]
QRF was an hour away. After they made the minimum three gun truck rule after the guys got kidnapped, life got harder.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[5]
The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[6]
Here is the point where Salzman begins to explain that being a soldier is difficult enough under normal circumstances, let alone when you have your own personal issues going on such as is the case for people who are transgender.
After stepping on each other's nuts living in the same can for five months, guys were at each other's throats. The stress made it worse.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[7]
Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[8]
Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[9]
Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[10]
Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It's a fucking ticking time bomb.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[11]
You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a fucking video game. It tests every ounce of your being.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[12]
You can't teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a fucking PowerPoint. You either have it or you don't. You can hack it or you can't.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[13]
We had guys who couldn't. When faced with combat situations they crumbled. They had mental and emotional issues. They were a liability.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[14]
To be successful at war, you have to become a warrior mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can't fake it and go through the motions.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[15]
In war if it comes down to kill or be killed, and you hesitate, you're dead. It's a simple as that. It's not a fucking video game.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[16]
And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[17]
Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn't pay me millions.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017[18]
Sitting in a Starbucks, sipping your venti white chocolate mocha, 2% soy milk, sweetened, extra whip with two shots, blogging about LGBTQ issues doesn’t make your opinion equal to that of someone who actually has to live, work and possibly die in that situation. There are just some situations in which the average Joe’s opinion doesn’t matter and this is one of them.
While I’ve never been to war, I feel confident in saying that it’s like being on a completely different planet where everything and everyone wants you dead. That sounds pretty stressful to me. We need the most mentally, emotionally and physically competent people defending our country, because if we start giving our participation trophies in the United States military, people will die.
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