Code of Conduct

Rangers Leading the Way in Northern Virginia, But Perhaps You Have to Be Qualified to Be a Soldier to Follow

[FOB FREEDOM, October 5, 2023] Any station? Any station? Do you read? Over.

Live from the world’s newest banana republic. . .

At least according to statistics, an empirical measure, only 23% of age-eligible Americans is qualified to even begin training as an infantryman, while, at any given time, only about one percent are even inclined to do so, hopefully, motivated by that sense of duty, which found over 38,000 persons, age 18 to 25 to volunteer to partake in a challenge study, exposing themselves to intranasal inoculation of live, wild virus, in a hope to produce an effective vaccine “one day sooner”, but, despite an early and much-publicized effort, that report would not be published in the scientific literature until March 31, 2022, over a year and a half after the first COVID-19 countermeasure products had already been distributed, developed with no official knowledge of infectious dose, correlates of protection or immunogenicity, and, at least according to the Emergency Use Authorization Declaration, published on March 27, 2020, to address a significant threat, not to the elderly, known from almost the beginning days of the outbreak in China to represent the highest fatality risk, but for citizens residing abroad, and uniformed members of the active duty military, less than 96 of whom had been fatalities to a novel coronavirus by December 8, 2022, although over 73% of uniformed military personnel, on active duty, in the reserve component force, and the national guard, had been administered these products before Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had issued the order on August 9, 2021, to “get the shot”, an order that at least 41% of Department of Defense (DoD) civilians decided to refuse, while over 94% of uniformed forces are “vaccinated” by status. And, since December 7, 2022, DoD has evaded even litigation efforts to compel the response to a FOIA request to determine the number of fatalities since the COVID-19 countermeasures had been made available to uniformed service members.

Yet, in a very different era, by virtue of the authority vested in him, as President of the United States, and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States,” the 34th President, and former Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, who had led the Normandy Invasion, Operation Overlord, in June 1945, prescribed the Code of Conduct for Members of the Armed Forces of the United States. It was the thought of that former military commander that every member of the armed forces were “expected to measure up to the standards embodied in this Code of Conduct while he is in combat or in captivity.”

However, it was the thought, at that time, of Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, as recorded in a memorandum from the Defense Advisory Committee, that “America no longer can afford to think in terms of a limited number of our fighting men becoming prisoners of war and in the hands of an enemy in some distant land”, because the encroaching scourge of “[m]odern warfare has brought the challenge to the doorstep of every citizen”, and, therefore had proposed that its tenets “be a Code for all Americans if the problem of survival should ever come to our own main streets”, emphasizing that “[t]he conscience and heart of all America are needed in the support of this Code, and ‘the best of training that can be provided in our homes, by our schools and churches and by the Armed Forces will be required for all who undertake ‘to live by this Code.’”

Yet, in a current age, like in most times of public health crises, associated with fear, confusion and despair, public school boards, neglecting, or abdicating, that “most important function of state and local government” that had been designated, in one landmark decision to be “a right which must be made available to all on equal terms”, “ where the state ha[d] undertaken to provide it”, have made a priority the mission of values instruction, at least, according to the Constitution, a role relegated to the religious sects, behind what had been erected as a “wall of separation”, the gravamen of an upcoming lawsuit in federal court.

And, by most indications in the quietest election in the history of Arlington, Virginia, this is “not a serious option” for a community with the most government scientists, where even the national learning losses that find the seventh most educated, by credentials, state in the nation, ranked sixth for declines in math and reading aptitude, and in public schools where the second best public school district, despite exceeding the per pupil expenditures in all of the suburbs of the nation’s capital, including affluent Zip codes in McLean and Chevy Chase, with graduates in the Class of 2022 who found 40% attempting to gain admission to a 93% acceptance rate state university defying the gravity of hitting the floor after falling from a chair, and failing at that, with no provisions for that hereafter. But one retired Army Ranger is clicking that icon: “Soldier on”, mindful that “surrender is not a Ranger word”, and of the infantry motto: Follow me.

Note: grandiosity is a classic sign of bipolar disorder, and we don't want to hurt his feelings lest he go to “that place”, so familiar to Arlington Public School Board Member, Latina Cristina Torres-Diaz.

Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim-cherry. A pandemic agent as lucky can be. Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim--achoo. The luck'll rub off when I bump fists with you. Or blow me a kiss, and catch COVID-2.

Your elected representative is called your elected representative for a reason; and Martin Luther King and Jesus never got elected.

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