Peacenik establishment hacks grab guns, pull teeth, and bloviate against the Marine Corps

The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it

As much respect as everyone has for the Marines, their service branch became redundant and dependent on other branches long ago.

The Hill

Since the Soviet Union’s collapse, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the question has only become more pronounced. As operations in landlocked Afghanistan and near-landlocked Iraq proved, the Marine Corps had become redundant with, and dependent upon, the other service branches. Today the Navy handles amphibious operations, the Army provides expeditionary ground forces, and the Air Force and Navy share air support — leaving the Marine Corps’ mission capabilities in conflict with three more robust and more singularly capable branches.

The Marine Corps has other opinions

Five minutes of chaos: How the Navy shot down its own jet

A long pattern of rushed training and failed equipment contributed to the embarrassing and costly error, a recently published command investigation found.

Marine Corps TimesHope Hodge Seck

Teeth are being pulled

Troops’ dental readiness showing some improvement, some decay

Although troops’ dental readiness has improved some over the last decade, there’s also been a decline in the number of troops with the best dental health.

Marine Corps TimesKaren Jowers

The officials cited a 2024 study outlining 264 dental emergencies per 1,000 deployed personnel per year, based on an analysis of multiple long-term studies.

Active military duty is not an appointment-keeping situation, and seeing a dentist is apparently "required" but only available on an emergency basis.

Military dental readiness is classified into four categories. Class 1 represents the highest level of dental health and readiness, where the service member has a current dental exam, and doesn’t require any additional treatment or reevaluation. ¶Those in Class 2 require nonurgent dental treatment or reevaluation for oral conditions, but they’re not likely to result in a dental emergency with a year. They’re still medically ready to deploy. ¶A Class 3 designation means the service member has a condition that could cause a dental emergency within 12 months. They’re not medically ready to deploy. ¶A Class 4 designation represents the lowest level of dental health and readiness, where a service member is delinquent in getting dental care and requires a dental exam, or the dental classification status is unknown. They’re not medically ready to deploy. ¶Dentists determine a service member’s readiness classification, but their commander makes the ultimate decision about their ability to deploy.

Peacenik dental commanders obviously have their own goals and objectives which differ markedly from and are in conflict with those of military commanders as such. Which is a reminder that certain military commands, such as those to lay down arms in battle, are indeed illegal.

Dentists are grabbing guns

• JADA: Addressing gun violence as a public health problem: Why dentistry needs to engage
• JADA: Integrating firearm secure storage counseling into dental practice: Opportunities for dental practice-based research

The bottom line for the non-violent branches of the modern U.S. armed forces is that guns are banned again, and the question is thus:

Are your teeth pretty enough for hand-to-hand combat with lying fluoride-poisoning politicians and pundits wielding knives and brass knuckles?