The DUKE
10-05-16, 01:13 PM
Dumping ‘The Few, The Proud’ (https://patriotpost.us/posts/45201) https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2016-10-05-2bb1e824_large.png
Lt. Col. John Caldwell, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, said that the Marine Corps is looking into the possibility of changing its 40-year-old recruiting slogan, “The Few, The Proud, The Marines.” He stated, “‘The Few, The Proud’ does a great job of distinguishing ourselves from the other branches and making us prestigious to recruits, but it doesn’t say anything about what we do or why we exist.” Caldwell said that the new slogan would be based on three concepts of “fighting self-doubt to become a Marine, fighting the nation’s battles and fighting for what’s right in our communities.”
As the old adage says, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This trial balloon raises the question: What is the primary motivation for seeking a slogan change that has been highly successfully for decades? Might this be yet another instance of Barack Obama and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus continuing to force leftist social engineering onto the military? With recent examples of transgender guidelines in the military and the Air Force’s new diversity-based demographic standards (https://patriotpost.us/posts/45179), one can hardly be blamed for questioning the true motivation for this slogan change. It appears to be more of Obama’s M.O. — out with the old “bigoted” military and in with the new “progressive” social justice warriors.
Lt. Col. John Caldwell, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, said that the Marine Corps is looking into the possibility of changing its 40-year-old recruiting slogan, “The Few, The Proud, The Marines.” He stated, “‘The Few, The Proud’ does a great job of distinguishing ourselves from the other branches and making us prestigious to recruits, but it doesn’t say anything about what we do or why we exist.” Caldwell said that the new slogan would be based on three concepts of “fighting self-doubt to become a Marine, fighting the nation’s battles and fighting for what’s right in our communities.”
As the old adage says, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This trial balloon raises the question: What is the primary motivation for seeking a slogan change that has been highly successfully for decades? Might this be yet another instance of Barack Obama and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus continuing to force leftist social engineering onto the military? With recent examples of transgender guidelines in the military and the Air Force’s new diversity-based demographic standards (https://patriotpost.us/posts/45179), one can hardly be blamed for questioning the true motivation for this slogan change. It appears to be more of Obama’s M.O. — out with the old “bigoted” military and in with the new “progressive” social justice warriors.