“On our own Shores” by Mike VonSteuben

Yesterday USNI News published an article entitled “Marines Consulting Outside Experts for Fixes to Recruiting Challenge”. Tucked away in this article is a stunning admission by the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Eric Smith. Speaking to a conference of Marine and Naval officers about the recruiting nightmare they face, Gen. Smith said this:

“It is just a matter of time before we are once again called to defend our nation and, perhaps, on our own shores.

Although for most “switched on” individuals this is nothing new, what’s significant about this statement is that it comes from a general officer in the Pentagon.

American military supremacy was an undeniable fact for the last several decades, and we grew comfortable with this reality. Too comfortable. As our foreign policy crumbles before our eyes, along with it goes the security we had here in the homeland. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 was the last crushing blow to our international credibility, and now our allies are losing confidence that we will come to their aid.

Our reputation aside, this skepticism from our allies is not unwarranted. It is no longer simply a question of WILL the United States help our allies, now it is a question of CAN we help them. We are so wholly committed to our proxy war in Ukraine that we have depleted critical national weapons stocks to support it. We have taken tanks and stingers away from the Marine Corps, howitzers and APCs from the Army, and recoilless rifles from the Rangers. And according to the contractors who make these weapons, we cannot replenish our stores for two decades.

Combine that with the recruiting crisis our military faces. I won’t dive too far into why, but the military is no longer able to meet its recruiting goals. There is simply a shortage of people able and willing to sign up for military service and the DOD is struggling to find out why. They simply refuse to acknowledge that their own efforts to shift the culture of the military into a bizarre social experiment are the cause of this crisis, and instead of addressing the real issue they lean harder into their “equal opportunity” efforts.

And now, finally, it has reached a point to where even the deep-seated establishment must acknowledge that we are weaker as a nation than we once were. This admission by a general officer is the first time that anyone in the pentagon has publicly acknowledged the possibility that our foreign policy and military posture are weakened to the point where we may not be secure in the homeland. That they know this is not surprising. That they now openly admit it is concerning, because it means that the threat is so real that they cannot afford to hide it.

In light of this reality, it is more important than ever for every American to be prepared to face a foreign military power at home. It is my opinion that the most likely foreign threat to the homeland comes from our southern border. Thousands of unknown individuals cross into our nation every month, and it only takes a small fraction of them to have military training to constitute a very potent fifth-column threat from inside our borders. Additionally, given the recent attacks on our power infrastructure by home-grown communist revolutionaries, it is apparent that the threat is already here.

The best thing you can do right now is get organized with the people around you. Don’t go online looking for new friends, just talk with your neighbors. You may find that a lot of them have the same concerns that you have. Get organized within your community, get training, and stock up food and ammunition while you still can.

As the General said, it’s only a matter of time before we engage the enemy “on our own shores.”

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10 Comments

  1. Sdkfz 251 Flammenwerfer January 26, 2023 at 16:17

    Borders are a construct of the white male patriarchy? (s/)
    Our external enemies aren’t faculty lounge brillianten and would never take advantage of a non-existent border.
    Where is the stunning part?
    The CPUSA/Grand Old Politburo views America as the enemy and will burn it down in order to merge with the global soviet by any means necessary.

  2. MTHead January 26, 2023 at 16:56

    Your right Mike, we should be prepared. But maybe the general should start talking about the one that’s already landing? The one that’s being placed all over America with tax payor dollars?
    Despite the commie BS about voting. They ain’t mostly fighting age males for no reason.
    They’re one that will go tribal in a heartbeat when the EBT’s quit working.
    Who are we kidding. Gavin Newsom would welcome a Chinese invasion of California. I mean why not, they probably already paid him for it.
    Sorry, I just can’t help thinking the next fight is already here.

  3. sixalpha January 26, 2023 at 17:08

    Our beloved Corps is losing its way. Or, more than likely has lost its way. When I saw the helmet with the rainbow bullets and a statement supporting “pride month”, I knew the end was near. For the Corps to acknowledge that was inexcusable. It connects with the greater problem. This country is being looted by politicians, the military industrial complex and globalists. Why else would we send a large portion of our weaponry to Ukraine? If we have to engage China in support of Taiwan, we will lose half the Marine Corps and half of our Navy because we don’t have the weaponry to re-arm. That is when we will be vulnerable and be invaded, The Chinese are arming the Mexican drug cartels with weapons they bought from the Taliban when we left Afghanistan. I’m an old Marine and will fight any enemy, foreign or domestic to the end.

    Semper Fi!

    • Mike VonSteuben January 26, 2023 at 17:58

      Agreed. Sadly, I knew something was up even in boot camp when I was discouraged from memorizing the rifleman’s creed. The military as a whole has been slowly worn down for a while. The Marine Corps is no exception, although we have been the most resistant to it of all the other branches.

      • Quietus January 26, 2023 at 20:51

        Could you expand on that, when you were discouraged from memorizing the Rifleman’s Creed? What year?

        • Mike VonSteuben January 26, 2023 at 22:06

          Early 2016. I told the story in my article on the creed.
          https://vs-training.com/2022/10/22/the-riflemans-creed-warrior-ethos/

          Excerpt from the article;
          “Unfortunately, in recent years the Corps has pushed the Rifleman’s Creed to the wayside. It is no longer required for recruits in boot camp to memorize it, and in fact it is discouraged. When I was in boot camp, I was the “knowledge recruit”, responsible for assisting the rest of my platoon in memorizing the knowledge in our recruit books. I saw the Rifleman’s Creed in the back of the book, and decided to start having the platoon memorize it with me. After a few days of this, my drill instructors told me to stop and instead have the platoon focus on memorizing things like the first female Marine and the first black Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. Decades of warrior ethos cast aside for politically correct bullshit that wouldn’t mean a damn thing to these recruits when they became Marines! I memorized the creed on my own anyway, the only recruit in my company to do so.”

  4. Scipio January 26, 2023 at 18:24

    I am confident that our military can not defend us against external attacks. The heart of any army is not its toys but it’s boys. We have few real men in our armed services today. They are dispersed among trans, other perverts, and just a bunch of pansies. I am not sure they can even defend us against internal attacks, and that is where the fighting will start I believe. First, it will be claimed to be collateral damage from cartel turf wars. Then, you will see all out assaults on the police, once again in some social justice guise. Finally, it will be full out in the open, and only well armed and trained communities will survive as the USA fragments into “safe” and not “safe” locales. Antifa, the John Brown Gun Club, among others will be carving up the areas they want. It will be a proxy war for our enemies. The US military? They are now an after thought to our enemies after you consider what Mike just said. Remember to prepare, recruit, and train. Mike’s classes are the best. I can attest to it personally after being in one of his Team Leader classes.

  5. GK January 26, 2023 at 19:35

    So far as the ammunition aspect, they have been making it one round at a time with robots. They say they are going to increase production by 500%. They could easily do so via the old production methods where this stuff is running down several lines at once. All the way up to 90,000 a month. How many cars did GM complete at their zenith?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-increase-artillery-ammunition-production-500-ukraine

  6. T January 26, 2023 at 20:34

    This is definitely a “no shit brother” commentary. You cannot give airtime and front page space for the message “your country sucks and its all the white folks fault”, and sprinkle on loads of candy-ass silliness like making uniformed men wear high heels and expect to get an actual fighting force capable of more than slap fighting. The recent headline of a retired Army Col. wearing a leather dog mask and bragging about his gay pup play was probably the nail in the coffin of aborted careers for another thousand men who were willing to sign on the line until that F-tards photo hit Google News.

  7. KBYN January 26, 2023 at 21:45

    I have a hunch that the General has a different enemy in mind: us.

    The DC elitists regard everyday Americans as frightening obstacles to their quest for power. If a hostile foreign military lands on American soil in force, it will probably be at the open invitation of the DC elitists. They’ll be labeled “peacekeepers.”

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