Another unsettling email

An unsettling email I received…take it for what it is worth.

Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) has a very close working relationship with Ft. Bragg and they have a number of programs to assist troops transitioning to the civilian world. I talked to one of my folks who works with troops wanting to transition to starting their own business.

He told me that all of the transition programs are totally swamped with senior troops saying F**k it, I’m getting out, and looking for help to what they will do after the military. The next biggest group are all the rest saying the same thing. Senior NCOs and officers are bailing out.

Also, this is having a significant economic impact on Fayetteville. Fayetteville survives on selling crap to soldiers and the base. Soldiers aren’t spending money. They are hording their cash because they don’t know how long they will have a pay check.

This is a big hit on retailers because younger troops tend to blow their money every two weeks because they have no obligations and like their toys. That has all stopped. Some retailers of such toys are reporting a 50% drop in revenue/sales. Many of these businesses survived during Covid because of the troop spending never stopping. That isn’t the case anymore.

I also talked to a recently retired Special Forces (SF) senior NCO who is still plugged into SF on Bragg. The base is FULL. The main reason for this is that the .MIL had ruled weeks ago that if you weren’t fully vaxxed, then you are not deployable. Most, if not all, units on Bragg are now undeployable because too many of their troops are not vaxxed reducing their deployable troop strength below minimums. As Bragg is the home of Army SF, this is having a major impact on mission capability worldwide.

Troops that are currently deployed can’t come home because no units are available to replace them. New mission requirements can’t be fielded because they don’t have the full strength units to deploy. He told me that all of this was intentional and the opinion of senior NCOs on Bragg is that this is intentional to weed out the “undesirables” and leave a weakened force that are woke.

He also said that it was going to be cluster f**k that was going to get a lot of people killed when a nation decides to take advantage of this. The conversation included Taiwan.

The rest of what he told me I can’t share here. But needless to say, it was damn ugly.

On a side note, I had to block most of the Bragg police channels from my scanner starting a few weeks ago because their levels of calls was overwhelming the other jurisdictions that are closer to home.