Last week the internet was rocked by an image of a US Army colonel celebrating his retirement by wearing “pup” fetish gear with his uniform (see We Found the Real Dog-Faced Pony Soldier (and I Wish We Hadn’t).
Apparently, this fetish is all the rage in the upper echelons of the federal government. For example, the recently fired head of the Department of Energy’s spent nuclear fuel program, Sam Brinton, was a big aficionado (see Meet Your Federal Government: New Department of Energy Official Is a Drag Queen ‘Kink Lecturer’ and Fan of Bestiality).
Brinton was fired yesterday after being indicted in two states for stealing women’s luggage off airport baggage carousels, Non-Binary Biden Official Fired After Luggage Charges, Therapist Previously Warned About His ‘Lies and Behavior.’
It wasn’t long after the first image of “@PupRavage” appeared that he was doxxed as Maryland National Guard Colonel Brian T. Connelly (the tweet below misspells the name). The tweet thread shows Connelly, over a period of time, cavorting in “pup” gear with much younger men, at least one of which is identified as a subordinate. The text in the Instagram posts makes it clear that Connelly is engaged in this bondage fetish with several men, all of who appear to be in the military, all of whom are younger and probably junior in rank. Be advised some of the images contained in the thread below are definitely NSFW but not pornographic.
In Connelly’s defense, pup bondage is what Army Aviation Branch refers to as “Tuesday,” You don’t want to be around on Friday because you won’t like it.
The Army has now launched an investigation.
Soldiers who wore bondage gear and dog masks in sexually explicit photos while in uniform are under investigation, the Army confirmed Monday.
The photos, which have appeared on social media, show male soldiers in uniform, or parts of uniforms, wearing dog masks, leather and chains. Some of the photos depict poses of submission and sexual acts. Another photo shows a soldier in combat fatigues wearing the dog mask on an airfield.
Some of the photos appeared on Twitter Friday. The soldiers are based in Hawaii.
Internal Pentagon email traffic obtained by USA TODAY shows Army officials believed some of the photos appear to have been taken at a base gym in Hawaii. The source of the email was not authorized to release it. The email notes that reactions to the photos has been “hyper politicized.”
Don’t be fooled. This investigation is just eyewash. The Army is trying to show the rubes in the cheap seats that “we’re really upset and we’re doing something, oh, and please tell your congressman to vote for the Defense appropriation bill, while you’re at it, how about convincing your kid to enlist.”
Comments in the thread about Colonel Pup Fetish indicate that, literally, everyone knew what he was into. He kept the mask hanging in his office. He and the other men (I use the term advisedly) involved communicated and shared images via social media accounts that were visible to anyone. This behavior went on because the chain of command of Colonel Connelly and his playmates were either OK with the sexual perversion or they were too intimidated by the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Gestapo to complain about it.
The US Army is an institution in crisis. Culturally, it was foundering by the time 9/11 took place. The failures in Iraq and Afghanistan stripped the Army of its ability to resist adopting Critical Race Theory and DIE indoctrination, assuming arguendo that it wanted to resist. Indeed, the Army seems to have embraced every institution-killing novelty Ivy League race-and-gender faculties can dish out.
This has not happened without cost. The cost has been the warrior ethos any military force needs for battlefield success. The cost has been camaraderie replaced with division along race and gender lines. The cost has been the destruction of unit cohesion in the combat arms by inserting into those units sexual relationships, natural and unnatural. The yet unpaid cost is dead soldiers because the career possibilities for women were more important than lives (Women In Combat: Making A Virtue Of Weakness Gets People Killed).
An even larger price has been paid in terms of the institutional integrity of the officer corps.
At one time, the code of the officer corps was the same as that of West Point cadets. You will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate anyone who does. The reason for this is simple. On the battlefield, the truth is vital. Even when the truth is unpleasant and places you or your unit in an unfavorable light. In the last years of the Obama regime, I posted this story: The US Army: an institution corrupted to its very core.
This may be stupid but how is it corrupt?
Army reserve officer Tammy Smith calls her recent promotion to brigadier general exciting and humbling, saying it gives her a chance to be a leader in advancing Army values and excellence.
What she glosses over is that along with the promotion she is also publicly acknowledging her sexuality for the first time, making her the first general officer to come out as gay while still serving. It comes less than a year after the end of the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.
“All of those facts are irrelevant,” she said. “I don’t think I need to be focused on that. What is relevant is upholding Army values and the responsibility this carries.”
A married Army general on Tuesday introduced his spouse at a Pentagon event that featured lots of top brass, including Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as the keynote speaker.
What made this seemingly routine introduction noteworthy is that Brig. Gen. Randy S. Taylor introduced his husband, Lucas.
“My husband Lucas is sitting up front here,” Gen. Taylor said of the man in the same row as Mr. Carter, Army Secretary John McHugh and other senior officials. He said Lucas has subjugated his own career to support the general’s frequent moves over an 18-year relationship.
“We bet everything on my Army career,” said Gen. Taylor, whose 27 years of service spanned an outright ban on gays, then “don’t ask, don’t tell” and finally, the ban’s lifting in 2011.
The issue in both these cases is not the sexual preference of the officers but the fact that they entered on active duty at a time when it was against Army regulations — and illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice — to engage in homosexual activity. This is what is known as a fraudulent appointment. It is actually a federal crime. They accepted a salary under false pretenses. Any punishments they awarded are illegal because they held their commissions illegally. The Army is now honoring them as some sort of hero — General Smith says her promotion is about “upholding Army values” which, at some point after I left, were expanded to include lying and deceit. At a minimum, neither of these officers should have been promoted because they are self-confessed and unrepentant liars.
I visited the National Museum of the US Army at Fort Belvoir two years ago. In the display of “firsts” in the Army was a panel devoted to Brigadier General Tammy Smith, the first lesbian general. No mention of the lies and deceit that allowed her to become a general.
No matter how shameful and destructive to unit discipline Colonel Pup’s conduct may have been, it was permitted by his chain of command and by the Army because it is more important that the Army be on the cutting edge of societal degradation than actually win wars.