THE US MILITARY HAS GONE WOKE – THE CHINESE AND RUSSIANS KNOW IT!
My View From Inside The Turret
The month of June was made “LGBTQ+ Pride Month” by the Executive Order of Joe Biden. Now, he is not the first President to offer the American people the opportunity to celebrate what most of us think is an aberration in society.
President Bill Clinton declared June "Gay & Lesbian Pride Month" in 1999 and 2000. Then from 2009 to 2016, each year he was in office, President Barack Obama declared June “LGBT Pride Month.” Later, President Joe Biden declared June “LGBTQ+ Pride Month” in 2021. Note that during the Presidency of both George Bush and Donald Trump no such celebration was declared.
I want to be clear --- If an administration wants to single out about 3% of the American population for special recognition --- swell. Just don’t make the rest of us responsible for following along. However, the trend to expand on this issue … especially the increasing pressure on the transgender part of this … has now spread to the US military and it’s creating a real problem with the overall readiness of the force and its ability to defend the United States against its “near peer competitors.”
For those who may not understand Pentagon jargon, “near peer competitors” is a way to say China and Russia without actually saying China and Russia at the risk of offending them --- can you just imagine? So, what do the Chinese and Russians know about the American military going “WOKE”? Well, here is what they know … The United States Air Force issued the following headline on their “Resilience” website: Celebrating Diversity - June is LGBTQ Pride Month --- This is what has been occupying their time this month -- Ramstein, the largest American air base in Germany and headquarters of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, was slated to host local drag queen Stacey Teed at a 30-minute story time event for kids at an on-base library, or from Breitbart News : The United States Air Force on Wednesday tweeted out a graphic with “#CELEBRATEPRIDE” and a female airman saluting with rainbow colors on her hand to celebrate the beginning of Pride Month.
So, while the “near peer competitors” are preparing for a war with the United States --- The United States Air Force is celebrating Drag Queen Story Hour.
We also have a Navy --- and there are things happening in the Navy that should cause every American concern. Here are the headlines from NBC News: The Navy has fired a dozen leaders but won't explain why - A total of 13 commanding officers have been fired so far this year, including 12 in the Navy and one in the Marine Corps, the Navy said. Most recently, four Naval commanding officers and a top leader were ousted from June 8 to June 14. It’s unclear what prompted the personnel changes, which the Navy said were unrelated to each other. The Navy did not elaborate further on specific conditions that led to the firings.
These people were put in Command positions because they were the best of their contemporaries. So, what is going on inside the United States Navy that the best they have fail to meet their standards? Here is an excerpt from an “AllNav” message sent by the Secretary of the Navy on May 22d: As of 2018, 9.1% of Navy Service Members, and 4.4% of Marine Corps Service Members, are estimated to openly identify as LGBTQ.
At sea, commanding officers are relieved so frequently that it's become a long-running joke among sailors, said Benjamin Gold, who was a Naval officer for nearly seven years. Gold said dismissals are easily triggered, especially when complaints of discrimination, sexual harassment and conditions of employment are filed with the Naval Inspector General’s office. All symptoms of a WOKE Navy and not one that is trained and disciplined to fight and win!
The Army and the Marines are exempted from this ever-increasing phenomenon … not by a long shot! The New York Post reported just two days ago … The US Army has introduced Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets, new documents show, according to Fox News Digital. The “woke” lessons ask cadets about whiteness while encouraging them to apply Critical Race Theory to their answers, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and given to Fox News. The more than 600 documents were only handed over to Judicial Watch after the conservative organization sued the Department of Defense.
West Point is the source of many of our past Generals and will be the source of our future Generals. We already know that many of the officers assessed from the ROTC programs run in our colleges and universities are getting a heavy dose of “WOKE” in their university settings --- but, it’s a shocker that the Army sees fit to teach aspiring officers how to use CRT to divide rather than unite the fighting forces they will lead. So, while the rest of the Army is busy with Gay Pride and LGBTQ+, the minting of new lieutenants is being infused with Critical Race Theory --- “WOKE” in the extreme!
To close out this discussion, I would like my audience to know that this aberration has also now infected the single best fighting force in the United States military --- The United States Marine Corps. Seems the leadership of the USMC has gone just as WOKE as the rest of the Defense Department. They tweeted their message accompanied by a helmet with the Pride Flag represented by bullets painted in the Pride colors. The Guardian news site put it this way … “Yass marine! Here come rainbow bullets and brunches for Pride’s annual pinkwashing”
On June 1, 2022, HQ USMC tweeted: Throughout June, the USMC takes #Pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ service members.
I for one felt the world was a safer place when the USMC informed us all … February 23, 1945: During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag.
The good news is that the Pride Month is almost over and our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines can get back to what they do best --- train and fight to defeat America’s enemies --- because we can all be sure that the Chinese have not missed a training day in the entire month of June.
Can't tell you how sad these last 2 articles make me. And angry. I can't imagine how my Navy WWII Dad would react.