APNewsBreak: Pentagon readying plan to lift transgender ban

CNS News ^ | July 13, 2015 | Lolita C. Baldor AP

[jazusamo]

You nailed it with George Patton, I thought of him as I read the article.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

How is that a good breeding ground as a source for American soldiers?

I just doesn't make any sense. Why do Liberals do silly things like this? Don't they realize that what they're doing is wrong?

[Cowboy Bob]

Trying to push it through before the Democrats get thrown out of office.

I would hope that President Cruz terminates this policy the moment he is sworn in.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I know a guy who was on the USS Iowa when this happened. He told me this indeed was the likely scenario, and they had all been ordered to keep their mouths shut about it.

[Bigg Red]

If this were not so disgusting it would be laughable. How many of these freaks can there actually be? How many are actually in or want to be in the military?

[markomalley]

Reason #289,346 why I’m glad I’ve been retired for the past 13 years.

[MUDDOG]

Makes sense.

[jazusamo]

Exactly, on both counts.

[Eagles6]

The fundamental transformation contiues.

I am watching my country crumble before my eyes and there's not a damned thing I can do about it

The congress critters that we elected to stop this madness are abetting it.

[VerySadAmerican]

This is one more reason for the blacks to abandon the democrat party. But they won’t because they’re stupid. Racist comment? I don’t think so.

[Cheerio]

How much further down into this cesspool are we as a nation going to sink?

[Red in Blue PA]

We passed Rod Serling several years ago.

[VanShuyten]

“Basic Training is really hard and unfair to fat or weak people. It’s particularly unfair to physically or mentally challenged people. Obviously we need to tone down basic training.”

Maybe this is Obama’s way of making sure “women” can pass the physicals for the Rangers or Seal teams.

[wildbill]

Much ado about nothing. Not very many transgenders in the population at large.

I doubt very many will want to join the military unless they will get the operations done at taxpayers expense.

That will be a outrageous use of tax money, but a drop in the Pentagon’s budget.

[familyop]

"APNewsBreak: Pentagon readying plan to lift transgender ban"

Or "How Can Defense Forces Appease Loons On Both Sides and Continue Good Training?"

So our military forces are pushed to find yet more places to keep oddballs, weirdos and misfits from Republican and Democrat VIP families out of the way and somehow continue their duty of defending the United States.

The efforts of state and local recipients of federal pork to cut defense funding and funnel it to themselves is getting ripe, so here. We might as well tell them some of our secrets.

And on the Jade Helm training exercise, there's some news about the Walmart/Pentagon tunnels. The last few feet can be completed under the houses of neighbors of anti-military targets within a half of an hour, when the time is just right (about 300 hours or 3:00 am). The neighbors have been recruited to help and have been watching the subversives for months.

And the Walmarts? We're bringing booby hatches back--needed work that is long overdue--maximum security!

[jazusamo]

I’m not too sure it’s much ado about nothing though I do understand what you’re saying.

I’ll just mention Bradley Manning as an example of a major ado.

[odawg]

Yes, with the world going to hell, it is nice to see that the Pentagon is really grappling with the really important issues. We should be grateful that we have such warriors running our national defense.

[DemforBush]

Took the words right out of my mouth. Trans-types have nearly a 50-50 likelihood of attempting suicide, and do so at a rate 25 times higher than the societal norm. Someone that unstable has no business being in an occupation where the lives of the men and women next to you can depend on you keeping a cool head under stress.

There’s also the pressure that comes with a new protected class. We saw this with Bradley Manning. Even a cursory examination of his behavior in basic training and in the field clearly indicates he was unfit for military service. He wasn’t openly trans-whatever, but it was pretty clear he was in that “special little snowflake” group. So, he got a pass when he should have been discharged. I can only imagine the problems we’re going to have (but probably never hear about in public) with openly trans-whatever folks in service.

[NKP_Vet]

Of course the goal is to destroy the military. And the sad thing is if a republican wins the White House they will not do one damn thing to reverse the perversion of the military services. From women in special forces they can’t do, to homosexuals openly serving and demanding favors from their subordinates, to now drag-queens (that is a man acting like a woman or vice versus, without ever getting a “sex change”), the effective on mission effectiveness and morale will be devastating . The damage has been done by Obama. That was one of his goals and mission accomplished. I will never recommend military service to any young adult. It used to be an honorable profession. Liberal democrats and their agenda has destroyed all that was good about serving in the Armed Forces.