[MortMan]

I disagree that he is already going back on his word. The tweeted "rule" was clearly a common-English summary of the intent. The deployability-based decision making process is the only way to structure a policy that will have the proximal effect of a "ban".

Turning away anyone not currently in for being transgender isn't too much of an issue. Removing anyone who is already in is the problem - No one has a 'right' to serve, but once you enter into the contract, both sides are bound to its terms.

Without a clear, need-based set of rules, any policy will be immediately declared null as being arbitrary. Even with a clear, need-based set of rules, that is not an unlikely outcome, knowing the federal courts and how the left knows which judges are friendly.

Just my opinion.

From the article: Employing the criteria of deployability to remove service members is bound to be greeted with deep opposition.

This, in and of itself, illustrates very clearly the problem with leftists regarding the military. If a soldier (sailor, airman, marine, etc.) is not deployable, they are incapable of doing their job in case of need on part of the country. Therefore, they forfeit their position in the military - especially when the cause of not being deployable is a permanent illness.

If a person is diabetic, they are non deployable, and would be mustered out right quick. Why is a mental illness considered less debilitating?

[NKP_Vet]

Obama’s Executive Order put “transgenders” in the military. It was never approved by Congress and it was never recommended by the JCS after lengthy studies. As a matter of fact every study down through the years said no to open homosexuals in the military, no to women in combat and no to those with physical or mental disorders. The military never wanted to become a big social experiment laboratory. Obama ORDERED it and make it happen with the stroke of a pen, because that’s what he wanted. He didn’t give a damn about what every military study had said for the last 200 years, and that was an affirmative no because none of the things I mentioned improves mission effectiveness. You change things that will improve the military, not hamper the mission.

President Trump by Executive Order can end all “transgenders” from serving in the military, he can say no to women in combat and he can stop open homosexuals from serving in the military.