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Trump gives the Pentagon six months to kick THOUSANDS of transgender service people out...
The Daily Mail ^ | 24 August 2017 | James Wilkinson

Posted on 08/24/2017 7:48:23 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Trump gives the Pentagon six months to kick THOUSANDS of transgender service people out of the military if they are deemed 'non-deployable'.

A month after he announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military via Twitter, Donald Trump has issued a memo on how the decision is to be implemented.

The two-and-a-half-page note says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis must consider a service member's 'deployability' when deciding whether to eject them from the military.

That means that if they are unable to serve in a war zone, take part in training or serve on a ship for months, they must go, the Wall Street Journal reported.

It has not been spelled out exactly how the criteria will be assessed, however the Trump administration seems to be implying that it does not believe transgender service people are deployable.

The policy gives the Pentagon six months to oust 'non-deployable' transgender service members, bans new transgender hires and orders the Pentagon to stop paying for trans service members' medical treatments.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: families; homosexualagenda; militaryreadiness; militarytransgenders; ofsponsors; trumpdod; usmilitary
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Big Media LIES.

It’s who they are, it’s what they do.

Pity their children.


21 posted on 08/24/2017 7:58:07 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Why six months? :)


22 posted on 08/24/2017 7:58:22 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

If we have “thousands” of them in our military..... something is terribly WRONG...and sick!


23 posted on 08/24/2017 7:58:29 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: DesertRhino

You have not researched what this surgery entails and what is the follow up regimen

Nothing like reading the painful remorse of “men “discovering the reality of a lifetime of mangina stretching


24 posted on 08/24/2017 7:58:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: dp0622

This. I don’t see why it should take longer than six days.


25 posted on 08/24/2017 7:59:03 AM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
The job of the military is to protect the country.

Specifically, its job is to kill the enemy and break all his toys.

26 posted on 08/24/2017 7:59:36 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The “non-deployable”s will be that because of the medical treatment they will be going through....at government expense instead of using that money for bullets......


27 posted on 08/24/2017 8:00:24 AM PDT by yoe
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To: MrEdd

Six thousand?

No way are there that many who have had surgery. These are just garden variety malingerers anyway.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the number that signed up for the new navy with the slogan might surprise you?:

“join the navy and see the world while you wait on your trans surgery”


28 posted on 08/24/2017 8:01:08 AM PDT by thinden
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Good! KEY WORD: "Non-deployable"

The key word on the Tweet was no transgender personnel at all. Why the change?

29 posted on 08/24/2017 8:01:42 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: proust

“So you know nothing about the Haditha Marines then?”

FWIW, even the leftist freaks at Wikipedia sort of defend Mattis:

Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani was recommended to face court-martial for having “failed to thoroughly and accurately report and investigate a combat action that clearly needed scrutiny.”[47] On June 17, 2008 Military Judge Colonel Steven Folsom dismissed all charges against Lt Colonel Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds that General James Mattis, who approved the filing of charges against Chessani, was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre


30 posted on 08/24/2017 8:01:52 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Media sponsors are passionate and flaming about the issue.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Threatens To End Briefing After Press Pool Obsesses Over Military Trans Ban! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTB3idwnTVU


31 posted on 08/24/2017 8:02:14 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: dp0622

It takes about that much time to medically discharge a person.


32 posted on 08/24/2017 8:03:06 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (No weapon formed against me shall prosper! (Isaiah 54:17))
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To: marron

From what I’ve read, they require access to hormones and other drugs on a pretty constant basis. Drugs that might not be accessible in a war situation. As one noted, diabetics are not allowed in the military for the same reason. So the ‘deployable’ bit might be a way to deflect discrimination lawsuits. Anyone who cannot be deployed can’t serve.


33 posted on 08/24/2017 8:03:28 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: thinden

Nobody told them they only get to see it from five miles offshore?


34 posted on 08/24/2017 8:04:38 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
BFAC, here's what I've been thinking. I just cannot help myself. I'm not a big believer in coincidence; things that happen at the same time can't avoid affecting each other. Anyway, here goes:What President Trump could use is a group of advisors, a very special group. That would be military high-level leaders who either left or were removed by Obama because to the problems this social agenda causes. It just might be that one can't focus on the mission and these other issues and effectively.
35 posted on 08/24/2017 8:05:11 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Probably”? Women in inappropriate roles in the military have significantly degraded deployability, readiness, and effectiveness. And, the lie that women can do whatever men do in the military was the spearhead for opening the door to the mentally ill, otherwise known as the LGBTQ


36 posted on 08/24/2017 8:05:42 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Probably”? Women in inappropriate roles in the military have significantly degraded deployability, readiness, and effectiveness. And, the lie that women can do whatever men do in the military was the spearhead for opening the door to the mentally ill, otherwise known as the LGBTQ


37 posted on 08/24/2017 8:05:42 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: DesertRhino

True, but then the generals own the consequences. Performance matters, and ongoing maintenance of genital mutilation is no longer a valid excuse.


38 posted on 08/24/2017 8:06:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Key word? More like a federal personnel policy weasel word like “children” or “essential”.

If the “essential/non-essential” federal employee dichotomy we see when the government shuts down was used to attrite or RIF (reduction in force) the federal work force (furlough: permanent), I suspect every “non-essential” employee would quickly be re-classified as “essential”.

Same thing here. Any member of our armed forces who has admitted `gender dysphoria’ (”Uh, I’m a `Pat’”), instead of giving them six months to lobby for deployable status, why not just give all of them a short grace period to make their plans, then show them the door?
We’ll see what happens.


39 posted on 08/24/2017 8:07:43 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ctdonath2

If anyone is “nondep[loyable” are they in the service for any reason other than to get bennies? Kick out all “nondeployables”.


40 posted on 08/24/2017 8:07:59 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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