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Retired US Military Chiefs Fight Trump Trans Ban
Voice of America ^ | January 7, 2019 | Reuters

Posted on 01/08/2019 11:06:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

LONDON — Four senior retired U.S. military officers on Tuesday blasted a legal ruling backing President Donald Trump's ban on transgender individuals serving in the armed forces as "wrong" ahead of a key decision from the country's top court on Friday.

The officers said a ruling last week by a Washington appeals court in favor of a ban on transgender recruits was misguided and backed an earlier decision that such a policy would violate their constitutional rights.

"The D.C. Court of Appeals made an error when it lifted one of the injunctions that protect transgender members of our military," said retired officers Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, Rear Admiral John Hutson, Major General Gale Pollock and Brigadier General Clara Adams-Ender.

"The need for an injunction protecting transgender people who serve their country remains precisely the same," they said in a joint statement obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation...

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These are Deep Staters. Good thing they are no longer in the military. I don’t care that they are retired military. I have o respect for them.


21 posted on 01/09/2019 12:29:07 AM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Were the reports that Mattis was pro-tranny not true?


22 posted on 01/09/2019 12:29:23 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Stawp the hammering!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank heaven these aholes are EX military!


23 posted on 01/09/2019 12:36:54 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Rear Admiral John Hutson"

The Butt Pirate and The Cabin Boy.

24 posted on 01/09/2019 12:40:27 AM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good thing they’re retired. Too bad they still get plenty of tax payer money


25 posted on 01/09/2019 12:40:51 AM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: vigilence

When those officers entered the military, it was highly illegal to be LGTB. This indicates they were criminals before, plotted, conspired, and covered up their immorality. They should be charged for their past felonious behavior, their discharge changed to a BCD and their retirement removed immediately.


26 posted on 01/09/2019 12:42:35 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Lockbox

3 females and one REAR Admiral.


27 posted on 01/09/2019 12:50:46 AM PST by D Rider
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To: GaryCrow

Mattis opposed the tranny ban. One reason he’s gone.


28 posted on 01/09/2019 1:50:28 AM PST by FredZarguna ("And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born.")
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To: Forgotten Amendments

They appear to have been true.


29 posted on 01/09/2019 1:53:13 AM PST by FredZarguna ("And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Claudia Kennedy.. again.


30 posted on 01/09/2019 1:55:35 AM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those guys sold their souls to the left.


31 posted on 01/09/2019 2:14:14 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's not the Army I was in.

Obama butt girls, and boy.

32 posted on 01/09/2019 3:06:16 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Retired US Military Chiefs Fight Trump Trans Ban

Must have impacted "date night".

33 posted on 01/09/2019 3:35:30 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What they meant was retired, democrat generals. They are partisan and were when they were on active duty.

JoMa


34 posted on 01/09/2019 3:42:01 AM PST by joma89
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Taken over? These characters are retired. And they are defying rules. They are not allowed to go against the cic


35 posted on 01/09/2019 3:43:39 AM PST by stanne
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It was Clinton’s long term goal when he implemented “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” The idea was to get gays into the military without kicking them out, then to declare it okay to be gay openly. Clinton’s plan worked perfectly. Now we have “transgendered”, along with their physical and mental issues, who can join and burden the military health care system, not to mention the effects on morale.


36 posted on 01/09/2019 3:47:15 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m retired military too. I say to hell with the mentally ill folks known as trans. Sorry, have your bizzaro world delusion somewhere else other than the military. Try Hollywood.


37 posted on 01/09/2019 3:56:24 AM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

O6 and above make serious retirement money. I would be golfing and living at a gated golfing community. Maybe some fishing on the side.

But after a career of being a coddled pain in the arse of the personnel who actually get the job done, perhaps they feel at a loss for that “value” they invented for the sole purpose of padding their OER’s.


38 posted on 01/09/2019 3:58:09 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rose to their rank by shameless bootlicking.


39 posted on 01/09/2019 3:59:50 AM PST by maddogtiger
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To: stanne
Taken over? These characters are retired. And they are defying rules. They are not allowed to go against the cic

They are only defying the rules, if someone enforces it. So far, no one has.

40 posted on 01/09/2019 4:01:19 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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