Posted on 07/23/2022 9:09:38 AM PDT by Signalman
The Senate Armed Services Committee issued a report urging the Pentagon to halt its fruitless hunt for “extremists” in the ranks. The report, accompanying the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act, states that “spending additional time and resources to combat exceptionally rare instances of extremism in the military is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds, and should be discontinued by the Department of Defense immediately.”
The witch hunt was ordered by the Pentagon in April 2021. The” Countering Extremist Activity Working Group” (CEAWG) eventually discovered fewer than 100 instances of confirmed extremist activity in 2021, the Pentagon reported in December.
“With roughly 2.1 million active and reserve personnel in the U.S. military, 100 cases is roughly .005% of the force,” according to Fox News.
“What is the impact on morale, good order and discipline, and ultimately combat effectiveness, if the men and women in our incredibly diverse and all-volunteer military believe that the Department of Defense doesn’t have their backs when it comes to white supremacy, support for jihadism, misogynist extremism, or anti-LGBTQ+ extremism?” said Bill Braniff, director of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START.
A lone Democrat, Senator Angus King, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, voted to include the recommendation to nix the CEAWG in the Armed Services Committee report. But Democrats may still be able to delete it from the final product and keep the CEAWG in operation.
How do you define an “extremist”? The Pentagon makes it impossible.
Military commanders will be provided with a “two-part test” that first focuses on allegations of alleged extremist activity and then looks at whether there is active participation.
Fourteen categories will help commanders determine if a service member is an active participant in extremist activities.
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Thanks for sharing that.
The CRT is meant to undermine harmony, divide people and hurt moral and unit cohesiveness, etc.
I’m a VN vet and 50 years ago in Nam we had some racial tension but not in the field. We had a black medic who was top notch.
Thank you for your service!
“eventually discovered fewer than 100 instances of confirmed extremist activity in 2021, the Pentagon reported in December.
“With roughly 2.1 million active and reserve personnel in the U.S. military, 100 cases is roughly .005% of the force,” according to Fox News.”........
It is a little ironic that the term “witch hunt” is used, when they would be OK with witches.
Why would anyone join the armed forces today?
Low pay, low respect, and targeted by wokesters.
The upper ranks need a lot of forced retirements.
“How will we know who is an extremist?”
“They will question what we are doing”
I don’t think they should end the hunt; I think they should employ the use of mirrors.
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