Posted on 08/11/2017 7:55:34 AM PDT by Kevin C
The recently confirmed secretary of the Navy says he will follow any order the president gives on transgender troops, but that any patriot should be allowed to serve.
We will process and take direction of a policy that is developed by the [Defense] secretary [with] direction from the president and march out smartly, Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer told reporters Thursday night after visiting Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
"On a fundamental basis, any patriot that wants to serve and meets all the requirements should be able to serve in our military"
Spencer was confirmed a week after President Trump tweeted that he plans to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
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I know quite a few patriots who are physically or mentally not qualified to serve in our military, including close relatives. There is a VERY long list of disqualifying conditions, and being too stupid/sick/suggestible to be able to figure out your own sex is or ought to be one of them.
http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/disqualifiers-medical-conditions.html
What is the chromosome makeup of this mysterious new “gender” called Trans? There are males and females, and in the military there are male and female uniforms. There are blood tests to determine sex or gender, and military policy to dictate dress codes which uniform to wear. There are male and female living quarters, restrooms etc. Barring a rare genetic birth defect, sex is easily determined by a chromosome test.
I’m not going to say that Trump has a ‘private policy’ vs. a ‘public policy’.
I’ll leave that machination to Hillary.
Didn’t the Coast Guard say the same thing? These people keep publicly contradicting him and getting cheered on in the media. Fire them.
“So help me God.”
That is the foundation on which the oath to protect and defend is built. Anything less is doomed to failure. No matter your denomination.
They must meet all the requirements. A person who believes he’s a tree would be considered mentally unqualified.
You’d think a man with an appendage hanging from between his legs and believes he’s a woman would be, too.
Well, it is a statement that has been proven true since JPJ was running a rowboat.
YES, any PATRIOT should be allowed to serve.
AFTER everyone is given the same battery of tests to prove their knowledge, morality etc etc.
What the test doesn’t get, boot camp used to.
Occasionally some would make it through but the Military NEVER did say that Queers, Trannies, Wannabees COULDN’T serve, the Military was given a set of standards to follow.
If the Military isn’t willing to give me a tallywacker transplant - a newer, bigger model— then they shouldn’t be giving ‘addadicktomes’ or takeadickfrommes’.
Remember the old Marine joke about the recruits showing up at MCRD and the DI telling them
“The future is NOW.
No longer is MY CORPS signing up White, Black, Red, Yellow etc prospective Marines.
In the spirit of diversity, EVERYONE is and will be Orange.
This will mean the END of segregation as we know it.
We will become a fighting force where ones skin color doesn’t matter.
Now get on the bus.
You darker Oranges get to the rear while the lighter Oranges sit in the front”
I've always said that there should never be military pensions except 401 types because it tends to keep people in who have no business being in the military at all..
If young men and women that have attention deficit were not allowed to serve if they had to take retillin then transsexuals who take hormones should not be allowed to serve for the same reason.
“... and meets all the requirements.”
I’m pretty sure someone who requires medication/counseling to feel “normal” doesn’t meet “all the requirements.”
I’m a patriot, though over 60 years old. Will the Secretary permit me to serve?
Anyone? Really??
I knew quite an Athletic, Smart, and Patriotic fellow who was turned down multiple times because he has high blood pressure every time he went to the recruiter’s office. These freaks and their supporters are ridiculous.
Forget it, they're on a roll.
Who wants to be in a foxhole with someone hopped up on hormones and is more worried about getting mud on his/her boots than getting out alive?
The thing with being “transgender” is that unless they tell someone or indicate it someway, no one would know.
So no one is stopping a “trangender” from serving. They are however stopping those with no self control not to expose themselves to the world.
When I see many top military men coming out in support of homosexuals and trannies I begin to think that maybe they have been in the closet and are hoping they will soon beable to come out themselves.
“...and meets all the requirements should be able to serve in our military” is the caveat that will disqualify nearly every transgender due to not being able to pass the medical boards. If you get frequent headaches you will be disqualified in a DoDMERB.
Then you DON'T meet ALL the requirements. Almost everyone here is missing the point - the KEY phrase is:
"MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS". So, he (the Navy Secretary) gets it, which some of you do not.
Who in the hell is vetting these secretary picks? Trump seems to be surrounding himself with people that want to stab him in the back. I have a feeling that Obama bootlicking scumbag McMaster is behind much of this.
Fire his ass and hire somebody who’ll toe the mark.
UCMJ Article 88; Contempt toward officials:
Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Navy secretary on transgender troops: 'Any patriot' should be allowed to serve
Those with flat feet, asthma, psoriasis, sleep walkers, too short, too tall, too slow, too fat....all of them?
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