Posted on 05/22/2022 7:27:32 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
The U.S. Army, apparently interested in furthering its recent journey into wokeness, is considering a policy called a “compassionate reassignment” permitting soldiers to request a transfer to a different area if they feel state or local laws discriminate against them because of their gender.
In addition to gender, sex, religion, race or pregnancy could be cited as discriminatory by the service member looking to move.
“The policy would ostensibly sanction soldiers to declare that certain states are too racist, too homophobic, too sexist or otherwise discriminatory to be able to live there safely and comfortably,” Military.com reported.
The guidance under consideration would need approval from Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.
“Some states are becoming untenable to live in; there’s a rise in hate crimes and rise in LGBT discrimination,” Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America, complained. “In order to serve this country, people need to be able to do their job and know their families are safe. All of these states get billions for bases but barely tolerate a lot of the service members.”
Jacob Thomas, communications director for Common Defense, said that troops “can’t be forced to live in places where they aren’t seen as fully human.”
In March, the U.S. Army revealed its new fitness test, called the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), which changed requirements so that it boasts different scoring standards for men and women.
Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, the service’s top enlisted leader, declared, “I’m really proud we’re moving forward; we’re there; we’re doing it.”
In most cases, the standards wound up lowered, “following a congressionally mandated report from Rand Corp, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, that found nearly half of the service’s women could not pass earlier standards for the test,” Military.com reported, adding, “The most significant changes to the six-event ACFT is that it no longer is meant to prepare soldiers for combat but instead built as a general fitness assessment.”
Military.com explained some differences in the expectations for men and women:
For example, a female soldier between 17 and 21 years old now has to deadlift between 120 and 210 lbs. while a male soldier has to lift between 140 and 340 lbs. In that same age group, female soldiers have to run two miles between 23:22 and 15:29 minutes while male soldiers must perform that exercise between 22 and 13:22 minutes.
Oh ffs...
Whisky
Tango
Foxtrot
China is running our military
immediate separation...
This Austin clown is degrading our military at warp speed. Which is probably why Biden selected him.
Just the effing title of this article sounds like dumbest batsht crazy satire
And Miley and other gelded officers carry on with a straight face like this.
And I thought Russian officers feared Putin and obeyed stupid orders blindly ... Sht, we got nothing to envy them on.
No longer the army our fathers were in.
Thoroughly Modern Milley strikes yet again.
Don’t allow your relatives and friends to join the Woke U.S. military.
When President Trump is reelected EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Woke Civilian AND Military members at ALL LEVELS supporting this nonsense needs to be purged from Day One. Without exception.
A total and complete house cleaning of these subversives are IMPERATIVE.
The new fitness test isn’t “meant to prepare soldiers for combat”????!
I’m sure that seems nicer to the soldiers now, but they’re going to get killed if they’re sent into combat. And the US will lose.
Let’s not get ourselves into the position Russia has found itself in: at war, with soldiers unprepared for combat.
Policies that can be defined as sabotage.
We all knew they were going to “dumb down” the PT standards so the women could hang and qualify for Special Forces.
About all you can do is shake your head and realize what the
cost of this will be.
It’s a wonder any of our really reasoned thinkers and very
well qualified people remain in the armed forces.
Look, I know they love this nation and want it to continue
to last. Imagine what they have to put up with in order to
see that happen through their efforts.
It must be very demoralizing.
I propose a new Internet rule called the ‘Bee Theorem’: as time passes, the difference between a satirical Babylon Bee piece and real life approaches zero.
Pure Bravo Sierra
“But no compassion when a soldier refuses the jab”.
BINGO!
They don’t know the true meaning of compassion.
“Some states are becoming untenable to live in... All of these states get billions for bases but barely tolerate a lot of the service members.”
States like California which blatantly infringe on service members’ rights to keep and bear arms?
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