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I Wouldn't Encourage Anyone To Join': As Pentagon Goes Woke, Veterans Refuse To Help Military Recruitment Efforts
DC Enquirer ^ | 05.08.2023 | Ilan Hulkower

Posted on 05/08/2023 2:15:01 PM PDT by grimalkin

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To: Jet Jaguar

I knew it was time to get out when signature lines started to include woke pronouns.

SMSgt Jim A. Thompson, USAF
Program Manager
HQ AFOTEC

(he/him)


41 posted on 05/08/2023 3:21:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: grimalkin

The military is not what it once was. My GF’s son is Army, stationed in Germany. His command has a policy that if you put in for it at least a week in advance, then you can have a three day weekend (not charged to your leave) to explore Germany and Europe. He has not worked more than four days in a week in the last two years.


42 posted on 05/08/2023 3:31:04 PM PDT by rivercat
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To: Right Brother

Sure understand!


43 posted on 05/08/2023 3:31:11 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: 11th_VA

Quotas have been there since the 80s. I got out after a second round of.. because you’re a female we are selecting you for…..
I don’t want any promotions or opportunities based on that.
So I got out. It was clear then and more so today that opportunity is not merit based.


44 posted on 05/08/2023 3:34:41 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: grimalkin
Moderator, if you can remove the “What are you searching for?” from the headline, that would be great. Thanks.

Actually, while headline are sppsd to be accurate, this preface is quitw fitting and could be places in brackets. For indeed, veterans who receive requests for help for what is a normally noble vocation in itself, could ask, “What are you searching for?” True patriots for a nation upholding Christian values or more candidates for an increasingly "Wokelitary" which is called to defend an increasingly USS (United States of Sodom) with its Wokeducation goals:

Military.com, 2020: Here's the Marine Corps' Plan to End Gender Segregation at Boot Camp. The Marine Corps was tasked with explaining its short- and long-term plans for integrating recruit training, which was mandated by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. Signed into law in December, 2020. “Gender integration at Marine Corps Recruit Training remains a top priority." “The outcome the Marine Corps desires for gender integration is for every male recruit to train alongside a female recruit within the same company.”” All-male recruit companies trained solely by men will be made “obsolete,”

Top Marine stresses need for more female infantry officers, research on 1-year paid maternity leave 2/25/2020, 5:18:38 PM · by jazusamo · 87 replies The Washington Times ^ | February 25, 2020 | Douglas Ernst The nation’s top Marine, Commandant Gen. David Berger, took to social media Tuesday morning to stress the service’s “most important matters.” Yet to get an abortion=murder their child, Navy service members are to be reimbursed for travel expenses and if they need to go to a different state they can be provided with up to three weeks off, with pay.

The Blaze, December 22, 2022: Marines told to stop using ‘sir,’ ‘ma’am/mater’ to avoid ‘misgendering’ superiors The University of Pittsburgh received $2 million to conduct the study, which examined gender-integrated recruit training in military settings. "The Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize gender in an integrated environment," the report claimed. Marine Corps leaders are reportedly not convinced that transitioning to gender-neutral salutations would be as simple as the 739-page report suggests.

Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains To Bless Putting Male Soldiers In Female Showers And Bedrooms, The Federalist : if a person “self-identifies” as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic “gender marker,” a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa... Revised rules also permit cross-dressing and other “transitioning” behaviors while in “on-duty status.”... regulations do not protect or even mention rights of religious liberty for chaplains and people of faith. Nor do they provide options for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who object to transgender ideology on moral or ethical grounds.<

Pentagon study finds rising suicide rates in military 9/27/2019, 12:49:01 AM · by fwdude · 26 replies The Hill ^ | 09/26/19 | Ellen Mitchell Suicide rates in the military were higher in 2018 compared to the previous five years despite efforts to prevent such deaths, according to an annual Pentagon report released Thursday. A total of 541 active duty, National Guard and Reserve troops committed suicide last year, the Department of Defense Annual Suicide Report found.

Heritage Index Rates Navy, Marines ‘Marginal’ In Ability to Counter Current Threats 11/4/2019, 11:30:14 AM · by robowombat · 25 replies USNI News ^ | October 30, 2019 8:01 PM | John Grady Heritage Index Rates Navy, Marines ‘Marginal’ In Ability to Counter Current Threats By: John Grady October 30, 2019 8:01 PM The Navy and the Marine Corps have been assessed as “marginal” in their ability to meet the challenges from rival powers in Beijing and Moscow, as well as regional threats coming from Tehran and Pyongyang, according to annual report on U.S. military strength from The Heritage Foundation

Pentagon Report: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy as Beijing Expands Military Influence 9/2/2020, 7:28:08 PM · by Retain Mike · 8 replies US Naval Institute ^ | September 1, 2020 5:31 PM | John Grady

Countering this is the news of, The Pentagon Forming a Diversity and Inclusion Office, and

allowing transgenders to serve in the military,

and with the Pentagon even ensuring free gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel,

with Army mandatory training now including training Army personnel to know what to do in such scenarios as when a soldier who was "assigned" a biological gender at birth says he/she identifies as another gender, and lives as such in off-duty hours, but is not requesting to be treated as such while on duty, versus if such later requests to be identified as according to their chosen gender during duty hours, and/or experiences increased distress relating to his/her gender identity;

while apparently as part of the Naval Sea Systems Command Inclusion & Engagement Council’s Diversity Team's video series called “NAVSpEAks,” the Navy posts video on "the importance of using correct pronouns as well as polite etiquette when you may not be sure of someone's pronouns"

as 'Keep Trying' — Naval Sea Systems Command Tells Americans to Advance Transgenderism,

consistent with "Navy Says Sailors Can Use Whichever Locker Room Suits Their Gender Identity,"

as well as the Air Force being with WOKEism in creating 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups,

and also authorizing the use of gender pronouns in signature blocks,

and hosting a drag show at festival at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) on July, 2022, which also includes a poem on “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,”

while the Army arms itself with a woke recruitment ad featuring lesbians at a gay wedding and an LGBTQ pride march,

and the CIA funds a 'cisgender millennial with anxiety disorder' campaign, and with the

Marines and Navy as well as the Air Force and Army posting messages on social media supporting gay pride and Pride Month,

with the former posting rainbow bullets, and the latter a rainbow colored arm and hand in salute (essentially to the flag of Sodom)

and with the Navy naming a military ship after gay rights leader Harvey Milk, and (now) with a transgender veteran christening it,

along with the Navy's first all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew,

as well as enlisting a drag queen, who is an active duty sailor, in a “digital ambassador” program aimed at targeting a wider array of potential recruits through digital platforms like Instagram,

thereby adding to the list surrender to demons such as,

U.S. Army Announces the Allowance of Lipstick, Nail Polish, and Better Breastfeeding

In the Battle for Inclusion, U.S. Navy Employs the Weapon of Interior Decorating

Navy Says Sailors Can Use Whichever Locker Room Suits Their Gender Identity

U.S. Army Revolutionizes Its Fitness Standards so Girls Can Pass

Army Secretary Champions What’s ‘Important’: Making ‘Marginalized Communities’ ‘Feel Included’

The Army Will Force Female Soldiers to Shower With Biological Males,

and with military generals calling for Increased Diversity and More Women in Combat,

and changing its song to be gender-neutral,

and Forcing Marines to Make Boot Camp Coed,

and feeding cadets cultural Marxist propaganda about gender and masculinity therein,

to its new diversity and inclusion operation from West Point

and for its Special Operations Command ,

while showing a rapid response readiness to engage in online combat with the likes of Tucker Carson and other such enemies

thus nuking Jesus-themed candies on an Air Force bases

(although turbans and hijabs are allowed,) stop making faith-based Dog Tags,

and prohibiting service members from “liking” or reposting "extremist" views on social media (depending on all the circumstances involved) as part of its prohibition against actively engaging in extremist activities,

Which behavior is consistent with working to rid the military itself of “extremism

such as the head of the US Space Force unit being fired and put under investigation for criticizing Critical Race Theory,

while the US Army is teaching officers at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth that white people can’t experience racism. The definition of racism is taught in an elective course called “Race and Gender in U.S. Military History” which is available for up to 32 students each year. The course also defines gender as “a set of socially constructed characteristics, such as norms and behaviors, typically associated with being masculine, feminine, androgynous, or other.” “The Command and General Staff College is at the forefront of building Army leaders ready to fight and win our nation’s wars,” Camara told American Military News.

Then though in a somewhat personal civilian incident, a New Jersey mother was reported to local police by a U.S. Army Lt. Col because she criticized her child's elementary school for displaying posters in the hallway about sexual preferences. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling also used his military title to engage in an email thread with U.S. Air Force Major Nathanial Lesher, who assured Schilling that he would forward his concern to North Hanover Township Police Chief Robert Duff "for awareness." Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst confirmed that it notified law enforcement about the exchange as part of "common information-sharing practice among law enforcement entities."

O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)

Which shame has as its capstone of damnation not only paying for troops and their family members to travel for abortions but the promotion of the abomination of homosexual unions and its relations, which are overall deleterious to individuals and the nation, thereby essentially saluting the flag of Sodom, as of United States of Sodom:

March 30, 2023: 'International Transgender Day of Visibility' offers a chance to support freedom of expression, association

(https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/3343199/international-transgender-day-of-visibility-offers-a-chance-to-support-freedom/)


The above image is tragically actually from the military, a Facebook post: "RADfertility November 11, 2021 · As we celebrate #VeteransDay, it is our honor to introduce you to Tech Sergeant Bryanna Dahl, her wife, Lauren and their amazing RAD baby Bennett! 🇺🇸 Currently stationed at the Dover Air Force Base, Sgt. Dahl just celebrated 7 years wearing this uniform! We had the privilege of helping their family grow and following their journey to Bennett also known as “Bennie.” On this day, we share our endless gratitude to those who serve and have served our country along with the supportive families behind them. Thank you for fighting for our freedoms – we thank you yesterday, today and forever #ThankYou #DoverAFB #RADfamily" - https://www.facebook.com/RADfertility/photos/a.146746165350896/7215339618491480/?type=3

Also, last I saw, More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: (DOD) 77% of Americans in the above age group could not physically qualify to enter the armed forces – a 6% increase from 2017..CDC statistics also show that 19 percent of active-duty service members suffered from obesity in 2020, which is up from 16 percent in 2015. A U.S. Army general bluntly said that young Americans are either too obese, too sick, or too criminal to serve in the military. we have are obesity, we have pre-existing medical conditions, we have behavioral health problems, we have criminality, people with felonies, and we have drug use,” Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson told The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington.

And the Army dropped grenade throwing as a requirement to graduate because new recruits could not throw far enough. “We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 [82 feet] to 30 meters."

Consistent with such, physical fitness assessment failures being now scrubbed from sailors’ records, a clean slate that will allow them to remain in the service,

and with lower fitness standards for women in the Army,

while nearly half of female soldiers are still failing the new Army Fitness Test,

Also, there is the Intellectual Decline of the Army Officer Corps. The size of the U.S. military in 2017 was half of what it was in 1990, and in general I think many signed up for the benefits rather than patriotism. 16% were women and racial and ethnic minorities made up 43%, and a poll from the Military Times and Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families conducted in July 2020, 49.9 percent of 1,018 active-duty military respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. That poll showed Biden with a 4-percentage-point lead over Trump

Fewer Americans want to serve in the military. Cue Pentagon panic 4/10/2019, 6:55:46 PM · by GuavaCheesePuff · 70 replies The Guardian ^ | April 10, 2019 | William M. Arkin.official military polling shows that fewer and fewer young Americans consider the military as a career or as a transitional step – only some 12.5% – the lowest number in a decade.

45 posted on 05/08/2023 3:39:07 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Mark17
"I wonder what will happen, when they bring back the draft? "

If you are of draftable age, and don't want to die for Biden and the globalists, they will go house to house and either kill you or imprison you until you get your mind right.

46 posted on 05/08/2023 3:39:35 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: grimalkin

Years ago I would have encouraged my boys to consider joining the military after HS. Today, they would be as likely to join as us buying Bud Lite at a baseball game. ZILCH!


47 posted on 05/08/2023 3:43:49 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of ruination )
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To: Jet Jaguar

I’m one of them. It’s graduation time down south and all the young men are asking me for advice on the military because they know I’m retired Navy. I told every single one of them to go to welding school.


48 posted on 05/08/2023 4:05:51 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Betty Jane

We had 3 navy, one AF and 1 Natty Guard out of a class of 330.


49 posted on 05/08/2023 4:11:49 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Mathews

Wise choice.


50 posted on 05/08/2023 4:17:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: grimalkin

Enemies, foreign and domestic must be fought from all sides.


51 posted on 05/08/2023 4:42:17 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: grimalkin

The problem is the military-industrial complex. We should have a huge navy, that’s about it. So we’ll preserve the freedom of the seas.


52 posted on 05/08/2023 4:46:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Enterprise

I would say something like “try it” but Covid proved people are not willing to take out the enforcers.


53 posted on 05/08/2023 4:48:05 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Seaplaner

Do you trust the “woke” military code of justice? I don’t. I prefer to save our Alphas and allow the “progressive” pajama boys be DCs cannon fodder


54 posted on 05/08/2023 4:50:20 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Chickensoup

+100. They want equality, nothing more equal than being drafted. lol, I was more like Cruiser, I evaded the draft in 72 by accepting an ROTC scholarship.


55 posted on 05/08/2023 4:51:08 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: grimalkin

I wouldn’t encourage joining ANY part of the government regime right now.

If all those in govt who are opposed to the current regime just left, it would shut it all down. Chaos they could not get a hold on to recover from. It would take them down.


56 posted on 05/08/2023 5:02:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: grimalkin

Don’t worry, they have big plans to Start a War and reinstate the draft, War has always been the easiest way for the moneychangers and their puppets in government to clean up the mess they made with the national currency.


57 posted on 05/08/2023 5:19:52 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Right Brother

Williams should be on TAD there


58 posted on 05/08/2023 5:24:31 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Enterprise

What is draftable age? Selective Service requires 18-25 year olds to sign up. I believe during WWII they drafted every eligible male 18-60.


59 posted on 05/08/2023 5:26:09 PM PDT by Ruger1099
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To: grimalkin

USAF retiree here, daughter of USAF retiree and husband was USN retiree. One stepson active duty USAF who plans on only doing 20. Many valid reasons have been voiced by others, but the one I tell folks who ask me is just look at the way the government handled Afghanistan and Sudan—leaving Americans and equipment behind. Any government that has so little regard for its assets, both human and material, will turn on you, not support you, use you and toss you aside. There are other better job options these days, especially in the trades professions. Stay well clear of this present day horribly corrupted institution, leaders and Commander in chief included.


60 posted on 05/08/2023 5:41:53 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia
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