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Pentagon officially delays transgender troop enlistment policy
The Hill ^ | June 30, 2017 | Max Greenwood

Posted on 06/30/2017 7:17:16 PM PDT by jazusamo

Defense Secretary James Mattis decided Friday to delay for six months a plan that would allow transgender people to enlist in the military, The Associated Press reported.

In a memo, Mattis reportedly said that the six months would allow military leaders to ensure that the policy change will not disrupt the preparedness of the country's military forces.

The Army and Air Force had previously asked the Defense Department for a two-year wait period before transgender individuals are allowed to enlist.

Transgender people already serving in the military are currently allowed to do so openly, but no new recruits have been permitted to join.

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter lifted a longtime ban barring transgender people from serving in the military last year. At the time, he set a July 1, 2017 deadline for the military to allow transgender individuals to begin enlisting.

While that decision means that current service members cannot be discharged from the military for openly being transgender, it also put a hold on recent college graduates and others from beginning their service.

A group of 16 House Democrats had sent a letter to Mattis on Friday urging him not to delay accepting transgender recruits in the military ahead of the Saturday deadline.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; mattis; military; strac6; trannies; transgender
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1 posted on 06/30/2017 7:17:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Should be permanent.


2 posted on 06/30/2017 7:20:23 PM PDT by ealgeone (int)
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I’m sure it will be but they have to carefully craft the language to endure the inevitable onslaught of lawsuits being brought before extreme left-wing ‘judges’


3 posted on 06/30/2017 7:22:28 PM PDT by nhbob1
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I agree and am sure it will be.


4 posted on 06/30/2017 7:24:25 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ealgeone

Bingo. The military is not a redox of “Mash.”


5 posted on 06/30/2017 7:24:41 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: jazusamo

Station the Trannys in Paris and Berlin...


6 posted on 06/30/2017 7:25:18 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Army and Air Force had previously asked the Defense Department for a two-year wait period before transgender individuals are allowed to enlist.

So the Marines are ready to get the program going?

7 posted on 06/30/2017 7:27:43 PM PDT by PAR35
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8 posted on 06/30/2017 7:28:14 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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I really don't understand why the military, which screens out people for medical issues, would deliberately take in new soldiers who have very expensive, known medical issues. I know it is all because the left thinks they should be normalized, but why take in trouble.

Maybe the military could deliberately choose alcoholics and drug users - then we could treat them.

9 posted on 06/30/2017 7:32:07 PM PDT by BruceS
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Kick out the perverts already in and keep the others out.The Armed Forces are designed to kill people...they're not a damn social experiment.
10 posted on 06/30/2017 7:35:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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Some sanity back in the military! MAGA!


11 posted on 06/30/2017 7:36:04 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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Gee... what a shame.

Not.


12 posted on 06/30/2017 7:36:52 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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I couldn’t agree more.

Bammie forced this through as CinC with a few climbers in the higher ranks.

These people are psychologically unfit for service as well as security threats as Bradley Manning has already proven.


13 posted on 06/30/2017 7:38:27 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Back during the Viet Nam war, when I was going through basic training at Fort Ord, we had a gay black guy in our unit that would go after all the guys who were straight while we were all in the gang showers. We all complained to the CO and because he was also black...nothing happened...sound familiar?


14 posted on 06/30/2017 7:46:39 PM PDT by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: jazusamo

Linking to this:

“Trump urged to revoke Obama’s transgender mandates for Armed Forces”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565622/posts

It includes a link to the military readiness report on how trannies would lessen military readiness.


15 posted on 06/30/2017 7:50:21 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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I have actually started contacting every senator on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on those on the House Armed Services Committee too. This is not the same as DADT being repealed. What they are plotting to do is eventually force me to order young men and women to lie. To look at a man and say she is a woman. We are planning to sell out all truth on the altar of political correctness because .03% of society has a problem with how they view themselves and are demanding we lie about it.

I will not obey. I am 27 years active duty still serving and I will NOT lie like this....I will not tolerate a single person above or below me suggesting that I am to embrace a scientifically provable falsehood so some a$$hat liberal can feel good about a lie they want told.


16 posted on 06/30/2017 8:04:23 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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This is one of the strangest things the Democrats have pushed forward. Crossdressers in the military. Unbelievable.


17 posted on 06/30/2017 8:08:33 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: ICE-FLYER

bttt


18 posted on 06/30/2017 8:21:34 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: jazusamo

Why are we delaying this? What could possibly go wrong if we give profoundly crazy people guns?


19 posted on 06/30/2017 8:43:11 PM PDT by PTBAA
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I hear you and totally agree.

Thank the Lord that this administration sees it as you do.


20 posted on 06/30/2017 8:48:18 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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