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Pentagon says transgender people can elist in military despite Trump opposition
Star Tribune/AP ^ | 12/11/2017 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 12/11/2017 10:23:03 AM PST by GIdget2004

A Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that transgender people can enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition.

The new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Two federal courts already have ruled against the ban.

Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

Maj. David Eastburn says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles. The Department of Defense also is studying the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davideastburn; homosexualagenda; militaryreadiness; obamagenerals; obamalegacy; pentagon; transgender; trumpdod
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To: GIdget2004

Meh. Stupid POTUS. What’s he think he is anyhow... Commander In Chief, or something?

In Russia - Swamp drain you.


41 posted on 12/11/2017 10:46:24 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: GIdget2004

The military officer in question sounds like an extreme liberal...from his Twitter feed:

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More David Eastburn Retweeted MaryAlice Parks:

Sad to see my sometimes-#colleague @sramosABC dispatched to cover one of the most embarrassing moments in US #politics, but hey! On the bright side, her diversity is prob disrupting the trailer parks enough to drive their houses right off this flat earth! Go get em lady! #BamaDavid Eastburn added,

MaryAlice Parks
Verified account

@maryaliceparks
Good morning America — we’re on the ground in Birmingham with all you need to know about that Senate race, just two days away @sramosABC @GMA

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So it isn’t much of a surprise that this person would be the spokesman on this issue. I have never, in a million years, been able to understand liberal military personnel, but he appears to be a full blown Trump-Hater and advocate of homosexuality in the military.


42 posted on 12/11/2017 10:46:59 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: GIdget2004

Trump needs to start firing General Officers. The entire top brass are all Obama appointees and need to be replaced with REAL General Officer material, not the ones who go along with the leftist idea that the military is a social experiment playground. I spent 24 years in the military, the last three under Clinton. The best days for service members during my career were the Reagan years and the worse were the Clinton years. If I were in the service now I would get out and if I were a young guy thinking about joining I would just forget about it. Regardless of how hard they have tried to convence us the homosexuality is normal most of us know it is not. While many hide it to keep from being called names like homophobe they keep it to themselves that they know it is a perversion. If it does not change the only way normal straights will joint the military will be by a draft. God help this country if we ever have to go into a real war with a cadre of poofs leading the charge.


43 posted on 12/11/2017 10:48:37 AM PST by TonyM (UPS)
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To: boomop1; Skywise; Chode; aquila48

See my post at #42 Re: Major *ickhead.


44 posted on 12/11/2017 10:51:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: GIdget2004

I’d think twice about enlisting today.


45 posted on 12/11/2017 10:52:00 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: FreedomPoster

Time for a Constitutional Showdown!


46 posted on 12/11/2017 10:52:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Chode

To be fair, I am going to assume this person is some kind of spokesman. He isn’t setting policy. But like roaches and rats, if you see one on the surface or in the light who isn’t afraid to be an advocate, you can be sure there are thousands who are working behind the scenes.

And that is just the foundation poured in the years between 2009 and 2017.


47 posted on 12/11/2017 10:54:52 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: GIdget2004

leaving aside politics and the sex issue completely....

since when do pentagon functionaries directly disobey our Commander in Chief?

answer: since Obama infiltrated in his anti-American Islamic functionaries, enablers...

President Trump was right all along, he needs to DRAIN THE SWAMP! fast!!!!!


48 posted on 12/11/2017 10:57:19 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: rlmorel
you'd think they'd of been weeded out one way or another by their own troops, well at least those near the sharp end of the stick anyway, the Army has become nothing more than a job for these people
49 posted on 12/11/2017 10:58:30 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: BlueLancer

Air support could be someone with a propeller beanie who makes airplane noises.


50 posted on 12/11/2017 10:58:53 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, he is a *ickhead liberal moron, an Obozo bend over.


51 posted on 12/11/2017 11:04:25 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: rlmorel
100%
52 posted on 12/11/2017 11:04:31 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Chode

I admit to being shocked that many people up and down the chain of command knew about that Marxist POS Rapone and did nothing about it, but it appears that may have not been an accident.


53 posted on 12/11/2017 11:07:22 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: GIdget2004

Congress sets the rules and regulations of the military.


54 posted on 12/11/2017 11:14:27 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, DoD has been infiltrated by feminists, communists, and sick perverts that started in the late seventies and hit its stride post 9-11- ALL sanctioned and protected by senior military officers and lawyers within their ranks. The culture has mutated into a mess.


55 posted on 12/11/2017 11:21:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: GIdget2004
Never having been involved in the upper reaches of Command structure (it's rare for an SP5 like myself to do so) I could be wrong but if DJT issues a specific *command* to the officers ultimately responsible for enlistments in the several branches then the only choices they have are to obey or to resign/retire.

IOW it seems likely that DJT,despite having voiced an opinion,hasn't issued a direct order on this matter...yet.

56 posted on 12/11/2017 11:21:45 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: GIdget2004
Pentagon says transgender people can elist in military despite Trump opposition

Anyone in the US military that supports this needs to be cashiered immediately.

57 posted on 12/11/2017 11:23:08 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Army Air Corps
I can see it now, some wizard in the Pentagon decides that they can increase equipment numbers by recruiting people who “identify” as certain types of military hardware.

“This is Fredryka, a genderfluid person who also identifies as an uprated M1A1 Abrams.”

I sexually identify as an attack helicopter.

Although I'm surprised more don't identify as an A-10 Warthog...

58 posted on 12/11/2017 11:24:37 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Army Air Corps
Air support could be someone with a propeller beanie who makes airplane noises.

Dagnabbit, Coy, you're the only one who's got a fez with a propeller on top ...


59 posted on 12/11/2017 11:32:47 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: TADSLOS

TADSLOS, I am conflicted by this in so many ways.

I don’t wish to malign someone who has served my country in the military, but...at some point when certain actions are evaluated, I have reached the conclusion that there are people in the military who are NOT serving the interests of our country.

I have further progressed over time to think that being a liberal Democrat and serving honorably in the military are mutually exclusive, in much the same way I see being a communist/marxist and serving honorably in the military as mutually exclusive.

I hate feeling that way, but as someone who has pondered this extensively for years, it has become nearly inescapable to me.

Which is disturbing.


60 posted on 12/11/2017 11:35:51 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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