by Casey Harper, for The Center Square
(The Center Square) – U.S. lawmakers will hold a hearing Thursday on “woke ideologies” influencing the military and how that may be negatively impacting national security, including recruitment of new members.
Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman, R-Wisc., will host the hearing.
“The men and women who bravely serve within the military must stay focused on combat readiness, not left-wing objectives which serve no military purpose,” Grothman said in a statement. “It is imperative to extract this poisonous and unhelpful thinking from our military and return the armed services to their core functions.”
A laundry list of controversial examples of military spending have fueled these concerns including DOD funding for drag shows, as well as training members on things like white privilege and pronoun usage.
This hearing comes as the Department of Defense continues to report difficulty meeting recruitment targets. The DOD reported last month that it had missed its fiscal year recruiting goal by 41,000.
In fact, that shortfall only comes after the military branches had already lowered their recruiting goals. The DOD did not list the growth of progressive ideology as a reason for the shortfall, but other experts and critics have cited that ideology as a key factor.
At a hearing last March, Grothman has raised concerns about “progressive ideals” and its impact on recruitment.
The concern over progressive ideology in the military was at the forefront of the debate over and eventual passage in December of the National Defense Authorization Act, which funds the military for another year.
One provision passed by the U.S. House but removed by the Senate was a provision preventing the Department of Defense Education Activity, which educates on-base children, from promoting critical race theory.
“The House-passed version also put an end to taxpayer-funded abortion travel, transgender surgeries, and President Biden’s radical climate agenda in our nation’s military,” Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minn, said in a statement at the time. “Unfortunately, the Senate chose to strip these provisions and instead used the NDAA to implement its far-left agenda by continuing to fund these woke policies.”
Now, those policies are under further scrutiny as it is already time to start formulating the next NDAA.
“Our military has one primary function: defend Americans and American interests at home and abroad,” Grothman said. “At least this was the primary function until the Biden Administration force fed progressivism into the branches of the armed services.”
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None of this is Biden’s agenda. This is all the United Nations agenda, which trickles down to member nations like the U.S., and reflects the new social contract based on liberation theology and equity-based socialism. Social critical theory in schools delivered via SEL programs is the tool to create the biological foundation for socialism to achieve social justice, aka neo-communism. People do not understand that one function of the United Nations is population control by reducing fertility rates and other means. Read the Kissenger Report (1971), a declassified US government document available on the web. The document explicitly states that agriculture and education will be used to reduce fertility rates. The very work done by Planned Parenthood today. The World Health Organization actually promotes abortion as being part of reproductive health. An oxy moron for sure. Although, this is a correct statement if “reproductive health” applies to sustainable, healthy population levels in the eyes of the United Nations.
From my perspective and science supports that the COVID-19 vaccine and Gender Affirming Care further the UN’s goal of reducing population. There is a scientific paper available supporting that the lipid nano particle technology in the vaccine focuses in the ovaries and testies of humans, impacting fertility. Imagine that!
Gender Affirming Care will also render many young people sterile via hormones and surgical procedures, which will render them I capable of having children. This is also a United Nations agenda.
These wacko ideas should never have been a part of military training, so it goes without saying, IT”S ABOUT TIME !
Not only are these wacko ideas seeping into current military training; these wacko ideas are also following Veterans into their dealings with the Veterans Administration.
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The following is from the “Washington Post” 16 March, 2023.
For decades, the mission statement of Veterans Affairs came from a line from President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address on March 4, 1865 — “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” — a phrase adopted by the department in 1959.
On Thursday (In March, 2023) , Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced that the department will adopt a modern-day statement that reflects the generational changes among veterans — women, for one, became eligible to serve in 1948, and the old mission statement does not represent them.
The new statement will be: “To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise to care for those who have served in our nation’s military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors.” It presents a slight, gender-neutral revision of Lincoln’s original remarks.
Patriotism and courage, McDonough added, “are not constrained by gender.” Over 2 million women have “bravely served our country in uniform,” he said, facing adversity and battles “in and out of uniform for a stronger America, for equality, opportunity, inclusion, a brighter and better future for all Americans.”
Advocates have long called for the department to make its mission more inclusive of women and nonbinary veterans, but efforts to do so stalled under former president Donald Trump’s Veterans Affairs secretary, Robert Wilkie, who claimed that changing the language would amount to an erasure of history.
Kaitlynne Yancy, the government affairs associate director at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, noted that the change is necessary to make VA more accessible to “any veteran that does not identify as a cisgender male.”
A proposal that received bipartisan support in the House three years ago to update the mission statement, introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and then-Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), would have changed the mission statement to: “To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise to care for those ‘who shall have borne the battle’ and for their families, caregivers, and survivors.” The measure, however, failed in the Senate.
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And there it is. “Be all that you can be! No matter what your pronouns are…”
This sure as hell isn’t the “Warrior Spirit” that held me through two wars…
I assure you this is a Biden agenda big time. I’ve seen it firsthand in all segments of this administration, up and down the line.
Take this from someone who knows defense well.
It’s a Biden agenda.
Ask the sailors on the USS Harvey Milk, how they feel, when they sail around the world, and the mocking laughs they get.
It is a Biden Agenda, but then again China pretty much owns the UN, and the Biden family is pretty beholden to the CCP, so on second thought, we are both correct.
Get used to it. You are all going to be mad about this for the rest of your lives and society will care less and less that you are mad about it the entire time.
Plato’s philosopher kings making the decisions by which society is forced to live by. Are you telling us that resistance is futile.
Considering Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, was out of commission for nearly two weeks before anyone in The Biden Administration or the media knew about it, indicates there is much more going on with the DOD right now than meets our eyes or ears. The recent memorandum signed by over 200 veterans and military personel is a sign of the tide shifting bigly. There are many who do remember their oath and take it seriously afterall. Hallelujah!