Pentagon Orders Discharge Of Transgenders

The Department of Defense has issued new guidance ordering the military services to begin the process of discharging transgender members of the Armed Forces in 30 days. The new policy recognizes only two sexes; it requires members of the Armed Forces to adhere to the physical fitness and grooming standards of their biological sex. Any attempt at chemically or surgically changing sex makes the person unsuitable for military service. If a person had, at some point, been transgender they can be retained if they "demonstrate “36 consecutive months of stability” in their sex with no “clinically significant distress or impairment” if they can prove they have “never attempted to transition to any sex other than their sex” and if they are willing to adhere to “all applicable standards” relating to their sex."

f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female."
g. Where a standard, requirement, or policy depends on whether the individual is a male or female ( e.g., medical fitness for duty, physical fitness and body fat standards; berthing, bathroom, and shower facilities; and uniform and grooming standards), all persons will be subject to the standard, requirement, or policy associated with their sex.
h. Pronoun usage when referring to Service members must reflect a Service member's sex. In keeping with good order and discipline, salutations ( e.g., addressing a senior officer as "Sir" or "Ma'am") must also reflect an individual's sex.

The memo reiterates an earlier policy that barred transgender individuals from enlisting.
Even though the precursor to this policy is in litigation, it seems unlikely to be successful. Similar legal histrionics followed Trump's ban on transgenders in the military in 2017. That ban was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2019 decision before Joe Biden reversed the policy in 2021.
The ban on transgenders is long overdue. If a transgender has progressed beyond the point of Klinger-esque crossdressing, they probably are not deployable because of the psychiatric and medical care they need to continue their attempt to transition from something they are into something they aren't. In context, a kid with braces can't enlist. A kid who has taken Adderall or Ritalin in the previous three years can't enlist. And yet we not only enlisted transgenders, we allowed them to have surgery at government expense.
Mirroring the experience of young women in varsity athletics, men "transitioning" to women were bunked with military women.
Finally, the entire project was corrosive of military discipline. Guidance was issued on addressing a 6-2, 220-pound bearded officer wearing a skirt. Anecdotally, the fear of being accused of being a "transphobe" frequently let transgenders exhibit behavior and performance that would get a regular soldier punished.
The new guidance clears the decks, so to speak, for the military to toss aside this modern-day version of Robert S. McNamara's Project 100,000 and get back to the business of training to win wars.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/27/pentagon-orders-discharge-of-transgenders-n2186073

What Is DACODAI?
The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion aims to increase woke recruiting in the military.

The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022. The committee’s website says it is to “examine and provide recommendations to improve racial/ethnic diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity within the DoD, with a primary focus on military personnel.”
Sounds innocuous. However, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology promotes a radical, un-American belief system. DEI promotes extreme ideas like America is a racist nation, that racism and white supremacy are widespread today, and that whites are oppressors and minorities are oppressed. The committee itself is not diverse. However, the need for DACODAI is questionable as DOD’s 2022 demographics report shows the military is extremely diverse, at or above national demographics for race and ethnicity. DACODAI’s own data publicized in December 2023 shows rates on all types of discrimination complaints are tiny fractions of a percent. Examples of military adoption of DEI:
 • $114.7M in FY2024 for military DEI, a substantial increase from 2023.
 • In ongoing litigations against USMA and USNA, both admitted to using admissions practices that consider race and ethnicity. Specific practices of one or both include (1) reserving vacancies for racial “diversity” applicants, (2) using candidate composite score (only a small fraction of which is standardized test score) thresholds that differ by race when making admission decisions, and (3) using out of order of merit selection to achieve racial diversity. Better qualified white and Asian applicants, some having much higher candidate composite scores, are not selected to make room for lower-scoring “diversity” applicants. These practices unarguably violate constitutional equal protection of the law, deny equal opportunity to hundreds of higher-scoring but non-selected applicants, demean minorities who gain admission based on merit, and, combined with other poor policy choices, lower standards for about 10-20% of the entering class. These practices have been concealed from Congress and the American people for decades. The result: Warfighters are not always getting the best-qualified leaders.
 • DOD websites and recruiting emphasize DEI. DEI training is continuous and ubiquitous.
 • In 2022, the chief of staff of the Air Force set a goal of no more than 67.5% white pilots. Currently, 90%+ of AF pilots are white.
 • 2023 Navy selection board guidance overtly allows the use of race in selections.
 • Based on their personal experience or those of their children, thousands of current and former military members objected to DEI’s dilution of merit. These voices represent thousands of years of service. They are the voices of experience, and they warn that the path we are on now leads to disunity, division, lower morale, recruiting and retention problems, and, eventually, failure. These testimonies are at STARRS.
Meanwhile, zero data shows diversity improves performance, lethality, or readiness.
 • Col (Ret) Bill Prince, U.S. Army Special Forces with 11 combat deployments, quotes the USMA’s Chief Data Officer, Col. Paul F. Evangelista ‘96, in commenting on attempts to measure the effectiveness of DEI, “We don’t have the data.”
 • BG (Ret) Ernie Audino, U.S. Army, nails the issue precisely, saying, “If generals are right, i.e. that racial diversity in our officer corps is a 'national security imperative,’ then the services would at least track racial percentages in their mandatory assessments of unit combat readiness, but they don’t. Racial diversity is not included and never has been.”
 • CDR (Ret) Phil Keuhlen, USN, is a former commanding officer of a nuclear-powered attack submarine. His analysis of Task Force 1 Navy’s claimed diversity benefits shows the Navy misrepresented source applicability, extended conclusions beyond the data, and ignored source conclusions that gains were due to factors that degrade military effectiveness. His detailed analysis is at Real Clear Defense.
 • Col (Ret) Bing West, USMC is one of the most decorated combat veterans in our nation’s history. His article, “The Military’s Perilous Experiment,” ought to give our military leaders pause in their headlong pursuit of diversity. He writes, “Inside the military, however, another criterion has taken central booking: diversity. The focus has shifted toward emphasizing gender and racial equality, particularly in leadership positions. Diversity has replaced lethality as the lodestone for the military. … As a Marine veteran, I find this disconcerting. From boot training on, Marines are taught to put aside diversity, not to emphasize it.” The article can be found at Hoover Institution.
DACODAI met in DC on 14-15 December 2023 and invited public comment. The input submitted by multiple public interest organizations was ignored. This behavior by DACODAI is most disconcerting. To ensure DACODAI will have various ideas, STARRS collaborated with leaders of Calvert Group, Veterans for Fairness and Merit, Flag Officers 4 America, MacArthur Society, and Take Charge Minnesota in producing recorded, public testimony about DEI’s adverse impacts on the military. This powerful public testimony is available at the STARRS website. It deserves DACODAI’s attention and substantive response. Warfighters know it needs both.
DACODAI will meet again in early May. Americans interested in preserving our military’s unity, cohesion, and readiness to defend us against our enemies are urged to tell them what they think about DEI in our military.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/104506-what-is-dacodai-2024-02-19

 Paul Joseph Watson
Suddenly, a Stunning Change.
Cannon fodder required.
With new wars to fight and recruitment flagging, the U.S. Army has dropped the diversity gimmick and started targeting young white men.

(And while the Biden Administration Warlords are getting ready to send American Straight Conservative Males into battle in the far east, they are proposing legal pathways to start bringing Palestinian/Fakistanian battle age men to America. WTF Joe, you TRAITOROUS PIECE OF SHIT?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZU1sWGV_o

Staff Sgt Butterworth has created his own version (spoof) of the Bentley-themed ASMR video that has been doing the rounds on social media as of late.
Featuring a Humvee, the parody juxtaposes the ultra-luxurious, soft-touch surface-laden Bentley Mulsanne seen in the original footage with the Humvee’s absolutely bare-bones, very dated design that is largely absent of any creature comfort.

If you've ever driven the Humvee Supersport Desert Camo Diesel model, rofl, you'll appreciate this:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ph1VuQVUs2o

 National Purple Heart Day

US Military Confirms Myocarditis Spike After COVID Vaccine Introduction.
Cases of myocarditis soared among U.S. service members in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, a top Pentagon official has confirmed.
There were 275 cases of myocarditis in 2021—a 151 percent spike from the annual average from 2016 to 2020, according to Gilbert Cisneros Jr., undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, who confirmed data revealed by a whistleblower earlier this year.
The COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation that can lead to mortality, including sudden death. COVID-19 also can cause myocarditis.
The diagnosis data comes from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database.
Mr. Cisneros provided the rate of cases per 100,000 person-years, a way to measure risk across a certain period of time. In 2021, the rate was 69.8 among those with prior infection, compared to 21.7 among members who had been vaccinated.
“This suggests that it was more likely to be [COVID-19] infection and not COVID-19 vaccination that was the cause,” Mr. Cisneros said.
No figures were given for members who had been vaccinated but were also infected. The total rate, 20.6, also indicates that some members weren’t included in the subgroup analysis.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who has been investigating problems with the database, questioned how the military came up with the figures.
“It is unclear whether or how it accounted for service members who had a prior COVID-19 infection and received a COVID-19 vaccination,” Mr. Johnson wrote to Mr. Cisneros.
Department of Defense (DOD) officials didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Johnson asked for the information no later than Aug. 2.
Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and president of the McCullough Foundation, looked at the newly disclosed data.
“The large increase in myocarditis cases in our military in 2021 was most likely due to ill-advised COVID-19 vaccination,” he told The Epoch Times via email, pointing to a study from Israel that found no increase of myocarditis in COVID-19 patients.
Some other papers have found COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of myocarditis. COVID-19 has been linked elsewhere to myocarditis, although the vaccines have never prevented infection and have become increasingly ineffective against it.
The military encouraged COVID-19 vaccination after U.S. regulators cleared the vaccines for use in late 2020. Military officials were among the first in the world to raise concerns about myocarditis after vaccination and published an early case series of 22 previously healthy members who suffered myocarditis within four days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. U.S. officials have since said the vaccines definitely cause myocarditis.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated the vaccines in 2021, a requirement that remained in place until Congress forced its withdrawal.
Repeated Changes.
Military officials have struggled to provide accurate data on 2021 diagnoses.
Whistleblowers revealed in 2021 that myocarditis, as reflected in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), had soared to 2,868 percent higher than the average from 2016 to 2020. They downloaded the data in August 2021.
The number of 2021 myocarditis diagnoses, though, had plummeted from 1,239 to 263 when the data was downloaded later, prompting concerns of manipulation.
Military officials said they reviewed the data and found it was “faulty.” They said the data for the years 2016 to 2020 were “corrupted” during a “database maintenance process,” which resulted in the display of only 10 percent of the actual medical encounters for that time period.
Officials told Mr. Johnson in 2022 that the problem had been fixed. The fix significantly changed the records. Instead of a 2,181 percent increase in hypertension in 2021, for instance, the increase was just 1.9 percent. Female infertility, instead of increasing 472 percent, increased 13.2 percent.
The updated percentages, though, were called into question when another whistleblower looked at the database in 2023 and found they were different.
Testicular cancer, initially pegged as increasing 369 percent, was placed at 3 percent by the military. But the actual increase was 16.3 percent, the whistleblower found. Pulmonary embolism was among the other conditions that occurred more often in 2021 than the military had conveyed.
The whistleblower alerted Mr. Johnson, the top Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, who asked military officials for answers.
Mr. Cisneros acknowledged that the data given to the senator was incomplete. He said the change stemmed from December 2021 figures not being available when the corrected data was offered. There was a data “lag by about three months,” meaning the data wasn’t available in February 2022, when officials provided Mr. Johnson with the corrected data, Mr. Cisneros said.
Pentagon officials replicated the analyses from the whistleblower and found the data “are similar” to the data the whistleblower sent to Mr. Johnson, Mr. Cisneros said.
Military officials hadn’t previously mentioned any data lag previously while communicating with Mr. Johnson or the public, and they didn’t incorporate the available data when they sent him another missive in mid-2022.
“Without the whistleblower’s disclosure, I doubt DOD would have ever acknowledged that it provided incomplete information to my office in February 2022 and again in July 2022,” Mr. Johnson said.
He said the DOD had demonstrated “a complete disregard for transparency” and urged officials to make clear whether it has investigated whether any of the medical conditions for which diagnoses spiked are associated with the vaccines.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-confirms-myocarditis-spiked-after-covid-vaccine-introduction_5411759.html

 DOD Memo Says Transgender Soldiers on Hormone Therapy Can Skip Deployment.

Transgender soldiers receiving hormone therapy may avoid deployment for as many as 300 days, according to a February 2023 Department of Defense memo outlining treatment at the Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) at Fort Liberty.
(So basically, you can sign up for military service for 3 years, spend 2 years in PAID freak-transition, and not be deployable for that time and then serve your remaining time being an annoyance and embarrassment to everyone around you as well as a military liability.)
The memo, first obtained and published by The Dossier, states that most service members “will require up to 300 days to be stabilized on cross-sex hormone therapy, and they will remain in a non-deployable status during that time.”
However, that timeline depends on when the service member is “clinically stabilized.”
The memo also states what other treatments and surgeries transgender troops may receive at WAMC at taxpayers’ expense.
The memo said after 12 months of hormone therapy, transgender service members can request “surgical care,” such as “upper” and “bottom” surgery.
It said transgender service members could also request surgery without first receiving hormone therapy.
The memo said “upper” surgery can be performed at WAMC and is a covered benefit, but that surgeries that could not be performed at WAMC, to include “bottom” surgery and “voice feminization” surgery, were not covered. (All transitioning service members will be offered voice and communication therapy, the memo said).
The memo said that facial/body contouring could be performed at WAMC, but was not covered since it is considered cosmetic. Laser hair removal was also considered cosmetic, but medically necessary in the case of “bottom” surgery.
The memo said that it could take between 9-18 months to complete a gender transition, and during that time, a service member can request an exception to policy so that they could use “self-identified gender standards for uniform, grooming, fitness testing, as well as self-identified gender billeting, bathroom, and shower facilities.
The memo states that transgender service members seeking medical treatment must OK the timeline of their treatment with their unit commanders. However, a sample medical treatment plan attached to the memo said commanders “may not deny medically necessary care,” but the “timeline for specific treatments may be adjusted to minimize readiness impact.”
The memo is signed by Army Col. David Ross Zinnante, commander of the Womack Army Medical Center.
The memo provides updated guidance to WAMC staff on treating transgender troops after the Biden Administration issued its policy in April 2021 allowing transgender individuals to serve in the military.
The Biden administration’s policy reversed the Trump administration’s policy, which allowed transgender troops to serve only in their biological sex and prohibited those diagnosed with gender dysphoria — a condition where the service member had psychological distress over remaining in their biological sex — from serving.
Breitbart News contacted the Defense Health Agency for comment, but did not receive a response by deadline.
The Army last month highlighted a transgender soldier named Maj. Rachel Jones, who described her “coming out journey” as akin to “taking off a very heavy rucksack.”
“While the ruck is on you can’t move like you should, your body aches and you just want to stop. When you take the ruck off, everything feels lighter and easier and there’s a massive sense of relief,” Jones said, according to an Army article.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/19/dod-memo-says-transgender-soldiers-on-hormone-therapy-can-skip-deployments/

 Diversity = Death To America

 

 Biden Admin Opposes Provision Requiring Military Promotions Only Be On Merit Not Gender Or Race.

(Obviously, this geriatric moron running the country thinks that your pronouns will determine how proficient of a soldier you will be. Is there any military strategy that is more devastatingly asinine … not that I can think of.)
Seriously argues that rolling back diversity hires will harm DoD’s ability to “deter war, and keep our nation secure.”
The Biden administration has issued a statement outlining its opposition to a provision within the latest military spending bill that would require promotions within the military to be based only on merit, rather than on completely unrelated aspects such as gender and race.
The statement from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reads “The Administration strongly opposes the House’s sweeping attempts (sections 364, 523, 566, 595, 596, 598, 904, and 1046) to eliminate the Department’s longstanding DEIA efforts and related initiatives to promote a cohesive and inclusive force.”
“As articulated in the 2022 NDS, one of the Department’s top priorities is building a resilient Joint Force and defense enterprise,” it adds, by which it means filling the military with LGBTQ+ people like ‘Admiral’ Rachel Levine and Major Rachel Jones.
The statement continues, “DoD’s strategic advantage in a complex global security environment is the diverse and dynamic talent pool from which we draw. We rely on diverse perspectives, experiences, and skillsets to remain a global leader, deter war, and keep our nation secure.”
It then argues that only promoting people based on merit will somehow diminish the DoD’s ability to maintain “a dignified, respectful, and safe workplace.”
“Legislation that reduces DoD’s ability to create a positive work environment and fully leverage the best our nation has to offer puts the Department at a strategic disadvantage,” the statement claims.
Surely promoting the people who are best at their jobs and the most professional within the military makes the nation more secure? No?
GOP Rep. Jim Banks is behind the push to eliminate the DEI madness from the military, noting that he also added a provision to defund the Navy’s ‘Drag Queen program’.
Rep. Banks also added a provision into the spending bill that would see unvaccinated service members reinstated, and guess what… the Biden administration also opposes that.
As we have previously highlighted, the Biden administration is OBSESSED with pushing the DEI agenda in every department of government to the point where they are hiring mentally ill people just because they are transgender or LGBTQ+.

https://summit.news/2023/07/12/biden-admin-opposes-provision-requiring-military-promotions-only-be-on-merit-not-gender-or-race/

Army exempts trans service members from physical fitness standards.

In case you were wondering how squishy-soft mentally ill perverts integrate into the US military:

It could not be more obvious that diversity is our weakness.
Notice that Maj. Rachel Jones is a bit…fat? Yeah, well, there is a reason for that.
Jones doesn’t have to meet physical fitness standards that apply to everybody else in the Army. Fancy that.
David Strom writes:
“Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.
That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care.

One of the lies we are being told, relentlessly, is that when the military makes efforts to expand the types of people admitted into the services the standards applied will remain the same. This has been clearly false forever. This has been particularly true when it comes to sex differences. As we know, different standards of physical fitness are applied to men and women, in opposition to what we were told when recruitment opened up, and now we see that the standards have been changed even more drastically for transgender people.
On its face, the argument that being transgender would present no barrier to military service is absurd, simply because transgender soldiers require constant medical care in order to maintain their gender treatments. Regardless of any other potential issues, this alone should make policymakers leery of including transgender-identifying people in the rolls of active duty personnel.
The military, though, is a social scientist’s playground. Under total control of the government, it is easy to use as a laboratory for ideological experiments.
In a sense I am sympathetic to the impulse–it is just so tempting, and in some cases, the military has been a proving ground for beneficial social change. Race integration is a great example of this.
But the impulse is dangerous; it is just too tempting, and the consequences of getting it wrong are especially high. Lives are literally at stake.
Exempting an entire class of people from physical fitness standards is the opposite of proving that “diversity is our strength,” both because in this case “strength” is in this case the opposite of the truth and because it will heighten not lower resentment toward transgender people who are as usual getting a better deal than everybody else.
As you know, the military is having a recruiting problem simultaneously with the changes they have made. Any chance that the problem is related? You decide.
This is in line, though, with other claims related to transgenderism, which are all based upon the rejection of biological facts. Alphabet ideology and also critical theory is based on the idea that reality bends to our will and is infinitely flexible.
Neither is true, and that will be made abundantly clear when the bullets fly.”
Using the military as a social engineering lab precludes using it as an effective fighting force.
“To the extent the Democratic Party controls them, all government institutions exist so as to consolidate its power and promote its ideology. They have no other purpose.”
The purpose of the US Military is not to win wars, but to promote sexual perversion and gender psychosis, consistent with the ideology of the Democratic Party.
That is the most charitable interpretation of our rulers’ motives. Also consistent with Democrat ideology is that America is inherently bad. After all, “white supremacy is ingrained in the DNA” of this country. It stands to reason that America must be destroyed. Militarily incapacitating the global hegemon as China prepares to replace it will achieve this objective.
If the Chinese Communist Party had direct control of the Pentagon, what would it do differently?

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/06/army-exempts-trans-service-members-from-physical-fitness-standards-n562821

Times have changed ... sadly, and now this behavior will get you promoted.

 

Disney Proves DeSantis’ Point By Going After Military Guests.

Disney is blocking access to Disney World from a hotel that exclusively serves veterans and service-members. Why? Because it can.
“Disney was not accountable to anyone,” observed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his announcement kicking off his presidential campaign. “You know, it’s human nature: If there’s no accountability over any individual or entity, of course they’re going to behave differently than if you have normal accountability.” The truth of DeSantis’ words is perfectly demonstrated by Disney’s recent treatment of guests at Shades of Green, a military-owned hotel at Walt Disney World. Disney’s actions say a lot about how a company, one that used to be notable for its patriotism in the days of Walt, now regards U.S. Armed Forces families and veterans.

 

The U.S. Army bought the Shades of Green hotel, then called the Disney Inn, from Disney in 1996. Guests of Shades of Green, the flagship military recreational property in the contiguous U.S., are military personnel, their families, and veterans. According to Steve Bell, who runs the main website for military visitors to Disney parks, the hotel is self-sustaining, it’s funded through guests’ payments for rooms and meals, not through annual appropriations.
As a property, Shades of Green’s primary allure is its close proximity to the original, and still most popular, section of Walt Disney World, the area including the Magic Kingdom and the monorail encircling Seven Seas Lagoon. Shades of Green enjoys a prime location just across the street from Disney’s Polynesian Resort. From the Polynesian, Shades of Green guests can easily ride the monorail to the Magic Kingdom, board the boats that travel across Seven Seas Lagoon, or take the path around the lagoon to the park’s entrance.
Now, abruptly, Disney has barred Shades of Green guests from walking off the hotel’s grounds and crossing the street to the Polynesian, thereby cutting off their pedestrian access to the monorail, the boats, and the Magic Kingdom itself. Why has Disney done this? Because it can.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), the entity through which Disney has been granted largely unequaled powers of self-government, and which has been a focus of DeSantis’ fight with the corporation, approved funding for construction to widen the road between the Polynesian and Shades of Green. In light of this road project, Disney decided the existing crosswalk would no longer suffice for pedestrian traffic. But rather than building a bridge or putting in a stoplight, Disney decided it would simply ban Shades of Green guests from crossing that street, thereby shutting down pedestrian access from the hotel to the rest of Walt Disney World. This is access that had been available for 50 years, according to Bell, long before the Army bought the hotel 27 years ago.
This action exemplifies the lack of accountability that DeSantis, a Navy veteran, was highlighting. Without the extraordinary powers of the RDIC, Disney couldn’t just decide to widen a public road without regard for its effect on anyone else, and without making any accommodations to them. But the RDIC, in the words of a website devoted to the Disney parks’ history, “has far-reaching powers,” allowing Disney to “construct almost anything within its borders, including a nuclear power plant (which it never built…).” The RDIC’s own website says the RDIC enjoys “the same authority and responsibility as a county government,” an unchecked and tyrannical county government.
Indeed, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that, from Disney’s perspective, cutting off pedestrian access for military families and veterans wasn’t a bug, but rather a feature, of its plans. Now Disney can keep the middle-class military guests who stay at Shades of Green away from the Polynesian’s monorail stop, its boating docks, and the path that proceeds from there to the Magic Kingdom, preserving those for people who pay the $700-and-up nightly rates at that Disney-owned resort. Disney is currently building a new hotel tower at the Polynesian, which will increase demand for the monorail, boats, and pathway. What better time to cut off access to military guests whose lodging bills aren’t padding Disney’s coffers?
To be clear, the monorail, boats, and pathway are open to anyone, whether they are staying at a Disney-owned hotel or not. This was not a special perk for Shades of Green guests. But in order to use these various modes of transportation, one has to be able to get to them.
Shades of Green guests not only can’t do so, as of May 1, but they don’t even have access to the Disney-run bus system. They have access only to the military hotel’s own relatively inefficient bus system. That system is not funded at taxpayer expense and runs on a budget, which means comparatively infrequent buses and indirect routes.
Moreover, many Shades of Green guests are military families with young children and strollers, or disabled veterans with electric scooters. The strollers aren’t allowed on the buses without being folded up, a delight for any parent who must remove a sleeping child or two at the end of a long day, while only two of the scooters are allowed on a given bus. Since the buses are scheduled to run only once every 20 to 60 minutes (depending upon the route and direction), this can result in long delays for disabled vets just to be able to leave or return to the Shades of Green grounds.
If Disney wanted to let Shades of Green guests cross the road, they could. Disney could simply install a traffic light and let guests cross the four-lane road at the light. That’s what Disney did when it wanted to let guests cross an eight-lane highway to get to its Disney Springs shops. Or it could put in a bridge or tunnel (using affordable pre-stressed tunnel segments). As Bell notes, Disney built five pedestrian bridges to make sure people could cross the road and get to Disney Springs, including one that lets Disney employees cross over to have lunch at their restaurant of choice. Yet when it comes to military veterans and families, Disney, exercising its extraordinary “authority and responsibility as a county government,” has decided to shut off access.
As with many of Disney’s other recent decisions, Walt would surely be ashamed. Tom Bricker of the Disney Tourist Blog writes, “It’s well documented that Walt Disney was distinctly patriotic. He attempted to join the Army in 1918 but was rejected for being too young. He instead forged the birth date on his application for the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and spent a year in France during World War I.”
Walt’s devotion to America and its military didn’t stop then. According to the National World War II Museum, Walt Disney Studios “devoted over 90 percent of its wartime output to producing training, propaganda, entertainment, and public-service films, as well as publicity and print campaigns, and all without profit.”
Alas, this is no longer Walt’s Disney. It’s merely a corporate giant with little patriotic spirit and minimal connection to Main Street Americans (an irony for a company that celebrates Main Street, U.S.A.). It needs to be held accountable for using its quasi-governmental powers in a manner that shows such callous disregard for military families and veterans, while devaluing a military-owned hotel in the process. Disney shouldn’t be able to get away with this.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/06/disney-proves-desantis-point-by-going-after-military-guests/

US military releases footage of Chinese warship cutting off US destroyer in Taiwan Strait as tensions soar (2 videos at link)
Over the weekend a Chinese Warship came with 150 yards of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait, crossing directly in front of the USS Chung-Hoon and making it slow down to avoid a crash.
The US released footage of the incident and you can see it below from two different ships/angles.
Tensions have now soared between the US and China after the Chinese Defense Minister defended this incident over the weekend and warned the US not to pass through the Taiwan Strait again in order to avoid future incidents.
CBS News, surprisingly, has a good report on this at the link.
The US views the Taiwan Strait as international waters which is why they make a point of sailing through the strait. But the use of this strait, as well as the airspace above, has upset China so much that their defense minister refused to meet with Biden’s defense secretary after Austin had requested a meeting at a conference they were attending on Friday.

https://therightscoop.com/multiple-videos-us-military-releases-footage-of-chinese-warship-cutting-off-us-destroyer-in-taiwan-strait-as-tensions-soar/

Shooting Down Our Own Military With Rainbow Missiles

 

Biden’s Denigration of American Military Patriots. Part #2
Full text of the letter opposing DEI in the U.S. military.

We respectfully request that Congress, pursuant to its constitutional powers “…to raise and support Armies…” and “… to provide and maintain a Navy…,” take legislative action to remove all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs from the Department of Defense (DoD). Additionally, we ask that you ensure no DEI related policies, programs, and funding are included in the 2024 NDAA. As our Nation faces looming threats from “foreign” adversaries/enemies, our military is under assault from a culture war stemming from “domestic” ideologically inspired political policies and practices. If not stopped now, they will forever change the military’s warrior ethos essential to performing its mission of deterring aggression and failing that, to fight and win our Nation’s wars. Our military must be laser focused on one mission — readiness, undiminished by the culture war engulfing our country.
For generations, our military was a meritocracy, which simply defined means selection and advancement based solely on merit and ability. Service Members (SMs) were judged not by the color of their skin but by their character, duty performance, and potential. Meritocracy, coupled with equal opportunity, created conditions for all to advance and excel, which stimulates healthy competition, thereby raising standards. Historically, our military has been one of, if not the most, diverse and inclusive institution in America.
The domestic cultural threat has an innocuous name: “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). But, in reality DEI is dividing, not uniting, our military and society. DEI’s principles derive from critical race theory, which is rooted in cultural Marxism, where people are grouped into identity classes (typically by race), labeled as “oppressed” or “oppressors,” and pitted against each other. Under the guise of DEI, some people are selected for career enhancing opportunities and advancement based on preferences given to identity groups based on race, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, etc. For example, the DoD twice admitted to using race in service academy admissions in its 2022 amicus brief in the pending Supreme Court college admissions cases.
Our military has practiced “equality” by giving equal opportunities for all to achieve. The equality approach ignores skin color, gender, or ethnicity seeing all SMs as equal, with a common set of values and mission. This does not diminish their individuality, but rather celebrates their dedication to duty and a higher noble calling of selfless service to our Nation.
DEI’s “Equity” sounds benign, but in practice it lowers standards. While equality provides equal opportunities, equity’s goal is equal outcomes. To achieve equal outcomes using identity group characteristics, standards must be lowered to accommodate the desired equity outcomes. Lower standards reduce performance where even slight differences in capability impact readiness and can determine war fighting mission success or failure.
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) practices use identity-based preferences in selections for career schools and promotions. As with equity, D&I lowers standards by not always selecting the best qualified to become pilots, academy cadets, leaders at all ranks, etc. Identity based preferences create friction and distrust in the ranks, damaging unit cohesion, teamwork and unity of effort, further degrading readiness.
The “One Team, One Fight” battle motto describes a meritocracy-based military characterized by:
• a common mission and purpose;
• unqualified loyalty to the team and not to an individual’s identity group;
• total trust and confidence in each other for their very lives from the foxhole to the highest level;
• teamwork/camaraderie resulting in the unit cohesion essential for warfighting readiness.
Meritocracy is essential for winning. In professional sports — where the mission is to win games — the best players are fielded to win, no matter their skin color. If meritocracy is used in sports where the consequence of losing a game is minor, why is it not essential in the military where the worst-case consequences of losing a major war are unimaginable losses of life, destruction, and perhaps our Nation? To win, the best qualified SMs must be selected to lead America’s sons and daughters into life-and-death situations. Meritocracy wins games and it wins wars!
We have fought for our Nation and are sounding the alarm that DEI poses a grave danger to our military warfighting ethos and is degrading warfighting readiness. Social engineering, commonly called “wokeism,” has no place in our military. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are not distracted by DEI programs; no doubt they are watching us. Equal opportunity and merit-based performance have been battle tested for generations and proven essential for success. DEI policies and practices must be eliminated from the DoD to protect our critical warfighting readiness.

You can download this letter and the list of the signatories of the letter at this link:

https://flagofficers4america.com/sign-our-letters#66032789-fe00-4fac-bc6d-0326874415d7

Biden’s Denigration of American Military Patriots. Part #1
More than 160 flag officers call out Biden’s military mission erosion resulting from his “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates.

Mark Alexander

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” —John Adams (1808)

Of the four Republican presidents over the last 40 years, three of them — Reagan, George H.W. Bush (USN), and George W. Bush (ANG) — have served our nation with honor and integrity. The fourth, Donald Trump, was a great advocate for our Armed Forces.
On the other hand, Joe Biden and his predecessors, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, had no military service and generally loathed those serving under them as commander-in-chief. In each case, these CINCs significantly eroded our national security, and the results have been disastrous and deadly. Among other threats, Clinton propagated the 9/11 Islamist attack on our nation; Obama and his protege, Hillary Clinton, oversaw the rise of the Islamic State and 2014 invasion of Ukraine; and that inept and vacuous appeaser, Joe Biden, has choreographed our disastrous surrender and retreat from Afghanistan and the second invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The latter invasion is an ongoing and perilous threat to NATO and, by extension, our national security posed by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.
One of the many ways that Biden defames those who have died in the service of our nation is his oft-repeated lie that his son Beau was killed in Iraq. He repeated that lie again last week in Japan to Marines at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, telling them: “My son was a major in the U.S. Army. We lost him in Iraq.”
That is just one of a long list of Biden’s pathological lies, which the Leftmedia talking-heads don’t question.
With that as a backdrop, ahead of our nation’s annual Memorial Day observance honoring those who have actually died in the uniformed services of our nation, defending American Liberty in accordance with their sacred oaths “to support and defend” our Constitution, a large contingent of retired senior military officers is taking aim at Biden for his disgraceful assault on military readiness and morale.
The membership of the organization, Flag Officers 4 America, is described as follows: “We are retired military leaders who pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Although retired from active service, each of us feels bound by that oath to do what we can, in our capacity today, to protect our nation from the threats to her freedom.”
We last heard from them when they petitioned Congress to hold Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley responsible for the catastrophically failed exfil from Afghanistan. Of course, that did not happen.
Now, more than 160 flag officers have launched their latest effort in a letter to House leaders, calling out Biden for systemic military mission erosion, the result of his “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates. Among them are former National Security Advisor V Adm John Poindexter (USN), Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston (USMC), and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Lt Gen William Gerald Boykin (USA).
They are requesting that Congress ensure no diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs promoted by Biden’s woke cadres at the Pentagon are included in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. Despite the Biden administration’s claim in March that DOD disbanded its DEI initiatives, they are still embedded in the NDAA budget.
And lest you think that retired officers challenge a sitting commander-in-chief at no risk, as our military analyst Gen. B.B. Bell notes, the reason more retired officers are reluctant to stand up for our military ranks is that retirees could still be subject to an Article 88 UCMJ violation. Thus, those like Bell who do stand up for their fellow warriors deserve our respect and gratitude.
I am reprinting the letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in full because it also serves as an exposition on the rot that DEI creates within any organization in which it’s implemented. But when it metastasizes in our military ranks, that rot becomes very dangerous.

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/97580-bidens-denigration-of-american-military-patriots-2023-05-24