This is the most scary thing that has come out of Trump picks... politicizing the military!
AP NewsBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR
December 6, 2024Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group urged Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon.
The list compiled by the American Accountability Foundation includes 20 general officers or senior admirals and a disproportionate number of female officers. It has had a chilling effect on the Pentagon’s often frank discussions as leaders try to figure out how to address the potential firings and diversity issues under President-elect Donald Trump.
Those on the list in many cases seem to be targeted for public comments they made either in interviews or at events on diversity, and in some cases for retweeting posts that promote diversity.
I don't know about you but I am very, very concerned with having an ideological military... I want a military sworn to up hold the Constitution and not to a party!
Hegseth has embraced Trump’s effort to end programs that promote diversity in the ranks and fire those who reflect those values. Other Trump picks, like Kash Patel for FBI director, have suggested targeting those in government who are not aligned with Trump.
I don't want a military owning its allegiance to Herr Trump!
“You will drive people out,” Hagel said. “It affects morale as widely and deeply as anything — it creates a negative dynamic that will trickle through an organization.”
The list, which was first reported by The New York Post, includes nine Air Force general officers, seven Navy admirals of different ranks and four Army general officers. Eight of those 20 are women even though only 17% of the military is female. None are Marines.
One female Navy officer was named because she gave a speech at a 2015 Women’s Equality Day event, where she noted that 80% of Congress is male, which affects what bills move forward. The officer also was targeted because she said “diversity is our strength.”
The Hill writes,
November 17, 2024Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Sunday warned of the “risk of politicizing the military” in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week.”
ABC News’s Martha Raddatz was talking to the Michigan Democrat about President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, saying he “has also said that ‘Any general that was involved in any of the DEI woke crap has got to go.'” She then asked Slotkin if she thinks the president-elect is set “to fire top generals who he considers ‘woke.'”Slotkin responded that she believes “they’ve been very clear that they’re putting together some sort of panel that’s gonna look at generals, people who have served their nation their entire lives, over multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, in combat, they are now openly talking about dismissing them like some sort of kangaroo court.”
Trump learned his lesson well on Jan 6... he needs a military loyal to him and not the Constitution!
“I’m shocked, truly, and this is exactly what we worried about when we warned about Donald Trump, which is that he is going to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal fiefdom,” Goldman said earlier this week.
This is straight out of Putin and Nicolás Maduro Moros of Venezuelan playbooks!
How to win friends and influence people... NOT!
Trump stoolies want to slash VA benefits to the "suckers" and "looser" to quote Trump.
CNNBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley BritzkyDecember 7, 2024It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose opinion Trump really wanted.Hegseth, now Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of defense, had been a vocal and persistent advocate for veterans having unfettered access to private health care, rather than having to go through the VA to keep their benefits. He’s also lobbied for policies that would restrict VA care and believes veterans should ask for fewer government benefits.“We want to have full choice where veterans can go wherever they want for care,” Hegseth told Trump on speakerphone as Shulkin listened, according to Shulkin’s 2019 memoir.Trump’s pick to serve as the next VA secretary, Doug Collins, has also expressed support for greater privatization of veteran health care, which advocates characterize as giving veterans greater choice over their doctors. If veterans “want to go back to their own doctors, then so be it,” he told Fox News last month.
Of course he wants to privatize it so his greedy little insurance friends can make money off it and deny claims.
If confirmed, Hegseth and Collins will have the opportunity to push for a dramatic overhaul of the military and veteran health care system, one that could significantly cut government health benefits for service members and veterans – many of which Hegseth says veterans should not be asking for at all.
So they can cut anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit!
The military is not meeting its recruitment goals with the exception of enlisting women into the military. Put the word out that women are not welcomed will result in women not enlisting. My wife was in the Women's Army Corp in the late 1960's and they were limited to "traditional" women's roles. Veterans' health care has expanded over the decades. Once it was limited to providing care for service connected injuries. Now, especially for aging veterans the VA provides a full range of care not associated with caring for the wounds of war. Veterans do not realize the VA system is actually a model of socialize health care where the government owns the facilities and pays the doctors. Some want to do away with VA health care because of that. To put a time limit on serving veterans for the injuries of war ignores the fact that the effects of injuries may arise and get worse as the body aged: That's me! My aged grandmother use to tell me that all those injuries I had in my youth will come back to haunt me when I get older. Thank you, Uncle Sam, for that all expenses paid one year vacation to that tropical paradise called Vietnam. To the Post 9/11 and Iraqi and Afghanistan veterans, see what they are planning for you.
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