{"id":1298871,"date":"2022-02-15T04:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1298871"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T14:52:37","slug":"military-spent-five-million-man-hours-on-stand-downs-to-counter-service-member-extremism-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-spent-five-million-man-hours-on-stand-downs-to-counter-service-member-extremism-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Spent Five Million Man-Hours On \u2018Stand Downs\u2019 To Counter Service Member Extremism: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmilitary-spent-five-million-man-hours-on-stand-downs-to-counter-service-member-extremism-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1298871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Milley-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The military reportedly spent over five million man-hours on \u201cstand downs\u201d to counter \u201cextremism\u201d among service members and another 500,000 hours on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bidens-woke-agenda-military-6-million-man-hours-republicans\"><span>According<\/span><\/a><span> to Fox News, the details about the trainings and how much money was spent on them was revealed in a letter from Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Mark Milley to Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe after an inquiry by several senators. Milley\u2019s letter was sent in early January but was just obtained by Fox News.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans were quick to condemn the hours spent on trainings and \u201cstand downs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe face real threats across the world, yet the Biden administration is more focused on promoting its leftist social agenda in the military instead of countering China, Russia and Iran or creating an effective counterterrorism plan,\u201d Republican senators on the Armed Services Committee said in a letter on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur military is not an extremist organization, and our service members, by and large all good people, are dedicated, faithful patriots,\u201d they continued.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Aside from the millions of hours spent on the \u201cstand downs,\u201d the sessions also cost $535,000. Additionally, $477,000 was spent on DEI training for a total of 530,000 hours. Another 1,000 hours were spent on pursuing the Defense department\u2019s climate change policy goals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are alarmed that so much training time and taxpayer money was devoted to a partisan, political agenda instead of recruiting, training and equipping the lethal force we need to defend this country,\u201d Republican senators noted.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They continued, \u201cThe Department of Defense\u2019s primary task is to protect Americans from foreign threats. If the Biden administration doesn\u2019t make this a priority moving forward, we will use all tools at our disposal, including the annual defense authorization bill, to ensure that it does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report noted that, according to a December report from the department, the number of service members found to have participated in \u201cextremist activity\u201d was less than 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Milley has previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt\"><span>testified<\/span><\/a><span> that he wanted to understand \u201cwhite rage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut I do think it\u2019s important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand, and I want to understand white rage and I\u2019m white,\u201d he said back in June.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The military leader noted that he hoped to study what caused January 6.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;\u201cAnd I want to understand it so what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America. What caused that?,\u201d Milley also asked. \u201cI want to find that out. I want to maintain an open mind here and do want to analyze it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Milley and other military leaders have come under increasing scrutiny following the unorganized and disastrous Afghanistan pullout, an aggressive China, and the possibility of conflict in Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military reportedly spent over five million man-hours on \u201cstand downs\u201d to counter \u201cextremism\u201d among service members and another 500,000 hours on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training sessions.According to Fox &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}