{"id":1548991,"date":"2022-07-11T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548991"},"modified":"2022-07-11T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:49:35","slug":"army-punishes-decorated-general-for-criticizing-jill-bidens-abortion-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-punishes-decorated-general-for-criticizing-jill-bidens-abortion-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Punishes Decorated General for Criticizing Jill Biden\u2019s Abortion Opinions"},"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\">20<\/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%2Farmy-punishes-decorated-general-for-criticizing-jill-bidens-abortion-opinions%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=1548991&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><\/div>\n<p>The Army suspended a decorated general for criticizing a tweet by first lady Jill Biden, <em>USA Today<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-retired-general-contract-tweet-jill-biden\/7756968001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The branch released retired three-star lieutenant general Gary Volesky, a veteran of the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan, from advising senior officers because of his June 25 response to a Jill Biden tweet about the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to strike down <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies,&#8221; the first lady\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/1540434135650639877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Today, that right was stolen from us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,&#8221; Volesky replied.<\/p>\n<p>Volesky&#8217;s tweet has since been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>Volesky was likely talking about Biden&#8217;s support for transgender rights, a cause the military has also embraced. As Russia this year began its bloodthirsty invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Army was training officers on &#8220;gender pronouns&#8221; and &#8220;when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery,&#8221; the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/army-mandates-pronoun-training-for-all-levels-of-service\/\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0Top-ranking General Mark Milley, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/milley-promised-to-warn-chinese-about-us-military-operations\/\">secretly promised<\/a> to warn the\u00a0Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army about U.S. military actions, has in recent years embraced left-wing causes, saying he wants to &#8220;understand white rage&#8221; and apologizing for appearing with former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this month that the Army has punished service members for disagreeing with someone in the Biden White House. The Army\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/tens-of-thousands-of-soldiers-barred-from-service-due-to-biden-vaccine-mandate\/\">announced<\/a> July 1 that it will deprive soldiers of pay and benefits if they do not comply with the administration&#8217;s vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Volesky, who retired in 2020, received the Silver Star, the military&#8217;s third-highest decoration for valor, the <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/09\/three-star-general-gary-volesky-suspended-over-jill-biden-tweet\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. He served as the Army&#8217;s chief of public affairs from 2012 to 2014 and commanded the 101st Airborne Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army suspended a decorated general for criticizing a tweet by first lady Jill Biden, USA Today reported. 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