{"id":1562272,"date":"2022-07-20T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562272"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:50:16","slug":"vets-are-fighting-to-keep-our-military-from-going-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vets-are-fighting-to-keep-our-military-from-going-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Vets are Fighting to Keep Our Military From Going Woke"},"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%2Fvets-are-fighting-to-keep-our-military-from-going-woke%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=1562272&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When I joined the US Army in 2011, the training I received \u2014 beginning with ROTC, then infantry officer school, followed by Airborne and Ranger schools \u2014 \u00a0focused on preparing me and my fellow soldiers to prevail in battle. Only five months after Ranger school, I deployed to Afghanistan, where everything I learned would be tested. <\/p>\n<p>Woven into this training was something even more important than tactics and weapons: We were inculcated in an old and honorable military culture defined by ideas like duty, courage, discipline and selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>This is rarely the case today, more than a decade into a quiet revolution in the culture of the military initiated by the Obama administration and being pushed with new fervor by Team Biden. This revolution treats the military as yet another American institution whose traditions must be targeted in the name of \u201cdiversity, equity and inclusion.\u201d And it is happening at a moment of growing peril from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the score. Despite Ukrainians\u2019 valiant resistance, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/15\/ukraine-denounces-deadly-missile-strike-as-war-overshadows-g20-meeting\/\">Russia may emerge<\/a> from the war with more territory and closer ties to Beijing. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/08\/cameron-holt-warns-china-is-acquiring-new-weapons-five-times-faster-than-us\/\">China\u2019s arms build-up is relentless<\/a>; last year, the Communist Chinese Navy surpassed our own as the world\u2019s largest, and China is methodically wresting military, diplomatic and economic dominance in the Pacific away from the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/18\/iran-brags-it-can-build-nuclear-bombs\/\">Iran is on the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons<\/a>; North Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/07\/us-official-vows-forceful-response-if-north-korea-tests-nukes\/\">already a nuclear power, <\/a>performed an unprecedented 18 ballistic-missile tests over the last year. Our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan laid bare the incompetence of our intelligence community and the limits of our resolve.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22174293887812.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Iran recently bragged it has the \u201ctechnical means\u201d to produce nuclear bombs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the face of these problems, our military leaders act more like bureaucrats than commanders. None had the honor to resign after the fall of Kabul, a result of too many generals being promoted over the last 20 years for their political and administrative skills.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Pentagon functions as a federal jobs program, with its number of civilian employees the highest in history while the services have the lowest troop levels in decades. Weapons programs run billions over budget before being canceled. Our Navy pulls into port with ships that look like 10,000-ton rust buckets.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Biden administration is distracting military leaders with\u00a0a new, woke policy agenda that they appear far too eager to embrace. Today military officials talk so much about climate change, domestic extremism and systemic racism that you\u2019d think our enemies are at home, not abroad. Green Berets are forced to sit through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/army-mandates-pronoun-training-for-all-levels-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trainings\u00a0about transgenderism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Official military reading lists\u00a0include\u00a0the anti-American ravings of Ibram X. Kendi. Army\u00a0recruitment ads\u00a0seem aimed more at attracting social-justice warriors than actual warriors. The Navy is producing\u00a0instructional videos\u00a0on gender pronouns while its poorly maintained ships crash at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are\u00a0led astray\u00a0by our service academies, whose curricula are growing indistinguishable from that of woke Ivy League schools. Physical fitness standards have been lowered significantly for the sake of \u201cinclusivity.\u201d The chairman of the Joint Chiefs says he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/23\/gen-mark-milley-defends-teaching-critical-race-theory-at-west-point\/\">seeks to understand \u201cwhite rage.\u201d <\/a>The Secretary of Defense released an official statement about the Supreme Court\u2019s abortion ruling.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has weakened training, lowered morale and created politicized incentives for promotion that could get soldiers killed in war. It has driven some of our best warriors out of the service in disgust. And it diminishes the fighting spirit, cohesiveness and reputation of America\u2019s Armed\u00a0Forces. I fear that is exactly the point.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Gen.-Mark-Milley_USDoD_Joint-Chiefs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gen.-Mark-Milley_USDoD_Joint-Chiefs.jpg\" alt=\"In this Sept. 1, 2021, file photo Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a briefing with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon in Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-23102735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Gen.-Mark-Milley_USDoD_Joint-Chiefs.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Gen.-Mark-Milley_USDoD_Joint-Chiefs.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Gen.-Mark-Milley_USDoD_Joint-Chiefs.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Last year, Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he seeks to understand \u201cwhite rage.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Susan Walsh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s time to confront this problem. Veterans have given too much to allow the\u00a0service to become another victim of the left\u2019s culture war.\u00a0 We have lost limbs and carried unseen scars. We have buried friends and family members.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I joined with like-minded vets to launch Veterans on Duty, a new national membership organization. Our goal: To compel the military to get back to basics by exposing how the woke revolution in the services works and how policymakers can defeat it. And we\u2019ll support candidates and elected officials who\u2019ll take on those corroding our military.<\/p>\n<p>Times are too dire and threats too serious to sit on the sidelines. The American people have a right to insist their military does what they pay it to do: protect our country from external attack \u2014 and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jason Church, a retired captain in the US Army and Purple Heart recipient, is chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/vetsonduty.org\/\">Veterans on Duty,<\/a> a 501(c)(4) dedicated to preserving the American military and the American way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I joined the US Army in 2011, the training I received \u2014 beginning with ROTC, then infantry officer school, followed by Airborne and Ranger schools \u2014 \u00a0focused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574609,"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-1562272","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\/1562272","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=1562272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}