{"id":1564886,"date":"2022-07-21T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564886"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:19:35","slug":"this-wounded-veteran-wants-to-strengthen-the-us-military-critics-say-hes-a-racist-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-wounded-veteran-wants-to-strengthen-the-us-military-critics-say-hes-a-racist-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"This Wounded Veteran Wants To Strengthen the US Military. Critics Say He\u2019s a Racist \u2018Loser.\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fthis-wounded-veteran-wants-to-strengthen-the-us-military-critics-say-hes-a-racist-loser%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=1564886&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Vets on Duty chairman Jason Church is &#8216;laser-focused&#8217; on &#8216;advocating for a strong national defense&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tJason Church\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/tim-rice\/\" title=\"Posts by Tim Rice\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Tim Rice<\/a> \u2022 July 21, 2022 3:12 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A coalition of veterans dedicated to strengthening America\u2019s military has been uniformly slammed as racist by their critics. It\u2019s a surprisingly callous take on a group chaired by a Purple Heart recipient who lost both his legs in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Church, a retired U.S. Army captain, joined with other veterans of the War on Terror to ensure the United States retains military supremacy. Their group, Veterans on Duty, is warning that progressive bureaucrats have taken control of the armed forces and are forcing troops to sit through diversity, equity, and inclusion seminars when they should be training for battle. The newly formed super PAC aims to reverse this trend by recruiting veterans to leadership roles and supporting lawmakers and policies that will help keep U.S. military battle-ready.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the group\u2019s launch, Church penned a <em>New York Post <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/18\/vets-like-me-are-fighting-back-so-our-military-doesnt-go-woke\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPOpinionTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> laying out these problems and enumerating Veterans on Duty\u2019s proposed solutions. Critics immediately accused him of racism.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive group VoteVets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/votevets\/status\/1549512758886014979?s=20&#038;t=HTxOJmtJ48yaTjQRyjzmrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> that Church &#8220;makes the same arguments that were made against integration over 70 years ago.&#8221; VoteVets, which chaired by Jon Soltz, who still has both of his legs, has spent tens of millions of dollars <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/establishment-backed-democrats-accused-of-campaign-finance-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backing<\/a> Democratic candidates, also slammed Church as a &#8220;loser congressional candidate.&#8221; Church entered a 2020 special congressional election in Wisconsin in an effort to continue <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/jason-church-next-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serving<\/a> his country &#8220;even though the Taliban took my legs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VoteVets CEO Janessa Goldbeck, who also has both of her legs, struck a similarly harsh note, calling Vets on Duty members &#8220;assholes&#8221; after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jgoldbeck\/status\/1549828515406565376?s=20&#038;t=MH-kWBWYwZxXePp-nxWQ2A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, &#8220;50 years ago these people would have been mad about racial integration. Today they are mad about women and LGBT people in the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At no point in Church\u2019s <em>Post <\/em>piece does he call for the military to exclude soldiers based on race or sexual orientation. But he isn\u2019t surprised by the reaction to Veterans on Duty\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The radical left has long used baseless accusations of bigotry to browbeat dissenters as it bends American institutions to its will,&#8221; Church told the <em>Washington Free Beacon. <\/em>&#8220;This tired tactic should be ignored. We are laser-focused on our mission of advocating for a strong national defense and combating progressives\u2019 efforts to corrode the military from within.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Church points out, that corrosion couldn\u2019t come at a worse time. In his <em>Post <\/em>piece, he notes that Iran is close to obtaining nuclear weapons and the Chinese Navy last year &#8220;surpassed our own as the world\u2019s largest,&#8221; all while Russia is marching its armies through Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media were also quick to criticize Church\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m just woke enough to say you \u2026 are a fucking idiot,&#8221; MSNBC pundit Malcom Nance <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalcolmNance\/status\/1549500554316918785?s=20&#038;t=44OZrC-4_GJq-otfPNbCwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> at Church. Nance, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/msnbcs-malcolm-nance-draws-heat-for-tweet-responding-to-kabul-attacks-with-dealwithit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> &#8220;#DealWithIt&#8221; after terrorists killed 13 U.S. soldiers outside Kabul Airport in Afghanistan last summer, called Church &#8220;another pro-Trump Summer Soldier begging to be given a public paycheck for exhibiting asshattery &#038; beclownment\u00a0 above and beyond the Call of Duty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just imagine how all these right-wingers would have reacted with horror if they had been around when Harry Truman desegregated the military,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxboot\/status\/1549396185064013824?s=21&#038;t=I7XfUpF2Na8BIk1uhwzxsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Max Boot, a <em>Washington Post <\/em>columnist who has not served in the military. &#8220;Now that was woke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy C. Hunt, a black military veteran who serves on Veterans on Duty\u2019s board, quickly rebuffed Boot\u2019s accusation. &#8220;We care about a military that wins,&#8221; Hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejeremyhunt\/status\/1549419583433572353?s=20&#038;t=8GDbY-jxkGRFW7fW-PU1DA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;If you want an example of modern segregation in the military, look no further than the Biden administration\u2019s racist DEI protocols that you defend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those protocols include instructional <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/pride-month-heres-how-the-navy-is-training-sailors-on-proper-gender-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videos<\/a> that teach Navy cadets how to use gender pronouns, and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/army-mandates-pronoun-training-for-all-levels-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">training<\/a> for Green Berets, the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon<\/em> originally reported.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Boot tells the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>that he stands by his claim &#8220;that the right-wingers who today decry the supposedly \u2018woke&#8217; military would have opposed the integration of the military in 1948.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do I know? Because that was the conservative position back then,&#8221; said Boot, adding that &#8220;this whole \u2018Vets on Duty&#8217; exercise looks to be mere partisan politics designed to bash Democrats\u2014not a serious attempt to protect the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jay Kramer, executive director of Veterans on Duty, says that politics are precisely what put the military at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time of growing threats to the United States, progressive ideologues are pushing radical policies that undermine the men and women of our military,&#8221; Kramer told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;While out-of-touch commentators focus more on messaging than substance, we are joining with like-minded veterans nationwide to do the hard work to ensure our military remains lethal and effective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VoteVets and Goldbeck did not return <em>Free Beacon <\/em>requests for comment. Nance could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Vets on Duty chairman Jason Church is &#8216;laser-focused&#8217; on &#8216;advocating for a strong national defense&#8217;  Jason Church  Tim Rice \u2022 July 21, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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-1564886","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\/1564886","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564886\/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=1564886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}