{"id":1705121,"date":"2022-10-21T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705121"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:33:23","slug":"with-drag-shows-and-genderfluid-internships-its-no-wonder-military-recruiting-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-drag-shows-and-genderfluid-internships-its-no-wonder-military-recruiting-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"With Drag Shows And \u2018Genderfluid\u2019 Internships, It\u2019s No Wonder Military Recruiting Is Down"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwith-drag-shows-and-genderfluid-internships-its-no-wonder-military-recruiting-is-down%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=1705121&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--><p>Institutional groupthink and delusion have become endemic at the Pentagon. It started on Inauguration Day, 2021, when President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrlink.org\/issues\/full\/biden-presidency-begins-with-injuries-and-insults-to-the-troops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directed all government agencies<\/a> to devise and enforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversity\u201d and \u201cnondiscrimination\u201d are important, but percentage-based \u201cequity\u201d goals differ from \u201cequality.\u201d Additional Biden administration orders reversed President Donald Trump\u2019s nuanced policy regarding transgender military personnel and erased Trump\u2019s directive eliminating controversial critical race theory (CRT) instruction programs.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin quickly ordered worldwide \u201canti-extremist\u201d standdown sessions, which featured divisive CRT themes and unresolvable accusations of \u201csystemic racism\u201d or \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d The demoralizing sessions diverted 5.3 million man-hours from normal operations, but investigators found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dod-report-finds-about-100-troops-involved-in-extremist-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer than 100 extremists<\/a> among 2 million servicemembers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tom-cotton-critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sen. Tom Cotton<\/a>, R-Ark., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/military-critical-race-theory-academies-soldiers-rep-mike-waltz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Mike Waltz<\/a>, R-Fla., and other lawmakers have received hundreds of messages and reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/service-members-speak-out-against-woke-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cegregiously inappropriate\u201d<\/a> CRT training sessions. Judicial Watch obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/crt-propaganda-at-west-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numerous documents<\/a> confirming CRT indoctrination at West Point and is suing for more from the Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Academy sparked controversy with a \u201cdiversity and inclusion\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cmrlink.org\/data\/sites\/85\/CMRDocuments\/DI%2007%20Sept%2022%20Training_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slide show<\/a> combining platitudes with odd suggestions for \u201cinclusive language,\u201d such as \u201cparents, caregivers, or guardians\u201d instead of \u201cMom\u201d and \u201cDad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, the CRT-influenced presentation disparaged the word \u201ccolorblind.\u201d That characterization radically departs from the colorblind principles of Martin Luther King Jr., and President Harry Truman\u2019s 1948 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trumanlibrary.gov\/library\/executive-orders\/9981\/executive-order-9981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> ending discrimination in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming that the presentation had been taken out of context, Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/cmrlink.org\/data\/sites\/85\/CMRDocuments\/LG_Clark-101022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cWe should respect everyone\u2019s situation and not make assumptions.\u201d This was ironic since CRT instructions are <em>built on<\/em> assumptions and stereotypes. Prejudgments based on sex or skin color alone <em>define<\/em> what prejudice is.<\/p>\n<p> Discrimination Against White Males <\/p>\n<p>Denials of woke-ism ring false when the academy hosts seminars like <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/air-force-academy-holds-transgender-visibility-seminar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cTransgender Visibility and Awareness in our Air Force,\u201d<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/air-force-academy-promotes-fellowship-bans-cisgender-men-this-program-isnt-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excluding<\/a> \u201ccisgender men\u201d from the academy\u2019s Brooke Owens Fellowship program \u2014 a nine-week paid internship for cadets interested in aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>Now the program is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookeowensfellowship.org\/apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reserved<\/a> for women and \u201cnon-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or another form of gender minority.\u201d This type of brazen discrimination smacks of woke-ism, and it is not unique.<\/p>\n<p>Red State <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/streiff\/2022\/09\/18\/unexpectedly-the-usaf-finds-itself-with-a-critical-shortage-of-pilots-while-it-says-it-has-too-many-white-officers-n629231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> that the Air Force was short 1,650 pilots in 2021, but officials plan to reduce white officers from 80 percent to 67.5 percent. They also plan to decrease white male pilots, currently 86 percent, by dropping prior flight training as a \u201cplus\u201d factor for selection.<\/p>\n<p>Why would an experienced white male pilot join or stay in the Air Force knowing he will be the target of racial discrimination, especially when commercial airlines offer generous family and financial advantages?<\/p>\n<p>The Army ended fiscal year 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/journalrecord\/article\/6cae87a2c64b846a79b0b6e9175f1c93\/us-army-misses-recruiting-goal-other-services-squeak#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%28AP%29%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Army%20fell%20about%2015%2C000,find%20young%20people%20willing%20and%20fit%20to%20enlist.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">short 15,000 recruits (25 percent)<\/a>, and the other services barely made their goals by accelerating delayed-entry recruits. This will make it harder to meet objectives next year, but Pentagon leaders expect recruiters to spend more time and resources trying to attract female prospects with a lower propensity to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Woke-ism also manifests in disastrous Covid-19 vaccine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke policies are weakening our military&#8217;s morale and cohesion. 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