{"id":1923813,"date":"2023-05-04T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:17:11","slug":"recruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy hires drag queen as &#8216;Digital Ambassador&#8217; amidst recruitment crisis."},"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\">22<\/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%2Frecruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador%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=1923813&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--><h2>The Navy&#8217;s &#8220;Nonbinary&#8221; Drag Queen Digital Ambassador<\/h2>\n<p>The Navy is taking a bold step to attract younger Americans amid recruitment shortages by promoting a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag queen to be its first &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-unable-to-meet-recruiting-targets-the-u-s-navy-is-turning-to-drag-queens-for-help\/\" title=\"US Navy seeks help from drag queens to meet recruitment goals.\">digital ambassador<\/a>.&#8221; Joshua Kelley, an active sailor who performs under the stage name Harpy Daniels, has been performing on Navy ships since 2018 and was invited to be the Navy&#8217;s digital ambassador in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12039863\/U-S-Navy-turning-drag-performer-Harpy-Daniels-digital-ambassador.html\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, Kelley claims to be an &#8220;advocate&#8221; for people who &#8220;were oppressed for years in the service.&#8221; The program for digital ambassadors ran from October 2022 to March 2023 and was designed to &#8220;explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates,&#8221; a Navy spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/us-navy-platformed-drag-queen-influencer-attract-youth-military-hiring-crisis\">told<\/a> Fox News. No one in the program was paid.<\/p>\n<h3>The Military&#8217;s Recruitment Struggles<\/h3>\n<p>The military&#8217;s embrace of a drag queen comes as it struggles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamstrung-nypd-officers-seek-early-retirement-as-city-grapples-with-crime\/\" title=\"Hamstrung NYPD Officers Seek Early Retirement As City Grapples With Crime\">meet recruitment goals<\/a>. The Navy is projected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12039863\/U-S-Navy-turning-drag-performer-Harpy-Daniels-digital-ambassador.html\"><strong>fall<\/strong><\/a> 8,000 short of its recruitment goal this year, and the Army is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/05\/02\/army-miss-recruiting-goal\/\"><strong>expected<\/strong><\/a> to miss its goal again after only filling 45,000 slots out of its goal of 60,000 last year.<\/p>\n<h3>Kelley&#8217;s Navy Performances<\/h3>\n<p>Kelley is a regular performer on U.S. military ships, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/navy-drag-queen-harpy-daniels-serving-looks-country-n905056\"><em>NBC News<\/em><\/a>. He first started performing on ships after a sanctioned MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador\/\" title=\"US Navy hires drag queen as 'Digital Ambassador' amidst recruitment crisis.\">lip-syncing contest<\/a> in 2017 while deployed on the USS Ronald Reagan and became a regular in the competitions.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and being able to do drag is not just for me, but a tribute to many service members who were kicked out, harassed, bullied, or worse for being openly gay during Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221;<\/em> Kelley told the USS Constitution Museum in an interview, referencing the Bush-era policy that discouraged military members from disclosing their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The officer insists he never experienced harassment in the Navy, but when he was scheduled to perform at a diversity, equity, and inclusion event at Langley Joint Air Force Base in the summer of 2022, it &#8217;caused an uproar to many conservatives and Christian extremists,'&#8221;<\/em> the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<h3>Published under:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Navy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy promoted a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag queen to be a &#8220;digital ambassador&#8221; in an effort to attract younger Americans amid recruitment shortages in the military.\u00a0 Joshua Kelley, an active sailor, announced on TikTok in November that the Navy invited him to be its first &#8220;digital ambassador.&#8221; Kelley uses the stage name Harpy Daniels and has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1923814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[11079,6170,9344,7069,11403,6758,7291,14756],"class_list":["post-1923813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-ambassador","tag-crisis","tag-digital","tag-drag","tag-hires","tag-navy","tag-queen","tag-recruitment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923813","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}