{"id":1924904,"date":"2023-05-05T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-question-navy-for-platforming-drag-performer-in-recruiting-program\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:57:55","slug":"senate-republicans-question-navy-for-platforming-drag-performer-in-recruiting-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-question-navy-for-platforming-drag-performer-in-recruiting-program\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senators Question Navy for Featuring Drag Performer in Recruitment Program."},"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%2Fsenate-republicans-question-navy-for-platforming-drag-performer-in-recruiting-program%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=1924904&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>Republican Senators Question Navy&#8217;s Use of Drag-Performing Sailor for Recruiting<\/h2>\n<p>A group of 14 Republican senators are raising concerns about the U.S. Navy&#8217;s decision to bring on a drag-performing sailor for its pilot &#8220;digital ambassador&#8221; program in an effort to boost recruiting. Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who performs under the name &#8220;Harpy Daniels,&#8221; participated in the program from October 2022 to March of this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions for Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro<\/h3>\n<p>The senators, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, sent a letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro asking for more details about the &#8220;digital ambassador&#8221; program. They specifically asked if the Navy endorses drag shows and where the line is drawn on personal activities of influencers. The senators also asked for details on how much Navy funding went toward the program and any data on its impact.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the Navy endorse drag shows?<\/li>\n<li>Where does the Navy draw the line on promotion of personal activities of its influencers?<\/li>\n<li>Would the Navy enlist burlesque or exotic dancers to reach possible recruits?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The senators also expressed concern about Kelley&#8217;s prominence on TikTok, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nurses-dance-in-cringeworthy-tiktok-video-at-a-time-when-hospitals-are-supposedly-overrun-due-to-covid\/\" title=\"Nurses Dance In Cringeworthy TikTok Video At A Time When Hospitals Are Supposedly \u201cOverrun\u201d Due To COVID\">social media app<\/a> that the Navy banned on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-unveils-plan-to-block-chinese-digital-currency-from-government-devices\/\" title=\"Blackburn Unveils Plan To Block Chinese Digital Currency From Government Devices\">government-issued devices<\/a> in 2019 due to concerns about data collection and potential sharing with the Chinese regime.<\/p>\n<h3>Recruiting Crisis and &#8220;Wokeness&#8221; in the Military<\/h3>\n<p>Some Republican and conservative critics have tied recent recruiting shortfalls to a perceived politicization of the military and an embrace of socially &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology. They point to programs promoting racial and LGBT identity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-question-navy-for-platforming-drag-performer-in-recruiting-program\/\" title=\"GOP Senators Question Navy for Featuring Drag Performer in Recruitment Program.\">including officially sanctioned drag performances<\/a>, as examples of this trend. The senators argue that while social media is important for recruiting, it should not come at the cost of privacy, security, or professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>As the Navy responds to these questions, it remains to be seen how the controversy will impact its recruiting efforts and broader efforts to address the challenges facing the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 14 Republican senators has questions for the U.S. Navy after the military branch brought on a drag-performing sailor for its pilot \u201cdigital ambassador\u201d program in hopes of boosting recruiting. This week, the Navy confirmed that it had invited Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, the drag performer who goes by the stage name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1924905,"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":[543],"tags":[7069,8132,6203,6758,8275,6644,5926,14756,3709],"class_list":["post-1924904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-drag","tag-featuring","tag-gop","tag-navy","tag-performer","tag-program","tag-question","tag-recruitment","tag-senators"],"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\/1924904","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}