{"id":1940381,"date":"2023-05-29T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-blasts-military-for-going-woke-and-embracing-dei-and-political-ideologies\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:57:08","slug":"desantis-blasts-military-for-going-woke-and-embracing-dei-and-political-ideologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-blasts-military-for-going-woke-and-embracing-dei-and-political-ideologies\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis criticizes military for being &#8216;woke&#8217; and adopting &#8216;DEI&#8217; and &#8216;political ideologies&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fdesantis-blasts-military-for-going-woke-and-embracing-dei-and-political-ideologies%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=1940381&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>Gov. Ron DeSantis Promises Big Changes to Military<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t want to join a &#8216;woke&#8217; military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has promised significant changes to the military if he becomes president in 2024. In a recent Memorial Day interview on Fox News, the Republican presidential hopeful highlighted his military service and criticized &#8220;woke&#8221; policies and political ideologies that he believes are driving soldiers away.<\/p>\n<h3>Decline in Military Recruitment<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis noted that while the United States has a great Constitution and Declaration of Independence, these values &#8220;don&#8217;t run on autopilot.&#8221; He pointed to the decline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-as-the-world-burns-our-military-focuses-on-promoting-diversity-and-inclusion\/\" title=\"WALSH: As The World Burns, Our Military Focuses On Promoting Diversity And Inclusion\u00a0\">military recruitment<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-proves-the-danger-of-the-body-positive-celebration-of-obesity\/\" title=\"COVID-19 Proves The Danger Of The \u2018Body Positive\u2019 Celebration Of Obesity\">recent times<\/a>, with Army Secretary Christine Wormuth stating that the Army fell short of its recruiting goals last year by around 15,000 people. The other branches had to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-u-s-military-too-woke-to-be-able-to-recruit\/\" title=\"Is the U.S. Military too \u201cWoke\u201d to Be Able to Recruit?\">delayed entry applicants<\/a> to meet their quota last year, according to ArmyTimes.<\/p>\n<h3>Fixing the Recruiting Problem<\/h3>\n<p>Wormuth has made fixing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-parker-we-need-republicans-to-deliver-our-new-leadership\/\" title=\"Star Parker: We Need Republicans to Deliver Our New Leadership\">recruiting problem<\/a> the No. 1 priority for the Army this year. DeSantis has been critical of the military&#8217;s current state, stating that &#8220;woke&#8221; policies and political ideologies have caused recruiting to plummet.<\/p>\n<h3>Honoring Those Who Gave Their Lives<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis spoke at a veteran memorial in Jacksonville, Florida, on Memorial Day to honor those who gave their lives while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. He emphasized the importance of recognizing the sacrifices that people have made throughout history, stating that &#8220;we would not be free people without those sacrifices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether DeSantis will become president in 2024 and make good on his promises to change the military. However, his anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda has certainly sparked controversy and debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) pledged to overhaul the military if elected president, citing &#8220;woke&#8221; policies and political ideologies as reasons for soldiers leaving. On Memorial Day, the 2024 Republican presidential candidate emphasized his military background on Fox News, promoting his anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion platform. He claimed that these ideas have led to recruitment issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[21857,3763,16574,4980,18396,4505,3753,5558],"class_list":["post-1940381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-adopting","tag-criticizes","tag-dei","tag-desantis","tag-ideologies","tag-military","tag-political","tag-woke"],"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\/1940381","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=1940381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}