{"id":1940479,"date":"2023-05-29T20:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T00:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-issues-memorial-day-warning-about-us-navy\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T00:53:54","slug":"desantis-issues-memorial-day-warning-about-us-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-issues-memorial-day-warning-about-us-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis warns about US Navy on Memorial Day."},"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\">16<\/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-issues-memorial-day-warning-about-us-navy%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=1940479&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>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Calls for Changes in the Military<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0529\/f6c8e77a-641f-4156-b3a6-3c1a7083428e\/audio.mp3?length=3927501&#038;duration=327\"><\/div>\n<p>On Memorial Day, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who served in the Navy, warned that the military needs to improve morale as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-biden-supporter-gets-taste-of-her-own-socialist-medicine-yall-asking-for-handouts\/\" title=\"Rich Biden Supporter Gets Taste of Her Own Socialist Medicine: \u2018Y\u2019all Asking for Handouts\u2019\">left-wing policies<\/a> have taken hold. According to DeSantis, the military he sees today &#8220;is different from the military I served in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I see a lot of emphasis now on political ideologies, things like gender pronouns. I see a lot about things like [diversity, equity, and inclusion]. And I think that that\u2019s caused recruiting to plummet. I think it\u2019s driven off a lot of warriors, and I think morale is low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis, who announced his 2024 presidential candidacy last week, signaled that he would make changes to the military if he\u2019s elected. In Monday\u2019s interview, he questioned why anyone would want to serve with the current set of rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Why would you have wanted to join the Marine Corps back in the day? Why did everybody else who joined the Army? I remember being in Iraq, and we were in Fallujah, and it was not going well. And yet people were still willing to sign up knowing they\u2019d get sent to Iraq because they believed that this was something special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis did not elaborate on how he would change the military if elected, but he stressed \u201cbig changes\u201d would be made starting day one. One policy he\u2019s considering would entail a program to counter the Chinese regime, but he stressed that recruitment needs to be boosted amid reports of persistent shortfalls.<\/p>\n<h3>Recruiting Crisis in the Military<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. Army last year missed its recruitment goals by 15,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-declines-to-evacuate-i-need-ammunition-not-a-ride\/\" title=\"Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Declines To Evacuate: \u2018I Need Ammunition, Not A Ride\u2019\">000 active-duty members<\/a>, or some 25 percent of its target. The Army is now about 7 percent smaller than it was two years ago, according to the military\u2019s figures. For the U.S. Air Force, Assistant Secretary Alex Wagner said this year that it will \u201cwill miss its recruiting goal for the first time since 1999,\u201d although it met its recruitment goal for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Wagner and several other top officials sounded the alarm during a Senate hearing on the military. \u201cToday the military faces a recruiting crisis,\u201d Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said, adding that for this year \u201cthe Army and Navy will miss the mark by 10,000 each.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5155774\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/28\/id5155774-US-soldiers-GettyImages-1248956830-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/28\/id5155774-US-soldiers-GettyImages-1248956830-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. soldiers attend an inauguration ceremony by transforming the Area Support Group Poland into the permanent U.S. Army Garrison Poland, at Camp Kosciuszko in Poznan, Poland, on March 21, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski\/AFP via Getty Images)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h3>Left-Wing Policies and &#8220;Wokeness&#8221; in the Military<\/h3>\n<p>Several Republican senators have flagged the federal government\u2019s and military\u2019s overall pivot to \u201cwokeness\u201d and embracing of left-wing rules. Instead of focusing on fighting wars, the military is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-issues-memorial-day-warning-about-us-navy\/\" title=\"DeSantis warns about US Navy on Memorial Day.\">pushing policies targeting abortions<\/a> as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), training that is pushing some young, conservative Americans away, said Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I do hope this statement is not a reflection of the department priorities,&#8221; Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Ala.) said at the time. &#8220;We have a recruiting problem \u2026 and yet this statement, some 26 pages, does not say anything about recruiting until page 20. Much of the statement is related to abortion, diversity, inclusion, equity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several days after his presidential launch, DeSantis told a Florida media outlet that he would remove left-wing DEI initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a former Navy member, stated that left-wing policies have affected the morale of the U.S. military. He emphasized that the military he served in is different from the current one. 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