{"id":1971129,"date":"2023-07-12T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-with-piercing-white-officers-question\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:43:45","slug":"gop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-with-piercing-white-officers-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-with-piercing-white-officers-question\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator questions Biden&#8217;s pick for Joint Chiefs Chairman on diversity of officers."},"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\">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%2Fgop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-with-piercing-white-officers-question%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=1971129&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 Leadership of the American Military and the Culture Wars<\/h2>\n<p>The leadership of the American military was on the line, but it was the culture wars that were front and center.<\/p>\n<p>When Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, President Joe Biden\u2019s choice as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, GOP members zeroed in on the \u201cdiversity\u201d ideology and leftist agenda that\u2019s seeping into the military\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>But it was one question that really nailed the point.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt drilled down on Brown\u2019s clear commitment \u2014 some might read it as obsession \u2014 to \u201cdiversity\u201d in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/Portals\/1\/documents\/2022SAF\/Officer_Source_of_Commission_Applicant_Pool_Goals_memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a memo Brown signed<\/a> on Aug. 9 last year outlining goals for the Air Force\u2019s pool of applicants for commissioned officer positions.<\/p>\n<p>The memo used strikingly specific percentages of racial and sexual breakdowns for the officer applicant pool \u2014 24.5 percent white female, say, or 8.5 percent black male. Only a niggling 0.5 percent is allotted for each sex of \u201cNative Hawaiian \/ Other Pacific Islander.\u201d The numbers are based on the U.S. population as a whole, but that\u2019s a strange way to want to build anything, much less a military.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2022\/08\/30\/air-force-leaders-set-new-goals-to-diversify-officer-corps\/#:~:text=As%20of%20Tuesday%2C%20the%20Air%20Force%20and,Space%20Force%E2%80%99s%2065%2C090-member%20officer%20corps%20was%3A%2076.8%25%20white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Force Times<\/a> noted in an Aug. 30, 2022, report, the memo\u2019s target of 67.5 percent<em> is far lower<\/em> than the 76.8 percent whites who made up the officer corps at the time.<\/p>\n<p>And Schmitt came down hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral,\u201d he began his questioning. \u201cDo we have too many white officers? In the Air Force?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out a portion of the exchange here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is who Joe Biden wants to be the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zkHfpzTFNZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/zkHfpzTFNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRobFromMN\/status\/1679122440394354691?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(The full video of the hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-consider-the-nomination-of-general-charles-q-brown-jr-usaf-for-reappointment-to-the-grade-of-general_and-to-be-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be seen here<\/a>. Schmitt\u2019s questioning begins about the 2:16:20 mark.)<\/p>\n<p>And while the memo specifically stated that the goals are \u201caspirational\u201d and \u201cwill not be used in any manner that undermines our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-pick-for-top-us-general-grilled-about-memo-seeking-racial-quotas-in-air-force-recruiting\/\" title=\"Biden's top US general nominee questioned over memo on racial quotas in Air Force recruitment.\">merit-based processes<\/a>,\u201d the rest of the wording had a different tone entirely.<\/p>\n<h3>Are leftists ruining the country&#8217;s military?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYou are directed to develop a diversity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-with-piercing-white-officers-question\/\" title=\"GOP Senator questions Biden's pick for Joint Chiefs Chairman on diversity of officers.\">inclusion outreach plan aimed<\/a> at achieving these goals no later than 30 September 2022,\u201d Brown wrote to the Air Force Academy and the branch\u2019s Air Education and Training Command.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Air Force chief of staff issued a directive on \u201cdiversity\u201d that orders subordinates to come up with a plan inside of seven weeks \u2014 and that\u2019s supposed to be just \u201caspirational\u201d? It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-kari-lake-video-of-arizona-signature-verification-process-will-make-your-blood-boil\/\" title=\"Arizona Signature Verification Process Video by Kari Lake is Shocking.\">rock-solid bet<\/a> that any career officer getting that note from a superior, much less the branch\u2019s chief of staff, would take it as bone-dead serious.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt also slammed the Biden administration\u2019s overall push to \u201cinfuse\u201d the military with the progressive agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration has infused abortion politics into our military, COVID politics into our military, DEI politics into our military, and it is a cancer on the best military in the history of the world. Those men and women deserve better than this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDEI is an ideology based in cultural Marxism. And somehow, some way, we ended up in a place where a general of the Air Force is advocating for racial quotas, whether it be by applicants or the number of officers, or maybe the total unit. And I just think that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans agree, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/left-dealt-another-blow-majority-americans-approve-scotus-affirmative-action-decision-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">judging by the polling<\/a> that followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-supreme-court-deals-crushing-blow-affirmative-action-college-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court\u2019s decision<\/a> on June 29 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courtroom-pressed-to-use-up-harvard-affirmative-action-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Courtroom Pressed to USE UP Harvard Affirmative Action Case\">end affirmative action<\/a> in higher education. A majority of Americans supported the high court\u2019s decision, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/americans-approve-supreme-court-decision-restricting-race-college\/story?id=100580375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Brown didn\u2019t just end up in the Senate hearing on Tuesday because he wandered in from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mike-huckabee-floats-idea-impeaching-kamala-harris-bailing-blm-rioters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party-approved<\/a> Black Lives Matter rally.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s had a distinguished military career, serving the country with apparently unquestionable valor. For his accomplishments so far, he\u2019s earned his country\u2019s gratitude and respect.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senate-confirms-trumps-historic-pick-air-force-chief-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was confirmed<\/a> as Air Force Chief of Staff in June 2020 on a 98-0 vote after being nominated by then-President Donald Trump. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1270411061376815108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter post<\/a>, marked by Trump\u2019s penchant for enthusiastic uppercase letters, the then-president called Brown \u201ca Patriot and a Great Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his career, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/07\/11\/charles-q-brown-joint-chiefs-senate-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>, Brown \u201chelped engineer and direct the air campaign credited with dislodging the Islamic State group from its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And before taking command of the Air Force, he commanded the branch in the Pacific, with a first-hand view of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/war-looming-china-taiwan-30-chinese-flyovers-single-day-1-us-military-move-troubling-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China\u2019s growing aggressiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, he\u2019s not a piker and would likely win overall Senate approval \u2014 though Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has put a blanket hold on military promotions over the Biden administration\u2019s abortion-in-the-military policies.<\/p>\n<p>But the country has seen enough of politized leadership in the Joints Chiefs of Staff. And if there\u2019s any doubt that Brown\u2019s nomination is political, the fact that Biden chose May 25 of all days \u2014 the third anniversary of the death of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-facts-george-floyd-case-lies-myths-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug-abusing, career criminal<\/a> George Floyd in Minneapolis \u2014 to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1661871445138391040?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announce Brown\u2019s nomination<\/a> should put that to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Army Gen. Mark Milley, the current Joint Chiefs chairman, is term-limited out at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>His peculiar blend of demonstrable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-gen-milley-quietly-revises-wildly-incorrect-prediction-gave-congress-february\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incompetence<\/a> in the job, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/considering-gen-milleys-ego-reason-alleged-treason\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hostility toward Trump<\/a> and near-servile spinelessness under the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tucker-carlson-guest-paints-grim-picture-military-anti-extremist-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive agenda<\/a> and its calamitous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-milley-admits-certainly-possible-bidens-afghanistan-debacle-influenced-putin-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0have infuriated millions of Americans and helped create the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/military-recruitment-hasnt-bad-since-end-vietnam-war-bidens-dangerous-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current crisis<\/a> in military recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>The questions Schmitt was asking deserve better answers than Brown was giving.<\/p>\n<p>And the country would be better served if he concentrated on fighting foreign wars \u2014 and left the culture wars to politics.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-senator-corners-bidens-joint-chiefs-chairman-pick-piercing-white-officers-question\/\">GOP Senator Corners Biden&#8217;s Joint Chiefs Chairman Pick with Piercing &#8216;White Officers&#8217; Question<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American military&#8217;s leadership was at stake, with culture wars taking the spotlight. 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