{"id":2004881,"date":"2023-08-18T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:18:13","slug":"mark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Milley: Few Drag Queen Shows on Bases \u2260 Military Going &#8216;Woke&#8217;"},"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%2Fmark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke%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=2004881&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--><div>\n<h2>Drag Queen Shows on Military Bases: A Misrepresentation \u200dof Military Priorities<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;A handful of drag\u2063 queen shows&#8221;\u200c on military\u2063 bases doesn&#8217;t mean that the military &#8220;went woke,&#8221; Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/18\/gen-milley-ukraine-tuberville-wokeness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, Milley said charges that the military is pushing &#8220;wokeness&#8221; and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">critical race theory<\/a> are &#8220;overstated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll use drag queen shows as an example,&#8221; Milley said. &#8220;How many times \u2064it happened?\u2064 It happened a few. That&#8217;s true. Probably shouldn&#8217;t happen. But it did. But to say that \u2026 the entire \u200dmilitary went\u200d woke because a handful of drag queen shows that\u2062 shouldn&#8217;t happen to \u200bbegin with I think is an overstatement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Republican Criticism and Recruitment Crisis<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) in June <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/pentagon-makes-air-force-base-cancel-drag-show-following-republican-pressure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flagged<\/a> \u200b six drag shows at military bases, the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> reported. One at a Nevada Air\u200d Force base, which the Pentagon canceled following a letter from Gaetz, was billed as &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; and had no \u2064minimum age requirement.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/navy-names-nonbinary-drag-queen-as-rep-amid-recruiting-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointed<\/a> a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag\u2062 queen to be a\u200b &#8220;digital ambassador&#8221; tasked with attracting &#8220;younger Americans amid recruitment shortages,&#8221; the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> \u2064 reported.<\/p>\n<p>Those shortages have amounted to a\u2064 &#8220;once-in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/once-in-a-generation-crisis-vets-blame-bidens-focus-on-woke-priorities-for-low-military-recruitment-numbers\/\" title=\"'Once In A Generation Crisis': Vets Blame Biden's Focus on Woke Priorities for Low Military Recruitment Numbers\">-a-generation military recruitment crisis<\/a>,&#8221; retired Army captain Jeremy Hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/once-in-a-generation-crisis-vets-blame-bidens-focus-on-woke-priorities-for-low-military-recruitment-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Congress in March. Hunt and other experts pointed to the military&#8217;s focus on &#8220;woke&#8221; initiatives, including Diversity, Equity, and\u2063 Inclusion training, as the main reason for the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/another-republican-comes-out-against-woke-military-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> that focus, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/gop-senators-move-to-ban-drag-shows-from-military-bases-gross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backing<\/a> bills to ban the drag shows and other &#8220;woke&#8221; initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army\u2063 last year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/army-mandates-pronoun-training-for-all-levels-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put its soldiers through<\/a> &#8220;training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke\/\" title=\"Milley: Few Drag Queen Shows on Bases \u2260 Military Going 'Woke'\">offer soldiers \u2063gender transition surgery<\/a>,&#8221; according to documents obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. Meanwhile, the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/pride-month-heres-how-the-navy-is-training-sailors-on-proper-gender-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trained<\/a> sailors on &#8220;proper gender pronouns&#8221; in a video \u200d&#8221;modeled after a children&#8217;s show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Public confidence in the\u2064 military, \u200bmeanwhile, \u200bhas plunged to its\u2064 lowest point in over two decades, polling\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/poll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside DEI priorities, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-set-to-grade-military-on-its-efforts-to-advance-environmental-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> in April that his administration will\u2063 grade the military \u2064and other agencies on their efforts to &#8220;advance environmental justice&#8221; \u2064and deliver &#8220;benefits to disadvantaged communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milley in the interview admitted the &#8220;recruiting challenge&#8221; but said that &#8220;there&#8217;s never a \u2062single causal factor.&#8221; The general insisted that COVID-19 and a spike in \u200brecruits who failed \u2062the academic test to get into the military are more significant reasons \u2062for the crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an example,&#8221; he added, emphasizing that such events do not indicate a broader shift in military values. Gen. Milley dismissed claims of excessive &#8220;wokeness&#8221; and critical race theory promotion, stating that they are exaggerated. He cited drag queen shows as an illustration, clarifying that they do not represent a significant change within the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2004882,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2004881","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}