{"id":543553,"date":"2021-05-27T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543553"},"modified":"2021-05-27T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:05:28","slug":"woke-topics-amid-military-professional-development-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-topics-amid-military-professional-development-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Woke&#039; Topics Amid Military &#039;Professional Development&#039; Courses"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fwoke-topics-amid-military-professional-development-courses%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=543553&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-467.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-b533f3f2-7fff-f170-e28c-3c25fecc2c98\">The U.S. military&#8217;s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in May offered 17 virtual professional development courses to its personnel, including several that covered so-called &#8220;woke&#8221; topics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One of the courses was titled &#8220;Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,&#8221; Fox News reported, and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) public affairs officer Ken McGraw confirmed the topics to the news site, explaining that the Department of Defense&nbsp;&#8220;regularly notifies its employees of a wide variety of non-mandatory, professional education opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;These courses are not unique to U.S. Special Operations Command or any USSOCOM subordinate command,&#8221; McGraw told Fox. &#8220;In this instance, JSOC notified their civilian and military personnel that DOD was offering 17 free, professional-development courses online, one of which is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Employees can decide whether they want to attend any courses or not, to include how many courses and on what subjects,&#8221; McGraw added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">No personnel were encouraged&nbsp;to take one course over another, DOD spokesperson Lisa Lawrence said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The Department of Defense regularly offers non-mandatory, professional development courses to the workforce,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The courses offered by the Department for professional development are not unique to JSOC or U.S. Special Operations Command.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The training that was shared by JSOC\u2019s Civilian Training Office to JSOC personnel included information related to a wide variety of non-mandatory, professional education courses from April to November,&#8221; Lawrence added. &#8220;The specific course reference was one of 17 free courses being offered and happened to be the next course offered in May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The &#8220;Diversity, Equity and Inclusion&#8221; course, according to Fox, is said to have included panels addressing anti-racism and white supremacy as well as one on leaders addressing &#8220;systemic disparities&#8221; and mitigating &#8220;bias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A backlash among Republican lawmakers and some veterans ensued after Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier&nbsp;was relieved of his command earlier this month after discussing on a conservative program a book he wrote alleging Marxism and anti-conservative bias in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Rather than e pluribus unum, rather than teamwork, rather than cohesion, we&#8217;re being taught an ideology which seeks to divide us based on the color of our skin,&#8221; retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop told <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/vets-battle-critical-race-theory-invasion-of-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thirty congressional Republicans recently wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urging him to&nbsp;&#8220;take action to fight back against the creeping left-wing extremism in the U.S. military&#8221; over Lohmeier&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Our diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we&#8217;re receiving in the military via that industry are rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism,&#8221; Lohmeier said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, who signed the letter, said that &#8220;patriotic Americans cannot stand idly by watching the politicization of our armed forces. George Washington \u2014 first a general, then a president \u2014 relinquished his commission before entering office. A truly visionary leader, he recognized the perils of a politically biased military. Our men and women in uniform are not lab rats in a social science experiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military&#8217;s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in May offered 17 virtual professional development courses to its personnel, including several that covered so-called &#8220;woke&#8221; topics. 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