Showing posts with label US military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US military. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
'Rogue President': Trump Removal of Senior Military Leaders, Military Lawyers Raises Alarm
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Donald Trump,
Rachel Maddow,
US military
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Trump Fires Black Joint Chiefs Chair Hegseth Accused of Promoting Diversity
THE GUARDIAN: US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
Donald Trump abruptly fired the air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of the joint chiefs of staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making Black fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to purge the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.
The ouster of the second Black general to serve as chair of the joint chiefs comes three months after Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, outlined a plan for ridding the US military of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts during a podcast interview.
“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the joint chiefs,” Hegseth said during a November interview on the Shawn Ryan Show. “Any general that was involved, general, admiral, or whatever, that was involved in any of that DEI woke shit has got to go.” » | Guardian staff and agencies | Saturday, February 22, 2025
Donald Trump abruptly fired the air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of the joint chiefs of staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making Black fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to purge the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.
The ouster of the second Black general to serve as chair of the joint chiefs comes three months after Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, outlined a plan for ridding the US military of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts during a podcast interview.
“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the joint chiefs,” Hegseth said during a November interview on the Shawn Ryan Show. “Any general that was involved, general, admiral, or whatever, that was involved in any of that DEI woke shit has got to go.” » | Guardian staff and agencies | Saturday, February 22, 2025
Labels:
diversity,
Donald Trump,
Pete Hegseth,
US military
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Thom Hartmann: Why Hegseth Is Trying to Ban Military Religious Freedom w/Mikey Weinstein
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Donald Trump Orders Military to Stop Recruiting Black People!
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blacks,
Donald Trump,
US military
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Donald Trump Bans Trans People from Serving in the Military in Hateful Executive Order
LGBTQ NATION: His order says that no trans person is "honorable, truthful, and disciplined."
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender people from the military. The order refers to trans identity as a mental disorder that is selfish, dishonorable, deceitful and undisciplined. It gives the secretary of defense 60 days to implement its directives and will affect an estimated 8,000 trans soldiers. The order also comes at a time when the military is experiencing a recruitment shortage. The Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal have pledged to challenge the ban in court.
The directive follows others recently issued by Trump gutting the military branches’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, getting rid of military leadership that supported these efforts, and also follows an executive order from his first day in office directing the federal government to recognize only two “immutable sexes,” male and female. » | Daniel Villarreal | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender people from the military. The order refers to trans identity as a mental disorder that is selfish, dishonorable, deceitful and undisciplined. It gives the secretary of defense 60 days to implement its directives and will affect an estimated 8,000 trans soldiers. The order also comes at a time when the military is experiencing a recruitment shortage. The Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal have pledged to challenge the ban in court.
The directive follows others recently issued by Trump gutting the military branches’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, getting rid of military leadership that supported these efforts, and also follows an executive order from his first day in office directing the federal government to recognize only two “immutable sexes,” male and female. » | Daniel Villarreal | Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Labels:
Donald Trump,
transgender,
US military
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Trump Moves Toward Pushing Openly Transgender People Out of Military
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.
President Trump on Monday moved toward pushing openly transgender people out of the military, directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs and ordered the reinstatement of many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine as he sought to reshape America’s armed forces.
The directives, contained in a batch of executive orders, advanced what Mr. Trump and his new defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have described as an effort to return the military to an unapologetically masculine professional culture, while rejecting the sorts of equitable hiring and staffing practices that Mr. Hegseth has blamed for lowering the military’s standards and warfighting capacity.
In some respects, the orders on Monday mirrored others Mr. Trump signed last week aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and limiting government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth.
But the new guidance related to gender went much further by authorizing the Defense Department to potentially bar transgender soldiers by considering identifying as a gender other than the one assigned at birth an impediment to the physical and mental well-being necessary for military service. » | Zach Montague | Reporting from Doral, Fla. | Tuesday, Januardy 28, 2025
President Trump on Monday moved toward pushing openly transgender people out of the military, directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs and ordered the reinstatement of many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine as he sought to reshape America’s armed forces.
The directives, contained in a batch of executive orders, advanced what Mr. Trump and his new defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have described as an effort to return the military to an unapologetically masculine professional culture, while rejecting the sorts of equitable hiring and staffing practices that Mr. Hegseth has blamed for lowering the military’s standards and warfighting capacity.
In some respects, the orders on Monday mirrored others Mr. Trump signed last week aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and limiting government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth.
But the new guidance related to gender went much further by authorizing the Defense Department to potentially bar transgender soldiers by considering identifying as a gender other than the one assigned at birth an impediment to the physical and mental well-being necessary for military service. » | Zach Montague | Reporting from Doral, Fla. | Tuesday, Januardy 28, 2025
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Biden Pardons Veterans Convicted under Military Ban on Gay Sex | BBC News
Jun 27, 2024 | US President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of veterans who were convicted of crimes under a military law that banned gay sex for more than 60 years. The veterans were convicted under a provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalised sodomy from 1951 to 2013. The US Congress had repealed the portion of the code that outlawed consensual sodomy in 2013.
This military provision is separate from the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" President Bill Clinton-era policy, which banned openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.
The BBC’s Caitríona Perry spoke with Steve Marose, a former US Air Force officer who was charged with three counts of consensual sodomy in the late 1980s. Marose served two years in prison for those charges.
This military provision is separate from the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" President Bill Clinton-era policy, which banned openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.
The BBC’s Caitríona Perry spoke with Steve Marose, a former US Air Force officer who was charged with three counts of consensual sodomy in the late 1980s. Marose served two years in prison for those charges.
Labels:
gay sex,
Joe Biden,
US military
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
US Soldier Intentionally Crossed North Korean Border - BBC News
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DMZ,
North Korea,
US military
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Commentary: The Powerful 'Pansies' of the U.S. Military
ADVOCATE: Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning has a few thoughts on Republicans smearing the armed forces.
This week, under questioning from Matt Gaetz, perhaps the least ethical member of Congress right now (and wow, that is a hard title to get!), the Joint Chiefs Chairman, Army General Mark Milley, fought back at the pervy congressman’s whine about the military being woke.
"And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, 'woke' or something else, because we're studying some theories that are out there."
Later, Gaetz had the gall to tweet about Milley: "With Generals like this it’s no wonder we’ve fought considerably more wars than we’ve won." Gaetz wouldn't last 10 minutes at West Point.
Never in American history has a political party gone after the U.S. military. The military is sacrosanct. It is revered. It protects our freedom, our democracy. It is the envy of the world.
Gaetz and his bigoted lot are trying to ignite shitstorms over being "woke" and the teaching of critical race theory. These are attempts to score political points with the racist Trump base, and they are using the venerable U.S. military as the whipping post for their lies and slander.
This is the same Republican party that wrapped itself in knots for years over trying to label itself as vanguards of the armed forces. But now the party follows someone like Gaetz's lead on how to untie itself from the military. The old Grand Old Party, now renamed as the Grotesquely Obnoxious Perjurers, are falsely accusing the military of being weak and disgustingly lambasting it for supporting equality. » | John Casey | Friday, June 25, 2021
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LGBTQI+,
US military
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Why Is the US Removing Military Assets from Saudi Arabia? | Inside Story
American weapons and fighter jets were sent to the Kingdom last year after Saudi-Aramco oil facilities were attacked. They were also intended as a deterrent, as tensions rose between Tehran and Washington.
But the reduction in the U.S. military presence is believed by some to be based on assessments Iran no longer poses an immediate threat to U.S. strategic interests. So, what's exactly changed? And is oil politics at play?
Presenter: Peter Dobbie | Guests: Joel Rubin, President of the Washington Strategy Group; Mahjoob Zweiri, Director of Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University; Mohammad Marandi, Head of the American Studies Department at Tehran University
Labels:
Inside Story,
Saudi Arabia,
US military,
USA
Monday, March 18, 2019
Bertram Schaffner on Helping Gay Soldiers during WWII
Labels:
gay soldiers,
US military,
WWII
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Trump Allegedly Said Dead Soldier ‘Knew What He Signed Up For’, Says Congresswoman
Labels:
Donald Trump,
Florida,
US military
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Don't Be a Sucker - 1947
How a 1947 US government anti-Nazi film went viral after Charlottesville: Don’t Be a Sucker, a 17-minute film made in 1947 by the US war department to warn against fascism, was retweeted over 130,000 times last weekend »
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anti-fascism,
US military,
USA
Monday, July 31, 2017
Bill O'Reilly On ‘The Glenn Beck Show” (July 28, 2017)
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Outrage as Trump Bans Transgender People from Serving in US Military
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Friday, December 04, 2015
America to Allow Women to Serve in All Military Roles
America is to allow women to serve in all roles in the military – including in front line combat roles – in a sweeping decision announced on Thursday by the defence secretary in a historic move to strike down gender barriers.
Ash Carter, speaking at the Pentagon, said he had decided to overrule objections raised by the Marine Corps that mixed-gender units were, in some cases, less efficient.
"I am announcing my decision to proceed with opening of all these remaining occupations and positions to women," said Mr Carter. "There will be no exceptions." » | Harriet Alexander, New York | Thursday, December 3, 2015
Labels:
US military,
USA,
women in combat
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