Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher blasted an “insane” gender-neutral coverage adopted just lately by the Defense Department, describing it as a option to “waste time and resources on wokeness instead of warfighting,” whereas calling upon the Pentagon to be “laser-focused on lethality, not pronouns.”
On Friday, Gallagher launched a press release in response to a just lately enacted DOD coverage stripping gendered pronouns from awards honoring the women and men who serve in our Armed Forces and changing them with gender-neutral language.
“The Secretary of the Air Force stated that our military is ‘not as ready as we need to be’ to face the challenge posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Yet, amid this challenge and compounding military recruiting and budget crises, the Pentagon has once again chosen to waste time and resources on wokeness instead of warfighting,” he said.
Rep. Gallagher’s assertion in response to a just lately enacted DoD coverage that strips gendered pronouns from awards honoring the women and men who serve within the Armed Forces:
Read extra on this coverage: https://t.co/aHm2AldbG3 pic.twitter.com/RAU70ZiA6O
— Rep. Gallagher Press Office (@RepGallagher) September 1, 2023
Gallagher, who serves because the Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, continued by denouncing the “insane” choice of the Department to strip gendered pronouns (‘he’ and ‘she’) from “awards honoring the brave men and women who dedicate their lives to this country.”
“Instead they require all awardees, regardless of preference, to be reduced to a gender-less, collective ‘themselves’ — substituting grammatical error for honor,” he said.
Noting that House Republicans have “raised serious concerns on the Pentagon’s growing DEI bureaucracy and its impact on recruiting,” the congressman decried the efforts of prime protection officers to “repeatedly downplay these concerns and double down on these kinds of crazy policies.”
Acknowledging that this 12 months’s National Defense Authorization Act took steps to cease the “woke” habits within the army — together with banning crucial race concept (CRT), prohibiting drag exhibits, defending dad and mom’ rights, and stopping a army ‘Green New Deal,’ Rep. Gallagher known as for extra to be achieved “to ensure the Pentagon is laser-focused on lethality, not pronouns.”
His remarks adopted the Office of the Secretary of Defense returning the draft quotation for the end-of-tour award final week for the nation’s prime army officer, Gen. Mark Milley, which — resulting from Change 5 of the revised Department of Defense Manual — should use the pronoun “themself” as an alternative of “him” for U.S. common’s quotation.
Gallagher has lengthy warned of the damaging results of wokeism within the Armed Forces, describing it as a distraction from warfighting and an important think about driving servicemembers out of lively obligation “in droves.”
In December, he slammed a report recommending the Marine Corps drop gender-specific salutations for drill instructors, calling the research “insane” and warning that the continued denial by army leaders of the existence of wokeism within the Armed Forces is a matter of “life-or-death.”
Will it’s the tip of “sir” and “ma’am”? https://t.co/8cBXkxoj64
— Marine Corps Times (@Marinetimes) December 20, 2022
Previously, he known as out the army’s woke “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) agenda, criticizing army leaders for “asking us to embrace a brand of identity politics that is fashionable on the left right now, one which judges people explicitly by the color of their skin rather than on their merits as individuals.”
He additionally joined different Republicans in ordering a report that concluded the Navy’s prime brass is extra centered on wokeness and variety coaching than on successful wars.
As a end result, the report revealed, sailors have been left feeling unprepared to face a twenty first century battle with China.
Last 12 months, the Navy launched a coaching video instructing sailors to make use of the “right” pronouns, “show that we’re allies,” and create “a safe space for everybody,” whereas instructing servicemembers on proceed after having “misgendered” somebody.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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