Posted on 07/23/2022 9:09:38 AM PDT by Signalman
The Senate Armed Services Committee issued a report urging the Pentagon to halt its fruitless hunt for “extremists” in the ranks. The report, accompanying the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act, states that “spending additional time and resources to combat exceptionally rare instances of extremism in the military is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds, and should be discontinued by the Department of Defense immediately.”
The witch hunt was ordered by the Pentagon in April 2021. The” Countering Extremist Activity Working Group” (CEAWG) eventually discovered fewer than 100 instances of confirmed extremist activity in 2021, the Pentagon reported in December.
“With roughly 2.1 million active and reserve personnel in the U.S. military, 100 cases is roughly .005% of the force,” according to Fox News.
“What is the impact on morale, good order and discipline, and ultimately combat effectiveness, if the men and women in our incredibly diverse and all-volunteer military believe that the Department of Defense doesn’t have their backs when it comes to white supremacy, support for jihadism, misogynist extremism, or anti-LGBTQ+ extremism?” said Bill Braniff, director of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START.
A lone Democrat, Senator Angus King, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, voted to include the recommendation to nix the CEAWG in the Armed Services Committee report. But Democrats may still be able to delete it from the final product and keep the CEAWG in operation.
How do you define an “extremist”? The Pentagon makes it impossible.
Military commanders will be provided with a “two-part test” that first focuses on allegations of alleged extremist activity and then looks at whether there is active participation.
Fourteen categories will help commanders determine if a service member is an active participant in extremist activities.
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Hmmm...
Something’s turned.
Either the fix is in for Trump so they think they’ve smashed the opposition or they’re realizing the power base is about to shift and they’re starting to cover their tracks.
Anyone who hates America's history. Anyone who is a sexual deviant or advocates for LGBTQ deviants. Anyone who advocates for socialism.
Damage has already been done. Its hard enough being in the military without having to weigh your every word and action for fear of having your career destroyed. Who needs it?
“The witch hunt was ordered by the Pentagon in April 2021.”
No, it was ordered by the affirmative action retired general who is now the racist Sec Def, Austin.
I guess the globalists still have use for our military.
They’re getting desperate - no one in their right mind is signing up for America’s new, woke, political, LGBT army.
Deliver a random speech of a random founding father out loud to others and guaranteed you’re an extremist.
Extremists = those who refuse to acknowledge and display their pronouns
Putting a Confederate flag inside your locker, bad. Two guys having anal sex in the bunk next to you, good.
The tip lines are likely flooded with legitimate complaints of Leftist anti-government behavior and the brass doesn't want to answer why they're not investigating them.
you have to get people to enlist first.
Patton never would have made it in today’s Army.
And they are having a very hard time recruiting.
Yep
That’s right.
Who wants to be told he is a racist, homophobe and be subjected to other demoralizing nonsense?
Who wants to be injected with experimental “vaccines”?
Who wants to be used and abused for the New World Order?
The extremists are in the Pentagon.
Hopefully, the new Commander in Chief will tell the ‘generals’ to put their dresses back in the closet just before he fires them all. They need to be court-martialed for screwing up our military and then DD’d.
Yep. The military can't afford to kick anyone out. I'm seeing this in the Navy. High-year tenure waivers, orders extensions, denial of early separation requests, even changes to the physical fitness instruction to make it harder to kick people out for failing multiple physical readiness tests.
On top of this, and I say this as someone who has been serving for nearly 19 years, there is NOT a problem of white supremacist extremism. They were chasing ghosts. In the Navy, at least, people of all races and backgrounds work together, eat together, sleep together, and live together. It's a lousy environment to be a racist because you'd have to spend so much time around races you don't like.
It will likely take something huge to convince the average American that a belly full of fast food and a pocket full of fake currency is not security. In the military's case, it might take war on a scale not seen in generations.
Very sad that America is turning toward collectivism and its attendant totalitarianism.
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