Posted on 02/04/2021 9:11:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attends a congressional tribute on Wednesday to the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who died from injuries sustain protecting the Capitol building from a mob breaching the facility on Jan. 6. Pool Photo by Erin Schaff/UPI |
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Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he has ordered a military-wide stand down over the next 60 days to deal with extremism in the military's ranks after active and former military personnel participated in the mob that stormed the Capitol building last month.
"Today, I met with senior leaders to discuss extremism in the military. As a first step, I'm ordering a stand down to occur over the next 60 days so each service, each command and each unit can have a deeper conversation about this issue," he said in a statement. "It comes down to leadership."
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters during a press conference Wednesday that details of the military pause, such as what training service members will undergo and what exactly the goals the military seeks to accomplish are, need to be hammered out.
The purpose of the stand down, however, will be to reinforce the Pentagon's policies and values and to start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism, Kirby said.
The meeting between Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and other military leaders was "an initial discussion" and the issue of extremism and White supremacy within the military, Kirby said.
Austin told the military leaders that the vast majority of those who serve in uniform do so with honor and integrity but no matter how few espouse such beliefs that led to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol it is an issue that needs to be addressed.
"No matter what it is, it is ... not an insignificant problem," Kirby said.
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"He hasn't ruled anything in or out," Kirby said.
The order was made nearly a month after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election win, resulting in five deaths, including that of former Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she breached the building.
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Several other former and active military have been identified among the mob, including some who now face charges for participating in the insurrection.
Scary stuff. I guess we have neutered to the point of no resistance.
I bet that after this there won’t be a single (R) registered voter left in the US military............
The chinese are really keeping their sock puppet on a short leash.
Straight out of Stalin’s playbook. A political officer with each command to make sure everyone is thinking permissible thoughts and to inform to the party.
What are you smoking
Great graphic!
Not what one would expect as a recruitment tool.
Who gets to decide the definition of extremism?
Damned right it’s a PURGE. Just like Hitler, just like Stalin, just every totalitarian state that has ever been..
The fate of this country may well be n the hands of the junior officers and enlisted.
No MoFo, it comes down to defining terms.
The extremism in the U.S. military is that of the DeepState SwampRats and the perversion, subversion, and treason they activily pursue.
I suspect Traitorjoe Xiden’s Secretary of Defense is more interested in purging patriotism and those who still take their oath to protect the U.S. Constitution seriously.
This may be an opportune time for the CCP to hit Taiwan. This idiot will have the entire military in a passive, altered state of mind, gazing at their navel, and searching their inner being and deepest held thoughts for the least vestiges of America First (white supremacists) sentiments. If they are found out, they are out. There is always an illegal immigrant willing to step in.
Collusion?..........................
I suspect that's the goal. Substitute an oath to "avoid extremism" without "extremism" being defined and you can discharge any soldier who isn't hard left as time goes by.
Illegal? Yes. Unconstitutional? Yes. So what? There is no longer any Federal office that will reliably enforce Constitutional or even legal requirements anymore.
This filthy regime needs to be removed and the Democrats banned and jailed so that they are never active in politics again.
We still have our States. More are joining the "resistance." I learned just this morning one of the Dakotas is working to nullify Biden's EOs.
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!...And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” Barry Goldwater................
If you can keep your kids from going in the military, do it.
I say this, as a veteran, this guy wants rverybody to ‘love Der Fuhrer’, not the country!!
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