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.
They are gonna have a tough time meeting recruitment and retention goals with a lot of this crap.
Pretty tough to fight the Neverending Forever War if young folks stop volunteering for it.
Great idea. How about all the capitol police stand-down to prevent another “insurrection”?
And a LOT of those young folks can see through the BS.
Military is gonna have to hire a LOT more JAG’s before this purge is done.
I served mostly in the 90’s. The only real racism I ever saw, and dealt with was with racist black men.
There were a couple of racist white guys I came across, but people hated those idiots, and they tended to do their 1 enlistment and get out.
I am 100% positive that hasn’t changed.
Being a black DemonRat, he is going to be able to get away with a whole lot of crap that a republican cracka can do.
What exactly does a stand down involve?
Exactly what it says..........nothing...............
Usually a hand and private parts.
The mission is to make the world safe for perverts—gotta make sure the troops are on board for it....
“. . . and to start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism”
“General, I think your policy is full of s**t.”
“Court martial that soldier!!!!”
Meanwhile, in a land far away, Chinese, Iranian, Russian and North Korean generals are laughing their heads off.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To share with my veteran contacts
A Communist Purge Is Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Never have seen so much phony horsesh^t, fake, hoaks, crap, stunts going on at one time in my life! OUR COUNTRY IS BEING OVER THROWN BEFORE OUR EYES in every-way, everyday in wide open air! Just like when the Germans walsed into Poland in the beginning before they very soon later CRUSHED THE HELL OUT OF THEM!
With all the swift bold earth shattering announcements, ridiculous changes, and troops movement and stand downs what else should a normal people WITHOUT hate believe! I have NO FEAR - just disgust, raw disbelief and contempt!
I think I need to ask you the same question. Why do you believe all this garbage? You would at this point have to be willfully ignorant to believe the military is not in control of Washington DC. They are not being controlled by the Biden admin.
Now This idiot Austin is playing pretend with a stand down order that will never be verified one way or the other. Its laughable. He and Biden can’t very well tell the press. “ the military won’t take our orders and have us trapped in DC under virtual house arrest”
Been reading your replies lately.
You’re nuts...
Yes, with a moustache I envy, and who smoked a ‘straight’ pipe, although I thought I saw one with that ‘bent’ design.
The current ‘joe’ is more like “Uncle Ho”.
So its not to 'do nothing'. Of course this is not a safety stand down, its an opportunity to invoke political officers and political correctness into the system. Under previous dem admins, it would be 'social engineering'. In today's post election steal, post capitol false flag storming, I suspect its more of a pre-purge and identification of those who wont swear allegiance to the regime. This is way more nefarious than in the past.
The military has not tolerated racism in half a century and does not now tolerate real extremism. But extremism has been redefined to mean anything not in agreement with the junta.
Sounds like another way of telling our soldiers they need a “time out”.
Treating them like they are children, or Antifa is extremely offensive to me.
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