The military is here to break things and kill the bad guys, not being a woke training center.
Little wonder they cannot meet their recruitment goals.
“Current and former service members expressed their views on the direction of the military, voicing concerns that the military has become too “woke” in recent years.”
While President Biden’s Secretary of the Army has defended its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs this week as “important,” several current and former members of the U.S. military, who have put their lives on the line to ensure America’s security and defend its freedoms, are sounding the alarm over what they call a culture putting “wokeness” before training and combat effectiveness.
Those
service members
, some of whom served with Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, are blaming that culture for its recruiting challenges, which have risen to a level unseen since it was transitioned to an all-volunteer force.“The military is extremely woke,” one service member told Fox News Digitial recently.
“I do perceive the Army leadership as woke, and probably the lower enlisted (they have been indoctrinated in school),” another service member said. “Equity-diversity is another way to divide and control the masses. It does nothing for the warfighter.”
“We get criticized, frankly, sometimes for being ‘woke,'”
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth
said at a Monday discussion with other military leaders on national security and the branch’s modernization efforts. “I’m not sure what ‘woke’ means. I think ‘woke’ means a lot of different things to different people.”She continued, “But, first of all, if ‘woke’ means we are not focused on warfighting, we are not focused on readiness, that doesn’t reflect what I see at installations all around the country or overseas when I go and visit.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/service-members-speak-out-against-woke-military