Mark Milley: A 'Handful of Drag Queen Shows' on Military Bases Doesn't Mean Military 'Went Woke'

[libertybele]

Mark Milley: A 'Handful of Drag Queen Shows' on Military Bases Doesn't Mean Military 'Went Woke'

"A handful of drag queen shows" on military bases doesn't mean that the military "went woke," Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post, Milley said charges that the military is pushing "wokeness" and critical race theory are "overstated."

"I'll use drag queen shows as an example," Milley said. "How many times it happened? It happened a few. That's true. Probably shouldn't happen. But it did. But to say that … the entire military went woke because a handful of drag queen shows that shouldn't happen to begin with I think is an overstatement."

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) in June flagged six drag shows at military bases, the Washington Free Beacon reported. One at a Nevada Air Force base, which the Pentagon canceled following a letter from Gaetz, was billed as "family-friendly" and had no minimum age requirement.

In another case, the Navy appointed a "nonbinary" drag queen to be a "digital ambassador" tasked with attracting "younger Americans amid recruitment shortages," the Free Beacon reported.

Those shortages have amounted to a "once-in-a-generation military recruitment crisis," retired Army captain Jeremy Hunt told Congress in March. Hunt and other experts pointed to the military's focus on "woke" initiatives, including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, as the main reason for the crisis.

Republicans have strongly criticized that focus, backing bills to ban the drag shows and other "woke" initiatives.

The Army last year put its soldiers through "training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery," according to documents obtained by the Free Beacon. The Navy, meanwhile, trained sailors on "proper gender pronouns" in a video "modeled after a children's show."

Public confidence in the military has plunged to its lowest point in over two decades, polling found last month. .............

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/mark-milley-a-handful-of-drag-queen-shows-on-military-bases-doesnt-mean-military-went-woke/

[libertybele]

If it doesn't mean that the military has gone woke, then what does it mean??

[corbe]

   He's 'not one to tell the truth' (safely avoiding the L word) Just like the guy that appointed him.   

[PeteS in CA]

Call it "Woke" or a "Ham-on-Rye Sandwich", the shows should never have happened, and the brasshats who allowed it should be 'splainin' it to Congress.

[Kamaji]

They should never have happened at all, idjut.

[libertybele]

Call it "Woke" or a "Ham-on-Rye Sandwich", the shows should never have happened, and the brasshats who allowed it should be 'splainin' it to Congress.

 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

It's not just the drag shows -- it's active transgenders in the military getting special treatment.  It's all the DEI crap that through the former military standard of "colorblindness" out the window.  Neither of those things are made up or just the product of conservative conspiracy theorists.  And then of course, there's Milley's own statement that "I want to understand white rage".

He also mentions Covid, but only the aspect of it that prevented recruiters from going into schools.  What he completely ignores is the impact of the mandate, and booting people out of the service, on the those who might otherwise consider military service.  Because they're all wondering about the next skeevy medical mandate that might come down.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

What a pos.

[jafo2010]

Fact:  the entire total of all the f***ing nonsense that has transpired has made the US military a  laughing stock.  This in fact weakens the perception of the US throughout the world.  Again, let me repeat, laughing stock.  Does anyone believe for a nanosecond that Chinese or Russian militaries allow any of this horsesh*t?  Hell no!!!

Pathetic!  And Milley from my view with his revelation that he was going to inform China about X, Y, and Z, and ignore the POTUS direction was treason, and should have resulted with his public dispatch.

We have become idiots with our refusal to dispatch those that betray our country in public.  It serves a purpose.  Performing capital punishment behind closed doors and a handful of witnesses serves no one, and certainly doesn't deter a damn thing.

Milley is a confessed traitor, and not so much as an inquiry has been made to establish his treason.  The whole of Washington from my view are traitors.

[corbe]

   I just pulled this from the freezer:

[Smokin Joe]

Fact:  the entire total of all the f***ing nonsense that has transpired has made the US military a  laughing stock.  This in fact weakens the perception of the US throughout the world.  Again, let me repeat, laughing stock.  Does anyone believe for a nanosecond that Chinese or Russian militaries allow any of this horsesh*t?  Hell no!!!

Pathetic!  And Milley from my view with his revelation that he was going to inform China about X, Y, and Z, and ignore the POTUS direction was treason, and should have resulted with his public dispatch.

We have become idiots with our refusal to dispatch those that betray our country in public.  It serves a purpose.  Performing capital punishment behind closed doors and a handful of witnesses serves no one, and certainly doesn't deter a damn thing.

Milley is a confessed traitor, and not so much as an inquiry has been made to establish his treason.  The whole of Washington from my view are traitors.

Treason never prospers, what's the reason?

If it prospers, none dare call it treason.

[sneakypete]

What else did you expect Miss Miley to say in public?

In private,she was telling her "assistants" that her feewings was hurted.

[sneakypete]

They should never have happened at all, idjut.

@Kamaji

MILEY should have never "happened"

Someone with the ability to do so needs to track down who her political and military "rabbi's" were,and see to it that their pensions are pulled for dereliction of duty/failure to perform.

The political creatures that backed this crap need to be publicly identified and voted out of office.

[240B]

Fact:  the entire total of all the f***ing nonsense that has transpired has made the US military a  laughing stock.  This in fact weakens the perception of the US throughout the world.  Again, let me repeat, laughing stock.  Does anyone believe for a nanosecond that Chinese or Russian militaries allow any of this horsesh*t?  Hell no!!!

Pathetic!  And Milley from my view with his revelation that he was going to inform China about X, Y, and Z, and ignore the POTUS direction was treason, and should have resulted with his public dispatch.

We have become idiots with our refusal to dispatch those that betray our country in public.  It serves a purpose.  Performing capital punishment behind closed doors and a handful of witnesses serves no one, and certainly doesn't deter a damn thing.

Milley is a confessed traitor, and not so much as an inquiry has been made to establish his treason.  The whole of Washington from my view are traitors.

Milley bragged in his book that he had established what he called "backchannels" to senior level officials in the CCP. And that in the event that Trump did or planned to do anything aggressive toward China, Milley declared that he would call his contacts and warn them in advance. That is the very definition of treason. His insane hatred for Trump caused him to side with China over America.

Also, in espionage intelligence terms, 'backchannels' could mean that Chinese operatives supplied Milley with a secure phone which has direct access to top levels of the CCP. That would make Milley a certified 'spy' in any country and in any definition of the word.

Why this all just *poof* disappeared is well beyond absurd.

[libertybele]

Milley is yet another one of Trump's great picks. 

[corbe]

   His mama would have been so proud of him standing on that stage with Fauci and others receiving that Presidential accommodation. 

[sneakypete]

Milley is yet another one of Trump's great picks. 

@libertybele

Trump made Miss Miley a General Officer,and put  her in charge of the US Army?

Seriously?

[corbe]

   No @sneakypete  He/She/It did that all their own.  Trump appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, against everyone in his Administrations advice.

[sneakypete]

   No @sneakypete  He/She/It did that all their own.  Trump appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, against everyone in his Administrations advice.

@corbe

Soooo,Trump,not knowing diddly-squat about the military or anyone in it,decided all on his  own to  pick a homo general to lead the US  Military?

Who told you that,Santa?

[LMAO]

@corbe

Soooo,Trump,not knowing diddly-squat about the military or anyone in it,decided all on his  own to  pick a homo general to lead the US  Military?

Yes

[sneakypete]

Yes

@LMAO

Get thee into rehab.

[corbe]

   I'm pretty wasted @sneakypete and generally not know to google much $hit at this hour, with that being said, The Thread is about Gen. Milley and your hero Trump had absolutely everything to do with him being in that position that he/she/it occupies.  Again, I'm pretty wasted and even I'm having a h3ll of problem wrapping my head around this.

[LMAO]

@LMAO

Get thee into rehab.

So, who do you think appointed Miley to the Joint  chief of staff while ignoring the recommendations of those around him?

[corbe]

   OF course, Trump knows about the Military:



   While you were busting your Balls 'in country' he was getting deferments.

[corbe]

   The photo on the right is DJT accepting a trophy as Asst. Basketball Coach of Wharton, same year Bone Spurs declared him 4F~Teaching White Boys to JUMP, who would have thunk it.