Army Tells Lawmakers It Will Review All Training Materials Amid Outcry over Botched Fort Liberty Briefing
Military.com | By Steve Beynon
Published September 19, 2024 at 5:35pm ET
The Army is reviewing much of its training materials for ill-informed or partisan material after a terrorism briefing at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, erroneously listed mainstream activist groups, including pro-life and animal rights advocates, as terror organizations.
Images of the PowerPoint presentation went viral in July as Republican lawmakers and far-right commentators seized on part of the briefing that highlighted two non-violent anti-abortion lobbying groups as terrorists -- the National Right to Life and Operation Rescue, neither of which have a history of violence.
"The Army is undertaking an Army-wide review to ensure that these or similar materials are not being disseminated elsewhere," Agnes Schaefer, the assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, told lawmakers at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the matter Thursday. "The slides do not represent the policy or official views of the Army."
However, Schaefer was vague on the scope of the training review and did not provide specifics.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/19/army-reviewing-training-tools-after-botched-briefing-labeled-anti-abortion-groups-terrorists.html
