Woke Military

The US military are becoming woke. 

 

It began in earnest when President Joe Biden signed an executive order repealing the Trump-era transgender military service ban in his first week in office in January 2021. 

 

Under Biden’s new policy which went into effect on April 30, 2021, individuals who identify as transgender, and have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, will not only be allowed to serve in the US military, but will have their “gender transitions” paid for by American taxpayers. 

 

In fact, facing declining enlistment numbers, the military are already making it very easy for just about anybody to “qualify” for military service. One area where standards have been lowered is physical fitness. 

 

The Army have lowered their “minimum passing standard for push-ups to an unimpressive total of 10 and increased their minimum two-mile run time from 19 to 23 minutes. And the Space Force are considering doing away with periodic fitness testing altogether”, according to the Heritage Foundation (Washington Examiner, May 17, 2023). 

 

And now, transgender soldiers experiencing negative side effects from hormone treatment, can even be granted waivers from physical fitness standards. 

 

Not to be outdone, the Navy have turned to a gender-fluid drag queen, Harpy Daniels (left) to be the face of their recruiting program in an effort to be more inclusive. 

 

It does appear that the US military are being used for experiments in woke social policies. And both the civilian and military leadership have actively and ardently adopted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the expense of the military’s war-fighting mission and organizational well-being. Wokeism is suddenly the name of the game.

 

I can just visualise drag queens prepping themselves up and getting ready before they do battle.