if you're not a white servicemember or veteran your contributions don't count. That's the position of this administration. https://bsky.app/profile/jeffpasan.bsky.social/post/3lkqtbohr3c2v
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When asked about the reason for the removal of the story on the @DeptofDefense website on Jackie Robinson's military service, Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot said the following in a statement to ESPN.
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Screw that. It's a full court press on everybody. They knew we could handle one at a time.
Link: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Probably a thousand pages got taken down and we're celebrating that we rescued 20.
I don't know.
https://search.usa.gov/search?query=Jackie%20robinson&affiliate=defensegov&utf8=%26%23x2713%3B
Which is actually an article about "Pee Wee" Reese
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/
If you aren't scared, you aren't paying attention.
Which is also racist.
He hates America!
Ending DEI is just the latest incarnation of Jim Crow.
Our diversity is a STRENGTH, not a weakness!
Resist!
https://5calls.org
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org
https://aclu.org
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cjevg2vlwk4o
https://www.khq.com/news/colville-tribe-chairman-urges-pentagon-to-restore-native-american-veterans-recognition-on-government-websites/article_a24ee120-046c-11f0-9e09-1749aa23d29a.html
No, that would require a departure from the cult of “objectivity”—it would be partisan, militant. Newspapers a century or two ago knew better than the overeducated flunkies in charge now.
https://bsky.app/profile/highlandsurfer.bsky.social/post/3lkixiaxkn22d
These men and women deserve the honor; it diminishes us as a nation to try and erase their heroism because of their race or gender.
They know nothing of these very concepts, for they are a cult of narcissists.
Yeah, both parties are equally bad...
It's all good......
He has three years to make ideologically pure, personally loyal to #Trump and ready to invade Canada.
this administration is FOS
Renaming of military bases, firing veterans, erasing history, the character of DecDef. I expect a significant impact on recruiting talented people into military.
This is what they need to be successful.
I am angry and sick. This isn’t what I fought for.
I’m not too worried about patently unlawful orders. The harder case are orders that may be unlawful but await judicial decision. Refusing to follow them creates UCMJ risk. As go the generals so goes the force.
Given that the most likely use Trump will make of the US military is ethnically cleansing Gaza or invading Canada, I am fine with them having low morale.
See you at morning Happy Hour, Pete, 6 am to 10 am. You know which bar.
Small & petty things are all we should expect from small & petty MAGAts.
Hardly the stuff of building a strong US military service.