The U.S. Army halted its multi-million dollar advertising campaign over the weekend after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Majors</a>, the campaign&#8217;s featured actor, was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman.
The Army paused the “Be All You Can Be” campaign on Sunday after Majors was arrested on charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment, according to <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/03/26/army-pulls-be-all-you-can-be-ads-after-on-screen-narrator-arrested/">Army Times</a>.
“The U.S. Army is aware of the arrest of Jonathan Majors and we are deeply concerned by the allegations surrounding his arrest,” said a spokesperson for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office. “While Mr. Majors is innocent until proven guilty, prudence dictates that we pull our ads until the investigation into these allegations is complete.”
Majors was arrested after the New York Police Department (NYPD) responded to an alleged domestic violence call on Saturday evening.
“A preliminary investigation determined that a 33-year-old male was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30-year-old female,” an NYPD statement <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jonathan-majors-arrested-new-york-city-assault-strangulation-1235360852/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The victim informed police she was assaulted. Officers placed the 33-year-old male into custody without incident. The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.”
The statement added that the actor was arrested on charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment.
Majors&#8217; team said that the actor had &#8220;done nothing wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up,&#8221; Majors&#8217; team added.
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Majors, whose career has been on a meteoric rise over the last year, stars in two films currently in movie theaters, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “Creed III.” In addition to the indie film “Magazine Dreams,” likely to be released later this year, Majors is set to play an increasingly important role as the primary antagonist, Kang the Conquerer, in the Marvel film and TV universe.
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/actor-jonathan-majors-arrested-in-nyc-accused-of-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TMZ</a> reported that “unnamed law enforcement sources” informed them that Majors and his girlfriend were embroiled in an argument during a taxi ride. The outlet also reported that Majors had been released from police custody.

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The following remarks were delivered by Lt. Col. (ret) Scott Mann at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the <a href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/during-and-after-the-fall-of-kabul-examining-the-administrations-emergency-evacuation-from-afghanistan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan Withdrawal</a> on March 8, 2023.
As a Green Beret and retired Lt. Col. with nearly 23 years in service and three combat tours in Afghanistan, I am here to relive August 2021 with all of you. Not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as an American veteran, representing 800,000 Afghan combat veterans, and their families, but with my own point of view.
I’d like to start with a question: What does an American promise mean today?
There is a promise in the military that is both explicit and implicit: &#8220;I have your back.&#8221; We were trained that way. It’s in our blood.
But, in August of 2021, the leaders who held us to that standard went silent while our Afghan allies were left behind. The U.S. government may not have had the backs of our Afghan allies. But our veterans did.
For as long as we&#8217;ve been a nation, our veterans have been a moral compass for doing the right thing, especially in hard times.
You won’t find many veterans who relished being involved in the Afghan evacuation. We paid our dues and moved on with our lives. Jumping back into the quagmire of Afghanistan was not part of my military retirement plan. 
But, like thousands of other veterans across the country watching Kabul collapse on August 15, 2021, I received a phone call from a friend that absolutely crushed me.
“I am not afraid to die,” he told me. “I just don’t want to die alone.”
Those were the words that dragged me back into Afghanistan.
His name was Sergeant First Class Nezamudin Nezami, but I knew him just as Nezam. His father, a Mujahideen fighter, was killed by the Soviets when Nezam was only four months old. He had no family, money, or hope — yet he became an Afghan Commando, one of the elite warriors trained by Green Berets to do 95% of the fighting in the war.
Green Berets, including me, who worked with Nezam, loved him like a brother. He volunteered for every mission, every day. He was family.
Despite numerous inquiries to the State Department, Congress, and Army SOF Command HQ, about his SIV status (Special Immigrant Visa), Kabul was falling and Nezam was in terrible trouble — and no one was coming to help him.
This was a guy who was shot through the face in 2010 while protecting U.S. Green Berets from a Taliban ambush. A friend, who despite being on the run from the Taliban, called me in my retirement every couple of months, just to check on my kids. And now we were just leaving him on the side of the road to be slaughtered. 
Over the next few weeks, I assembled a small team of volunteers, mostly veterans from across the country that we called Task Force Pineapple to guide Nezam and hundreds more to safety. 
No resources. No battlefield access. No time. But we had something that most didn’t. Relationships and trust. We used cell phones, knowledge of the terrain, and an encrypted chat room to guide at-risk commandos and their families at night. We navigated the suffocating crowd, through an open sewage canal, and into position to pass bona fides and tactically link up with known NATO service members operating near a four-foot hole in the airfield perimeter fence.
Pineapple wasn’t the only group. There were hundreds of ad hoc volunteer groups doing similar work. From breakfast tables to basements across the world. People like Jane, a Gold Star wife who lost her husband in Afghanistan; Will, a double amputee fighting to save the interpreter who saved his life; and dozens more collaborating with warriors like Aidan who were staring across razor wire at an endless sea of desperate faces.
We helped hundreds of allies, but thousands were left behind, and at great cost to this vulnerable veteran population, who had already given so much.
My buddy Steve, racked with PTS and a traumatic brain injury from an IED, pounded his bed, screaming into his pillow because his children were in the next room, as his former interpreter was detained at a Taliban checkpoint and was pleading over the phone: &#8220;Steve, they are beating my wife. My children are watching this for God’s sake. Should I fight them? Why is this happening?!&#8221;
Jay, A former Navy SEAL, received a text on Signal from his Afghan partner: &#8220;My daughter has been trampled, Sir. I know we are going to miss our chance to escape, but she is unconscious and barely breathing. It’s okay, my friend. Thank you for trying.&#8221;
This whole thing has been a gut-wrenching experience. I never imagined I would witness this kind of gross abandonment, followed by career-preserving silence of senior leaders, both military and civilian.
I believe we are on the front end of a national security crisis as 27 violent extremist groups are now operating on former NATO bases with Taliban top-cover. And we are about to experience a veteran mental health tsunami, as 73% of our Afghan War veterans say they feel betrayed by how the Afghanistan war ended.
Calls to the VA hotline have spiked 81% one year after the Afghanistan withdrawal. And the calls keep coming. My friend Brad was found dead a few months ago in a Mississippi hotel room. His wife Dana confirmed the Afghan abandonment re-activated all the demons he’d managed to put behind him and he just couldn’t find his way out of the darkness of that moral injury.
America is building a nasty reputation for multi-generational, systemic abandonment of our allies that we leave as smoldering human wreckage from the Montagnards of Vietnam to the Kurds of Syria.
Our veterans know something else that this committee might do well to consider: We might be done with Afghanistan, but it&#8217;s not done with us. The enemy has a vote. If we don’t set politics aside and pursue accountability and lessons learned to address this grievous moral injury on our military community; and right the wrongs inflicted on the most at-risk Afghan allies, this colossal foreign policy failure will follow us home and ultimately draw us right back into the graveyard of empires where it all started. 
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Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Scott Mann is a former U.S. Army Green Beret with tours all over the world including Colombia, Iraq, and multiple tours in Afghanistan. He is a warrior storyteller and the founder of <a href="https://rooftopleadership.com/">Rooftop Leadership</a> and the author of the instant New York Times Best-Seller, <a href="https://operationpineappleexpress.com/">Operation Pineapple Express</a>. He has since founded <a href="https://operelief.org/">Operation Pineapple Express Relief</a>, a 501c3 to help support the emergency needs of our Afghan allies such as safe passage out of Afghanistan, plus unforeseen resettlement needs.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense">The Department of Defense</a> said last week that Pentagon officials began working on renaming military infrastructure tied to the Confederate States of America by the start of 2024.
Officials announced plans to rename nine U.S. Army bases, two U.S. Navy ships, and more than 1,000 items on American military installations.
&#8220;Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante, today directed all DOD organizations to begin full implementation of the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense, a.k.a. the Naming Commission and those recommendations,&#8221; Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters on Thursday, according to <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/renaming-confederate-bases-ships-starts/">Task and Purpose</a>.
Crews have already begun disassembling the 108-year-old monument of Southern troops marching to war with enslaved people following along at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
&#8220;I think we are confident, you know, each of the services has clear instructions in terms of what it is that they need to focus on, and where the secretary is confident that the services are and will continue to take that seriously,&#8221; Ryder said as reported by <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/06/get-ready-fort-liberty-pentagon-begins-changing-confederate-base-names.html">Military.com</a>.
Ryder did not disclose the total cost of the project. However, the Naming Commission&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thenamingcommission.gov/report">final report</a> calculated the amount to be approximately $62.5 million.
About $21 million of the funding would be directed toward renaming the nine Army bases located in Southern states named after Confederate figures, including forts Benning, Gordon, Bragg, Hood, Rucker, Polk, A.P. Hill, Pickett, and Lee.
The commission will recommend new names for the bases, such as renaming Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
Commission officials have reportedly recommended Benning be renamed Fort Moore, after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, who served during the Vietnam War.
Although commission officials did not provide new names yet for the two Navy ships set to receive a new title, commission officials identified the USS Chancellorsville and the the USNS Maury.
The USS Chancellorsville received its name after the Confederate army won a Civil War battle, while the USNS Maury was named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, who left the Navy to sail for the Confederacy, Military.com reported.
Approximately $41 million of the funding will be designated for various roads, signs, buildings, and street names.
The announcement comes after West Point Academy officials removed monuments and references last month that &#8220;commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.&#8221;
The 220-year-old U.S. military academy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/west-point-begins-removing-confederate-monuments-from-campus-robert-e-lee-portrait-and-bust-cleared-out">said</a> it had begun a &#8220;multi-phase&#8221; process over the holiday break to remove all 13 references and monuments that West Point says honor the Confederacy, including a portrait and bust of former West Point Superintendent Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The removal is in response to an October order from the Department of Defense (DOD) mandated in the National Defense Authorization Act.
A massive outcry against Confederate monuments hit the nation following the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, resulting in numerous statues being taken down. In September of 2021, the largest Confederate monument on display in the U.S., a statue of Lee, was taken down in Richmond, Virginia.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Houston police have released a dashcam video of an Army Reserves veteran driving an uber who escaped after two passengers attacked him with one holding a gun to the vet&#8217;s head.
The police are hoping that releasing the video to the public will help them to find the suspects.
“They put the gun to my head, behind me, and shouting like, ‘Get out of the car,’” the Uber driver Dovran, who reportedly served seven years in the U.S. Army Reserves, told <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/01/03/get-out-before-i-kill-you-video-shows-terrifying-armed-robbery-of-rideshare-driver-in-west-houston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KPRC 2</a>.
The incident occurred on October 18, at roughly 11 a.m. Dovran said a pickup request came from a man named “MJ” in a parking lot behind a McDonald’s. The initial plan was for Dovran to make the drop-off near a Walmart, but then was changed to an apartment complex, Houston police stated. Dovran said that when the Uber approached the drop-off site, one man pulled out a gun and put it to Dovran’s head, demanding Dovran get out of the car, snapping, “&#8217;Get out before I kill you. Get out before I kill you. I&#8217;m going to kill you. Get the f*** out the car. Get the f*** out the car!”
“Luckily, he didn’t shoot me,” Dovran said.
The Dashcam video caught one suspect exiting the rear passenger door in order to open the driver’s side door to yank Dovran out. “I was holding my seatbelt so they failed,” Dovran recalled.
The ensuing struggle with the suspect who had left the car left him on the ground along with Dovran’s phone, prompting Dovran to try to drive away. “I was thinking, ‘Okay, if I drive off, at least one guy will be behind me because he was outside. Luckily, the guy who was in the driving seat, he just jumped out,” Dovran told <a href="https://abc13.com/rideshare-robbery-caught-on-video-dashcam-shows-passengers-hold-driver-at-gunpoint-houston-crime-stoppers-uber-threatened-with-a-gun/12646712/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC 13</a>.
As Dovran drives away, the video shows the suspect with the gun insisting, “I&#8217;m gonna shoot you! I&#8217;m gonna shoot you!” before apparently jumping out of the car.
“I was shocked, you know. I was thankful to God like, he didn’t shoot me,” Dovran admitted. “Thankful. I’m lucky.”
Uber released a statement regarding the incident. &#8220;The actions of the riders shown in the video were chilling to watch and we are grateful the driver wasn’t injured,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We removed the rider’s access and have reached out to the driver to offer support. We look forward to assisting police in identifying those responsible.&#8221;
Police have asked anyone who can identify the suspects to call Crime Stoppers of Houston.
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At least two Army officers are under investigation for posting photos of themselves in dog-shaped BDSM gear while in uniform.
The photos surfaced last week after one of the officers posted a picture of himself wearing the dog masks, announcing his retirement from the Army. Another Twitter account posted a long thread revealing that two of the members were commissioned officers and reportedly in a sexual relationship. The Army announced Tuesday it was investigating the posts.
“U.S. Army Pacific is aware of content found on social media reflecting soldiers’ activities while wearing uniforms,&#8221; U.S. Army spokesman Major Jonathan Lewis said in a statement to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/12/sexually-explicit-photos-soldiers-investigation/10881795002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today</a>. &#8220;The incident is currently under investigation.”
According to <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/pdf/USCODE-2011-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap47-subchapX-sec933.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal law</a>:
<blockquote>Any commissioned officer, cadet, or midshipman who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.</blockquote>
Furthermore:
<blockquote>all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special, or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.</blockquote>
USA Today noted that there are a variety of punishments for such conduct, including letters of reprimand, and possibly demotion. A retired officer can be restored to active duty specifically for court-martial purposes. He or she can also be retired at a lower rank, which would lower their military pension payments.
“All U.S. Army soldiers are expected to uphold high standards of personal conduct and to avoid discrediting the service and the uniform, both in person and across social media,&#8221; another Army spokeswoman told USA Today.
The investigation arose after one of the accounts, who goes by the handle &#8220;Pup Ravage,&#8221; announced his retirement from the Army last week. The tweet caught the attention of <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1600988060983840768?s=20&amp;t=95nssFiDl2ZvNmXr-RMz2Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative veterans</a> on Twitter, many of whom <a href="https://twitter.com/realKrisCruz/status/1600716997150789632?s=20&amp;t=95nssFiDl2ZvNmXr-RMz2Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the tweet as evidence of the growing problem of wokeness in the military.
A Twitter account called NoVA Campaigns posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/NoVA_Campaigns/status/1601302770761760768?s=20&amp;t=8f7CJDWdLhH7W84iEIwyzw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a> revealing that the retired officer was Army Colonel Brian T. Connelly, of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Connelly was stationed to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hicks in Hawaii. He frequently posted sexually explicit pictures of himself, as well as other photos of himself in uniform and wearing a dog mask, on an Instagram page of the same name.
Connelly was also in a sexual relationship with Captain Dayton Tenney, who went by the name &#8220;HonuPup&#8221; on social media. Connelly and Tenney are members of the &#8220;pup play&#8221; kink community, a BDSM-related sexual fetish where individuals dress up in leather masks and tails and act like dogs for sexual satisfaction. Connelly was photographed with other members of this community on his Instagram. According to NoVA Campaigns, both officers had multiple partners.
The account also found that one of the replies to Connelly&#8217;s retirement tweet came from another officer, a Captain in a medical unit, also wearing a dog mask. All of the users in question have locked or deleted their accounts.
Earlier this year, two Biden administration officials made headlines for publicizing their sexual appetites. In September, photos of White House deputy coordinator of monkeypox response Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/photos-of-biden-monkeypox-official-go-viral-after-unusual-remarks-at-press-conference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demetre Daskalakis</a> in bondage gear surfaced; and now-former deputy assistant secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-dog-role-playing-fetishist-nuke-chief-once-blasted-feds-for-prosecuting-male-prostitution-site" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Brinton</a> drew controversy when photos of him engaging in &#8220;puppy play&#8221; also surfaced on social media.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. military</a> forces have deployed one of the nation&#8217;s most elite groups of airborne division soldiers to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe">Europe</a> for the first time since World War II, vowing to fight alongside Ukrainian troops in the war against Russia, according to a report. 
CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-us-army-101st-airborne-nato-war-games-romania/">reported</a> Friday that the U.S. Army&#8217;s 101st Airborne Division, a group trained to deploy anywhere in the world and fight within hours, deployed approximately 4,700 soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Romania, where soldiers stand ready to reinforce NATO&#8217;s eastern flank on a moment&#8217;s notice.
&#8220;We&#8217;re ready to defend every inch of NATO soil,&#8221; the division&#8217;s Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, told the outlet, adding their presence is necessary because of the group&#8217;s unique light infantry force capabilities.
 &#8220;We bring that mobility to our aircraft and our air assaults,&#8221; Lubas said.
Division soldiers, nicknamed the &#8220;Screamin&#8217; Eagles,&#8221; are now the closest American forces to the ongoing fighting in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched military operations there earlier this year. Since then, Russian troops have advanced on the Crimean Peninsula and scaled the Black Sea coast into the Kherson region, including Mykolaiv and Odesa port cities.
&#8220;We&#8217;re closely watching them. So we&#8217;re building objectives to practice against that replicate exactly what&#8217;s going on in Ukraine,&#8221; Colonel Edwin Matthaidess, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, told CBS. &#8220;It keeps us on our toes.&#8221;
U.S. soldiers and Romanian troops have been conducting air assault attacks to show Russian forces that NATO allies are fully prepared to cross into Ukrainian territory if ordered by officials.
&#8220;The real meaning for me, to have the American troops here, is like if you were to have allies in Normandy before any enemy was there,&#8221; Romanian Major General Lulian Berdila told CBS News. 
The move from U.S. forces comes after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict after the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were heavily damaged by underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea surrounded by Sweden, Germany, and Poland.
&#8220;All currently available information indicates that this is the result of deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage,&#8221; NATO said in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/attacks-against-nato-allies-critical-infrastructure-be-met-with-determined-2022-09-29/">Reuters</a>. &#8220;We, as Allies, have committed to prepare for, deter and defend against the coercive use of energy and other hybrid tactics by state and non-state actors.&#8221; 
&#8220;Any deliberate attack against the allies&#8217; critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response,&#8221; the statement added.
The Department of the Army <a href="https://www.army.mil/article/256658/army_announces_upcoming_unit_deployments_in_support_of_european_allies_and_partners">announced</a> last summer it would begin deploying troops to the region in &#8220;support of our unrelenting commitment to Europe and our NATO allies.&#8221;

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In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cult-classic</a> &#8220;Stripes,&#8221; the late, great, heavyweight actor John Candy told his fellow &#8220;recruits&#8221; that he joined the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-army" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army</a> so he could lose a few pounds and &#8220;walk out of there a lean-mean fighting machine.&#8221;
Now, that same fitness plan could soon be a reality for millions of obese Americans looking to serve the good ol&#8217; U-S-of-A. According to several reports, the Army is <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/12/no-more-tape-test-only-soldiers-crush-fitness-test.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering</a> dropping certain weight limits for recruits so long as he or she is able to pass the physical fitness test with flying colors.
Per Military.com, &#8220;Soldiers who score at least a 540 on the <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/29/armys-new-fitness-test-here-real-time-no-seriously-its-future-uncertain.html">Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT</a>, will be exempt from having their body fat measured.&#8221; The highest score possible on the fitness test is 600.
It is possible to be physically fit, albeit plus size — take any NFL lineman, for instance. It would be very difficult, as the physical fitness test is still challenging, but in theory, an obese person could skip the &#8220;tape test&#8221; if they crush everything else.
The potential plan — which could allow larger recruits to avoid a potential obstacle to training — comes as a beleaguered military is struggling to figure out why recruitment is down across the board.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Jimmy Byrne <a href="https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/what-if-they-gave-a-war-and-everybody-was-woke-military-recruitment-crt-training-obesity-reading-labor-market-11659108526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> in June that “Nearly every branch has struggled to meet its recruitment goals for 2022, with some falling as short as 40%. Worse yet, only about a quarter of America’s youth meet current eligibility standards — and recent surveys show only 9% are even interested.”
As pointed out by Byrne, one explanation could be the &#8220;wholesale embrace of woke politics.”
Of course, if you ask anybody in the Biden administration — such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-did-lizzo-go-from-being-oppressed-to-playing-james-madisons-flute-while-twerking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army Secretary Christine Wormuth</a> — there&#8217;s no woke politics in the military — just diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) training.
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In other words, the geniuses in Biden&#8217;s Pentagon cannot figure out why Americans are not interested in a military that mandates DIE-ing.
Earlier in 2022, the Army also ditched a gender- and age-neutral physical fitness test. That means women and older recruits have different requirements for physical fitness than men and younger Americans do.
In addition to woke Americans, other branches such as the Air Force have also been encouraging expectant mothers to sign up for the fight.
In September, the Air Force announced that it &#8220;has updated a policy to allow women, both enlisted and civilian, to apply and compete for an Officer Training School commission while pregnant.&#8221;
“We’re in a race for talent, and our policies need to reflect that,” Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/pregnant-candidates-can-now-apply-to-air-force-officer-training-school-without-a-waiver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;This policy change will ensure we’re able to fully tap into the talent amongst our force as well as those looking to join us.&#8221;
It does not seem wise to have a military full of leftist pregnant women, but could it really be so bad if a bunch of folks like &#8220;Ox&#8221; in &#8220;Stripes&#8221; join the Army?
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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U.S. Army Reportedly Changing Controversial Body Fat Test. Good News For ‘Stripes’ Fans.

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On Monday, <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/the-life-and-times-of-joe-biden-according-to-joe-biden-volume-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth gave a master class on how the Left advances its agenda into every orifice of the United States <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/bidens-military-forget-mom-dad-use-woke-substitutes-instead-air-force-cadets-told/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal government</a>.
Wormuth is a <a href="https://www.army.mil/leaders/sa/bio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal arts graduate</a> with a master&#8217;s of public policy who has served in the civilian position since May 2021. The Biden appointee declared Monday that the armed forces aren&#8217;t woke, they just have diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in every military base to make marginalized members of society feel included within military ranks.
&#8220;You know we get criticized, frankly, sometimes for being woke, I&#8217;m not sure what woke means,&#8221; Wormuth said sharply. &#8220;But first of all I would say, if woke mean we are not focused on war fighting, we are not fighting on readiness, that doesn&#8217;t reflect what I see at installations all around the countries or overseas when I go to visit.&#8221;
What does Wormuth see? Just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-white-racism-is-all-the-rage-amongst-big-business-banks-unions-and-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory principles</a> being carried out — no wokeism here!
&#8220;But I think we do have a wide range of soldiers in our Army,&#8221; she added. and I think we have to make them feel included. That&#8217;s why a lot of our diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are important.&#8221;
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Of course, Americans actually don&#8217;t want diversity, equity, and inclusion in the military.
We want a uniform, fighting machine that follows a chain of command and hierarchy of duties. We would prefer to exclude anybody not fit to serve or that slows down the army&#8217;s readiness to kill.
That matters not to the Biden administration.
Once the Biden administration came into power, recruiting for the military plummeted. It doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s a coincidence that recruitment dropped alongside its push for DEI principles in the army.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Jimmy Byrne <a href="https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/what-if-they-gave-a-war-and-everybody-was-woke-military-recruitment-crt-training-obesity-reading-labor-market-11659108526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> that &#8220;Nearly every branch has struggled to meet its recruitment goals for 2022, with some falling as short as 40%. Worse yet, only about a quarter of America’s youth meet current eligibility standards — and recent surveys show only 9% are even interested.&#8221;
Those numbers can&#8217;t be explained by factors caused pandemic. At the time Byrne&#8217;s column was written, America had an unemployment rate of 3.6% nearly identical to the unemployment rate in 2019. Under President Donald Trump, the military exceeded its recruiting goals. Teenage obesity, perhaps another explanatory factory, only rose by three percent. The military is even giving out gigantic bonuses to entice Americans,  but nothing is working.
As pointed out by Byrne, one explanation could be &#8220;the wholesale embrace of woke politics.&#8221;
Rather than ditch those efforts in wake of dismal recruiting figures, the Biden administration is pushing them like never before.
If you ask Wormuth, those &#8220;woke politics&#8221; don&#8217;t even exist in Biden&#8217;s military.
&#8220;One of the things I think that&#8217;s most important &#8230; is keeping the army apolitical and keeping it out of the culture wars,&#8221; she said incredulously on Monday.
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In the same session, Wormuth declares that military leaders stay out of politics and the culture war, but also declares that the military is being used as a vehicle to foist DEI onto the American people.
Her comments were revealing. Wormuth doesn&#8217;t think DEI is political. She thinks it is good, moral, and smart.
Yet even looking at just one of the planks  DEI shows that &#8220;equity&#8221; is entirely anti-American and will get people killed.
Stanford professor Victor Davis Hanson explained to The Daily Wire last spring that the transition to “equity” away from “equality” is intentionally done to increase government power and advance Leftist ideology.
“Equality is an American idea of equality and fairness in opportunity,” Hanson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. “Equity is a French revolutionary idea of equality of result mandated by a coercive government.”
As for what that entails for the American people, Hanson explained that “it simply means that in reductionist fashion, any inequality is due to racism or bias and the government must have the wisdom and morality to punish perceived victimizers and redistribute to supposed victims.”
“All else does not count–not merit, not tragedies, not health, not class, not work ethic, not family structures, not culture, not anything—except the elite in charge will always be exempt from the ramifications of their own equity ideology,” he explained.
So the end result of Wormuth&#8217;s plan is a military with fewer recruits and therefore killers and is used as a vehicle for Leftist, woke indoctrination.
Of course, &#8220;the Elite in charge&#8221; won&#8217;t face the ramifications of this ideology. They won&#8217;t be on the battlefield.
It should be noted that if you re-arrange DEI, you get DIE — which is exactly what will happen to more of our soldiers if that nonsense proliferates any further.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Biden’s Army Secretary: We’re Not Woke — We Just Have Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

Biden's Army Secretary: We're Not Woke — We Just Have Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

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Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-blows-up-at-media-for-daring-to-question-bidens-mental-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a>-praised <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> major in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-army-colonel-sent-busloads-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-be-murdered-by-taliban-evac-team-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Army</a>, and their spouse, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-trans-prof-who-defended-adult-child-sex-hired-by-johns-hopkins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> anesthesiologist, have been federally indicted for allegedly trying to leak medical information on U.S. Military members to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-embassy-tells-americans-to-leave-russia-immediately/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> government.
The pair reportedly provided sensitive medical information on military members and their families to someone the couple thought was from the Russian embassy, but was actually an undercover FBI agent, the Baltimore Banner <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/johns-hopkins-doctor-and-spouse-an-army-doctor-indicted-for-trying-to-leak-medical-information-to-russia-TVCKU2TGUJB7JIH7M6D4GKMHZ4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Thursday afternoon. Jamie Lee Henry and Anna Gabrielian are charged with conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
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As a doctor at Fort Bragg, Jamie Lee Henry, who identifies as a transgender woman, had a secret security clearance, and used the access to try to help Russia, according to the indictment.
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BREAKING: First openly trans Army officer charged in plot to give U.S. military medical info to Russians to help in war against Ukraine &#8211; <a href="https://t.co/apHT1vYazs">https://t.co/apHT1vYazs</a> <a href="https://t.co/AmJ6jMmEfr">pic.twitter.com/AmJ6jMmEfr</a>
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During one meeting with an undercover fed on August 17, Gabrielian, a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist, reportedly said “she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail,&#8221; the indictment said.
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“My point of view is until the United States actually declares war against Russia, I’m able to help as much as I want,” Henry reportedly told the agent. “At that point, I’ll have some ethical issues I’ll have to work through.”
The pair allegedly handed over sensitive information to the undercover officer during a meeting on August 31, the document outlined.
“Gabrielian highlighted to the [undercover agent] a medical issue reflected in the records of [the military member’s spouse] that Russia could exploit,” it said, while Henry allegedly provided medical information on five patients at Fort Bragg and spouses of active and deceased Army veterans, according to the Baltimore Banner.
Henry landed <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-first-out-transgender-active-duty-us-army-officer-my-sto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praise</a> from the media in 2015 as the &#8220;first out transgender active duty U.S. Army officer.&#8221;
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“My commander said, ‘I don’t care who you love, I don’t care how you identify, I want you to be healthy and I want you to be able to do your job,’” Henry told BuzzFeed about coming out as trans. “I was blown away … because of the stereotypes that I held, growing up in the South, growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, that he would automatically think I was a freak, he would automatically think, ‘You need to be discharged just like the regs recommend.’”
During the profile, Henry said being trans improved their medical skills. “I find my trans experience has allowed me to relate to people, because all of us suffer, and I could relate to people’s suffering,&#8221; the officer said. &#8220;I’m able to comfort people that feel isolated and lost and alone and broken. I can sit down with them and look them in the eyes, and say, ‘I can walk with you through this. I care about you, and I mean it.’”

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First ‘Out’ Trans Active Duty Army Officer, Spouse Indicted For Allegedly Trying To Leak Medical Info To Russia

First 'Out' Trans Active-Duty Army Officer, Spouse Indicted For Trying To Leak Medical Info To Russia

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A two-star general’s retirement has reportedly been placed on hold as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">military</a> investigates him over his social media conduct.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe is under administrative review by the U.S. Army. He previously served as commanding general of the Army’s Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, but he has since been reassigned as his review plays out, according to the <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/09/19/ex-fort-benning-commanders-retirement-halted-over-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army Times</a>.
Donahoe “has been temporarily assigned as a special assistant to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command pending appropriate Department of the Army administrative reviews,” Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said.
A source familiar told the Army Times that Donahoe is under review for his social media conduct. It is not clear if Donahoe would be disciplined, or what discipline might come down should the review process find him guilty of some infraction.
Donahoe is well-known for his presence on Twitter. In 2019, the <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/2019/10/14/military-members-you-should-be-following-on-twitter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Military Times</a> ranked him number one on a list of “top service members to follow” on the platform.
“All soldiers are leaders and the good ones stay informed with the broader world events that could determine their future. Brig. Gen. Donahoe is one of the real OGs on twitter giving soldiers a hint on how a top military leader thinks. And if leaders learn from example, you can’t go wrong by following his,” the outlet wrote at the time of his Twitter usage.
Donahoe currently has over 23,000 followers on Twitter. His account has been made private and his tweets are protected against public viewing.
Donahoe kicked off a series of media stories and criticism against him after he used his personal Twitter account to mock a retired Marine who publicly disagreed with Donahoe’s views on the COVID-19 vaccine.
In July 2021, Donahoe <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/retired-marine-woke-fort-benning-commanding-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would make the vaccine mandatory if he had the authority, citing a surge in ICU visits by young soldiers. Former Marine Josiah Lippincott responded to Donahoe, pointing out that the military had lost a total of 26 servicemembers to COVID-19 out of 2 million. After some back-and-forth, Donahoe responded by tagging Lippincott’s alma mater, Hillsdale College, and telling it to “come get your boy.”
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That incident is reportedly not the subject of the ongoing review, though it is unclear what the review is focusing on specifically. Donahoe has been involved in several social media-related controversies in recent months, including criticizing Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he accusing President Joe Biden of “feminizing” the military, the Army Times reported.

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Two-Star General, Tucker Carlson Critic Under Military Review Over Tweets: Report

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An Army paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, died after being shot outside his apartment.
Sgt. Nicholas Bobo, 22, was found by police responding to a call of shots fired at approximately 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday. He was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to law enforcement.
Bobo, a native of Cordova, Tennessee, also had his vehicle taken from the Enclave at Pamalee Square, <a href="https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/15/fort-bragg-paratrooper-nicholas-antonio-bobo-killed-in-tuesday-shooting-in-fayetteville/69497815007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Fayetteville Observer. Police do not believe the shooting was random. No arrests have been made in the shooting death.
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Sgt. Nicholas Bobo, 22, of Gordova, Tennessee, was killed Monday night at about 11 p.m., according to Fayetteville police. <a href="https://t.co/wkuNxsMaX3">https://t.co/wkuNxsMaX3</a>
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The paratrooper was an automated logistical specialist assigned to the 407th Brigade Support Battalion. Bobo leaves behind his wife, daughter, and parents. He joined the Army in 2018 and had been stationed at Fort Bragg since 2019.
His awards and decorations, <a href="https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/cumberland-county-news/man-killed-outside-fayetteville-apartment-was-22-year-old-military-paratrooper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> a report by WNCN-TV, include the Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Army Parachutist Badge, Driver Mechanic Badge-Driver Wheeled Vehicle, and Marksmanship Qualification Badge Expert-Carbine.
Army Criminal Investigation Command and the Fayetteville Police Department are investigating the incident.
The report comes as the U.S. military is facing an “unprecedented” recruiting crisis under President Joe Biden that has forced it to drastically cut forecasts for the number of new recruits it expects.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-pronouns-less-recruits-u-s-military-facing-unprecedented-recruiting-crisis-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Dr. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense during the Trump administration, said this was “a major issue affecting all the armed services.”
“The answer is NOT lower standards; quality must be paramount,” he wrote on Twitter. “Rather, we need a sustained effort by America’s leaders to inspire our youth to serve. … This is a growing national security issue!”
The news also comes as conflict continues following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and other global issues emerging during the Biden administration, including a highly criticized military departure from Afghanistan in August 2021. The final weeks of the exit included a bombing that killed 13 U.S. military members outside of the Kabul airport.
The Kabul bombing became a point of contention again in March when President Joe Biden failed to mention the Fallen 13 during his State of the Union address to Americans.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1498860731055419396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Biden over the issue.
“To the 13 American families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan in August, you deserved to be recognized by the President tonight,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter. “Americans remember your sacrifice, and we are forever indebted to you.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a> is recommending U.S. soldiers struggling with soaring food prices apply for welfare, in a move that underscores both low military pay and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economist-reveals-when-america-can-expect-one-whopper-of-a-recession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economic headwinds</a> facing the nation as a whole.
The recommendation came last month from Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, and directs Army soldiers and their families to apply for food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known by the acronym SNAP.
&#8220;With inflation affecting everything from gas prices to groceries to rent, some Soldiers and their families are finding it harder to get by on the budgets they&#8217;ve set and used before,&#8221; <a href="https://www.army.mil/article/258256">the written guidance from Grinston reads</a>. &#8220;SNAP is a U.S. government program that provides benefits to eligible low-income individuals and families via an electronic benefits transfer card that can be used like a debit card to purchase eligible food in authorized retail food stores. Service members and their families may be eligible.&#8221;
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&quot;The guidance points soldiers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and links them to the federal welfare program’s website.&quot; &#8211;Billions and billions for Biden&#39;s suicidal Green New Deal and Ukraine, no money fo feed our soldiers and families!<a href="https://t.co/nEX2AckBWY">https://t.co/nEX2AckBWY</a>
&mdash; Laughing Libertarian (@William16723077) <a href="https://twitter.com/William16723077/status/1568608357191192577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The official guidance includes other lending and financial counseling programs available to soldiers and lists contact information to help them enroll in SNAP.
Although the Biden administration and much of the media insists the U.S. is not in a recession, the nation has experienced negative GDP growth in each of the last two quarters, meeting the traditional definition for a recession. In addition, inflation is running at nearly double-digit percentages and food prices in particular have risen at the fastest rate in decades.
Mackenzie Eaglen, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies defense budgets and military readiness, said nearly a quarter of enlisted men and women can’t afford to put food on the table.
“What they need is more money,” Eaglen wrote in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-catches-the-pentagon-flat-footed-army-paychecks-food-stamps-defense-department-budget-ppi-troops-11662405897?mod=hp_opin_pos_6">Wall Street Journal column</a> this week. “The Defense Department’s flat-footed response to inflation will result in a real—and cumulative—pay cut for service members.”
Eaglen said the Pentagon received more federal funding from Congress than it had requested, but ignored inflation concerns and short-changed the men and women who serve.
Now, she wrote, “Congress will have to appropriate even more to save America’s troops from the Defense Department’s negligence. It’s the only way to get troops and their families the financial lifeline they need.”
Base pay for the lowest-ranking Army private is $21,999.60, according to <a href="https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/while-you-serve/money-pay.html">GoArmy.com</a>. Salaries for enlisted men and women the lower ranks rise gradually through promotions, but not always by years of service alone.

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Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Apply For Food Stamps

Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Consider Food Stamps Amid Soaring Inflation

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