WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed Adm. Linda Fagan as new Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the armed forces’ first female service chief, declaring during a change of command ceremony on Wednesday, “It’s about time.”
“The trailblazing career of Admiral Fagan shows young people entering the services, we mean what we say: There are no doors — no doors — closed to women,” Biden told around 2,000 cheering guests at Coast Guard headquarters. Those attending included service chiefs from other military branches and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The president added, “This is what an admiral and service chief in the United States armed forces looks like” and thanked Fagan for “all that you’ve done throughout your career to open the doors of opportunity just a little bit wider” allowing “those following behind you a way through.”
“Now we need to keep working to make sure Admiral Fagan may be the first but not the only,” Biden said. “We need to see more women at the highest levels of command in the Coast Guard and across every service.”
Fagan relieved Adm. Karl L. Schultz. In a brief address, Biden didn’t mention Russia’s war with Ukraine but said “the choices the world makes today will “shape the direction of the world throughout the 21st century.”
The president said his administration is “going to be calling on the Coast Guard more frequently” to combat the threats of climate change, given that Wednesday marked the first day of hurricane season that is anticipated to be ”the seventh straight year of above-average hurricane activity in the Atlantic.”
Biden also called the Coast Guard an “essential element” of his administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, and said he planned to engage to guard against overfishing by Chinese interests.
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Our failing poll driven President keeps identifying the race, genders incomes and sexual identities of THE PEOPLE he has already so offended and defunded with his policies, and seeks out more representatives of those social classes for mock elevations to positions of responsibility hoping to save his next election. I am really surprised this one was not also black to seal the total exposure of his desperate attempts to control the outcomes of the fall elections.
It’s just another Joe Biden Twisted Oliver Twist type version of a Charles Dickens Artful Dodger moment where Fagan ends up offering THE PEOPLE another cup of political gruel to promote the Democrat receivers of stolen goods, or in this case a stolen high office for the purpose of the next stolen election. Just forget about elevating the best and the brightest, especially if it is a straight male who would never vote Biden into office, and always go for the elections results that “Makes America Mediocre Again.”,,,and makes people wonder if indeed “First can also often be the Worst:” Enter Kamala.
OR trans!
“The president said his administration is “going to be calling on the Coast Guard more frequently” to combat the threats of climate change . . .”
I have to echo Dan Bongino’s sentiment towards Leftists—it must be the pits to have to wake up every day and be this damned stupid.
To the Democrats and their operatives who stole the 2020 Presidential election and put this piece of **** in the White House—and the Republicans who sat back and allowed it to happen and did nothing to seek justice—you all deserve Hell. You people are certainly putting the country through it.
By combatting climate change does he mean replacing the current (pun) vessels with battery powered ones which will spend more time in port at recharging stations than patrolling the high seas? Has he checked with his China pals about the fishing, they might not approve?
AND where the hell will they produce the energy to CHARGE UP all of those batteries!
everything mao biden has done is *** backwards and destructive.
Did biden tell her that he was appointed to the U.S. Naval academy? His quote – “I was told the Class of ’72 is here. I was appointed to the academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972 — never planned it that way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running,” Biden said.
The lying about absolutely everything is just outrageous and can no longer be called blunders or blamed strictly on severe cognitive decline…the man is pathological.