(The Center Square) – On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his plan to “restore the U.S. military to make it mission-focused once again.” He also vowed to eliminate the Biden administration’s “woke” political policies he says have contributed to a recruitment and military readiness crisis.
DeSantis, who has advanced pro-military policies as governor in Florida, was deployed to Iraq in 2007, serving as the legal advisor to the SEAL Team One commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah as a Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) officer. He was first commissioned as a Navy officer while attending Harvard Law School.
“There was no greater honor than knowing I was wearing the cloth of my country when I served in the military, but our nation’s once-proud fighting force has been infected and paralyzed by a political agenda,” DeSantis said to a cheering crowd in Columbia, South Carolina. “It is time to rip the woke out of the military and return it to its core mission. We must restore a sense of confidence, conviction, and patriotic duty to our institutions — and that begins with our military.”
His four-part plan includes 1) “ripping political agendas” out of the military, 2) restoring military standards, 3) “breaking the swamp” and promoting accountability, and 4) turning the tide against “Biden’s military recruitment crisis.”
His plan eliminates “Diverse-aucrats” (diversity bureaucrats) and all diversity and inclusion policies, programs and positions. It includes ending drag shows on military bases and revoking Executive Order 14004, “which allows transgender personnel to serve in the military in their preferred sex and provides taxpayer funds for sex change hormones and surgeries, which cause issues with readiness.”
It also prohibits the Department of Defense from hiring advertising firms that blacklist conservative news sources, closes diversity and equity offices and reforms the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness “to focus on the critical challenges facing the military such as recruiting, retention, and healthcare.”
It also bans all Critical Race Theory courses at service academies, instead requiring them to prioritize teaching military history, leadership, nuclear engineering, and other critical mission-ready subjects. CRT is banned from military training, as is “woke recruitment” social media content, under the plan. Instead, DeSantis plans to create a “Merit, Fairness, and Equality Task Force” to review military academy training curriculum and to overhaul the Professional Military Education system, which he says “produces substandard quality education.”
To restore military standards, his plan will recognize differences between men and women, eliminate racial preferences and prioritize one standard for mission readiness. It includes requiring all branches to have physical qualifications according to gender-neutral standards, bans race and gender quotas in recruitment and promotions, opposes “any efforts to draft our daughters,” among others.
His plan also reinstates service members who didn’t comply with the COVID-19 shot mandate and were forced out of the military. This also includes reinstating their prior rank and salary and providing back pay.
It also prioritizes “lethality, readiness, and capabilities, not ideology and climate change.” The DOD “should never prioritize climate politics over national security and any environmental projects should require a cost–benefit analysis that prioritizes national security needs,” DeSantis argues.
His plan also enforces several policies related to officer code of conduct and eliminates issuing security clearances to retired DOD officials who “go on network and cable news shows and who, as paid analysts, monetize and politicize their access to so-called ‘inside information.'” It also implements accountability measures for high-ranking military officials, including for those who lie under oath to Congress or “contact enemy counterparts without the knowledge of the president.”
To expand recruitment efforts, DeSantis plans to foster national pride in the military by developing “a program for schools to teach that our military is and has been a force for justice and good in the world,” expanding JROTC programs and civics programs in secondary schools, and promoting military recruitment through the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, among other initiatives.
He also hopes to implement policies that have proven to be successful in Florida, including allowing military families to have educational savings accounts.
Under DeSantis’ leadership, Florida has created multiple programs to support active-duty service members and veterans, including creating programs to enable military veterans to apply for teaching jobs, recognizing schools that honor military families, and allocating millions of dollars towards down payment and closing cost assistance for service members and veterans through a “Hometown Heroes” program.
Florida, which has the third largest veteran population behind California and Texas, also offers a range of resources and benefits to veterans, including in-state tuition for them and their families and several property tax exemptions, among others.
DeSantis Pledges To Restore U.S. Military, ‘Rip Out Woke’ Political Agendas On Day 1
* “To restore military standards, his plan will recognize differences between men and women, eliminate racial preferences and prioritize one standard for mission readiness.”
* It also prioritizes “lethality, readiness, and capabilities, not ideology and climate change.” The DOD “should never prioritize climate politics over national security.
Barack Obama and his puppet Joe Biden has turned our military defiance forces into a ineffective, LGBTQ, woke social club.
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, woke, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented puppet president Joe Biden has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
The ONLY way he can do this, is to GUT THE ENTIRE Upper echelon. FIRE Every damn general, admiral and the like..
Assuming he even CAN do so.
ltuser:
Keep in mind this deranged, corrupt, woke, puppet president Joe Biden just does what his master tinkerbell Barack Obama tells him to do and the president is the Commander in Chief of the military. So every general, Admiral and the like takes orders from tinkerbell Obama’s puppet.
BUT we all saw, how those SAME Generals/admirals, IGNORED Trump, and actively worked to UNDERMINE Him.. HOW CAN WE NOT SEE them doing the exact same in 24 and beyond, REGARDLESS of which republican wins!?
Charles De Gaualle, ” Since a politicoan never believes a word he says he’s surprissed that he’s taken at his word. ”
We will have to see if Desantis is just another “Politician.
DeSantis Pledges To Restore U.S. Military, ‘Rip Out Woke’ Political Agendas
That is if our Country can last long enough to do it.
We;ve barely got 18 mo left to go. I certainly HOPE WE can make it till then.
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
QUORA
Ron DeSantis has everything going for him.
He is an excellent candidate and I wish him the best.
There are people who are trying to fight back against the internal subversion of our military:
Their websites should be known to every patriot.
https://starrs.us/ ‘Stand Together against Radicalism and Racism’ (in the military):
https://flagofficers4america.com/ Just what it says.
This fellow, a retired General, has some good ideas, perhaps
not expressed quite so succinctly as they should be, but worth
reading.
https://wethepeoplespeaking.com/
Like the sexualization of children, and so-call ‘affirmative action’, this is an issue where we can appeal to a lot of people who don’t consider themselves conservatives … even deep into the ranks of the Democratic Party. We should make a big deal of this.