Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.
That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care.
The Army obesity crisis is worse among the “diversity” hires — women, blacks, Hispanics, and transvestites.
Shocker!https://t.co/ZdRNGjckZ4
— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) July 5, 2023
One of the shibboleths of the Left is the claim that increasing the acceptance of “gender-diverse” individuals into the military merely extends the same opportunities to transgender folks as those afforded to people who identify with their natal sex (man, finding the right words is impossible when discussing these issues!).
Combine this idea with the claim that “diversity is our strength,” and you are led to believe that the military will be improved by expanding opportunities to transgender applicants.
Yeah, right. Even the Army doesn’t believe that, and they are the ones saying it.
.@USArmy Maj. Rachel Jones found solace after coming out as a transgender female. Her journey from battling depression & suicidal thoughts to embracing authenticity inspires us all. #WhyWeServe https://t.co/9llx7skuC3
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) July 2, 2023
Notice that Maj. Rachel Jones is a bit…fat? Yeah, well, there is a reason for that.
Jones doesn’t have to meet physical fitness standards that apply to everybody else in the Army. Fancy that.
FYI: US service members who identify as transgender can seek an indefinite fitness standards exemption. That’s how this guy managed to avoid PT.
There’s an easy fix to clear these ppl out, as @Cernovich previously stated. Fitness standards for ALL service members. No exemptions. pic.twitter.com/279sqCdRqO
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) July 3, 2023
Apparently, the military doesn’t believe that transgender soldiers are just like everybody else, and in order to keep them on active duty they have thrown standards out the window.
The military is going through a crisis with weight–since 2001 the number of soldiers who are classified as overweight has skyrocketed by over 400%, and much of that has to do with accommodating a more “diverse” military. Women, Blacks, and Hispanics have higher rates of obesity in the military than Whites do, suggesting that the standards apply differently to different categories of people.
“Diversity is our strength” seems the opposite of the truth, at least as the military seeks to achieve it.
One of the lies we are being told, relentlessly, is that when the military makes efforts to expand the types of people admitted into the services the standards applied will remain the same. This has been clearly false forever. This has been particularly true when it comes to sex differences. As we know, different standards of physical fitness are applied to men and women, in opposition to what we were told when recruitment opened up, and now we see that the standards have been changed even more drastically for transgender people.
On its face, the argument that being transgender would present no barrier to military service is absurd, simply because transgender soldiers require constant medical care in order to maintain their gender treatments. Regardless of any other potential issues, this alone should make policymakers leery of including transgender-identifying people in the rolls of active duty personnel.
The military, though, is a social scientist’s playground. Under total control of the government, it is easy to use as a laboratory for ideological experiments.
In a sense I am sympathetic to the impulse–it is just so tempting, and in some cases, the military has been a proving ground for beneficial social change. Race integration is a great example of this.
But the impulse is dangerous; it is just too tempting, and the consequences of getting it wrong are especially high. Lives are literally at stake.
Exempting an entire class of people from physical fitness standards is the opposite of proving that “diversity is our strength,” both because in this case “strength” is in this case the opposite of the truth and because it will heighten not lower resentment toward transgender people who are as usual getting a better deal than everybody else.
As you know, the military is having a recruiting problem simultaneously with the changes they have made. Any chance that the problem is related? You decide.
This is in line, though, with other claims related to transgenderism, which are all based upon the rejection of biological facts. Alphabet ideology and also critical theory is based on the idea that reality bends to our will and is infinitely flexible.
Neither is true, and that will be made abundantly clear when the bullets fly.
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Welcome , to Meal-Team-Six
More like Meal Team 69
They’ve already been exempted from mental health standards.
The Gravy SEALs
EAT YOUR ENEMY — BEFORE YOUR ENEMY EATS YOU !!
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ?
A JELLY DOUGNUT ?
I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but there’s a part of me that still can’t believe that a mentally ill, fat tub of shit like that would be allowed to wear the uniform.
It would have been the target of non stop harassment and maybe more in my day.
Run over by a truck when it went off base…. A truck driver told me..
I’m not at the point of rooting against Team USA, not quite. But I’m definitely betting against it.
I’m not sure that in the current rendition the US DotMil could beat the 1990 Iraqis. Given a few more years and that will be a definite.
But no worries,we have the US Space Force to guardians over us.
These clowns are going to be miles behind the folks ‘in the rear with the gear’ … primary issues will be chipped fingernails, carpal tunnel syndrome and — if they ever encounter ‘real’ military members — fragging …
Next War,Ass Kicked!
So, permanent PT test profile just chop off your dick. Got it.
Pretty much.
Years ago, a “push-up, sit-up, two-mile run” was an annual requirement and if you kept yourself in moderately good shape it wasn’t hard to pass, but even then, most units made PT a requirement because many people refused to do the minimum.
You’re always going to have slugs and lazy people who want to get paid but don’t want to follow the rules.
In another picture the CECOM patch is visible on the sleeve of the left shoulder. It explains more as it shows a non-combat arms unit assignment.
Past the rank of captain, the Army promotion system is typically “up or out” and without some form of positive personal improvement it’s difficult to stay on active duty in a command position. I personally believe this ((THING)) wants to stay in the Army to simply maximize ((HIS)) pension benefits and will do everything to make it happen, even if it violates rules and disrupts everyone else.
Should the Army attempt to put ((HIM)) out under past “non-woke” regulations I’d suspect ((HE)) would lodge a major disruptive campaign leveling a charge of EO discrimination.
5 days a week PT for me the whole time , even in Alaska but indoors if colder than -10 degrees.
” . . . if you kept yourself in moderately good shape it wasn’t hard to pass . . .”
At 60 I could pass PT for 21 year olds without doing any specific training for it. Just by general exercise to keep in moderately good shape. 15 minutes of calisthenics (to failure) once a week and an hour or so total of running (and a lot more cycling).
And if my pants started to feel a bit tight, I’d cut back on calories a bit right then until they didn’t.
It’s that easy.
When I was in, there was no “refusing”. You did it, or didn’t get out of boot. Once out of boot, you could be discharged for carrying around too much lard for too long and not passing the PT test.
You see, it’s not like these mentally-unstable fatties are gonna be anywhere near the fighting. They will be in leadership positions sending young normal men into death traps.
They would be better used as target backers.
Heh… fudge packers for target backers.
The Army isn’t a career for the best and brightest people – or for the independent thinkers, for that matter. Service life typically attracts the less educated and people who have little means for economic mobility, offering a “step up” to something better.
I know this for fact, I lived it for years. Like others, I was pigeon-holed into a dead-end job with little prospect of advancement, so I took the lemons they gave me and made something of the skill training.
I left and it paid off. The service has become little more than a social welfare program and was always loaded with self-serving, narcissistic pricks who saw nothing wrong with abusing people if they could justify it. It’s become more obvious over the years and the only way to fix things is to have the system fail.
Anon, looks like we won’t have to wait long.
Yes, So how they gonna be fragged if they’re never close to any real live weapons? This will call for some creativity. I know! Someone needs to write an instruction manual.
You mean field manual
Already been written.
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_31-210_Improvised_Munitions_Handbook
https://archive.org/details/milmanual-tm-31-210-improvised-munitions-handbook
I’m all for niggers cunts Fags being the cannon fodder .
These folks won’t be cannon fodder … they’ll be in air conditioned quarters playing on video game consoles … and, as for the past 6-8 years, getting ‘combat’ medals for their part in the war …
Classy comment.
i remember when mental illness was a mental illness.
it must be said – paying taxes to support this is like tithing to satan.
Paying taxes to support this is …
… mental illness …
It has always been tithing to Satan
The humilation and mockery of every possible human activity shall continue until the organism that has captured the world’s governments is revealed. When the kid gloves come off and the mailed fist is finally and unequivocably known, all this “woke,” “gay, ” BLM, and other bizarre nonsense that passes for modern progressivism disappears in a puff of smoke and reality will re-emerge, crushing all before it. Technotronic totalitarianism.
This disgusting fatfuk qweer makes major bank as a major, kids.
PRIVATE PYLE , WHAT IS YOU MAJOR MALFUNCTION ?
Sir! I cut my dick off sir!
Fat fuques with rainbow flags make easier targets.
Future missions be like this.
*blink*
Maj. Rachel…major mistake.
Keep is mind that the opposite of diversity is UNITY. Now you know why….
They’re apparently UNFIT for duty – discharge them.
So. Do I learn Russian or Chinese?
And no way in hell is that fat dude ever going to be mistaken for a woman.
They hate us because of our fat mentally ill male/female faggots.
I guess the obvious question is then why have fitness standards? Just drop them. Recruiting would increase to. Fat, slow, weak soldiers should do well on the battlefield!