Ban on transgender troops to be lifted July 1What Congress thinks is of no consequence to this renegade presidency and his Leftist bureaucrats. The Progressive agenda includes the virtual elimination of defensive capabilities (and borders open to any insurrectionist), as the USA is brought down to the level they think it deserves. What damage can they complete in the next seven months? Plenty. The Clintons merely trashed the White House before they departed. Obama will try to trash the entire USA before he is kicked out.
"According to officials, the Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on transgender service members July 1, a controversial decision that would end nearly a year of internal wrangling.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on transgender service members July 1, a controversial decision that would end nearly a year of internal wrangling among the services on how to allow those troops to serve openly, according to Defense officials.
Top personnel officials plan to meet as early as Monday to finalize details of the plan, and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work could sign off on it by Wednesday, according to a Defense official familiar with the timetable but who spoke on condition of anonymity because officials were not authorized to speak publicly about it. Final approval would come from Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and the announcement will be on the eve of the Fourth of July weekend.
The plan would direct each branch of the armed services over a one-year period to implement new policies affecting recruiting, housing and uniforms for transgender troops, one official said.
Carter announced last year that the ban, which affects a fraction of the military’s 1.3 million active duty members, would be lifted unless a review showed that doing so would have “adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness.”
That phrase raised concerns on Capitol Hill where a key lawmaker questioned whether an “honest and balanced assessment” could be made of the effects on “military readiness, morale and good order and discipline” under Carter’s guidelines for the review.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, the Texas Republican who chairs the Armed Services Committee, called on the Pentagon in a letter last July to provide a range of information on the impacts of repealing the ban.
Among the questions Thornberry asked:
“What would be the projected cost of changing the transgender service policy? To what extent would military barracks, ship berths, gym shower facilities, latrines, and other facilities have to be modified to accommodate personnel in various stages of transition and what would be the projected cost of these modifications?” Thornberry wrote.
He also asked about how far the Pentagon would go to provide medical treatment for transgender troops, “including behavioral health treatment, cross-hormone therapy, voice therapy, cosmetic or gender reassignment surgery and other treatments?”
Pentagon officials responded to Thornberry in September, said Eric Pahon, a department spokesman. The main focus of the Pentagon’s review of the policy has been on the effect of repeal on the military’s readiness to fight, Pahon said. More details about the review’s findings are expected to be released soon, he said.
Thornberry was not happy with the timing of the announcement, he said in a statement Friday.
“If reports are correct, I believe Secretary Carter has put the political agenda of a departing administration ahead of the military’s readiness crisis," Thornberry said. "The force is exhausted from back to back deployments and spending their home-station time scrambling to get enough equipment and training before they deploy again. My focus is on helping the troops now — to be the most effective, deployable force possible.
"Consistent with that philosophy, when we learned DOD was looking at new policies on the service of transgender individuals, the Committee posed a number of questions to DOD," he said. "In particular, there are readiness challenges that first must be addressed, such as the extent to which such individuals would be medically non-deployable. Almost a year has passed with no answer to our questions from Secretary Carter. Our top priority must be warfighting effectiveness and individual readiness is an essential part of that.”
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
The Final Insult to American Troops From a Departing Leftist Administration
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The shameful part? We not only stood aside and let him do it, there were many of us who stood around and applauded him.
Imagine throwing a party for your hangman? It's true, you know. Most (not all) people, when they reach a certain level of prosperity, their egos take over and if they can't have things just the way they want (no matter how irrational or impossible that way is), they'll tear it all down rather than let anyone else have a try.
For God's sake. I'm embarrassed to be a retired veteran of our military anymore. A year ago I was reading a book by James Romm about Alexander the Great. In the beginning, Romm says,
“Wealth had made the Persians soft. Like the Egyptians before them, they had taken to hiring foreigners to fight their battles for them preferring not to stray far from their banquet tables and harems.”
Prosperity inevitably leads to apathy and a wrong headed belief in invincibility. Our government officials are selling American down the river because to protect their wealth and power.
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