Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken a number of disciplinary actions against previous Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley for allegedly poor do in a big step toward accountability at the Pentagon.
On Tuesday, Fox News reported that Hegseth yanked Milley’s private security information and certification. In response to his comments about “unsubmining the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, he has even instructed the Defense Department’s fresh investigator common to” do a review committee to determine whether there is ample evidence to deny Gen. Milley a star in pension.”
In a speech released to the media, Pentagon Chief of Staff Joe Kasper later confirmed Fox’s monitoring.
In 2021, it was reported that while serving under Trump, Milley told his counterpart in the Chinese military that the U. S. has no intention of attacking China, and that he would” call]Beijing ] ahead of time” if Trump were to launch such an offensive. The withdrew Army basic also reportedly called Trump a “fascist to the core”, and apparently referred , to the 47th leader as a “wannabe tyrant” in his 2023 retirement speech.
Milley has also defended the government’s accept of neo-Marxist ideologies such as so-called “diversity, capital, and addition” ( DEI), which military experts have long maintained damage military readiness and performance. When questioned about a West Point course lecture titled” Understanding Whiteness and White Rage” at a congressional hearing in 2021, Milley responded,” I want to know White fury. And I’m White. And I want to comprehend it.
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Milley’s abuse is a positive first step in rebuilding the Pentagon’s belief and moral character, but the former Army general is just one of many military officers who deserves accountability for the harm their left-wing antics have caused to the organization’s standing and readiness.
Charles Q. Brown
Gen. Charles Q. was appointed by Biden to take over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown has a record of promoting DEI in the Air Force.
While participating in a virtual discussion hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2020, Brown , indicated , that” ]a ] t the higher level of the Air Force, diversity ha]d ] moved to the forefront of personnel decisions such as promotions and hiring”. During the same event, the Air Force general also , admitted , to using his post to increase opportunities for so-called “diverse candidates” in the Air Force, saying he “hire]d ] for diversity” when building his staff.
Brown made the remarks after posting a picture in which he questioned whether non-black soldiers saw racism as a difficulty weeks after he posted a picture responding to the death of George Floyd. The general , said,  ,” I’m thinking about how these soldiers view bigotry, whether they don’t see it as a problem since it doesn’t occur to them or whether they’re empathetic”. At the end of the picture, Brown also expressed his desire to get” the wisdom and knowledge to direct, join in, and listen to important discussions on racism, variety, and inclusion”.
Brown has also backed Republican criticism of DEI in the military and approved a 2022 Air Force memo directing the Air Force Academy and Air Education and Training Command to “develop a diversity and inclusion outreach plan” to “achieving a force more representative of our Nation”
Benjamin Jonsson
Air Force Col. Benjamin Jonsson wrote an article in the Air Force Times praising his fellow white airmen for rejecting leftist assertions about so-called “racial injustice” in the military a few weeks after George Floyd’s passing.
If we do not personally address racial injustice in our Air Force, you and I, as white colonels, are the biggest barriers to change. White people react defensively to any discussion of racial injustice in a way that is predictable. White colonels are no exception”, Jonsson wrote. We don’t care whether our system has benefited us at the expense of others because we are largely blind to institutional racism.
He further admonished a fellow white colonel who allegedly expressed the meritocratic view that” when anyone joins the Air Force, they need to adopt the culture of the Air Force]and ] that]the branch ] should not make cultural accommodations”. And if that wasn’t cringey enough, he concluded his rant recommending airmen craft a “game plan” to tackle “invisible barriers” in the military by reading Robin DiAngelo ‘s , White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism — a , book , that promotes divisive ideologies like , critical race theory ( CRT ).
Jonsson repeatedly pushed DEI throughout his military career, as evidenced by the article.
Derek Trinque
No secret leftists pushed Covid hysteria to the limits. But Navy Adm. Derek Trinque’s response is on a whole different level of insane.
On Aug. 17, 2021, for example, Trinque “endorsed” an , Aug. 2, 2021, New York Times article , that encouraged insurance companies to “penaliz]e ]” individuals who chose not to get the Covid shot. The tweet came a day after Trinque , lamented , Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s Aug. 16, 2021,  , executive order , allowing parents to opt their child out of their local school mask mandate.
In his tweet, Trinque wrote:” Sigh. We won’t ever kick this thing. ( Children are the , least at-risk demographic , when it comes to Covid mortality ).
Trinque was a , big supporter , of Biden’s military Covid shot mandate and even recorded a video for the Navy encouraging sailors to get the experimental jab months before the mandate. In response to a January 2021 Daily Mail article describing Fauci as the” HIGHEST PAID employee in the federal government,” he wrote that Americans “are getting quite a bargain here” and that the article “appears to be a really weak attempt to make him feel bad.”
Trinque has also displayed an infatuation with tearing down Confederate monuments, DEI, feminist tropes, and furthering the left’s phony “book ban” narrative.
Jim Slife
Promoted by Biden to be vice chief of staff of the Air Force, Gen. James” Jim” Slife hasn’t been shy about using his capacity to push DEI.
Following the passing of George Floyd, Slife wrote a memo in which he criticized racialist jargon and claimed the issue was” an Air Force issue.”
We’d be foolish to accept that unconscious bias and institutional racism don’t affect us, Slife wrote. ” We can’t ignore it. Face it, we must face. And we must discuss it informally.
Slife continued, claiming that the military should “take other viewpoints and accept them as valid, but perhaps incomplete” He also all but declared he has what leftists often refer to as” white privilege”, writing that he is “limited in]his ] perspective” as a “middle-aged white man who grew up in a middle class family in a predominantly white area”.
” I’ve worked for almost every organization I’ve ever worked for,” I said. I don’t fully understand… but I’m trying …”, Slife wrote.
Slife also urged service members to listen to” a series on the podcast” Second on Radio” called” Seeing White,” which the then-lieutenant general claimed addresses so-called “institutional racism” in America. The” Scene on Radio’s”  , X, or Twitter, account , indicates the podcast is extremely left-wing.
In the years that followed, Slife would continue to participate in forums promoting DEI orthodoxy.
Stephen Whiting
Gen. Stephen Whiting, who was reportedly instrumental in removing a service member who had publicly expressed concern about the military’s embrace of Marxist ideology, was promoted by Biden to lead Space Force Command.
While promoting his book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest &, the Unmaking of the American Military, during a May 2021 podcast interview, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier spoke about how the DEI trainings troops were receiving “are rooted in critical race theory which is rooted in Marxism”. He further criticized the “anti-American” concepts pushed by The New York Times ‘ , thoroughly debunked , 1619 Project, which attempts to rewrite history by asserting that America’s founding is based upon slavery and racism rather than the premise that” all men are created equal”.
” It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base — that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified white supremacy as the law of the land”, Lohmeier , said. ” If you want to disagree with that, then you start ( being ) labeled all manner of things including racist.
A Space Force representative informed Military .com and other outlets that Whiting, a proponent of DEI, had “relieved the lieutenant colonel of command due to a alleged” loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead, not long after Lohmeier’s interview was broadcast. ” The representative confirmed the decision was” based on” Lohmeier’s podcast remarks.
Lohmeier has since been nominated by Trump to be the Air Force’s next undersecretary.
Shawn Fleetwood is a University of Mary Washington graduate and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
