By Capt Joseph R. John, June 26, 2016  

The Joint Chiefs of Staff should never permit anything to degrade the “Combat Effectiveness”, morale, and the unit cohesiveness of combat units in the US Armed Forces.  Recruiting and allowing transgender individuals to enter the US Armed Forces will further degrade the “Combat Effectiveness”, morale, and unit cohesiveness of the US Armed Forces.  

Obama’s Social Experiment on Diversity permitted the recruiting and entry of gay individuals into the US Armed Forces; that policy resulted in the rape of 11,000 straight male recruits by gays; something that has never happened before.  Obama’s destructive Social Experiment on Diversity has negatively affected unit morale, retention, recruiting, unit cohesiveness, and “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces.

The entry of transgender individual will result in hundreds of the expensive sex change surgeries (that will be the main reason they will join), it will result in serious unit conflicts, destabilizing events that will destroying unit cohesion, and their presence will further degrading of unit morale----it is another of Obama’s destructive policies that have been degrading the US Armed Forces for nearly 8 years.  The US Armed Forces is not a laboratory for Social Experiments, its primary function is to defend the Republic from enemies. 

Will the “do nothing” Republican leadership in Congress continue to do “absolutely nothing”, as Ryan and McConnell have done absolutely nothing to oppose this latest destructive policy that will degrade the effectiveness of the US Armed Forces.  Ryan and McConnell watched on the side lines, while Obama hollowed out of the US Armed Forces, degrading its strength to the level it stood at prior to WWII, while China, Russia, Iran, and Islamic State keeps growing and modernizing their military forces.  

This latest Obama destructive military policy is unconscionable, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff should hang their heads in shame for not resigning on mass!!     
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Ban on Transgender Troops to Be Lifted July 1

June 25, 2016/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tom Vanden Brook

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.