Summary
The Trump administration fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, reportedly due to past statements supporting diversity.
Chatfield, a decorated Navy pilot and Afghanistan veteran, appeared on a conservative “woke” watchlist targeting senior military officials who promoted DEI.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, leading the anti-DEI campaign, made the call, though it’s unclear if Trump directly ordered it.
Chatfield is the third top female officer dismissed under Trump. Critics warned the firings undermine military leadership and damage U.S. alliances.
Hegseth doesn’t think women should be in the military. The DUI-hire is gradually working on it - I think we will at least see a return to a ban on serving in combat roles within a year or so.
Think we’ll see a draft enacted to shore up the missing positions?
Funnily enough - as a transgender man, I am signed up for the Selective Service (they make you do it for FAFSA - get flagged if you put down male anywhere.) I’ve heard that I was supposed to get some sort of letter disqualifying me, but I just got the regular card. Guess I could be marching next to y’all in WW3.
Nah, you’d be disqualified during intake. Silver lining I guess?
We haven’t had enough enlistment to fill our military needs in decades. We have as many hired contractors as enlisted. The contractors are majority non US citizens.
We’ve been avoiding a draft because it would cause major resistance to our unnecessary military activities that can currently be pushed to the back of most people’s minds.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2021-space-sof-civilians-and-contractors
Operational contractors continue to play a vital role in CENTCOM, holding a 2.8 to 1 ratio of contractors to military (up from 1.7 to 1 last year) as military forces exit Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan while contractors stay behind.
Wow that link threw me for a second. I was trying to figure out what CSIS was doing with a .org website.
Treated like shit for 4 years, paid a pittance, and left to rot after… I can only wonder why they’re struggling to fill rank.
I heard they recently filled their quota for 2 branches recently, due to military propaganda like top gun Maverick. When before, due to COVID they lost a ton of recruits
Maybe, I’ve seen a lot of recent increases in advertisements to join the military. If that crap starts up, that’ll be what gets me to leave the country. There isnt a thing in the world that could get me to fight for these dipshits kn their misguided wars.
If they institute a draft you’re not going to be allowed to leave the country.
It’ll be for vacation, obviously I’ll be booking a return trip.
The US military is not draft friendly. Far too much of our doctrine is built around “skilled” combat (e.g. maneuver warfare) and our superiority comes from technology which has a high cost per soldier (the NVGs that Scumbag Steve lost cost more than it would to rush him through boot camp…) and requires maintenance. And, if we move forward with the XM7, that means fewer bullets per soldier which means a greater need to actually aim (and be indoctrinated so that they will aim at the brown person rather than fire over their heads).
Obviously we can do a massive doctrine change. But “senior military” will gladly support efforts that remove competition so that they can get promoted into a woman’s place. They won’t support efforts that will make them look incompetent when (and it is “when”…) we actually use the military… or that will impact all those “totally friendly” gifts and vacations they get from the companies building this gear.
In the event of a land war against Canada? All bets are off and you can be damned sure there will be “patriotic” efforts for “new recruits” to buy their own AR-15s from Walmart before reporting to the trenches. But that will happen regardless of whether the pesky women and gays and brown people have been cleansed from the military first.
Everyone (rightfully) shat on how ill equipped the russian military was outside of their “elites”. And… there is a reason for that. You don’t give someone off the street optics that cost a down payment or two on their pickup truck. Partially because they will lose (or sell) it. Mostly because they won’t know how to use it. WW2/Vietnam era boot camp was basically “This is a gun. Point this end at the <ethnic slur>. Pull the trigger a few times to keep their heads down while someone competent does the rest”.
Small point of correction there - Walmart doesn’t sell AR-15s or any other similar semi-auto rifle, nor do they sell handguns. They pared back gun offerings in the last decade to only basic hunting stuff like shotguns, bolt-action rifles. They don’t even sell handgun ammo or “assault rifle” ammo now.
When there is a war, HitlerPig will definitely have a draft, if for no other reason that he will think its amusing to watch people get pissed off about it. At his core, he is a Troll.
Nothing is more evil than a draft, when the government literally enslaves young men to be forced to kill or be kill.
And it will be young men, these Neanderthals will want the young girls to stay behind so the Sociopathic Oligarchs have the pick of the tenderonis without the competiton of young men. Skum has all the money in the world, and he still can’t find a loving partner, even if he wants to buy one. The only way hes been able to have DNA Storage Units/ Human Shields, is by renting wombs. Maybe if we kill off all the young men under 30 years old, he can find a desperate young woman to be his concubine.
I will state this unequivocally: My son will NEVER take part in any MAGA war. At least, not on their side.
And if HitlerPig decides to skip the concept of a draft system, and resorts to the Russian style of draft, and have press gangs driving around in trucks, literally snatching men off the streets, and they get my son (or they ship him off to the new Guantanamo Concentration Camp), I will have nothing left to lose, and I will become a VERY dangerous man indeed.
Likely they want to use the draft to “break men in”.
Joke’s on them, not only do I have my DD-214, I’m even more old and broken now!
Smart to let all the experienced people go, now the resistance can no longer turn them.
It’s the rise of the Empire
Watching Bad Batch or Rogue One nowadays is like looking in a mirror
By replacing all the experienced, knowledgeable people with blind loyalists, they have given the Resistance the gift of competence. When the revolution comes, the resistance will have intelligent, competent, experienced people to lead them against the idiotic MAGA Nazis.
In addition, there are thousands of good people still working there, who are proud of their work with the government, and hate what has happened to their leadership, their colleagues, and their agencies. Those people will be ripe for recruitment as moles, leaks, sabotage, etc., while the MAGA Nazis will only have ignorant dolts to count on.
It won’t matter if they have the big weapons, if the people they are counting on to operate them turn them against the government, or destroy them in advance.
there are thousands of good people still working there
[Citation Needed]
Why would I out our undercover agents?
They’re making sure that when the miIitary is used against civilians, there are nothing but yes-men at the higher ranks.
Nobody likes a quiter.
She’s a woman therefore is woke. That about republikkkans?
Snowflake Trump literally implemented woke tariffs and was not fired.
Woke list = purge list
The modern McCarthy Era “communist” list
Except this version of McCarthy has been riding Russia’s nuts for decades
And as everyone know, purging your military is a great way to reduce their combat effectiveness.
That’s the point, and Putin wants this
Jesus fucking Christ. America during ww2 would have lost badly if this type of shit was going on back then. From day 1 all countries on the allied side mass employed women in roles previously held exclusively by men.
Look up the WASPs and the WAVES during ww2. Not to mention the sheer amount of women working in manufacturing and transport and other stuff. Rosey the riveter was real. Marlin Monroe, one of the sexiest women of all time was one such gal during the war.
And don’t get me started on munitions plants. Women were employed in manufacturing high explosives from day 1 (there are photographs from the 1890s showing women mixing nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth to make dynamite, and the manufacture of blasting caps, the stuff using the most sensitive explosives, was the sole domain of women for a long time). WW2 Orientation films from Canada show this.
That woman EARNED her position. She is not DEI. But Pete Hegseth IS DEI.
Marlin Monroe
There’s something fishy about that anecdote.
“Roe” has always been part of her name.
If I were in the 0.1% I’d be able to build my own small but highly skilled militia by giving a job to all of the so-called “DEI hires” Trump is getting rid of.
maybe stock market needs to be banned for identifying as a bear ?
When (if?) the rule of law is restored to the USA, tax payers are going to pay so so dearly after the tsunami of wrongful dismissal lawsuits…
they voted for this, and should pay.
Make the billionaires who interfered in the political process personally liable.
Is hiring based on skin color protected by the government?
trump’s gov? absolutelly
To the point they rather have the most mediocre people as long as they are white
Yes, MAGA is an affirmative action program for dimwitted white males.
So this person gets fired for being too “woke” in her statements supporting diversity, but Tulsi Gabbert can repost Russian propaganda and nothing happens. Got it.
No reason to apply logic to Trump’s cabinet. Anything to attain power will be justified, no matter how ridiculous the explanation.
Putin told trump, tulsi is off limits
Aka “The Krasnov Effect”
While criticizing discriminatory government hiring try to make sure not to lionize imperialist war criminals just because they aren’t white men.
I feel like female is in the wrong spot in the title because “senior navy officer” amounts to a single noun/title
Isn’t this old news?
Or am I thinking they fired some Coast Guard woman as well?
This is a new woman fired for being a woman. The big news one was the Coast Guard who had a woman leading the entire force.
Women ☕️
