Holdover Transgender Mandate Impedes Efforts to...
Military Times recently reported that LGBT activists are pushing hard to get the Trump Administration to fully embrace President Barack Obama’s orders to accommodate transgenders in the military.
At the same time, a new Conservative Action Project (CAP) "Memo for the Movement,"...
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01 Jun 17
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Gays in the Military/LGBT Law,
Military Culture/Diversity,
White House/Pentagon
Congress Shares Blame for Photo-Sharing Scandal
On March 15, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York hauled in Marine Commandant General Robert Neller , lambasting him for the red-hot Marines United Internet photo-sharing scandal. She was not alone in expressing outrage that 30,000 members of the limited access...
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23 Mar 17
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Congress/Legislation,
Gays in the Military/LGBT Law,
Military Culture/Diversity,
Sexual Misconduct
What Do Women Want? The Pentagon Doesn’t Care
What Do Female Olympians Know that the Pentagon Doesn’t?
For years, feminists have insisted that military women couldn’t wait to be treated like men in “tip of the spear” direct ground combat units. Now that their social experiment is underway, Pentagon...
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22 Aug 16
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Military Culture/Diversity,
Training Standards & Health,
Women in the Military
2016 Republican National Platform Rejects Social...
Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, his administration has delivered on campaign promises to impose radical social agendas on our military. The Center for Military Readiness is pleased to report that the 2016 Republican National Convention...
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27 Jul 16
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Congress/Legislation,
Military Culture/Diversity
Secretary of Defense Stumbles into Transgender Legal Morass
On June 30, just before the end of "LGBT Equality Month ,” Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that transgender individuals may serve openly in the military. The news conference transcript reveals that Secretary Carter was oblivious to...
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06 Jul 16
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Gays in the Military/LGBT Law,
Military Culture/Diversity,
Training Standards & Health,
Training, Physiology, & Athletics
Congress Should Challenge Myths About Women, Combat, and...
Myths about gender equality in the military are starting to crumble under the pressure of actual experience. Witness the recent Associated Press report that 6 of 7 female Marine recruits failed to qualify in training for direct ground combat assignments.
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26 Jun 16
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Congress/Legislation,
Military Culture/Diversity,
Women in the Military
Obama Administration Ignores Sound Military Advice on...
Yesterday, President Barack Obama and Secretary Carter overruled the best professional advice of the U.S. Marine Corps in matters involving life, death, and national security. Secretary Carter also broke his own promise to base his decision on the quality of...
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04 Dec 15
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Military Culture/Diversity,
Training Standards & Health,
Women in the Military
CMR Releases New Interim Special Report – Part II
The Center for Military Readiness has released a new two-section, 38-page Interim CMR Special Report that analyzes recently-released results of U.S. Marine Corps research done on the subject of Women in Direct Ground Combat .
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01 Dec 15
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Military Culture/Diversity,
White House/Pentagon,
Women in the Military
Memo to Secretary Mabus: Marines Lives Matter
The following op-ed by CMR President Elaine Donnelly was published in the Washington Times Commentary section under the title Marines Lives Matter (Sept. 15, 2015)
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23 Sep 15
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Military Culture/Diversity,
Training Standards & Health,
Women in the Military
Pentagon’s New Gender Order Takes “Diversity” to Extremes
In the classic TV series “M*A*S*H*,” Corp. Maxwell Klinger , played by Jamie Farr , dressed in women’s clothes in hopes that he might be sent home from the Korean War . Decades later, Pentagon officials have embraced policies that might encourage...
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22 Jun 15
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Gays in the Military/LGBT Law,
Military Culture/Diversity,
Women in the Military