"The All-Volunteer Force is at a crossroads."
"This poll, which we can all read, found that 73 percent of veterans believe that the U.S. military has become too political regarding race, gender, and sexuality."
"So this really recent survey says that clearly politics, DEI, 'wokeness,' is a problem."
"But you just said----"
"I mean, would you disagree that wokeness is a top recruiting obstacle for the Army?"
"Discrimination, we look back at old records, 2017, 31 percent of Black service members, 25 percent of Asian service members, said that they had been harassed or assaulted during their service time."
"I think that it is unavoidable when I am talking to many service members who are currently in the military and those who are leaving that have expressed concerns over the military's use of DEI initiat..."
"If we continue down the same path of valuing radical ideologies like DEI over national security, the recruits will continue to dwindle."
"Why did you invite Roger Waters?"
"Everyone gets this."
"You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth. You are defending it."
"Mr. Mix, recently it seems like most unions are going woke."