09/19/2023
https://congress.gov...
"I mean, would you disagree that wokeness is a top recruiting obstacle for the Army?"
"So this really recent survey says that clearly politics, DEI, 'wokeness,' is a problem."
"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."
"If we continue down the same path of valuing radical ideologies like DEI over national security, the recruits will continue to dwindle."