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| Defense secretary orders military-wide stand down to combat extremism |
| 2021-02-05 |
| [UPI] Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he has ordered a military-wide stand down over the next 60 days to deal with extremism in the military's ranks after active and former military personnel participated in the mob that stormed the Capitol building last month. "Today, I met with senior leaders to discuss extremism in the military. As a first step, I'm ordering a stand down to occur over the next 60 days so each service, each command and each unit can have a deeper conversation about this issue," he said in a statement. "It comes down to leadership." Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters during a press conference Wednesday that details of the military pause, such as what training service members will undergo and what exactly the goals the military seeks to accomplish are, need to be hammered out. The purpose of the stand down, however, will be to reinforce the Pentagon's policies and values and to start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism, Kirby said. The meeting between Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and other military leaders was "an initial discussion" and the issue of extremism and White supremacy within the military, Kirby said. Austin told the military leaders that the vast majority of those who serve in uniform do so with honor and integrity but no matter how few espouse such beliefs that led to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol it is an issue that needs to be addressed. "No matter what it is, it is ... not an insignificant problem," Kirby said. Austin, who is the first Black American to lead the Department of Defense, is still considering how he wants to attack the issue of extremism from an institutional perspective, and he may establish a task force to do so. Related: Lloyd Austin: 2021-02-03 Iranian proxies rearming in Iraq Lloyd Austin: 2021-02-03 New Defense secretary reportedly boots Pres. Trump picks from Pentagon boards Lloyd Austin: 2021-01-31 Australian military to continue patrolling South China Sea as Beijing warns Taiwan independence ‘means war’ Related: White supremacy: 2020-06-21 NC governor orders Confederate monuments removed at Capitol after statues toppled White supremacy: 2019-12-06 Israel Equals Jewish ‘Supremacy’: Linda Sarsour Again Stoops To Antisemitism White supremacy: 2019-09-29 Tom Brady's Popularity Stems From The 'Latest Wave Of White Rage And White Supremacy' Professor Claims |
| Posted by:Jise Elmeang4932 |
| #22 Worked with the FBI who now are so politicly partisan they forgot how to train the agents how to win in a fire fight resulting one bad guy dropping a half dozen FBI agents in a gun battle. |
| Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-02-05 21:12 |
| #21 <3 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-05 20:49 |
| #20 #18 - I'm in. Covertly, underground. |
| Posted by: Chonter Hupulet1173 2021-02-05 20:20 |
| #19 How does this stand down tie with the observed surge toward the South China Sea? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2021-02-05 16:57 |
| #18 At this point I suggest we start a Karl Redhand countermarch through the institutions, in accordance with Fred’s book on the subject. There’s a link in the right margin. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-05 15:52 |
| #17 A Wakandan leading an American Department of Defense. A chinese toy with no warranty sitting in the White House. A marxist Indian wh☻re lawyer as VP. Citizens being targeted by the administration for being Americans. Soldiers being persecuted for their political beliefs. WTF? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-02-05 14:56 |
| #16 One might be led to suspect the reason Biden wants so many more immigrants, both legal and otherwise, is so they can serve in the military after he's purged all the good American boys. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-02-05 13:07 |
| #15 Officially screening candidates for training programs. They are working on the Revolutionary Guards. *It occurs to me how strange the Ethiopia Adventure was the other day. Wrongthink Soldiers could be sent there too to secure the mining investments. Stupid, Wrong, Wrong, and Stupid. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-05 11:38 |
| #14 Personnel shuffle. Gulenists sent to Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-05 11:22 |
| #13 Wonder if they're going to root out the street gang members who joined for weapons training. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-02-05 10:55 |
| #12 Or is this actually more sinister - the first step toward a purge of white southerners? To be replaced by ... or maybe, not replaced? Purge already happened long ago. How many white southerners actually make it to 4-star rank. Very few and this is intentional. Do a quick inventory of those that reach this exalted rank...most, if not all, are from northern states and California. I was clued in on this by a HASC PSM that this was done as a civil war era hold over selection process. Most, not all, rank and file are from the south and fly over country and their senior leaders are from the north. I guess the purge will be expanded. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2021-02-05 08:22 |
| #11 Still think the stand down will be (coincidently) about the time Xi-xi makes his move on Taiwan. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-02-05 08:07 |
| #10 Looking for the Gulenists? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-02-05 07:47 |
| #9 How does the good General feel about a real Cultural Revolution? The officer corpseâ„¢ is looking mighty decadent. |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Untervehr6044 2021-02-05 06:52 |
| #8 Must root out white extremism! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-02-05 06:40 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Lemuel Stalin7779 2021-02-05 03:47 |
#6  The SA 'National' Defense Force (SANDF) had help. The photo depicts a US Army Mobile Training Team (MTT). I recall a brief conversation with a US Army major in the galley of a 747 en route to Johannesburg nearly 15 years ago. He was reluctant to discuss what was later published in the open press. We just smiled politely and sipped our drinks. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-05 01:33 |
| #5 Disgusting |
| Posted by: newc 2021-02-05 01:07 |
| #4 It won't just stop with the re-naming of Forts, Posts, and Installations. Restructure is coming. Renaming process has resulted in an Army structure that truly represents SA |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-05 01:03 |
| #3 "start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism..." "each command and each unit can have a deeper conversation about this issue" Can someone translate this? Does he mean a circle jerk group-therapy session in which every sentence begins, "Well, I just feel like..." Why is an American military leader mimicking the jargon of half-witted women on The View? Or is this actually more sinister - the first step toward a purge of white southerners? To be replaced by ... or maybe, not replaced? Is he a CCP agent? |
| Posted by: Tholump Bourbon7774 2021-02-05 00:53 |
| #2 Austintold the military leaders that the vast majority of those who serve in uniform do so with honor and integrity So everyone in uniform must be threatened and punished ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-05 00:43 |
| #1 Stalin style purges incoming. |
| Posted by: Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-05 00:34 |
