Urging the House of Representatives to restore the Department of Defense’s superior warfighting principles of recruiting, assigning, training, promoting, and retaining personnel solely based on merit and ensuring such personnel maintain and display a warrior ethos and crediting Florida legislature for passing the Florida Senate Memorial SM 1382.
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Latest Action · July 3, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
This resolution urges the House of Representatives to eliminate what it calls "woke social engineering" practices within the Department of Defense and return to merit-based recruitment, assignment, training, promotion, and retention of military personnel. The resolution criticizes specific policies including diversity and inclusion initiatives, unconscious bias training, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and gender-neutral language requirements at military academies, arguing these practices harm military effectiveness and recruitment. The measure claims the military's focus on these policies rather than merit has contributed to recruitment shortfalls, citing the Army's failure to meet its 2022 recruiting goals by 15,000 soldiers. The resolution does not authorize spending or establish a timeline, as it is a non-binding statement of House sentiment. The resolution also credits the Florida state legislature for passing a related memorial on this issue.
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