Former Navy SEAL Rep. Zinke rips the Pentagon for promoting ‘woke’ drag queen shows

Former Navy SEAL Commander Rep. Ryan Zinke told DailyMail.com that the military under President Joe Biden looks silly on the world stage for pushing an out-of-touch wake policy at the expense of military “readiness.”

Zinke told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend holiday that the Pentagon’s fixation on promoting equality and inclusion initiatives hurts the Navy’s overall preparedness and amounts to a “national security issue.”

The congressman slammed the Navy for promoting a now-discarded recruiting program that featured a drag queen.

Zinke said having a drag queen influencer trying to bridge the gap with the Army’s recruiting challenges is not the right way forward and there are “consequences” for conservation as a result.

He called the focus on inclusion a “national security issue” because “our primary mission is to fight.”

Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, who announced on TikTok in November that she would become the Navy’s first “digital ambassador.”
Kelley was tasked with illuminating her journey from performing on board starting in 2018 and becoming an “advocate” for those who were “oppressed in the service for years.”

Zinke — along with Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana — recently sent a letter to Pentagon leadership demanding answers to a “Drag Story Time” being conducted at a military base in the state.

“The active involvement of the United States military in and support for divisive political and ideologically driven issues weakens cohesion and morale and further impairs the recruitment and retention of men and women who serve our country in uniform,” the lawmakers wrote in their statement. letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.

The Montana congressman also berated the Secretary of the Navy for being so focused on fighting climate change that he regularly confuses “sea level rise with tides.”

He says the fixation on global warming is an example of how the military is dropping the ball on military readiness and lethality.

“They have eliminated the physical standards in the US Navy. They used to do a physical readiness test (PRT) twice a year. Now it is once a year,’ he mentioned as an example.

“And we clearly haven’t been keeping our eye on the ball in the Indo-Pacific,” Zinke said of China’s heightened aggression against the neighboring island of Taiwan.

He went on to say that in the wake of the Biden administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Zinke called a “colossal blunder” — led to the simple truth that “our allies don’t trust us.”

The main problem is ‘no one can tell me what the plan is’, for the US to reestablish itself on the world stage.

William Bee, a former Marine who has been deployed to Afghanistan four times, told DailyMail.com that the only changes being made to the military should be to “increase lethality.”

“Everything else is bullshit,” Bee said in response to the military’s rise.

Zinke also called the Pentagon’s former COVID-19 vaccine mandate policy “almost fascism.”

The Montana congressman criticized the Pentagon’s overall policy, saying that if active-duty troops during the pandemic dared to raise concerns about vaccine side effects or point to their own natural immunity to the virus, leadership would fire them.

Zinke told DailyMail.com that the Department of Defense essentially made sure that honorable military personnel “lined up like a little communist” and got vaccinated without hesitation.

What happens when you raise your hand? You were immediately banished,’ Zinke said.

It’s been nearly six months since Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which overturned the Pentagon’s mandate after it emerged that the military “failed to comply” with a federal law for massively refusing legitimate requests for religious information. accommodation for vaccines.

Now Congress is exploring ways to reinstate discharged troops who refused to be vaccinated because of religious freedom or personal health concerns.

‘If you are a nurse specialist, you lose your job. If you’re a Navy SEAL, not only did they try to get you out of service, they tried to bankrupt you to pay back the millions of dollars the government spent on training,” Zinke added.

DailyMail.com has learned that in some cases, service members who have been fired for refusing the vaccine on religious grounds have been forced by the military to pay back their initial signing bonus.

A service member said he owed $4,000 of an initial $7,000 signing bonus.

SEALs and other wartime special operations troops have also been told that in some cases they would have to be reimbursed by the federal government for the cost of their training — which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“They are extremely talented people, but they were kicked to the curb and banned [by the Pentagon]”, which in many cases created new hardships for someone serving the country,” the congressman continued.

Zinke said the terminated service members should be offered to be reinstated by the Pentagon — an issue Republicans in Congress are looking into.

Former Marine Bee told DailyMail.com that while it is “understandable” to make a “force-wide” decision on medical vaccines, individuals with religious concerns should have been taken more seriously by the Pentagon.

“If you stay in the military long enough, you lose track of how many vaccines you get. HOWEVER, when Marines and Sailors file for a religious exemption, that comes within the realm of the free exercise of religion, and that is something that is sacred,” Bee said.

The former Marine pointed to the case of Corporal Catherine Arnett, who was forced to spend 113 days in prison for refusing to be vaccinated.

He called it a “great example of how the higher echelons of leadership in the Marine Corps work.”

Zinke is currently leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate to push forward a new bill that would address the mental health crisis among American veterans by “streamlining” access to care.

The Protecting Veteran Community Care Act spearheaded by Zinke, R-Mont., and Air Force Veteran Donald Davis, DN.C., is designed to address the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA)’s persistent pitfalls — including extreme long waiting times and postponed appointments.

Including Zinke, the legislation has the support of all five former Navy SEAL legislators in Congress, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis. .