Space Force commander vows to end DEI training in the military after being fired for criticizing the Biden-Harris agenda

A former space commander is on a mission to eradicate DEI training so that American soldiers can “simply focus on warfare in a relatively apolitical workplace.”

Lt. Col. Matt Lohmeier led the Space Force’s 11th Space Warning Squadron in 2020 before being fired a year later for criticizing the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda, which also resulted in a pension loss.

But last month, Lohmeier was surprisingly rehired by Donald Trump.

The position came during a rally in North Carolina, where Lohmeier thanked the now-elected president for saying that he would “fire those few woke generals who are a big problem.”

He then asked Trump if he would “create a special agency or task force to ensure that these monsters never return to the Department of Defense.”

Trump immediately responded, “They’re gone! I’m going to put you on that task force.”

Lohmeier told DailyMail.com that the meeting was “unscripted and unplanned.”

“I didn’t know what that meant at the time,” he said.

“I didn’t know if I would just join a larger team of people working on it, or if I would be put in charge of a task force, and I guess that all remains to be seen, and there’s nothing to say. not yet public about it.’

He is now thinking of ways I could get involved in trying to restore accountability in the military and eliminate the DEI diversity equity and inclusion training that I was critical of. ‘

Lohmeier believes the Trump-Vance administration will boost the Space Force and encourage cooperation with private companies in space exploration and returns to the moon.

In the aftermath of his meeting with Trump, he revealed that many uniformed troops have since contacted him, including former Space Force colleagues.

“They are very excited about the change in administration and the potential for the new secretary of defense,” Loheimer said.

“They have expressed enthusiasm for, hopefully, a return to a simple focus on warfare and not on politics, racial discussions and political activist agendas.”

Lohmeier served as a lieutenant colonel in the Space Force during the summer of 2020, and the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the dawn of Black Lives Matter.

He described the events as “a period of unrest in which activists, political agitators and race fraudsters used the death of a man as an event they could use for their revolutionary political purposes.”

Lohmeier emphasized that the impact on military culture was visible and “immediate.”

“You had leaders in uniform, but also young followers in uniform, who used that politically charged moment for purposes of their own political worldview, to spread their own political worldview,” he said.

“For example, at my base you had a base commander, a colonel who is black, saying things to his troops like, ‘No one on my base is going to stand in the way of the Black Lives Matter movement.’ Well, that was of course immediately terribly polarizing.

“I saw the demonization of the incumbent commander-in-chief by that same base commander.

“It is illegal in the military to publicly criticize, especially in your official capacity, your incumbent commander-in-chief or your chain of command.

“I realized that many of the roots of our current social justice activism were found in Marxist thought and ideology.”

Lohmeier wrote a formal complaint and was fired from Space Force during the transition to the Biden administration.

His book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, was published in May 2021.

Appearing on a podcast to promote the book, Lohmeier said, “The diversity, inclusion and equality industry and the training we receive in the military… are rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism.

“Since I took over as commander about ten months ago, I have seen what I consider to be fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives about what America was, is and should be.

“That wasn’t just prolific on social media, or across the country this past year, but spread throughout the U.S. military. And I had realized that those stories were Marxist in nature.’

Lohmeier told DailyMail.com: ‘The following week I was fired for two false reasons. The first reason was that I was alleged to be politically partisan while acting in an official capacity. That wasn’t true.’

“Since I took over as commander about ten months ago, I have seen what I consider to be fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives about what America was, is and should be.

“That wasn’t just prolific on social media, or across the country this past year, but spread throughout the U.S. military. And I had realized that those stories were Marxist in nature.’

“Since I took over as commander about ten months ago, I have seen what I consider to be fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives about what America was, is and should be.

“That wasn’t just prolific on social media, or across the country this past year, but spread throughout the U.S. military. And I had realized that those stories were Marxist in nature.’

He explained the second reason, which was that he had publicly criticized his chain of command, telling DailyMail.com: “That wasn’t true either.”

“I have not been found guilty of either of those things, and I retired from the military without my pension in the fall of 2021 after just over 15 years of service,” Lohmeier said.

The Space Force noted that Lohmeier was removed “due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead” following comments he made in a podcast while promoting his book.

Lohmeier said he was not surprised by the “cowardly” response from senior defense officials.

“They were afraid of the political climate that we had created for ourselves in the country, and they were afraid of being on the side of a heterosexual white man who was critical of some of the race-based political activism that was taking place ,’ he said.

“I’m talking about the three- and four-star generals.”

Lohmeier had a long and distinguished military career before becoming embroiled in controversy over DEI influence within the armed forces.

He graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 2006 and was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. He completed two master’s degrees, one in military strategy.

Lohmeier flew F-15C fighter jets and worked as a T-38 jet instructor pilot. After seven years, Lohmeier transferred to the US Air Force Space Command.

When the Trump administration launched the Space Force in 2019, Lohmeier knew he was a “natural fit.”

“I was one of the first officers, and my unit was one of the first units to transition to the new Space Force,” he said.

“And so starting in 2020 and 2021, I was the Space Force commander of a space-based missile warning squadron.”

Space-based missile warning systems are satellites that use infrared technology to track missile launches from a ‘geosynchronous’ orbit (meaning their orbit matches that of Earth).

The Space Force now operates Cold War-era ground-based radar dishes used to detect missiles and the Space-Based Missile Warning System.

“You have a prediction of where missiles will land, and you call commanders and our allies at a distance, and we let them know, ‘Shut up and take cover. There’s a rocket coming,” Lohmeier explained.

“First this system was created during the Cold War specifically for the detection and warning of intercontinental ballistic missiles, which pose the greatest threat, but then that capability was used for much smaller heat signatures, much smaller weapons, such as the missiles and smaller rockets they are often lobbied against the state of Israel in the Middle East.’

Other Space Force responsibilities included maintaining GPS systems, which, while used by civilians, are a military system maintained by Air Force operators in Colorado who transferred to the Space Force.

“In addition to missile warning and GPS, the Space Force also does strategic communications,” Lohmeier said.

“If there is any form of communication that could otherwise be disrupted in the land, sea or air domain, then space is one of those ways in which strategic communications can be delivered to warfighters or key political leaders such as a commander in chief.”

The idea behind the Space Force is to establish space as a “domain” like land, sea and air, with experts who can make decisions, Lohmeier explains.

“You don’t want people who are used to thinking about things from an Earth perspective working in space travel,” he said.

‘The aim is to prevent conflicts in and from space. And if a conflict does arise, then, just like in any other field, you have experts in that field who know how to help manage a conflict.’