The Florida Republican US Senator knocks the US military , US Navy specificly, for NOT being strong enough ‘lethal’?
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott criticized the U.S. military on March 17 as insufficiently “lethal,” claiming that top leaders are forcing service members to be too “woke.” As an example, he claimed that a Navy ship tracking a Chinese vessel had had to abandon that mission because of a mandatory training program about transgender people.
During an appearance on the Pensacola, Florida, radio station News Radio 92.3 “Pensacola Morning News” program, Scott was asked by host Andrew McKay about military readiness and said: “They’re more focused on woke stuff than they are on being lethal. I think our job of our military — and I served in the Navy, my dad served in the Army — our job is basically to scare the crap out of our enemies. They’re putting a lot of time into pronouns, stuff like that.”….
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But a Navy spokesperson did not answer a question about whether what Scott had said was true, but told the American Independent Foundation on Friday:
The U.S. Navy has ships deployed around the world conducting vital missions to include maintaining freedom of the seas. Our ships are capable of conducting these missions while also conducting maintenance on equipment, conducting training for the crew, and ensuring all Sailors are treated with dignity and respect. The Navy is strengthened by the diversity of our people and strives to better represent the nation we serve…..