Col. Jonathan Chung, the embattled commander of the Army’s 5th Security Forces Assistance Brigade, was fired last week after a service investigation into toxic leadership claims.
A U.S. Army chaplain based in Texas is facing an investigation after he made a social media post suggesting that transgender individuals are “mentally unfit” to serve in the military.
PENTAGON: TALIBAN HAS ‘NOT MET THEIR COMMITMENTS’: The Pentagon in its first briefing under the Biden administration warned the Taliban it is jeopardizing its agreement with the United States for a full U.S. military withdrawal by May.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby stressed Thursday that no decisions have been made about troop levels and that the Biden administration is still committed to last year’s U.S.-Taliban deal.
But, he bluntly said the Taliban has not yet lived up to its commitments under the deal, adding it would be difficult for the United States to move forward with the agreement if that does not change.
Texas Army chaplain under investigation over Facebook post calling transgender soldiers ‘mentally unfit’ Muri Assunção
Army officials are investigating a Texas Army chaplain who wrote on Facebook that transgender soldiers were “mentally unfit” to serve.
Maj. Andrew Calvert, a chaplain with the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Hood, wrote disparaging comments about transgender troops on the Army Times’s Facebook page on Monday.
“How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve? There is little difference in this than over those who believe and argue for a ‘flat earth,’ despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary,” Calvert, 41, wrote.