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The Navy will not be making any changes to its 2021 reading list after several Republican members of Congress voiced concerns with some books included in the program.

(Jo Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP, File) Never mind that the ChiCom foreign minister and the PLA-N have been saber-rattling over Taiwan lately and crowing over the commissioning of their second 12,000-ton Type 055 guided missile destroyer. Don’t worry about the Russians’ new super-sized submarine, Belgorod, armed with their latest version of nuclear-tipped torpedoes. No need to be concerned about military readiness and combat effectiveness of the US Navy. The shortage of combat systems team train...

(South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File) (This is an editorial from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that describes the peril in which the US Navy finds itself through implementation of cultural Marxist personnel policies. It is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. Their cause is righteous, and generous donations are welcome at the links at the end. No...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. The Task Force One Navy recently made diversity-related recommendations that include de-emphasizing standardized academic tests when evaluating Navy recruits and renaming ships and other assets with "problematic" names. The task forces final report included a pledge for its own members "to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy." Cmdr. Dave Hec...

Navy says ‘liking’ or sharing extremists’ posts on social media can get you in trouble February 22 Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell talks to sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyers Ross and Gridley during an all-hands call on the waterfront at Naval Station Rota in Spain. (Navy) Sailors engaging with an offensive post regarding white supremacism on social media could themselves be viewed as contributing to extremism in the service, according to Chief of Naval ...

One of the defining characteristics of the progressive Left is its unshakeable belief that it can bend reality to its increasingly deranged worldview. This means a world where one’s sex can be changed by believing it so and the nation can be powered by wind and solar instead of fossil fuels. Most of the time these ideas range from amusing to delusional, but eventually such delusions come at a steep price, like when millions suffer without electricity in the middle of a massive winter storm...

General George Washington wouldn’t join today’s Army By February 16, 2021 General George Washington needed every good man to fight the British and win the Revolutionary War. He drew the line at homosexuals, discharging them for bad conduct and telling them never to return. He would be absolutely horrified at “trans rights” for men in uniform wearing dresses. But that is today’s military, a laughing stock incapable of defending the nation and making us vulnerable to foreign attack. Let tha...

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© AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File Sailors stand during a commissioning ceremony for the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius, at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The stated mission of the formation of the task force was "to address the issues of racism, sexism and other destructive biases and their impact on naval readiness." In June 2020, the Navy created Task Force Navy One, which was "established to combat discrimination in the Navy." The recently released findings of th...

Both Brown and Lyons think these efforts need to start early. “We want to better understand how can we identify these individuals during the recruitment process so that we can screen them and prevent them from joining the military, and we want to better understand what is it about the military environment that is attractive,” Brown said. Secretary Austin wrote this is just the first initiative. He closed his memo writing:  "We owe it to the oath we each took and the trust the American peop...