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8,000 bodies short of the recruitment goal this year. so they are tweaking the recruitment strategy. meet the new face of the navy. all you fabulous faces i m your girl harvey daniels. i m successful and dangerous. smart and educated. i m being dramatic, determined. spicy and delicious jesse: that s joshua kelly whose stage name is harpy daniels. harpy is a sailor who says he is not a man or a woman. and the navy picked this guy to help recruit cadets. harpy advertises how great the navy is by dressing in drag, putting on makeup, doing his hair and nails and singing and dancing. if you join the navy, you can just be like harpy. the navy wants cross dressing sailors manning their ships. if you don t identify as a man or a woman but are in to the drag queen scene, join the navy. that s the message here. ....
It s not about your country. it s not about team work. it s not about the mission. it s about you and your identity. you re the star of the show. the navy is here. and you re here. attracting all of the attention. because that s what this is about. now, i don t care what you do in your free time, harpy can put on women s clothes, who cares? but when it comes to the navy, it s not about me, me, me. it s about the sea and making the sea safe. you can t show up to basic training in stilettos and blond wig. you need to be in uniform. everybody wears the same uniform for a reason. it s called unit cohesion. about serving something greater than yourself. but harpy doesn t just recruit. harpy intans. here is harpy performing a drag show for sailors aboard the uss ronald reagan. yeah. harpy is giving it all he has ....
Fatigues, buzz the hair. imagine how i would look. everybody looks exactly the same. why? well, because it s not about the individual. it s about the mission. to keep this principle alive, recruiters have sold the young men and women of being part of something that s actually bigger than themselves. the call to serve is at once invisible and always present and for those who choose to answer the call, for their country, for their fellow man, for themselves, it is the most powerful force on earth. america s navy. a global force for good. jesse: guess how old that commercial is? a little over 10 years old. and we have changed a lot since then. recruitment took a nose die, kids are being told it s not a country worth fighting for. you combine that with obesity, drug use, and criminal records, getting kind of hard to find people eligible to serve. navy is going to fall, ready? ....
Family as we often refer to it. they don t want their kids in this stuff. they don t want to stay after hours and participate. it s not helping our recruiting efforts. what s surprise something not that it s taking place. we have known for the last couple years during the biden administration this has been taking place more and more. what s surprising is that senior military leaders continue to push an agenda like this despite the fact that it s hurting our recruiting efforts and it s hurting our retention and frankly it can t help our lethality and readiness. jesse: someone had to have approved this in the navy. and say i m going to put a drag queen out to dance and wiggle and that s going to attract recruits to join the navy. someone had to think this was a good idea. in what world is that a good idea? well, this is a really unwise strategy. frankly, shouldn t call it a strategy. it s unwise decision-making by our senior military leaders, ....
Military bases? i just showed you the evidence. why are they happening? i will say, again, this is not something that we support or fund. jesse: hmmm well either lloyd austin is lying or he doesn t know what s going on. and what s wrong with the navy? they looked at what happened with bud light and said hold my beer? harpy is the navy s dylan. dylan killed bud light sales. what do you think harpy is going to do to recruitment and where does that leave us? let s bring in former space force lieutenant colonel and commander matthew lohmeier. he was forced to resign from the military for criticizing woke. what is going on with the navy here? we have a statement from the navy. they acknowledge this is a digital ambassador program, a pilot initiative to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential ....