For many, it is a wrenching decision to end a career they love, and leave units they have led or worked with for years. And they are angry they are being forced out by the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender troops.
Active duty service members had until Friday to identify themselves and begin to leave the military voluntarily, while the National Guard and Reserve have until July 7. Then the military will begin involuntary separations.
Friday’s deadline comes during Pride Month and as the Trump administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, saying it’s aiming to scrub the military of “wokeness” and reestablishing a “warrior ethos.”
“They’re tired of the rollercoaster. They just want to go,” said one transgender service member, who plans to retire. ”It’s exhausting.”
It doesn’t really seem like they have a choice, does it?
Same choice minorities have always enjoyed.
Lay low and do your grisly work at the spear point of imperialism hoping you won’t be pushed out in front of it.
Or drop off the last US ladder out of poverty and consign yourself to a service sector that’ll leech you dry before you turn 50.
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We can use the meat for those sterile man-eater fly breeding programs that stop them from coming up from South America.