Even before his stay as the main civilian population of the Pentagon, Minister of Defense, Pete Hegset on the service of women -soldiers caused concern among many of them about their future. His Speech before the best commanders of America On Tuesday, he fed them, because he emphasized that all American forces should be led to “the highest male standards.”
“I do not want my son to serve along with troops who are not in uniform or military units with women who cannot meet the same physical standards of military weapons as people,” he said. Women officially work for military military workplaces for almost ten years.
After SpeechThe general, who was in the audience and asked for anonymity to speak openly, said that she was struck by the professional stoicism of her approximately 800 offices. Many traveled all night after the Minister of Defense called personally and in the uniform of clothing.
Why did we write this
High -ranking women say that they monitor what they had, how they spent on their career construction. Despite the speech of the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegset on Tuesday, they are determined to continue to serve their country.
But when she and her employees were waiting at the airport for their flight back to their home base, she said that she was worried that Mr. Highset “creates a policy that would help to pull out women and other minorities from the army.”
This is the concern that many high -ranking military men and women share when they observe the profits that they spent on their career construction, and when they mourn the losses in the ranks of young women, whom they hoped to instruct.
“They are so smart. They are so innovative. They are so bold, ”says the general. And many are defined, she adds to continue to go.
“If I leave, and other women will leave,” says the general, “then what is left?”
“They performed perfectly”
Before becoming the Minister of Defense, Mr. Hegset did not hide his skepticism regarding the military service of women. “I say directly that we should not have women in combat roles,” he said last year on a podcast. “From -from the human history, men in these positions are more capable of.”
On Tuesday, he condemned the leaders who were increased, “based on their race, based on gender quotas based on the historical so -called first” who made the American military “less capable and less fatal”.
Soon after he was confirmed by the secretary due to voting 51-50, Mr. Hegset fired the admile of Lisa Frankhetti, the first woman-officer who rose to the highest work of the Navy as the head of the naval operations, as well as General Charles K. Brown Jr., who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the first black-eyed officer, head of a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Less than 24 hours after his inauguration, President Donald Trump stopped Admram Lindu Fagan, who, as the commandant of the coast guard, became the first woman to head the branch of the Armed Forces. “Now, those of us who stayed, we have no examples to follow that you can find,” says the general.
By April, official records of some first women and black troops that served in the army were deleted – in some cases temporarily – from Pentagon sites.
Mr. Hegset “did everything possible to erase the stories of minorities, including women – to erase their achievements, to dismiss them, to just get rid of them,” says retired Colonel Ellen Haring, who was in one of the first classes of women to graduate from the US military academy and is now a senior researcher of women in international security.
The secretary chose 1990 as a control year for physical standards. Has the standards have changed “Due to softening, weakening or gender desire for other priorities?” He thought out loud on Tuesday. “1990 seems to be the same good place for starters as in any case.”
Critics say that the choice of the year was not a mistake. In 1991, Congress first began to cancel laws forbidding women to serve in combat aircraft. By 2013, lawmakers canceled laws prohibiting women from battle, and in 2016, after three years of study, all work was officially open to women.
At the same time, about 300,000 women's troops were deployed in America of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and in other places since 2001. At the same time, about 1200 were wounded or killed in battle.
Retired General Peter Chiarelli was involved in the command of combat operations in the United States in Iraq in 2006 and served as vice chief of the army headquarters from 2008 to 2012.
He was also tested in the name of the Minister of Defense as an officer, to whom the Trump administration no longer wants to serve. “In connection with Chiarellis, Mackenzie and Millie,” said Mr. Hegset, referring to the four-star generals of Kennet Frank Mackenzie, who headed the United States the central command, and Mark Milli, the former chairman of the united chief of staff, both of whom served in the first period of Mr. Trump.
General Kiarelli, who retired from the army in 2012, recalls that at the beginning of his time in Iraq was still pressure from Congress to limit the role of women in battle.
“It has created a huge problem for me,” he said on Wednesday. The United States fought with Iraqi rebellion and needed doctors, many of whom were women to be appointed to more dangerous positions.
“I urged our commanders to go further and do it to put women in these positions,” he says. “They performed perfectly.”
Religious shades?
Some military officials had concern about the religious shades that they see, accompanying the reservations of g -on the hegset.
In August, he was drunk in his account X segment CNN, in which Pastor Dug Wilson participated, who is often called a Christian nationalist.
In the CNN report, Mr. Wilson said that he does not believe that women should occupy leading positions in the army.
After the publication of Mr. Hegset X, a representative of the Pentagon, the Minister of Defense “is a proud member of the Church, associated with” the compatriot of the reformist gospel churches, which Mr. Wilson became a co-founder and “greatly appreciated many of the works of Mr. Wilson.”
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Ever since the Minister of Defense became the Minister of Defense, the Military Freedom Freedom Fund of Religious Freedom has received calls to Tsunami, says Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force officer and lawyer and lawyer and lawyer GroupFounder.
According to him, complaints about sexism in the army are also about three times higher than last year.
The former chaplain of the army, who spoke against the background, said that “there was progress” when the Pentagon took over the wife and military sexual encroachments over the years that have passed since the women served at the front. But in the administration of Trump, a man seems to be freer to say and do what they like, the former chaplane added.
Currently, he serves that it is known as a church indoor, federal checks between churches and the Ministry of Defense. Many of the chaplains he carries is women who feel “frightened and they discriminate,” he says. “Women prematurely leave their career or choose not to pursue it at all.”
Cecilia Bradford, Capellan in the army reserve, says that she was “face to face” with colleagues -Kapellans, “who did not believe that women should be in service.”
But it is also due to the conviction that she can change the situation. Now, according to her, she wants to “make sure that we will continue.” The field was dominated by a man “for so long”, she adds, “that if we do not leave our mark, this may well return to this.”
This is the anxiety separated by the general, who was in the audience for Mr. Hegset's speech. “We worked very, very hard” to attract and hold women in the army, she says. Trump's administration “is actively working against what I worked for and it is amazing at my mind.”
Mr. Hegset, during his speech, advertised the work that his department completed in recent months, “to remove social justice … garbage that infected” the military. “There are no more months of personality, Dei offices, guys in dresses. There is no longer worship of climate change. There is no more separation, distraction or gender delusions, ”he said.
At the same time, it seemed that he tried to offer some certificate, emphasizing that both racism and sexual harassment “are wrong and illegal.” Infraction, he added, “will be ruthlessly used.”
He also said that the female troops of America are “the best in the world”, and that defense officials are “very valuable [their] influence.”
As for combat work: “If women can do this, excellent. If not, then this is what is. If this means that none of the women claims to be any combat work, let it be so, ”he added this week. “This is not an intention, but it may be a result.”
According to Dr. Kharring, there are women who are qualified among many who have already surpassed the standards of neutral gender. serve rangersThe elite department of army special operating forces.
“What [Mr. Hegseth] He does not recognize and does not recognize, ”she adds,“ if you finally allowed women to compete, many, many women successfully did everything that he thinks, women cannot do. ”
Personnel writer Anna Malrin Gros reported from Brussels.
