Senator Ted Cruz, Congressmen Dan Crenshaw, Matt Gaetz and others took to Twitter to condemn the decision. The Defense Department is also taking a look at the racial inequality in part because of the disproportionately low number of Black officers, given the large numbers of Black members in the total force.Ĭonservative lawmakers are criticizing the Space Force for relieving Lohmeier. A t least 45 current or former military members have been arrested in connection with the riot. The Pentagon has prioritized combating extremism in the ranks after the January 6 assault on the Capitol. He said new service members are met with a "hyper-politicized work environment" where diversity and inclusion initiatives are "being pushed constantly" with book readings and discussions. Lohmeier said he doesn't care about the political views of his fellow service members, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, but he does not want to see institutions politicized. He said about Austin, who is the nation's first Black defense secretary, "I don't demonize the man but I want to make it clear to both him and every service member that if we pursue this agenda, it will divide us. Lohmeier told Wood he was given a "70-page booklet" with "talking points" on extremism. "The United States Armed Forces should be focused on preparing to face and win any battles against the threats posed by China and other foreign adversaries and not imposing political beliefs on those who chose to serve in uniform.Lohmeier said the stand down to address extremism in the ranks that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed all of the services to conduct in the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol.
"My Republican colleagues and I hear regularly from active duty and retired service members that even holding conservative values is now enough to endanger a service member’s military career," Rogers said.
Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), who announced Tuesday he would address bias against conservatives in the military in this year's Pentagon funding request. Lamborn's demand to reinstate Lohmeier follows on the heels of a statement from House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Experts say Lohmeier's outspoken views on critical race theory may have been seen as undermining current military policy, which is likely what cost him his job. Lohmeier also warned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that further pursuit of a "toxic and poisonous" critical race theory agenda would divide the armed forces. "When senior leaders begin to politicize the institution itself, that’s not what the American people expect, and it’s not our obligation." "We face our greatest threat here at home at the moment," Lohmeier said.
In his podcast appearance, Lohmeier said the controversial diversity and inclusion initiatives amount to a severe threat to the U.S. military diversity training, saying their use undermines the effectiveness of the armed forces and runs contrary to the ideals of the American founding. The book chronicles the use of controversial "neo-Marxist" concepts in U.S. Lohmeier’s book shot to the top of Amazon’s military policy bestseller list and sold out. Lohmeier’s remarks on a May podcast about his self-published book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, have prompted an investigation to evaluate if such actions violate military policy, a Space Force spokesperson first told. Matthew Lohmeier, a former Air Force pilot and commander of a Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missiles, citing a loss of confidence in his leadership due to public remarks about critical race theory within the military. "Space Force Guardians conduct can't-fail missions 24 hours a day, seven days a week: We cannot allow temporary political appointees at the Department of Defense who are ideologically motivated to purge those men and women in uniform who do not agree with the cultural or political fads of the moment." "Whether you agree with him or not, no rational American can review his level-headed critique of the critical race theory-based 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' training the military is currently conducting and conclude that his comments on that subject deserve relief of command," Lamborn said of the officer. Lamborn, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and cofounder of the Space Force Caucus, warned that the decision to bounce the officer from command raises an "inescapable fact" senior Pentagon officials can no longer ignore: Critical race theory undermines the military's ability to win wars.
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