They could have very easily pushed the DEI hires out within a year. The military isn’t the same as other government agencies, you can be force retired at any point.
There's a contingent of clueless older Republican guys who think that a handful of executive orders and an occasional Supreme Court ruling going our way undoes decades and decades of losses.
These people see a headline on the TV and assume that it represents real change. They can't internalize that changes in "rules" aka, words on paper, don't have magic effects on the real world. You need to actually change people to change the reality on the ground.
Counterpoint, did anyone here think that all the DEI hires would just vanish in a puff of smoke after a year?
They could have very easily pushed the DEI hires out within a year. The military isn’t the same as other government agencies, you can be force retired at any point.
Legally, yes. Realistically, only the clone of Patton could have accomplished that in a year.
There's a contingent of clueless older Republican guys who think that a handful of executive orders and an occasional Supreme Court ruling going our way undoes decades and decades of losses.
These people see a headline on the TV and assume that it represents real change. They can't internalize that changes in "rules" aka, words on paper, don't have magic effects on the real world. You need to actually change people to change the reality on the ground.