Trump fires morale boards on the service academies saying they’ve been overrun by ‘woke leftist ideologies’ | EUROtoday

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President Donald Trump revealed this week that he fired the boards of holiday makers at 4 service academies, arguing that that they had been “infiltrated by woke leftist ideologies.”

The commander-in-chief eliminated the board members from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the Military Academy in West Point, New York, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in addition to the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, the Military Times famous.

“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump claimed on Truth Social on February 10. “I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!”

The boards include appointees by presidents and lawmakers who meet regularly to share recommendation on scholar morale, curriculum, educational strategies and different wants corresponding to funding and gear.

Trump’s elimination of the board members comes 4 years after former President Joe Biden took related measures in 2021. The Biden administration requested for the resignation of 18 board members on the Army, Navy and Air Force establishments who have been appointed by Trump throughout his first time period.

Allies of Trump slammed Biden’s transfer on the time, claiming that he was politicizing non-partisan boards. The Biden administration mentioned that they had considerations concerning the appointees’ {qualifications} to serve. Those appointees included, amongst others, former White House press secretary and Navy officer Sean Spicer, former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, and senior counselor to Trump Kellyanne Conway.

Before Biden’s measure, members of the boards who weren’t lawmakers often served their full phrases of three years, based on the Military Times. That included members serving throughout presidential administrations, corresponding to a number of Obama appointees who stayed on throughout the first Trump administration.

The boards are made up of six members appointed by the president, three by the vp, and 4 by the speaker of the House, along with one designated by the Senate Armed Services Committee and one other designated by the House Armed Services Committee.

Former Republican Nebraska Senator and Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was a latest member of the Military Academy board. He was the primary enlisted fight veteran to move the Pentagon. Another latest member included retired Lt. Gen. Nadja West, a former Army surgeon common — the service’s first Black girl to be made a three-star in addition to the highest-ranking girl who graduated from West Point.

A latest member of the Naval Academy board was Jack McCain, a reserve naval aviator and the son of John McCain, the Navy veteran who was shot down throughout a flight in Vietnam and spent years in captivity earlier than turning into a senator and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. The first Black girl to command a combatant ship and the primary girl four-star within the Navy, retired Adm. Michelle Howard, has additionally served on the board of the Naval Academy.

The Coast Guard’s former vice commandant and former Transportation Security Administration chief, retired Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger, beforehand sat on the Coast Guard Academy’s board.

Meanwhile, former Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning, who grew to become the primary brazenly homosexual chief of a army department in 2015, not too long ago sat on the board of the Air Force Academy.