Why the US military cannot recruit and why political preferences fora “diversity, equity and inclusion” have no place in a “military unit” where a UNIFORM is a pre-requisite

From this 5 minute video here:

Clay Higgins: An Effective Military 'Requires Discrimination' (youtube.com)

32,317 views  Jan 12, 2024 - At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) spoke about DEI in the military.

Mr chairman I thank our panellist for being here today.

I joined the army in 1988 began boot camp in 1989 as private one station unit training wanted to be an MP - that ended up working out for me but one of the initial lessons that you learn very quickly when you step off of that bus and you have to face these guys carved from Granite wrapped in leather tapping that brown round against =your forehead is

you are no longer you -  you now belong to the United States Army

To discuss diversity  as if it was ever some sort of an effective mechanism by which a deadly force could be established to fight and win wars across the world to liberate the oppressed for generations is insane

That we don't care about anything other than the deadly effectiveness of our army it requires discrimination because developing deadly skills in a force of men requires us to recognize distinction to discriminate between those who can become lethal weapons and those who cannot

Nobody cares about your color of your skin, your cultural background, your ethnicity, who your mama or your daddy was.

Your ass now belongs to the Army and we're going to make a soldier out of you or we're going to remove you from this unit and you go do something else

No problem - the world needs insurance salesman and everybody else but if you want to be a soldier we're going to carve you into what it is to be a soldier

I don't understand why my colleagues can't see the difference between civilian life and military life

Nobody's fired live rounds at us up here that's not part of our designated job description

But it damn sure is a job description for our soldiers and we can't fill our ranks in the United States Army right now

You know why? I think you do know why – because conservative families across America that have a deep lineage of military service are not encouraging their sons and daughters to join the Army - because it is crap

That our sons and daughters are having to deal with now in the army that my colleagues are applauding like “Yay you know we need to diversify the order to diversify it”

We called it a uniform for a reason

We must be uniformly deadly and effective - rapidly deployed

Well we care not what the color the skin is to the soldier next to us or whether or not

he's gay or straight that has zero to do with the performance of our army and yet we are indeed attempting to indoctrinate those very civilian considerations into our military

That's why you can't fill the ranks because traditional American families know that that's, a that - that's a wrong formula

Ranger (cannot make out the name – Mr Tebo?) – “Rangers lead the way all the way” –(Ranger says  “sir, YO!”) - so I'm going to ask you  …

You're opening line of your state of your statement you rightly draw upon a distinction regarding considering between those who join our military and those who choose just other courses of life you.

You said I quote “training the United States Army is meant to melt away the effects of civilian life and to forge Americans into soldiers ready to devote their lives to the mass application of violence on behalf of American interests - can you speak to the uniqueness of what it is to  be a soldier as opposed to being a civilian in America

The Ranger replies:

To be a soldier is to live a life where you take for granted the fact that you would die for the person next to you and that you would enter an arena where that death is possible – on purpose -  and that you would be prepared as a team and as a person to do whatever it took - not to survive - but to win even if that requires immense suffering, sacrifice and an inconvenience

Question to the Ranger “Every day for you and your family did you ever for one day at any time consider the diversity of the Ranger next to you ?

The Ranger answers:

No

Thank you very much Mr (apologies I cannot make out the name) General thank you all for your service.

Onwards!

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