Pentagon rolls back gender-neutral pronoun requirement for joint military awards
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The Pentagon reversed its policy on gender pronouns in award citations after initially mandating the use of "gender-neutral" language.
In August, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued an unannounced change to the manual to require award citations to use "themself" — a word not recognized by standard English — instead of "himself" or "herself." Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
The language was discovered by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. The foundation reported that the end-of-tour award for Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was returned because he used gender-specific pronouns for his citation.
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