Sen. Cotton grills Defense Secretary Austin in testy exchange over 'woke' military
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A budget hearing on Capitol Hill turned testy, not about the enemy abroad, but over what some see as a new enemy growing in the ranks — the so-called 'woke' military.
The Arkansas senator and former Army infantry officer said he and Congressman Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, a former Navy SEAL, had received "several hundred" messages from irate service members complaining the Pentagon’s ‘extremism and diversity’ training is dividing the forces and taking time away from critical training for war. "One Marine told us that a military history training session was replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, White privilege and systemic racism," Cotton said, adding that several officers from that Marine Corps unit "are now leaving" the military as a result of the training.More Related News