Army Leader Defends ‘Pride Month’ Celebration and Publicly Scolds Disagreement as ‘Harassment’

Every army department has an officer and enlisted member who’s the very best rating member of their service and is supposed to be the figurehead of their specific departments. The Senior Enlisted Chief of every department acts because the all-knowing advisor to the senior rating officer on all issues associated to personnel readiness and morale. 

These senior leaders are to be probably the most disciplined, poised, and measured army strategists who exemplify their department’s core values. Within the Military, the person charged with this important obligation is Sergeant Main Michael Grinston. 

This previous weekend Sgt. Maj. Grinston determined to spend his time partaking in a back-and-forth spat on Twitter over customers who have been essential of the Military selling so-called “pleasure month.”

Military personnel are anticipated to deal with all individuals with respect in all elements of life and types of communication, on-line or in individual.

— SMA Michael Grinston (@USArmySMA) June 16, 2023

You’ll be able to’t say that!

On Friday, the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Liberty (previously and eternally referred to as Fort Bragg to these of us who’ve been stationed there) promoted “pleasure month,” which sparked fairly the web debate:

“As we wrap up the observance celebration of #Juneteenth we swap gears in honoring all those that partake in #PrideMonth. Be part of us later this month as we come all collectively for the Respect, Service and Dignity because the Division MEO crew hosts the Pleasure Month Observance Occasion.”

As we wrap up the observance celebration of #Juneteenth we swap gears in honoring all those that partake in #PrideMonth. Be part of us later this month as we come all collectively for the Respect, Service and Dignity because the Division MEO crew hosts the Pleasure Month Observance Occasion.#AATW pic.twitter.com/6hdRoWAgWy

— All American Division (@82ndABNDiv) June 16, 2023

This tweet prompted judgment from veterans, former 82nd ABN members, and a good quantity of simply common previous residents who consider the army, and particularly some of the traditionally revered and feared items on this planet, have higher issues to do than give attention to progressive politics.

Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston dipped his boot within the waters of discontent and wrote this banger of a tweet:

“The remark part is an efficient time to refresh ourselves with discriminatory harassment: A type of harassment that’s unwelcome conduct based mostly on race, coloration, faith, intercourse (together with gender id), nationwide origin, or sexual orientation.”

Now is an efficient time to refresh the Sgt. Maj. that disagreeing with an ideology isn’t discriminatory, neither is it harassment. It’s even protected by a little bit factor referred to as the First Modification. 

, Sgt. Maj., that little factor you and I swore to guard and defend with my life?

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Put the cellphone down

Throughout this backwards and forwards on Twitter that lasted effectively into Saturday morning Sgt. Maj. Grinston argued about retention charges, our warfighting potential or lack thereof, and the deserves of celebrating each single advantage month and observance that pops up on the calendar. However this isn’t the primary time Sgt. Maj. Grinston has tweeted recklessly.

In 2021, through the chaotic and failed Afghanistan withdrawal and mere hours earlier than the devastating assault at Kabul that murdered 13 service members, the Sgt. Maj. wrote:

“Range is a quantity – do you could have people who don’t look or assume such as you within the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing these individuals.”

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Maybe not the very best time to decry the benefits of “range” and “inclusion” whereas Uncle Sam’s Afghan allies have been falling to their deaths from the wheel wells of American cargo planes, Afghan moms frantically handing their infants throughout barbed wire to Marines within the hopes for a greater life for them, and moments earlier than 13 of America’s greatest and bravest have been snuffed out of this world by a suicide bomber. 

However that is an attention-grabbing query the Sgt. Maj. posed and is worthy of reflecting on at the moment.

Sgt. Maj. Grintson, did you could have people who don’t seem like you or assume such as you within the room whenever you went off on Twitter about individuals disagreeing with the Military’s use of their time? 

Virtually like being a part of a cohesive crew that cares sufficient about one another to not let somebody speak about one other member as a result of they understand it impacts readiness and lethality.

— SMA Michael Grinston (@USArmySMA) June 17, 2023

A gradual march

This newest instance of army politicization issues as a result of it’s indicative of a gradual march the armed providers have taken from being apolitical to being instruments of left-wing energy gamers. These of us who wore the uniform know that the politicization has worsened within the final ten years.

Nonetheless, for the remainder of the nation, it didn’t develop into obvious till the demise of George Floyd. The previous Senior Enlisted Chief for the Air Pressure, Kaleth Wright, said after Mr. Floyd’s demise:

“Who am I? I’m a Black man who occurs to be the Chief Grasp Sergeant of the Air Pressure. I’m George Floyd…I’m Philando Castile, I’m Michael Brown, I’m Alton Sterling, I’m Tamir Rice.”

Throughout that very same timeframe, Chief Wright’s boss Air Pressure Chief of Workers, Common CQ Brown, released a video discussing his ideas on George Floyd, the protests, and racism in America. He’s President Biden’s decide to exchange Common Mark Milley because the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers.

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Quick ahead to at the moment, and we now have a House Pressure Common proclaiming at a Pentagon pleasure occasion that she purposely picks much less certified commanders for positions resulting from her distaste for state legal guidelines proscribing transgender surgical procedures on minors, and now the Sgt. Maj. of the Military claiming to disagree with what the Military does is discriminatory harassment. Discover a pattern?

You must; it’s referred to as your army isn’t neutral anymore…and maybe by no means was.

June can be Military Heritage Month – don’t see a lot speak about that.

— SMA Michael Grinston (@USArmySMA) June 17, 2023

Concentrate

As a author, I’m pressured to stay within the Twitter-verse, and if I’m sincere, I like it. 

However for these of you who’re blissfully unaware of Twitter and consider it doesn’t matter what occurs within the realm of the Blue Chicken, you’re mistaken. Not solely is what you devour in your 24/7 information outlet of selection predicated and deliberate based mostly on what occurs on Twitter, however coverage selections inside your authorities evolve due to what occurs on Twitter.

Twitter can be the place the darkish forces of the police state have begun their quest to squash discourse and debate. A working example is the U.S. Military Protecting Providers Battalion, whose job is to guard present and former high-ranking army officers from “assassination, kidnapping, harm or embarrassment.”

Common Mark Milley Mocked Relentlessly Following Report the Pentagon is Spying on Individuals Who Criticize the Navy https://t.co/RmOEvvc7K6 by way of @TPInsidr

— Rusty 🎙️ (@rustyweiss74) June 20, 2023

A current Intercept report broke the information that this battalion which is basically the Pentagon’s model of the Secret Service has expanded its scope to:

“…embrace monitoring social media for ‘direct, oblique, and veiled’ threats and figuring out ‘destructive sentiment’ relating to its wards.”

All of this, together with army leaders feeling snug voicing political beliefs on their official accounts and in uniform, doesn’t bode effectively for our nation’s continued freedom and prosperity. Time to get up, get a Twitter account, and struggle again.