Gen. Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, has defended the U.S. navy from right-wing accusations that it has gone “too woke.”
“No, not at all,” Milley advised CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday. “And I’m not sure what that word truly means,” the highest U.S. navy official added.
Milley described the U.S. navy as “exceptionally strong” and “powerful” with its readiness charges “better now than they’ve been in years.”
“This military is a lot of things, but woke, it’s not,” he stated. “So, I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons, but it’s not true. It’s not accurate. It’s not to say there are some things out there that could fit into that category but it’s not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.”
Conservatives have railed towards the navy’s efforts to counter extremism and its instructing of crucial race idea. Milley has beforehand slammed as “offensive” the claims promoted by former President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Fox Information character Tucker Carlson amongst others.
Additionally within the CNN interview, Milley opened up about his “mistake” in collaborating in a June 2020 photo-op with then-President Donald Trump amid anti-racism protests.
The U.S. navy needs to be apolitical, he stated, recalling how he walked away from the occasion as quickly as he realized what was happening. There was “no place for a uniform to be in a political event, period,” he added. “We don’t want our military involved in domestic politics.”
Milley should go away his put up when his statutory time period ends on Oct. 1. His substitute is presently unknown, because of Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) singlehanded, monthslong blocking of navy nominations and promotions from advancing within the Senate in protest of the Pentagon’s coverage which permits service members to take day off to hunt abortion care in different states.
