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The Supreme Maritime Admiral defended the naval enthusiasm with a non -bilateral sailor on Tuesday amid some criticisms from Republican legislators, saying that he was “especially proud of this seas.”
Sailor, Ltjg Audrey Knutson, shared their story on Instagram marine page Last week. In a short video clip, Knutson said they were proud of working not bilateral, especially because their grandfather served in the navy as gay man in World War II. During the publication of last autumn on board the USS Gerald R. Instagram video got approximately 17,000 likes.
After that, Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, Tweet Part of the clip with an illustrative designation, “while China is preparing for war, this is what it focused on the US Navy.” On Tuesday, Senator Tommy Tobreville, a Republican of Alabama, continued to attack the video, and told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “many problems in the video.”
But the head of the maritime operations, Michael Gildi, defended the seas, stressing that this is the function of the leader to build a fighting team.
“I will tell you why I am especially proud of this seas,” Gildi said to the session. “So, her grandfather served during the Second World War, and he was gay and was brought up in the same institution that she not only joined, and she is proud to be part of it, but she volunteered to publish in Ford, and it is possible to publish again next month when Ford returns to the sea.”
Gilday used female pronouns to refer to Knutson, but the navy told the preferred CNN Knutson pronouns is not dual.
“We ask people from all over the country, from all aspects of life, from all the different backgrounds to join us,” said Gilly You can be able to be at a level. He joined legally to the US Navy, and he is ready to serve and want to take the same section as you and I to put their lives at stake, then I am proud to serve next to them. ”
Some Republican lawmakers in the Capitol Hill attacked the army because they “woke up”, claiming that it was one of the reasons for the poor army recruitment numbers, although a recent survey of the army showed that only 5 % of potential recruits were concerned about “Box”.
Last month, Republican Representative Corrie Mills and many others went after the Ministry of Defense for its diversity and equipment and training stocks in a sub -session of armed services in the House of Representatives on military individuals. Mills said: “We are absolutely able to outperform each one of our opponents, and Russia and Russia are sure that they feed in their shoes on this,” Mills said.
In response, the Minister of Defense of the Employees and Preparation of the Generation of Siseniros said that diversity and training in equal opportunities were part of the army for decades.
In another session in early March with the senior army leaders, the sergeant. Major from the army Michael Greenston confirmed that the army’s concentration is still on fighting killing, even with additional training on diversity and integration.
“There is one hour of equal opportunities for basic training, and 92 hours of gun ingenuity training,” Grenston said at the time. And if you go to [One Station Unit Training]There are 165 hours of gun ingenuity training and only one hour of equal opportunities training. ”