Soldiers Facing Discrimination from State Laws Could Request Transfers Under Draft Army Policy

[Swede]

What a country.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/19/soldiers-facing-discrimination-state-laws-could-request-transfers-under-draft-army-policy.html

[Samrob]

1. If the homophobes really knew how many LBGTQ men and woman have fought and won wars for USA

since the beginning of our history, they would ban the military. Ignorance is their bliss. They continue to celebrate and worship men and women whose sexuality would get them burned at the stake and banned from social service today.

[JHB]

2. This one is about the Air Force, but it touches upon possible backfiring of these laws...

...once transfers start impacting readiness and the ability of a base to carry out its assigned functions. If state laws interfere with the ability to perform those functions, those functions will be relocated elsewhere. And all the civilian jobs that went with supporting the personnel carrying out those functions will effectively move with them.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP is a threat to national security.

In so many ways but this is a good example.

What happens when military personnel start refusing to move to a shit hole state?

What happens when a base commander, flight surgeon, pilot or plane mechanic is jailed for getting an abortion or raising a trans kid?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Soldiers Facing Discrimination from State Laws Could Request Transfers Under Draft Army Policy

It is sad that this policy is necessary

Link to tweet

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/19/soldiers-facing-discrimination-state-laws-could-request-transfers-under-draft-army-policy.html

The Army is circulating a draft policy tweak that would specify that soldiers can request to move if they feel state or local laws discriminate against them based on gender, sex, religion, race or pregnancy, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the plans.

The guidance, which would update a vague service policy to add specific language on discrimination, is far from final and would need approval from Army Secretary Christine Wormuth. But if enacted, it could be one of the most progressive policies for the force amid a growing wave of local anti-LGBTQ and restrictive contraception laws in conservative-leaning states, where the Army does most of its business.

The policy would ostensibly sanction soldiers to declare that certain states are too racist, too homophobic, too sexist or otherwise discriminatory to be able to live there safely and comfortably.

"Some states are becoming untenable to live in; there's a rise in hate crimes and rise in LGBT discrmination," Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America, an advocacy group, told Military.com. "In order to serve this country, people need to be able to do their job and know their families are safe. All of these states get billions for bases but barely tolerate a lot of the service members."