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There currently are military regulations that allow transgender troops to serve, and a tweet cannot undo those. Pentagon officials told BuzzFeed News they read the tweet as a directive to craft the necessary policy and procedure to undo that regulation. It does not appear the branches of the military have been ordered to craft new directives.
The full implications of that tweet are to be determined. My read of it is that it appears that those currently serving transgender troops will be forced out, Brad Carson, the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 201516, who help craft the policy that ended the ban a year ago. To have a tweet reverse a DoD personnel policy is unprecedented.
At the Pentagon, the first of the three tweets raised fears that the president was getting ready to announce strikes on North Korea or some other military action. Many said they were left in suspense for nine minutes, the time between the first and second tweet. Only after the second tweet did military officials receive the news the president was announcing a personnel change on Twitter.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/trump-transgender-military-service?utm_term=.hw3pEqXQ#.lvPoWOEl
spanone
(135,823 posts)look over there!
'we' gave a maniac the nuclear football to keep by his side....good god
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)wants to bomb somebody? Mind blowing.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Wish that was an exaggeration, it isnt.
And his deplorables will approve.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)the pres. sending the code, confirmation and flight. The pres. can order it at any time. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
spanone
(135,823 posts)scary ass times....
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)because some dimwit who thinks he's president tweets it ? Seriously?
former9thward
(31,981 posts)that anyone in the military was seriously thinking about North Korea. Nobody is even quoted. Usually they try give quotes from an "anonymous source" but this article does not even reach that low standard.