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Those included maternity flight suits in the Air Force and changes to grooming standards that allowed for more hairstyles for women, such as cornrows and twists, among others.
“So we ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It s a mockery of the U.S. military,” Carlson said in television remarks the following day.
“While China’s military becomes more masculine as it has assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore,” he also said, even though the efforts he targeted were initiated under the previous administration.
Senator demands meeting with defense leaders over their response to criticism of women in the ranks March 15 Marine Corps recruits with Platoon 4038, Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, perform crunches during a strength test on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina on July 20, 2018. (Sgt. Dana Beesley/Marine Corps) A prominent Republican senator this weekend demanded a personal meeting with Marine Corps leadership to explain why officials in charge of some service social media accounts insulted and “intimidated” conservative pundit Tucker Carlson for his comments about women in the military. “These actions run the risk of creating a culture of contempt for our country’s civilian leadership within the enlisted ranks and among junior officers which will be corrosive to the good order and discipline of the military,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting the meeting.
15 Mar 2021
On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) demanded a meeting with the Commandant for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) over political attacks on Fox News Host Tucker Carlson.
Cruz wrote a letter Sunday to the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to addresscomments made by active-duty military leaders towards Carlson over the past week:
Under Biden, the military is launching political attacks to intimidate Tucker Carlson & other civilians who criticize their policy decisions.
Officials in uniform are being used for the campaign.
I ve demanded a meeting with the Commandant of the USMC to put a stop to it. pic.twitter.com/Ihl8xRJr0S