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Top United States Military leaders have come under fire for using official Armed Forces communication channels to address Fox News host Tucker Carlson s criticisms. Carlson dedicated a segment on his show last week to criticizing President Joe Biden s identity politics moves that focus on gender and not protecting Americans. China has quickly developed the world s largest naval force. In 2015, China had 254 battleships. Now they have more than 360 and many of them are more capable of anything in the American fleet, Carlson said in his segment last week.
The Fox News host played a clip of President Joe Biden talking about advances made to the military, including updating regulations on how a woman s hair is styled and providing uniforms in maternity sizes.
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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.
Some top men in the military hit back at Tucker Carlson for mocking women serving our country, including a reminder that Carlson’s opinion “is based off of actually zero days of service in [.]
Military Leaders, Veterans Fire Back at Tucker Carlson for Comments on Women in Military By Spectrum News Staff Nationwide PUBLISHED 12:27 PM ET Mar. 12, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:27 PM EST Mar. 12, 2021
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The Pentagon and senior military leaders are firing back at Fox host Tucker Carlson for his derisive comments about women serving in the military.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked military inclusivity efforts, such as maternity flight suits, a mockery of the U.S. military
John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesperson, said that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was revulsed by Carlson’s comments
Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville told reporters he is proud of the 185,000 women who serve with distinction every day and said it’s insulting to those women to have a comment like that