In the midst of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine forcefully pushing the country ever closer to a war it may potentially be ill-equipped to win, a retired Marine colonel currently in the process of running for Congress has called out Biden administration’s continued pursuit to transform the military into a radical “woke” force.
The Republican congressional candidate running for a seat in Georgia, Mitchell Swan recently launched a new video aired this past Tuesday, in which he is seen slamming the Biden administration for indoctrinating Marines in controversial transgender ideology.
USMC Col. Mitchell Swan freely expressed his concerns to the commander in chief and his top military leaders in regards to the woke focus on the armed forces that may be adversely affecting morale in addition to distracting from the military’s main mission of fighting against war to preserve the American way of life, as has been suggested.
“The biggest European land war since World War II, and where is our military focused? Gender dysphoria and woke training,” Swan says as the video opens with images of rockets flying and a huge explosion. “THIS IS INSANE!”
“Putin’s reviewing nuclear options while we assess transgender therapy options,” Swan said. “As a retired colonel who led Marines overseas, I know that this woke indoctrination will destroy our military, and that’s why I oppose transgenders in our ranks.”
Swan swears to “fight woke policies on every front” as a member of Congress.
He stated, making a promise to wage a battle against the leftist ideology that has undermining the military if he is elected into Congress, “I’m Mitchell Swan and I approved this message, I’m gonna fight woke policies on every front.”
Swan is currently running in an incredibly crowded Republican primary which seeks to fill the seat of Rep. Jody Hice (R.), who has chosen to not seek reelection in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District.
According to Fox News Digital:
Swan said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital, “Compulsory DOD ‘Diversity and Inclusion Training’ has become a tool of LGBTQ supporters to normalize sodomy, sinful behavior, and transgender lifestyles throughout our Armed Forces, while also waging a culture war on those traditional Christian family values many service members were raised upon,”
This tears at the moral fabric and cohesion of our military forces.”
He added, “Furthermore, it erodes combat readiness and desecrates over 200 years of American military culture,”
“A strong military is essential to preventing escalating situations like Ukraine and Afghanistan. Allowing transgender individuals to serve sends a message to our adversaries that we are more focused on social experimentation than on the defense of our nation.”
The candidate has urged the U.S. military to reverse its policy embracing transgender identity, warning that welcoming individuals with gender dysphoria into the ranks may weaken military performance and sends a message of weakness to America’s adversaries in crises such as Ukraine and Afghanistan.
In previous comments to Fox News Digital, Swan noted that “serving in the military is not a right,” so the military holds “strict ‘selective service’ standards.”
“In fact, many individuals with certain conditions, such as bedwetting and sleepwalking are disqualified from military service,” he noted. “They are not disqualified because they are bad people, but because these symptoms are considered mental and emotional issues that are not conducive to combat environments. Gender dysphoria is no different and should be treated the same; that it is not conducive to enhancing military performance or unit morale.”
Former President Obama allowed troops who identify as transgender to serve in the military according to their self-identified gender. Former President Trump reversed this policy, requiring troops to serve “in their biological sex,” while allowing transgender troops who joined under Obama to remain in their positions. The Trump DOD policy excluded people with “psychosexual conditions” such as “transsexualism, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism.”
Biden removed Trump’s policy and reinstated the Obama policy.
Watch it here: Youtube/Colonel Swan For Congress
Sources: Westernjournal, Foxnews, Freebeacon
