WASHINGTON (AP) — Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday as he pushes a campaign against military support for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has taken aim at the military’s partnership with Scouting America, decrying its historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes in recent years that he sees as part of “woke culture” efforts that he wants to root out.
The U.S. military and the Boy Scouts have had longtime ties, including the military providing logistical support for the National Boy Scout Jamboree since its inception in 1937.
The military also has a long history of sponsoring Scout troops and activities on U.S. military bases and has maintained a strong relationship with the Eagle Scouts, whose members often enlist in the armed forces.
There’s something fundamentally-wrong with making the default male extracurricular club be a military-indoctrination program.
This principle should apply internationally, too.
Military should be a choice, not a programmed-into-the-population default.
ALWAYS have a not-military-recruiting/programming version competing with any military-recruiting/programming version: let competition live, don’t make the market captive.
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When I was a kid we went camping and shot guns and volunteered.
I think we had a reverence for the military but we never partnered with them for anything.
I was in a small town so maybe that is why
Dude. It’s going to be an elective merit badge. And merit badges take YEARS to go through the requirement system. Trumps goons are going to be gone before this even makes it to the program.