{"id":66950,"date":"2021-04-17T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66950"},"modified":"2021-04-17T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:56:11","slug":"66950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66950","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/news\/is-the-army-going-to-extremes-over-extremism\/\">Is the Army Going to Extremes Over Extremism?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) created the first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer position and ordered the Army Extremism Safety Stand-Down. These two measures meant to address what frankly very few within the ranks saw as an issue amongst their peers.<\/p>\n<p>With no clearly defined mission and with absolute abruptness, these D&amp;I officers were shoe-horned into the command structures of units Army-wide, specifically into USSOCOM subordinate units.<\/p>\n<p>The first to hold the failed USSOCOM Diversity and Inclusion Officer position was Mr. Richard Torres-Estrada. He was supposed to be USSOCOM\u2019s slam dunk to appease the ever-growing appetite for the woke social media criteria in today\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>Torres-Estrada\u2019s tenure was short-lived. His diversity and inclusion beliefs made their way onto his social media accounts. They revealed him to be a Left Wing ideologue rather than a political moderate \u2014 which you would think would be a good idea for anyone you hire to promote things like diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/news\/socom-gives-way-to-political-pressures-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Within hours of his appointment, his beliefs were discovered and made public<\/a>. Within days, USSOCOM spokesman Ken McGraw made the statement, \u201cUSSOCOM is aware of the situation, and the command has initiated an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGraw then followed up with a less than meaningful, yet very common, statement to cover for higher-ranked leaders. Torres-Estrada has been reassigned to other duties pending the results of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The soldiers wanted to know why this position was created in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Army Going to Extremes Over Extremism? Recently, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) created the first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer position and ordered the Army Extremism Safety Stand-Down. These two measures meant to address what frankly very few within the ranks saw as an issue amongst their peers. With no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66951,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950\/revisions\/66951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}