Capt. Hung Cao: The military is actually exclusive, not inclusive
9 October 2024 2024-10-11 0:03Capt. Hung Cao: The military is actually exclusive, not inclusive
Capt. Hung Cao, US Navy ret, USNA ’96 recently spoke about DEI in the military:
Transcript:
Anyone who’s gone to war, anybody who’s put their life in someone else’s hands and have them put their lives in ours will understand what I’m talking about. It’s about warriors that are just going to do anything to win, and those are the people we need. And that’s what I mean by rip out your own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.
That’s a true warrior. Whether it’s an alpha male or alpha female, but not some cross-dressing, drag queens, that’s not what we need in the military. We need strong men and women that are willing to put their lives on the line to fight for this country.
We need diversity: diversity of backgrounds, diversity of experiences. That’s the diversity we need.
And equity, I’m sorry, it sounds a lot like equality, but it’s not the same thing. Equity means everybody finishes the same. Equality means everybody starts the same. Look at me. I’ll never play in the NFL or in the NBA. That’s just how God made me. It’s fine.
To expect that everybody’s going to finish the same I mean the military…., again going back now to the inclusivity. The military is actually exclusive. Only 10% of Americans qualify for the military, whether it’s through obesity or just other ailments, they just can’t qualify for the military. That’s why less than 1% of America has served the military.
So it’s a very exclusive organization. To push all these things that go against what the military is, it goes against the whole grain of the military. There’s only so much, so many hours in the day, and there’s so much money.
When you’re expending all your money and time to look at all these woke issues, you’re taking away from time to train for war.
I used to command a naval diving and salvage training center. We trained 1400 special operations divers from all five services. What I said is we had one standard regardless of you are a man, woman, black or white, it doesn’t matter because the sea is going to kill you just the same. The sea doesn’t care who you are.
That’s why we prepare them because things like hardships and warfare, it’s going to kill us all the same. That’s why we train to one standard and to reduce it to meet certain goals and expectations is wrong.
First of all, they try to lump everything together so that they can say, oh, I’m against all these things, right? By saying LGBTQ+. Plus, what? I can’t even make this stuff up. We’re talking about, first of all, transgender, that when they’re on psychotropic drugs, which they require for transition and they’re not allowed to touch a weapon for two years. When you’re on any kind of psychotropic drug, that means for two years you’re not deployable.
So for a four year enlistment, you’re telling me that I can’t use that soldiers, sailors, airmen, marine for for two years, for half of that time? What does that do for military preparedness? What does that do for, you know, time and training and the money we expend and this is what goes against readiness. I mean, we need to prepare for war.
If you haven’t noticed, there’s World War three is looming out there right now. You have Iran, who are using their proxies of the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah to attack Israel and also shoot at US Navy ships. Last week, the USS Stockdale and USS brutes were fired at by Houthi rebels.
You know what happens when we take out one of the $1.6 billion ships with a small drone? That ship is going to go home, and you have 250 sailors on board whose lives depend on on the safety and security that ship in, you know, is being taken out by Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis or really the Iranians.