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[dsc]

1. We of course should defer to Tuberville's vast military experience here

no wait he served negative square root of zero seconds in the military so he should take all of the seats.

[joshdawg]

2. Bingo!

[Oneironaut]

3. Fascist creep-asses have nothing better to do.

This is pathetic.

[lonely bird]

4. Hey, Tommy

You dumbass.

We’re all Americans, that’s right you punk. What pisses you off is not a poem but that the sailor is non-binary.

[sarge43]

5. Yo Tommy

Only one qualification for service: Is the individual honorably doing their duty? The CNO, USN says Lt (jg) Knutson is; case closed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Adm Gilday knows a bit more about service than you do.

Oh yeah, thank you, sir. You're the commander we all hope we service under.

[sl8]

6. Dupe, deleting.

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217842033

Deleted OP:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/04/18/admiral-defends-non-binary-officer-against-attacks-from-gop-lawmakers/

Admiral defends non-binary officer against attacks from GOP lawmakers

By Diana Stancy Correll
Apr 18, 04:30 PM

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday defended a non-binary Navy officer Tuesday against criticism from Republicans who have used a video of the officer describing their first deployment to question the sea service’s warfighting priorities.

In a video that the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps posted to its Instagram account earlier this month, Lt. j.g. Audrey Knutson described participating in an LGBTQ spoken-word night while deployed aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and sharing a personally written poem with the ship.

Knutson, who identified as non-binary in the video, called the experience the “culmination of the whole deployment.”

“I’ll tell you why I’m particularly proud of this sailor,” Gilday said. “Her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay, and he was ostracized in the very institution that she not only joined and is proud to be a part of, but she volunteered to deploy on Ford. And she’ll likely deploy again next month when Ford goes back to sea.”

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