After more than 30 years of service, somebody finally told the Sergeant Major of the Army what the U.S. Armed Forces are

[pat_k]

4. According to 47, it was those notoriously "woke" people of the late 1940's that changed it to DoD.

DJT: "...then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to DOD."

So, they are just correcting that lilly-livered "wokeness."

Key Events:

1947:
The National Security Act was passed, abolishing the Department of War and creating the National Military Establishment, which merged the Army, Navy, and the newly created Air Force under a single civilian-headed department.

1949:
The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. This name change was enacted by Congress to reflect the broader duties of the unified department, including national security and foreign policy, as well as to emphasize the goal of preventing war in the emerging nuclear age.

Back in Sept when they announced the lunacy, according to this article:

One former defense official scoffed, “This is purely for domestic political audiences. Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations. Worse, it will be used by our enemies to portray the United States as warmongering and a threat to international stability.”

Given that the 47 regime has made it crystal that Their MAGA U.S.A. is in fact a warmongering threat to international stability, I guess we're all good!