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The Pentagon Released a Statement on Netflix's Gay Military Series Boots. Yes, the Pentagon

The show is based on the memoir of real-life marine veteran Greg Cope White.

Today in thoroughly unsurprising but still pathetic news: The Trump administration took aim at Netflix’s queer military show Boots, calling it “woke garbage.”

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson slammed the hit coming-of-age series in an October 16 statement to Entertainment Weekly.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos,” Wilson’s statement reads. “Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man, a woman, gay, or straight.”

It’s not the worst opening one could imagine, especially given that Boots was inspired by real-life gay veteran Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, which details his time serving in the Marines when being gay in the military was still illegal.

However, Wilson then added that Pentagon officials “will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children.”

https://www.them.us/story/netflix-gay-boots-show-pentagon-hegseth-statement

We just finished it last night. It's really quite an excellent show, and I'm happy to see it's doing so well. So guess what, Pentagon? It's going to do even better now!