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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces' (www.npr.org)

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Congress requires the Pentagon to support the scouting program's Jamboree, a gathering of thousands of young scouts held every three or four years. The U.S. military lends trucks, ambulances and medical teams, and puts on aviation and skydiving demonstrations, all at no cost to the Scouts. For the military, it's both a training exercise and an opportunity to recruit highly motivated, civic-minded kids.

But the law includes an exemption: the Secretary of Defense can withhold support if he determines providing it would be "detrimental to national security."

Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering "gender confusion."

His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values." It also claims that with international conflicts and a tight budget, sending troops, doctors and vehicles to a 10-day youth event would harm national security by diverting resources from border operations and protecting U.S. territory.

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The number of leaders among reservists, guardsmen and organizations like the VFW or American Legion who would fight for the opportunity to "relieve" active-duty units of the "burden" of helping with such events will probably be more bothersome to manage than whatever "lack of resources" shits-geth is expecting to inflict.

It wasn't enough to try and fail to get the Marines and Army to destroy our most populous cities, to the point they "had-to" allow swastika tattoos in the Coastguard and literally bribe people(to an absurd degree) into ICE, now they're going after the civilian institutions that helped swell the military's ranks for decades.

It's like they're trying to train new leopards to bite thier own faces off, but like "when you behead me, a real man would do it with the backside of a Bowie-knife." Real clown-car antics from people that won't even have a friend to drive the car, let alone people to fill it, when their bullshit's all played-out.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Chaos, division and a weakened America is the goal. Why do you think all of the major MAGA social influencers are foreigners.

Shit the new “America First” movement trying to replace MAGA as it fades is pushed by RT News.

Unfortunately American citizen have been conditioned to accept propaganda without critical thinking. So we are especially susceptible to it.