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Elfming

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Expert in military women in the US. Retired Navy Captain. Interested in discussing current military issues.

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Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · 8d

He comes across as an angry but clueless junior officer he was

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · 11d

Hegseth is more angry junior officer than SECDEF. He’s wound up in the minutia of Army regulations while seemingly ignoring the USN, USMC, USAF and Space Force. He also has a vendetta against military women rooted in an ideology that’s not validated by reality.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · 14d

The Secretary of Defense has abolished the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. A dishonoring of DACOWITS’ 75 years of service to our Country. SECWAR apparently cares more about protecting his personal fantasies of who’s a warrior than caring for our actual warriors.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, our emperor is redecorating the White House while our republic crumbles.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, our emperor is redecorating the White House while our republic crumbles.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, our emperor is redecorating the White House while our republic crumbles.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 12

@hcrichardson.bsky.social This Veteran of 25 years of active duty service took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and protect the US from all enemies foreign and domestic. This so-called emergency task force protects the domestic enemies from the American people.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 12

This 25+ years veteran took an oath to support the Constitution and defend the US against all enemies foreign and domestic. This new reaction force perverts that oath—it protects the domestic enemies from the American people.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest

Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.

www.washingtonpost.com

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ah, he fired three women admirals in key leadership positions not because he judged them to be incompetent DEI hires—they weren’t. No, his personal religious convictions told him he had to fire them because God said no women in leadership positions. What a way to run the Navy.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 11

See below. So the three women Admirals SECDEF fired weren’t DEI hires incompetent to fill their leadership roles. They were fired because of SECDEF’s personal religious ideology—God says no women in leadership. The Spanish Inquisition has a DOD foothold.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ah, the three women Admirals SECDEF fired weren’t incompetent DEI hires-they were fired because SECDEF’s religious ideology tells him God says no to women in leadship.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ah, so the three women Admirals SECDEF fired weren’t fired because they were incompetent DEI hires wrongfully assigned to roles they didn’t merit. They were fired because of SECDEF’s personal religious ideology—God says no to women in leadership.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 10

History shows why replacing secular law as the basis for democratic government with Christian Nationalism—or any other religion—is a terrible idea. Think the Hundred Years War and the Spanish inquisition. Like any other good, uplifting human activity it can be corrupted by the power hungry.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 5

Women vets are the fastest growing group using VA healthcare these days. Obstetricians are noticeably missing from the list. This is because virtually all obstetric care is already referred to community docs. Unfortunately, their specialty is growing scare in many areas of the country.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 5

Women vets are the fastest growing group using VA health care. Obstetricians are notably missing from this list because virtually all obstetric care is already referred to community doctors. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable lack of obstetricians in many communities these days.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Aug 2

Wow! It only took a moment to destroy the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s credibility—what a great superpower to have.! And what will that childish temper tantrum cost over time?

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jul 31

Three headlines from today’s MIL.com.1. Army puts political operative in charge of Public Affairs. 2. Trump vetting top general nominees. 3. SECARMY directs West Point to rescind hiring of Biden-Era Cybersecurity Director. Creeping closer to politicizing the Army?

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Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jul 29

SECDEF fired—without explanation—4 senior women admirals. Each had 25 or 30 years experience in combat aviation and/or combat at sea. Each excelled in their jobs and met the same gender-neutral standards as the men as the law since 1994 requires. Nothing was secretly made easier for them.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jul 20

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jul 5

Things are serious now. The big, beautiful bill” gives $45B to ICE to build more Alligator Alcatraz holding camps for immigrants—and maybe not only immigrants. And there’s enough $ for 19,000 more ICE agents. And the “nose-under-the-tent” use of the USMC and Guard to work with ICE. It’s ominous…

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our nation was born with the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth 1776. Today, on a July Fourth 249 years later, what “rough beast” is “making its way” to the Oval Office to become law. It’s another of the death knells for our country that began sounding January Sixth 2021.

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jun 12

It was Trump supporters only allowed at yesterday’s very political rally at Fort Bragg. Support the Constitution! Stop this gross politicization of our military!

Elfming @elfming.bsky.social · Jun 6

Capitol in the background at the Rally