ANALYSIS – America’s Navy is sinking fast – last year, the world’s premier maritime combat service launched, then apparently scuttled, a new recruiting campaign led by an active-duty ‘non-binary’ sailor drag queen.
And our nation’s enemies are likely quaking in their boots at the promise of even more drag queens being recruited to fight on the front lines by our armed forces.
The Navy’s appointment of a gay cross-dresser as its first ‘digital ambassador,’ while struggling with recruitment, has sparked outrage, disbelief and mockery of the Navy and the entire Department of Defense.
A Navy spokesperson told Fox News that the now defunct program was “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy battles “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force.”
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, has a large following on TikTok (of course). He announced his role in November but has only recently been discovered by mainstream news sources.
(NOTE: I don’t use preferred pronouns. He is either a ‘he’ or she is a ‘she,’ regardless of how they ‘identify.’ And ‘they’ is only used to refer to two or more individuals.)
Kelley calls himself an ‘advocate’ for those who ‘were oppressed for years in the service.’
Many have compared him to Dylan Mulvaney, the biologically male trans activist whose association with Bud Light sparked a PR crisis for the brand and sent sales plummeting.
Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, tweeted that “Biden DoD’s [Department of Defense] recruitment is as good as Bud Light’s marketing.”
Jesse Watters said on his Fox News show on Wednesday: “What’s wrong with the Navy? They looked at Bud Light and said: ‘Hold my beer?’ Harpy is the Navy’s Dylan. Dylan killed Bud Light sales. What do you think Harpy’s going to do to recruitment?”
Kelley is not the Navy’s only digital ambassador (he is one of five). The Navy says that the ‘digital ambassador’ was a pilot program that ended in March 2023.
According to surveys, only 13 percent of 18-29-year-olds in the U.S. are ‘highly willing’ to join the Navy, while 25 percent are ‘somewhat willing.’ Critics like me can’t see how a man made up to look like a caricature of a woman will help convince more of our youth to serve in a warfighting role.
Unless the plan is to recruit even more cross-dressing young men with possible gender dysphoria to serve aboard warships, planes and tanks.
Robert J. O’Neill, a decorated combat veteran who served as a member of SEAL Team Six, and was on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, said on Twitter he “can’t believe [he] fought for this bulls**t.”
“Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter,” he tweeted. “I’m done. China is going to destroy us.”
His tweet quickly gained 1.1 million views and thousands of likes and retweets.
“Not this Navy veteran. I’m ashamed of the Navy,” wrote another veteran. “It’s an insult to every veteran. The army kept making me go to trans EO-type classes before I retired. Nope. Didn’t go.”
Another veteran responded: “As a Navy veteran, I am ashamed on behalf of the US Navy. I hope that goes over as well as Bud Light did.”
But another person – who can’t distinguish between freedom of expression in the civilian world and pushing a bizarre, fringe sexual agenda in our armed forces – mockingly commented:
“Local man angry he fought for freedom of expression.”
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It’s hard to believe that this is what’s become of our military. The biggest mistake this country has made was to eliminate the draft. Everybody, male and female, should be required, and willing, to give at least 2 years of service to our country. What do these young people think has allowed them to live as they have all these years? As a retired vet of 26 years service I can only hope our government comes to it’s sense and builds up all branches of our services before we get involved in another war. If not we may well lose our country and our freedoms. With what’s going on in this country today I’m so glad I’m old, 90+, so hopefully I’ll be gone before America falls.
Unfortunately, our government is creating the division in our country with these kinds of actions, and it seems to be their plan/agenda with the help of msm. IMO
Gonna effect manpower & defense alone
Not even an attractive drag Queen. So much paint and over glitz. What is wrong with the Navy?
Who ever authorized this must be fired. This is a disgrace. As a veteran, this really makes me anry.Those who serve sign a blank check to our government up to including our lives. And now, we are humiliated by this ad.Over the years back to and including the Revolutionary war, well over a million men and women have died defending our country. Now this crap. How insulting!!!!!
I hope it is obvious that the Marxists have taken over your colleges, your government, and now your military, and in that order! and they didn’t even have to firer a shot!