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“We fought a Cold War over the Containment of Communism and Marxist ideology”

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We just can’t shy away from calling things what they are. . . . We’ve got to call it what it is that we’re fighting: Marxism.

Matthew Lohmeier was recently on Frank Gaffney’s show, “Securing America” on Real America’s Voice channel talking about Marxism, his book, his interaction with President Trump, the National Space Council, the US Space Force and more.

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Frank Gaffney
We’re back. And we’re back with someone I’ve come to admire tremendously, both for his service in uniform and his service to our country. Since he was obliged to take it off. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Longmire, United States Air Force of the former pilot, a man who, was an instructor pilot as well. He was also, in command of a unit of the US Space Force early in its incarnation under Donald Trump.

He had an opportunity to interact with the former president, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last week. And I was anxious to catch up with him because I understand that, something very important may have come of their interactions on stage there. But before we get into all of that, I want to ask Matt to sort of level set with us a bit about his background and why he was, obliged to leave the service and, and a really important book that, should be required reading for everybody in the United States military, especially in leadership positions.

It’s entitled The Irresistible Revolution Marxism, Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of America’s Military. Matt, it’s good to have you back, sir. Welcome, board.

Matt Lohmeier
I’m happy to be back with you, Frank. Thanks for having me.

Frank Gaffney
Good to see you. It’s been too long. So this book is about Marxism, a subject that is unfortunately not, unique to what’s happened to the military. It just happens to be particularly ominous that it is metastasizing in our armed forces. Talk a little bit about your experience of it in uniform. And, what’s come of your warnings about it?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. Thank you. I just, in fact, spoke in Arizona, several weeks ago, and, I mentioned Cultural Marxism, Marxist ideology, as I am wont to do these days as I take a stage. And there was a veteran gentleman that approached me afterward and said, you know, I think you’re really missing the mark by calling this Marxism. You ought to find a different word for this. And I just told them, sorry, brother, you need to get caught up to speed because it’s no mystery anymore to people that are paying attention, that that’s precisely what what’s at stake. And and, you know, there comes a point at which we just can’t shy away from calling things what they are.

The left has done a phenomenal job over the past, well over its history, at inserting ideology into every arena so that we are rapidly changing language and confounding tongues for Americans, for the Western civilization. And we can’t do that. We have to say what it is.

Frank Gaffney
I just make a quick comment on. Yeah, because I have had this discussion endlessly with people in the, you know, sort of political arena who are saying, well, yes, we understand it’s Marxism, but we have to call it socialism or big government socialism or big government. Something else. I couldn’t agree with you more, Matt. We’ve got to call it what it is.

And the fact that we refrained from doing so simply compounds the peril that we’re facing. So talk a little bit about it in the military in particular, and what you saw of it during your time in it.

Matt Lohmeier
Fortunately, before coming into command and the space forces you mentioned, I had had several years of dedicated study of Marxism. And so when I showed up in command in the summer months of 2020, it was in the the couple of months after George Floyd’s death and the BLM and Antifa riots that the American people were seeing on TV.

They saw the windows being smashed, the raised fists, the people kneeling and apologizing, for their white guilt or anything else that they could be coerced into confessing. And I recognize that impulse as Marxist. It was a part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. You can ask those who participated in that there. And of course, Marxism wears different masks and it goes by different names depending on which organization is pushing it or how it appears on a syllabus in a college campus.

However, I chose to call it Marxism. I chose to at first before ever publishing a book, share feedback with my chain of command all the way up to a member of the Joint Chiefs, General Jay Raymond, who is, I considered a friend of mine, and I was his aide de camp during the stand up of the Space Force.

I had private phone conversations with General Raymond, sharing with him what I was seeing.

It was what I what I can still very honestly characterize as both anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American rhetoric coming out of, young troops on the base, but in particular, what I was most concerned about was a base commander who was sharing, he was using this moment in history to push his political worldview, which was very leftist in nature.

And I said, there’s this is undeniably Marxist. There’s Black Lives Matter propaganda showing up on the base, which was an avowed Marxist organization. Its founders were Marxist, and he expressed support for my concern, General Raymond did, and said, this has got to stop. Shortly thereafter, President Trump issued an executive order banning critical race theory and diversity and inclusion trainings in the federal agencies and in the uniform services, so they recognize that this is a problem.

And yet it didn’t seem to completely stop the problem, especially after the election and the Biden Harris regime came to power, which is what compelled me to write a book about it, you know?

Frank Gaffney
And, it was an extraordinarily well done book, by the way. Obviously bearing, the, the fruits of your labors and studying the matter, but also your courage and clarity in describing it and your comments in the, early years of the, new administration obviously brought you into conflict with those who were promoting this culture and Marxism in the uniform ranks, both, and the officer corps side, I guess, as well as the civilian side.

Just quickly, what befell you as a result?

Matt Lohmeier
Unfortunately. So I ended up being relieved of my command literally the week after the book was published. And it’s a print on demand self-published book. I doubt they could have got their hands on it and read it that quickly. And in fact, that included all of the legal caveats I needed to in the front, middle, and end of the book, saying that this represents my own views and not the views of the Defense Department, which, by the way, I need to add.

It’s ironic that I even have to say that in relation to this topic, that we fought a Cold War over, which was the containment of communism and Marxist ideology.

And the book is not, it genuinely not intended to be politically partisan. It is pro-American and it is anti Marxist. You would think that, both major political parties in this country would be anti Marxist, but allegedly or apparently I should say they are not.

And the fact that I was fired for alleged political partisanship is really telling about the state of, American politics at the moment. It was deemed that I’m too conservative and too pro-Republican because I’m anti Marxist and I am very conservative and I am a registered Republican. But that didn’t matter. It was the fact that they deemed the attack on Marxism as partisan, which tells you something about where the Democrat Party has landed.

I couldn’t say it that boldly when I was in uniform and I didn’t, but I was fired nevertheless. There shouldn’t be that partisan. I mean, we should all be anti-communist if we’re Americans and we love our country and we love our history, and we love where we need to go.

Frank Gaffney
But especially Matt and just, you know, develop this thought if you would, when you’re talking about the United States military, whose sole mission is to protect the country from enemies like the Chinese Communist Party, for example, if it is being indoctrinated, if it is actually being subverted, I would argue, by cultural Marxism right out of Mao’s playbook, which is a divide and conquer strategy.

Right? It creates a, a parallel, as I say, for the country and not just for the institution of the military, but for the country as well. Does it not?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, our senior defense officials should recognize at once that our greatest I’m reluctant to just call it a military threat. I mean, a one of our grand competitors, perhaps the grand competitors, China and XI Jinping, who exert tremendous influence on the world stage. And XI Jinping has become a kind of de facto emperor of communist, the Chinese Communist Party, and will continue to be in power as long as he can control that party.

And the fact is, they’re communist. They would love nothing more than to insert communism and Marxist thought and Maoist thought into the American system, into the American political debate. One thing they’re not focused on is DEI initiatives, critical race theory. There were purges back in the in the Cultural Revolution to be sure, but there is an enforced uniformity there where they can where they can do so, but they love they know exactly what to do to tamper with the American political dialog.

They know exactly what to do to upend culture, to destroy the religious communities, to make the religious people think that they have no place in the political sphere. And, to demonize the man, the man that made America great. You know, I’m not talking about the orange man bad Trump.

I’m talking about men and manliness. I’m talking about, the manly ethos, the warrior ethos. They’ve undermined all of that, and we do it to ourselves when we allow for those narratives and rhetoric that have so pervaded the universities for decades to infect an institution that’s been long trusted, like the United States military.

Frank Gaffney
So this brings us of and we’ve only got about a minute and a half before we have to take a break. But, just introduce what happened on the stage, with President Trump in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, I, I ended up last, Friday getting a chance to meet President Trump on stage. I didn’t expect it. I didn’t seek for the opportunity. It was really, it was an orchestration beyond my control, which I’d like to share with you the background of. But I ended up having a face to face dialog with President Trump on the stage that turned into something quite promising.

Frank Gaffney
That is, the subject of, I guess, you know, everything else we’re going to talk about, it’s it’s looking forward, not back. It’s looking, to help correct some of the things that you personally were subjected to and have been warning about, and it’s extremely exciting to hear that, you not only made that connection with him, but, I’ve heard a little bit of the back story and, and, there’s only one explanation for how it all came to pass.

It seems to me. And that is, true, that the hand of God. So when we come back up from the other side of this short break. But I was going to tell us a little bit about that interaction with President Trump and what we hope may come of it.

Welcome back. And a special welcome once again to Matthew Lohmeier, Lieutenant Colonel, forced out of the military for warning about the penetration and subversion of an institution in which he served with great distinction over Marxism and what it was doing to the uniformed services of our country, as well as, I would argue, to the country more generally.

And, Matt, you were just telling us about, an interaction that you had with former President Donald Trump on the stage at, in Fayetteville. Not too far from what was formerly known as Fort Bragg, I gather. He said he’s going to call it Fort Bragg again. He’s, put back in office. Tell us a little bit about your interaction with him.

I understand that it didn’t go exactly according to plan, but, it seems like a higher purpose was very much served.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, I got a call on a Wednesday night, and the event was on Friday, and, it’s no small trip for me to get out to North Carolina. And, I suppose everyone was told last second to maybe try and make it out, but I was invited to come out and basically be a plant to ask a question with a number of other veterans who are invited to come out.

I have to tell you this, you know, many people in the public haven’t yet heard this, and I think you’ll appreciate this. The woman who had given me the phone call said that she had called another retired general officer as her last selection to be on the stage. She didn’t know who I was, and, she she called this general and said, hey, can you make it out?

He said, I’m sorry, I just can’t make it. And she said, well, I need to find one more person who can join me on stage. And right as she said that, an email came in on her computer screen in front of her from another woman, that she’d never met before and never heard from or never heard of, and said, you have to get Matt Lohmeier at this event with Trump.

She asks the retired general officer, she said, do you know who this Matt Lohmeier guy is? I’ve never heard of him. And he said, oh, yeah, I can’t say enough good things about Matt. You need to have him take my place. So she called me. She gets me out there.

I fly out the very next morning, and the whole day and a half lead up to that event, I’m getting text messages from her saying things like, no guarantee you’ll get into the event. No guarantee we’ll get you, a microphone to ask a question. And I’m thinking, what am I doing out here? But I end up getting there backstage several hours before the event, and, all of us were kind of separated out. Some of us got to sit in the audience, and some of us were told, we get to join President Trump on stage.

I was selected to go on stage. And then we were given these three by five note cards that had canned questions on them. And and no doubt my question was an important one. I didn’t, frankly, like the way that it was worded, but it was something like, hi, I’m Matthew, how will you help us avoid World War Three?

In the right context, I suppose that’s a pretty important question, but I thought, you know, I’m not here to ask that question. I don’t believe this was orchestrated. So I can come have him leave here not knowing who I am, whether certain missions, in my mind, that needs to be accomplished.

I sat there for an hour during that town hall, listening to him as best I could hear him (it was hard to hear where I was sitting), say things about Ukraine and Russia, say things about Iran and Israel, say things about China, Taiwan and World War three. And I thought, they haven’t even let me ask my question. He’s already touched upon all of the the, tinder boxes. That could be World War Three. I don’t want to revisit it and look like an idiot.

So I wrestled there on the stage. I thought, why am I here? What’s my purpose here? And it was to speak to the man from the heart, tell him who I am, and that he mentioned firing woke generals.

I don’t think that’s far enough. With respect, you’re going to need some consistent, persistent overwatch of the of the Defense Department for the next four years to make sure that this monster that we call DEI and critical race theory and cultural Marxism doesn’t rear its ugly head again in the in the uniform services on your watch.

As I was speaking to him, he were four feet from each other. And he’s looking in my eyes and I can tell I mean, metaphorically speaking, he’s scanning me up and down, sizing me up, and he’s making a judgment call. I and I had the strong impression he’s about to hire me for that very job. And he did on the stage.

I couldn’t even hear him. That’s the funny part. It was after I left the stage and watched a video clip of what had happened. Then I heard the whole interaction, but, but he said, this after after that interaction, the cameras were rolling. He came up to me and hit me on the shoulder and we were now very close.

He he pointed at me. He says, I know my men. When I find them, you’re coming with me to the White House. And then he said, heaven willing, I will be in the white House and you’re coming with me. So I, I think he means it. And I’ve been in touch with his transition team, point man for Defense Department issues, related matters. I got on my resume and information they’ve asked for, it’s sitting at Mar-A-Lago right now.

Frank Gaffney
Fantastic. Well, not all I can say is, thanks be to God, because that’s the only way that would have happened. And I think so. Thank you for it. Thank you for your willingness to schlep across the country. Just to see what the Lord had in mind. Let me just ask you this because it, it goes to the heart of what you might yet have a chance to do.

The Marxists know what they’re doing, as you understand, better than just about anybody, certainly outside of the Marxist camp. Is it not conceivably too late for the United States military to be reformed? You couldn’t be more right that you’re going to have to be monitoring, you know, the people being pulled up the ranks. But those ranks have now been inseminated with people who’ve been going along to get along the starting, I would argue, with the joint chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a perfect example of a DEI proponent who has been elevated to the highest position in the military.

What are your thoughts about, what if you were in the Trump White House or the Trump Pentagon? You could do to, scramble these eggs?

Matt Lohmeier
There have been many months in the past couple of years where I’ve been totally discouraged at that. The path that we’re on to the point where I think, I don’t know if it’s possible to reclaim what’s happened here in this short period of time and what administration really. It’s been multiple administrations, but I’ve had a glimmer of hope for the first time after that interaction, and because of the response of our troops to seeing that interaction, on stage, I have been flooded with my phone’s been blowing up for 72 hours, and there are people that I haven’t talked to for many years reaching out to assure me they’re the good guys.

First off, it’s like, okay, now you’re my friend right now. Everyone wants to be my friend. It was too of it was too scary to reach out showing support when, the Biden Harris regime was firmly implanted. But there’s the sense that many people have that, hey, the tide might be changing. And and maybe there’s maybe there’s some hope that we might turn some things around and they’re reaching out, wanting to. They’re applying for jobs with me, and I be on the task force, to hire them. And so I think people sense hope. And that’s that’s really positive because maybe, maybe there’s some time that we can buy, maybe there’s some change that can be introduced. Some things can be quick, quickly fixed within, like the first day.

Frank Gaffney
It starts with leadership. And I ask you to hold the thought and we’ll come back to it on the other side of this final break with Matthew Longmire, a lieutenant colonel, no longer a in the military, but we’ll see where he’s going next. Stay tuned for more right after this.

Welcome back. We are having a fascinating conversation with one of the men I admire most. With a military background. His name is Matthew Longmire. He served as a, among other things, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force Space Command. And we’re going to talk in a moment about what’s the status of our space capabilities. But before we do, Matt, just to round out the conversation we just had about, your extraordinary, truly providential conversation with Donald Trump, and the hope that you sense people are beginning to feel that there may be a change, that there may be fresh leadership.

Is it enough, do you think, to allow this thing to be turned around?

Matt Lohmeier
Well, there are some things that you can fix very quickly in a matter of a day or a week. Things by executive order. You can abolish CRT and DNI trainings and agencies.

Frank Gaffney
And that’s critical. And then the diversity, equity, inclusion, the catch words for these, Marxist programs. Yeah.

Matt Lohmeier
Yes, yes. You know, one thing that President Trump could take care of on day one, for example, is to make sure that there are no more, purple braided, rope wearing cadet, dye czars at the US Air Force Academy or at any of our other military service academies. Those positions go away in an instant. The problem is, is that it takes time to regain the trust of the American people.

It takes time to, properly, incentivize young men and women who are capable and who are patriots to, to think that they are interested in serving their country. Again, we’ve so damaged our reputation and it extends beyond that. It takes time to to repair our relationships with our allies and our, the perceptions that our enemies have of us on the world stage.

Frank Gaffney
Right. All of those are hugely important, needless to say. Well, your leadership could be incalculably important, so I’m appreciative of your willingness to serve if the opportunity presents itself. Yeah. I want to talk about the last portfolio that you had for a moment, that you, served in a command position in the nascent U.S. Space Force.

You have an appreciation for, the threats that we now face in and from space. They are real. Chances are, I think very high. That is, in the event there is conflict with the Chinese Communist Party and or its friends. It will involve, war in space. I did want to give you an opportunity, both to comment on that, but maybe for starters, to talk about one of the other jobs that Vice President Kamala Harris had, as vice president, namely as the chairman of the National Space Council.

Yeah, hugely important position, especially against that backdrop. What do you know about how she comported herself in that role? And, whether she’s fit to be commander in chief, especially, guard of the space threat?

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. We don’t talk about this in mainstream media. I suppose there’s a thousand things we could talk about, and we only get to the fact that she’s a failed borders. Which they’ve even denied. She was in charge of the National Space Council is an exceptionally important, counsel that was resurrected by the Trump administration. There was, a director of the National Space Council there in the Trump administration.

I think it was stood up again in 2017. It had been disbanded since the Clinton administration, 1993, when we were really taking space seriously up until the end of the Cold War, the Trump administration, research institutes, or Reestablishes, the national Space Council, and they’re meeting, semi frequent. They’re the meeting frequently quarterly, in fact, to figure out the state of the threat and space and to advise the president of the United States and how we ought to be shaping our policy in order to respond to China, the China threat and the Russia threat in space.

Kamala Harris is the chair of the National Space Council, which during the last four years has met three times. And I hear two of those three times was to discuss how we further advance the DTI, the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda in our space exploration and military space programs, which was a joke to those who are currently sitting on the council.

And another third time was for a photo op that lasted ten minutes. They have not taken the space threat seriously at all. China, on the other hand, has been steadily marching to a 50 year plan that includes, military supremacy from the space domain. They’ve sent, several of their landers to the far side of the moon, near where there’s water ice, which is absolutely vital resource for the further development of space, space manufacturing capabilities and a military threat from space.

The United States has backed far away since since the Biden-Harris regime came to power from its serious attitude towards the China threat in space. It’s a big problem, and she’s not fit to be a commander in chief who doesn’t take that threat seriously.

Frank Gaffney
Amen. Let me just ask you, Am I correct in your estimation that, the Chinese in particular, but the Russians as well, and they’re they’re partnered up, but we forget they are part of our viewing space as just another theater of military operations, and one that is absolutely essential to the United States military’s terrestrial operations. If they can gain dominance there, set aside Mars or even the moon for that matter. But just in the, you know, high altitude orbit, they can, in fact, materially degrade our military’s capability, can they not? So you can’t can there be any other recourse to this, but to take this matter with the utmost seriousness.

Matt Lohmeier
The creation of the US Space Force, which was a congressional act, but it was championed by Donald Trump, have been a bipartisan, supported issue for many years. They thought Trump would kill it when he got excited about the idea, in fact, made it happen. And there was bipartisan support for this idea precisely because China and Russia and partnering in that arena had become such a threat to the United States and our national security, that we thought a separate branch of the military ought to be exclusively focused on both the budget and the development of, our of national security space, our economic, prospects in and through space.

And so you’re absolutely right in suggesting that that’s something that deserves our utmost attention. China has been taking it seriously, even when we are not. It’s tends to meet its goals, and it tends to stay on task and meet its timeline objectives. And we have not. We were supposed to have them back on the moon in 2024 under the Trump pence, policy that was shifted now to 2026.

My suspicion is if Trump doesn’t end up back in office, it’ll it’ll forever be off the table. Why does it matter? That’s a conversation for another day, but we’re not taking it seriously enough.

Frank Gaffney
A conversation for another day. It’s another place in which a few are back inside the military in some form or fashion. Matt, I know you will make an outsized contribution as well. We look forward to further visits with you and all of this. My friend. Thank you for taking some time. I know how busy you are now that you’re, a rock star. And, the Donald Trump world. But, we’ll look forward to it.

Matt Lohmeier
We’ll see what happens if.

Frank Gaffney
You have a chance. Yeah. Please, God. Thank you, thank you. Come back to us soon. I hope the rest of you do the same next time. Until then, go forth and multiply.

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Matt Lohmeier: DEI is the Manifestation of Marxism in America

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On the Feds for Freedom podcast, Vice-President Cameron Hamilton spoke with Matthew Lohmeier about the overt politicization of our Military and the Federal Government’s propensity to assume anti-liberty positions due to a culture of intrusion.

Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier, USAF fighter pilot and a former space-based missile warning squadron commander with the US Space Force, is a public speaker, consultant, and author of a bestselling book. He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of STARRS, an organization of US military veterans and citizens concerned about the divisive racist and radical CRT/DEI/Woke ideology and agenda infiltrating the military. They seek to expose, stand up against, and eliminate it in order to keep our country safe.

Matt’s book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military was published in May 2021, at which time he was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon.

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Task Force to Rid DOD of the DEI Industry and Agenda

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Matt Lohmeier was interviewed on OAN’s Real America with Dan Ball about Trump saying he would create a task force to root out the CRT/DEI agenda from the military and have Matt a part of the task force.

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OAN Host Dan Ball
Now to discuss how our military is being demoralized by working in all this nonsense. Woke CRT crap that has nothing to do with protecting our country. It’s the man you saw right there calling out the president and saying, Will you do a task force? Will you get this out of our military ranks? I say he’s a hero just for doing that, but he’s done a lot more for this country.

He’s a former lieutenant colonel and commander in the Space Force. Or at least he was. He’s now the executive vice president of Starz’s US. Matt Lohmeier, the guy you saw right there on that stage in North Carolina with the 45th president. Matt. Thank you, brother, not only for coming on the show today, but thank you for having the guts to stand up there and really push on Trump, too, if he gets elected. God willing to get in there and fix the military. Thank you brother. Thank you.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, thanks for having me. Come on and talk about this. In fact, you just said something that Trump said after the cameras stopped rolling, which is worth repeating. He said, “Heaven willing, I’ll end up back in the white House and you’re coming with me.” He said, “I know my people when I see them, and you’re one of them, you’re coming with me.”

I really respect that about him. And I love the subtitles that you just showed on the screen as that clip was playing, which I hadn’t seen. It said in big, bold letters, and he gets it done. He listened and he got it done. I could sense as I stood there four feet from President Trump, as he looked me in the eyes, he knew I was serious.

He thought, here’s someone who’s serious, who can come in and help us clean up some of the problems. He was serious about getting it done. I’m serious about getting that done. And so heaven help us and heaven willing, he’ll end up back in the White House, come January of next year. I’m also hoping that he’ll make good on that promise, and I’ll end up on a task force that will help rid the military of the monster that is the diversity, equity and inclusion industry and agenda.

Dan Ball
I would put, every penny I have on him doing that. If you get in and if anything I can do to help. I’ll be there as well. Hopefully we’re getting another interview with him soon. I’m trying. I’m working on that, and I will ask him that very question about the awesome DEI nonsense in the military. Let’s back up a tick here.

And let folks know your story briefly, if you could. Why are you no longer in?

Matt Lohmeier
Sure. I wrote a bestselling book, what became a bestselling book called Irresistible Revolution. The subtitle says more than the title of the book does. Its Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military. It was a public criticism of critical race theory, cultural Marxism, the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda, and it was also championing the greatness of the American ideal.

I was fired for that book. It was a non truly nonpartisan book, but I had spent months before writing that book actually filing a formal written complaint with the Space Force Inspector General’s office detailing the ways in which we had unethical and illegal race based discrimination going on at the base and in the military, and tying the the current diversity, equity and inclusion agenda to its cultural Marxist roots, which a lot of people to this day surprisingly still deny.

And so I wrote a book about it. I spoke out about it. I was fired from my command for doing that, and I had spent over 15 years in the military on active duty service up until that point, both as a commander and also as a fighter pilot in the 15 C I’d been a T-38 instructor pilot, and I had a fairly successful career up until that point by anyone’s, standard.

What’s ironic about my firing for alleged political partisanship is that when I separated without my pension in the fall of 2021, I received later thereafter a notice from the Air Force inspector General’s office saying it had concluded an investigation into me, and I had been found guilty of no wrongdoing. So it was really a bitter irony.

I’ve said for a long, long time, I’ve been speaking in the public arena about these issues ever since. But I thought, surely we can do only so much pushing back, even from within the ranks or as private citizens. We need President Trump to start by issuing an executive order on day one, banning these CRT and DEI trainings.

But then it will require persistent, consistent oversight from some special task force to make sure that for years to come, we’re doing our best to root all of this out of the military, and that we’re incentivizing those men and women that actually love their country and that do truly see each other as equals, get them to a place where they’re incentivized to serve their country once again, fix the recruitment and retention issues that we’re facing.

Fix our service academies, the military service academies that also have problems with woke instructors and, woke activism. You really start to solve very quickly some of the big problems that we’ve introduced over the past four years. But some of those problems are going to take many years to fix, which is why we need a new administration.

Dan Ball
Well, besides the new administration, there’s going to be a lot of generals and some colonels. Yes, is fired, period. That’s right. I mean, they’re going to have to be, you know, they booted people out for refusing the facts. They booted you over the high stuff that you were standing up to. Yeah. There’s going to be a lot of top brass that need to go by, by not demotions, not a new command.

They’ll just reinstate their DEI crap. They need to be removed from the rank and file, period. Matt, let me ask you about that day with the president. Was that the original question did you plan on and how did you get there? And because that seemed pretty organic. And I saw you look at your notes and then you just kind of ad libbed, I do that a lot. So does Trump.

Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, he does. And I know he respects that about real men. So I thought as I sat there on the stage for a whole hour listening to this town hall, most of which I couldn’t really hear very well, I had a question in front of me that was driven by, polling numbers, and interest, and they gave us very strict instructions: don’t depart from the script that we’ve given you.

I understand why they do that, but I had to ask myself honestly as I sat there, is this why I’m here? To read a scripted question to the president? Or do I speak from the heart to a man who will recognize that and try and solve a problem?

And that’s exactly what I elected to do. And, felt led to ask exactly what I asked and to propose exactly what I proposed. And I, and I could tell that he recognized that judged accurately, that I meant what I said and was interested in solving the problem with me, which I very much respect about him.

Dan Ball
That’s amazing, I love it. And then right after you had that big, 15 seconds, 15 minutes of fame with the president on a national stage, on live television, you put a tweet out to your fellow service members, and I want to put that up and read that on this show, because I know we have a lot of veterans that watch this network on this program.

And, folks, let me tell you what Matt wrote here.

A NOTE ON THE NEW TASK FORCE: Since last night, when President Trump suggested at his Fayetteville Town Hall that he would put me on a special task force to rid the military of wokeism and DEI, I’ve had troops sending me screen shots of trainings they’re still receiving: pro LGBTQ agenda, pro trans, pro anti-white racism, anti-Americanism etc.

I HAVE A REQUEST OF OUR TROOPS: please start capturing screenshots today of emails and trainings you’re receiving. They will try to hide and delete and cover up evidence of their involvement if Trump wins, but there will be accountability. We will ensure we eliminate this rot from the military. Many patriotic, America-loving men and women wish to serve in the world’s greatest military. We can make it strong and great again but we need accountability. You can help us with that. Capture the evidence.

I wanted to put that all call out Matt to the Active-Duty troops or veterans that may have gotten out recently, and maybe you took screenshots. You saved some emails. Send them to Matt and Matt. How do we do?

So I know you have this amazing. Is it a nonprofit? I checked your website today STARRS, that’s STARRS.US.

Matt Lohmeier
STARRS dot US, STARRS with two R’s. It is an education based nonprofit that’s focused on educating Americans about the Marxist rot that’s even infiltrated our military. It champions the greatness of the American ideal, the oath that all of our veterans and our current active duty service members took to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

And it’s truly nonpartisan. I mean, it is an education platform. It’s a phenomenal website. You can contact me and us there. We have a list of, I think it’s now 200 pages of boots on the ground perspective, feedback, unsolicited from our troops that we’ve gathered from online and that they’ve sent directly to us about what they’re seeing by way of training in the military. (1,900 comments showing CRT/DEI agenda hurts recruitment, retention and moral)

Please send it to that website and we’ll continue to collect it, compile it, and make sure that it’s, it’s reviewed thoroughly every single submission that we get so that I can take that with me to that task force if Trump ends up in office again.

Dan Ball
Well, again, we’ll end where we began. God willing, the 45th president will become the 47th. And then there’s a whole lot of work to do in this country, from foreign policy to the economy to the border. But the military, if we don’t have one, we’re not a country. We have to have a strong military, a non woke military that is battle ready at any moment and right now.

And I hate saying this when I say it on live television to the enemy, but I don’t feel under this regime our fighting forces are as ready as they used to be because of the woke training, because of all the people that got kicked out and because of the people that left over all of this. Matt, thank you so much and I will keep you, let me tell you what, you’re on speed dial from now on. You know, you’re an ex Air Force guy that went Space Force. I’m an old Air Force guy as well. I worked for Air Force back in the day. So I informed you and made you laugh while you were flying.

So. We all had our role to play, right? And we have to fix this. It has to be fixed. Matt Lohmeier, folks look up his website. His charity nonprofit rather nonprofit STARRS.us with two R’s. And if you’re active duty or veteran, help him. We’ve got to get this wokeism out of our active duty. Matt God bless you, brother. You take care.

Matt Lohmeier
Thanks, Dan. We’ll see you. Yep.

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At NC Town Hall, Matt Lohmeier asks President Trump to remove divisive DEI from the military

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Matthew Lohmeier, a US Air Force Academy graduate and former Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force/US Space Force, was on the stage during a Town Hall in Fayetteville, North Carolina (home of Ft. Bragg) where President Trump answered questions from veterans and military families–including a question from Matt.

With Matt on stage was Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, and former Green Beret John Frankman, who was kicked out of the Army for refusing to take the untested C19 vax. Also on stage was a Marine Vietnam veteran who had given his Purple Heart to President Trump after the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.

Matt was the last person to ask a question. Here’s the video and transcript:

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
Thank you, Mr. President. We now have time for one last question. So our last question.

President Trump:
Make this a good one!

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
Our last one comes from Matthew. Matthew? He is a F-15 pilot. I won’t hold that against you. Okay?

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
Mr. President, first off, I want to speak on behalf of everyone here and say thank you for taking time tonight to speak with our troops.

President Trump:
Thank you. Thank you again. We got a lot of good looking men in this audience, don’t we, huh? And a lot of good looking women also, by the way. Thank you very much. Okay. Go ahead.

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
I’m going to revisit something you’ve talked about already. My name is Matt Lohmeier. I was an Air Force F-15 pilot, and I was a commander in your newly created U.S. Space Force.

I am also the first veteran of the Space Force, because under the Biden-Harris regime, I was fired from my command and lost my pension for criticizing the DEI trainings that were rampant in the military.

Those trainings are still dividing our troops. And thank you for saying you would fire those few woke generals who are a big problem.

President Trump:
They’re gone.

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
I’m going to suggest that it might, in fact, require ongoing oversight and a persistent, consistent, watchful eye within the Pentagon to ensure this monster never returns to the Defense Department.

Will you consider establishing a special task force office or position to ensure that these monsters never return to the Defense Department?

President Trump:
Yes, and you know what I’ll do, and I’m pretty good at this stuff–sometimes you get it wrong. I’m going to put you on that task force.

I think it’s good–I’m not going to do better than him. I’ll put you on. Make sure you give the name. Thank you. You’re beautiful guy, right? (talking to the other veterans on stage) I have your approval?

Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier:
Yes, sir.

President Trump:
I have your approval? (talking to the other veterans on stage). We’re not going to get better than him. You’re right about it. You’re right, 100%. Thank you.

Full Video: President Trump Hosts a Town Hall in Fayetteville, NC – 10/4/24

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Matt Lohmeier: Navigating Ideological Shifts in the Military

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Matt Lohmeier, Executive Vice President of STARRS, author of the book “Irresistible Revolution” and a public speaker, gave the keynote talk at the STARRS Rally for Our Republic in September 2024 in Arizona. His presentation starts with a video introduction of his story, an early preview of his upcoming documentary.

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Former US Air Force/US Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier (also a 2006 USAFA grad) shares his personal journey from commanding the 11th Space Warning Squadron to grappling with a profound leftwing ideological shift within the military amplified by the events in 2020. His evolving sense of patriotism and deep appreciation for American history sets the stage for a candid discussion on the impact of leftist ideologies on morale and readiness at Buckley Air Force Base and the resulting challenges of military recruitment.

Matt talked about the thought-provoking literature he introduced to troops at Buckley, sparking conversations that challenge and broaden perspectives. Starting with Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” and moving through historical and political topics, he talks about intriguing links to Frederick Douglass’s philosophies amidst today’s political movements. This literary journey wasn’t just about books; it was about fostering meaningful dialogue in a space often dominated by rigid narratives.

Matt’s talk takes a reflective turn as he explores the dilemma faced by conservative Christians balancing faith and societal change. Drawing on lessons from Cleon Skousen’s book, “The Naked Communist,” he discusses the enduring power of the “Christian Code” as a response to contemporary ideologies. With a call to love, pray, vote, and consider military service, he inspires listeners to engage actively in civic life, championing the values and principles they hold dear, while offering a heartfelt appeal to young men to serve their country in a time of need.

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Matthew Lohmeier on the Military Justice Today Podcast

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On this episode of Military Justice Today, attorney Robert Capovilla interviews former space-based missile squadron commander and author, Matthew Lohmeier.

Topics include his best-selling book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, as well as his opinions about the impact of CRT/DEI/Woke ideology on the U.S. Military’s operational readiness.

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Matt Lohmeier on Marxism, CRT, and the Unmaking of the Military joins Take FiVe

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“I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at the moment. I’d like to invite men to step up and be men, and to have courage.”

Matt Lohmeier was interviewed on His Glory TV. Starts at the 4:40 mark. Watch:

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Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
. . . . All right. Now, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier. Lieutenant Colonel, thank you for joining us.

00:04:43:02 – 00:04:45:00
Matt Lohmeier
Happy to be here. Thanks.

00:04:45:03 – 00:04:59:17
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
So, could you give, the his glory, audience and family a background on yourself? I mean, I look at that year to master’s degrees in Space Force and wow, fighter pilot. This is pretty, pretty impressive stuff.

00:04:59:20 – 00:05:25:29
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. I started my military career at the US Air Force Academy out in Colorado. And, that’s where I decided I wanted to fly after graduating and commissioning. ended up doing that. I was a T-38 instructor pilot for a number of years in Oklahoma. I spent a bit of time, down in Texas. In fact, we have a program called the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals that we do after someone leaves pilot training.

And in my case, after I left, being an instructor pilot in Oklahoma, I went down to Wichita Falls, Texas, for my first time in Texas. left there, went to, Oregon to learn how to fly the F-15 C and went on from there to Okinawa, Japan, and flew jets, as you’ve indicated before joining the Air Force Space Community, which later became the U.S. Space Force and ultimately finished up my career as a commander in the U.S Space Force and leading, a unit that accomplishes our nation’s space based missile warning program.

00:05:59:26 – 00:06:16:28
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Wow. That’s a that’s amazing. well, we’ll get into that. Also, the day of the military and what’s happening on our military today. Yeah. but fighter pilots are near and dear to my heart. My grandfather was a reason I went in the Marines was because he was a fighter pilot in World War Two, in the Korean War, a marine, lieutenant colonel as well. And, so watch what you guys do as a fighter. Pilots are just absolutely amazing stuff. So can you talk about, the day and state of our military right now? Well, what’s happened to our military?

00:06:31:02 – 00:07:08:27
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah, I do focus personally and professionally on diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s lineage of ideas which stem from Marxist ideology; many people are waking up to that reality. but it is DEI that is not the only the reason our military is currently suffering retention and recruiting issues. It’s not the only reason, our ability to maintain an effective mission ready force is being affected or it’s not the only reason it’s suffering.

However, I do focus quite a bit on that, and it plays a tremendous, role. It is one of the root causes for, many of the problems were suffering. So diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been around, of course, in the universities for decades now. And we’ve seen, if we’ve been paying attention, the ways in which ideology can be so utterly divisive, it can wrecked it, can wreck proper thinking as it seeks to attack Western civilization.

Critical theory, specifically, any of its variants, what people are now colloquially referring to as wokeism is precisely what I’m talking about. And that is a kind of religious worldview in and of itself that determines for you who the bad guys are, who the good guys are, and how to line up on on the right side of things, who the oppressor and who the oppressed classes in society are now that’s predominantly race based, although they’ll they’ll grab a hold of any particular subset of society they think they can sufficiently agitate to cause unrest, aggression, hatred and violence.

In my view, the father of lies is the founder of all of this. And it’s not just as old as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who happened to put together the Communist Manifesto in 1848 with a similar narrative. It goes back to the very beginning of recorded human history, and, and it wears many masks. It goes by many different names, but its most recent variant, I’ll say, to keep it simple is diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that pits people against one another.

You can imagine how that might wreak havoc in an institution such as the Department of Defense that requires unity in order to be effective in its mission. Instead of unity, you have division. You have mistrust. For the other, you have a disrespect for leadership and race politics, eventually, or inevitably then, predominates in the culture.

That’s the thing I’ve been trying to speak up about and against for several years now. It’s the reason I was fired from my command back in 2021. And, in fact, the reason I’ve joined a nonprofit organization called STARRS, you can see the sign right over my shoulder that that is a veteran led nonprofit that focuses specifically on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the United States military and tries to refocus our troops, our senior leaders in the military on, the things that actually unite people, which is their mission, their common mission, their common blood, their common uniform, and a love, for their country and for the Constitution and the ideals that shaped our country.

00:09:56:22 – 00:10:14:19
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Yeah. It’s, it’s, insanity what’s happened to our military is you talking about stars? We’ve had General Bishop on several times. He’s been a huge fighter and proponent to stop this day. I did get a call about a year ago from a Canadian former Canadian general, what they were doing in our academy in the Air Force. I got it to General Bishop, and he was able to change it in the academy. But to for that type of behavior to get that far was extremely concerning. How did how does our military, the generals, allow something like this to happen in our academies?

00:10:32:22 – 00:10:55:18
Matt Lohmeier
Some of them happen to be true believers in these ideas, unfortunately, and many of them are afraid to speak up. And there’s a lack of courage, culturally, we’ve created a climate of fear. There’s a pendulum that swings, of course, back and forth. And, in the aftermath of the last presidential election and the instantiate of a new regime, there was a tremendous fear that people had.

They were afraid of being labeled something like racist. They were afraid to say something that could be perceived as going against a party, an official party line, and as we’ve seen, I think especially in the past year, people starting to regain some courage there. They’re learning enough about these issues that are hurting recruiting and retention, thanks to organizations like STARRS and General Bishop and others to to to make that determination in their mind that enough is enough.

If I don’t speak up, who will? I’m willing to join the ranks of those who are fighting back and speaking up and try and make a difference, even at the local level. The best all of us can really do is to try and become educated ourselves, and then to exhibit the courage to speak up and use our voice freely and respectfully in whatever sphere of influence it is that we happen to occupy.

And that can go much further and make tremendous impact in ways that we can’t foresee always.

00:11:54:07 – 00:12:18:21
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Well, General Bishop, General McInerney, General Valley–General McInerney, and General Valley are on with us every month. So the last jabs that went after, military people in the military that, you know, had lieutenant colonels like yourself in the Marines, there were fighter pilots in Arizona, 18 years experience, if they wouldn’t have taken the jab that they were going to get dishonorably discharged.

What has happened again to our military? And talk about somebody like your level, Lieutenant Colonel, you’re the one of the most seasoned, officers out there, and all the training is taking you to get to that point. How damaging is that to our military and readiness?

00:12:37:13 – 00:13:11:16
Matt Lohmeier
It’s proven to be terribly damaging, not just because we’ve lost over 8000 of our troops because of what I now clearly see was, an unethical and illegal mandate. In some ways and, it seems to have specifically targeted conservative Christian service members who had a spine and, whether or not any individual went about their resistance to that unethical mandate, appropriately, they were all trying to, be true to their own convictions.

Now you’ve got that small percentage of the military that’s effectively been purged during this regime as a consequence of them standing on principle, saying it went against their personal views or convictions or religious ideas or convictions and, what’s more, and what’s equally as concerning to me, it’s not just the injustice of the treatment of some of those who resisted.

It’s the lasting, consequences for those of our service members who are still in uniform, who chose, in many cases, very reluctantly, to go ahead and and take that shot or series of shots. They’ve had terrible health problems. There’s a Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long in the Army who’s just now retiring after her honorable service, and she’s been a foremost whistleblower, talking about some of the terrible, devastating consequences of, as as a result of this, really quite foolish policy of mandating that your very young, all volunteer, healthy, relatively healthy force, submit themselves to an experimental shot.

You have to begin to question the motives. Of course, as we’ve seen, the difficult, consequences from a health perspective are good. The grounding of pilots and, and people ending up with lifelong, debilitating, sickness, for example, you have to wonder what agenda was at play and who’s behind an agenda, because I don’t think it was an accident that that’s what we saw happen now.

00:14:51:06 – 00:15:09:12
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
And it’s very concerning when you hear pilots that just collapse, in the cockpit. Right. And I heard many stories of Marines that way.

Lieutenant Colonel, can you talk about the readiness of our armed forces? We see recruiting numbers are way down. Readiness? Just, potential recruits. I saw something yesterday. Like 70% of American, youth could not pass a physical to get into the military today. so where are we at? A readiness if we had to go to some sort of extended war or, heaven forbid, on 2 or 3 fronts at once.

00:17:49:20 – 00:18:15:21
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. We do have a problem overextending ourselves on the world stage, which is a concern even when you’re in a, a ready to fight fit, state as a military. Of course, there’s been concern for some time that we’re not necessarily in a ready state to to fight a war. I just had an email come in earlier this morning sharing with me from a cadet at West Point that Elon Musk just visited this past week.

I was really interested in finding out what Elon Musk was going. I’m surprised they let him show up at West Point in the first place given the controversy about his stand on free speech and his alignment with conservatism over the past couple of years, and West Point’s been the opposite, in fact, in many respects, but Elon Musk shared with this group of cadets, as a primary concern, the military’s readiness to wage conflict and not just on a multi, regional scale, but in any, serious conflict with a great power competitor.

I think it was unspoken. I don’t have a recording of what he said. I think it’s unwritten. But, he indicated, that he thought our ability to manufacture weapons and military capabilities in this country is far too slow. And I’ll add from a to compete at that level anymore, and that, I’ll add.

Our ability to keep ready aircraft, and mission capable numbers, of both personnel and machinery has suffered for the for the past several years even as we can’t retain the talent that we have, even if certain people are on medical profiles or have become sick as a consequence of this illegal shot mandate. so there’s a very negative trend as far as military readiness, our ability to wage combat.

Heritage Foundation even has conducted annually independent assessments of the US military strength. And I think that the name of their annual report that they put out is an index of U.S. military strength. Overall, in 2023, the report concluded that, the US military was weak, I think is the word that they used as their overall rating. There were multiple levels and some of the branches of the military, including the Air Force and Space Force or one or the other was very weak, and that the way in which they go about making that assessment is not just, a wag.

They have, metrics that they use, like the mission capability of our fighter force, for example, of our Navy ships. So when you see both, word of mouth, feedback coming from our troops about their dissatisfaction about morale in the workplace, on the one hand, you see metrics based, analysis coming out of institutions like the Heritage Foundation who are trying to provide the American people and members of Congress, some awareness of what they ought to be looking into and how to fix some of these problems.

You begin to see a very concerning picture emerge. It’s that there is a consensus from boots on the ground to, to members of Congress, to, the veteran community that we might not necessarily be properly postured to wage a serious conflict, on the world stage, that ought to frighten Americans. If if all of the other concerns and problems that we were having as a country didn’t exist, and there are many of those from border issues to public education issues to you name it, whatever your issue is said.

All of those aside, let’s say they were all cleaned up tomorrow, and the only remaining problem was whether or not you’ve got a lethal, capable, ready, high morale military to protect your nation. That issue alone is is has enough weight to it that, it could protect it could potentially put the United States in jeopardy, of losing its security and not being able to defend itself.

I think we’ve seen a turn in and the tides, so to speak, from the comfortable position we were in post-Cold War where we came out, the kings of the world, so to speak, and, had a relatively, hubristic, proud approach, on the world stage and, the ability to exert power in the Middle East and on multiple fronts to now the, a debacle in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the lack of credibility and seriousness both with our allies and the enemies on the world stage.

All of that goes a long way when you’re trying to project power or to maintain your security. We’re we’re staring into the abyss at the moment, I think standing on the precipice and the American people have really, you know, I say this is not speaking on behalf of my organization, but just as a personal opinion.

The American people have very serious decisions to make here come election season. If we’d like to plunge into that abyss or if we’d like to try and reverse course and, and we have to choose wisely and hope that our, our votes count. Right. And hope that the system hasn’t been so ultimately compromised that none of that matters anyway, that in fact, it does matter.

And so we speak up. We vote, we vote, and we we try our best to influence a positive outcome because that’s that’s about all you can hope to accomplish as a bystander and as a citizen at this point. You do your part and you pray and hope that, the outcomes can be different for the next administration.

00:23:32:23 – 00:23:50:27
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
So how do we how do we do that? How do we get this, get our military back in ready order. And I’ll ask you a second question. The question is, which I ask every lieutenant colonel and every general that comes out his glory. What happened? What’s what’s this disconnect between the lieutenant colonels and a four star generals of today? And why are the four star generals not exercising their constitutional rights in the military to make sure this stuff does not happen on their watch?

00:24:02:01 – 00:24:24:04
Matt Lohmeier
Yeah. You know, Lieutenant colonels, for example, promote through the ranks based on their merit. Largely it should be that way, and accomplishment and talent. You get beyond that to a certain point, people begin retiring, and then you have political appointees that end up being general officers, flag officers. Many of them are good, good men and women, don’t get me wrong. I’m grateful for the good men and women. but there is a political aspect to their ongoing service, as general and flag officers, that they are reluctant, extremely reluctant to compromise, and to, be disloyal to. I think they’re interested in being yes men and yes women.

There’s been a time and place for that, and it’s been necessary for a functioning military. There’s civilian control of the military, but we’ve now got, a position where we’ve got more and more political ideologues who are rising to power because of their political worldview.

If they don’t share in the same political worldview or seem to be contrary in any way, then they they find that they’re somehow disqualified for continued progress through the ranks, and that there’s been a subtle shift over time. But it’s apparent now, now that it’s kind of taken root. There was a purge of general officers under the Obama regime, and you ended up with, certain political leaning after that phase.

There’s been a purge that’s been deliberate during this administration. People find themselves disgusted if they maybe share our worldview or some semblance of our worldview. So they choose to retire, they choose to get out of that arena and to go into a more private life at the very moment when they should, in fact, be speaking up.

So that’s why I think there’s a disconnect between maybe the lieutenant colonel and the general officer ranks. But back to your first question. How do you solve this problem? The military up front. We need a different administration. You’re not going to solve these problems with the current administration or a 2.0 of this administration after election season, and you need new senior leaders.

We need we need to hold senior leaders accountable. We need to hold the lowest level of our military accountable for political activism in any form. They’re welcome to their political worldview, but they need to be laser focused on the mission that they do and becoming lethal ready warriors. They need to have instilled in them the kind of respect for the warrior ethos from senior leaders that we’ve had for so many decades that we’ve now lost.

I just reviewed some training from the Air Force Academy, in fact, that I got yesterday in an email and was a bit I was embarrassed to read the language that our new cadets that are coming into the Air Force Academy are getting from their senior leaders. It doesn’t engender respect. It’s not impressive. It looks like it was written by people who are somewhat uneducated, but who have a political ax to grind.

I thought, yeah, these young men and women are going to show up and what they thought they were signing up for. It is not what they’re meeting with and their experience there and some of them are going to be discouraged by that, and some of them might not choose to stay in and commission. Some of them have expressed I’ve heard anecdotally that they hope things will be different when they commission and get out into the real Air Force.

They might be unfortunately surprised, too. So we need an overhaul of the leadership in the military. You can’t do that under the current administration. I think, speaking of accountability. Some people need to be recalled and tried for illegal activity. That’s the that’s the bottom line. You can’t let people get away with criminal conduct, illegal discrimination, unethical behavior and go off quietly into the night and and enjoy a comfortable retirement.

I’m not calling for anything radical. I’m saying you need to instill accountability in this country. Otherwise you lose it forever. You have an unjust state. When you have an unjust state, things will devolve all the more rapidly into something I warned about in the book that I wrote, which is civil conflict.

So to say nothing of all of our great competitors on the world stage, the rest of Russia’s and the Chinas of the world, and maintaining the respect of our alliances in the on the world stage, you’ve got a domestic problem, that’s been fueled by illegal immigration, but it’s also fueled by the terrible partisan divide that we’ve got at the moment where people actually hate the other, and that’s grown so aggressive that there are people now of the view.

I’m not advocating for this, but they’re now of the view that there’s only one solution to the problem we face. It’s to kill. When you get to a point like that in a country, any number of matches, so to speak, could be lit. That could ignite the whole thing. You can’t predict how that might play out.

So I really hope and pray that we have more time to solve some of these problems, reverse course, repent as a country, and to start to heal some of the fractious divide that we’re seeing, lest we end up on that path.

00:29:07:18 – 00:29:25:05
Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
Yeah. Absolutely. Right. When we sign up for the military, we’re signed to the Constitution, lawful orders. I like what you said. We have to follow these generals need to follow lawful orders. Me as a private I have to follow lawful orders. I’ll let you have the last 30s. Lieutenant Colonel.

00:29:25:08 – 00:29:43:11
Matt Lohmeier
Well, I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at the moment. I’d like to invite men to step up and be men, and to have courage.

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Dave Scarlett, Take Five Host
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Lohmeier: DEI is Crushing Military Morale and Readiness

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Matthew Lohmeier was recently interviewed on the Brian Thomas Morning radio show about his book and the problem of the radical DEI agenda in the military.

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Hi, It’s Brian Thomas, 55 Carsey Morning Show. Happy to welcome to the 55 Carsey Morning Show Matthew Lohmeier. He is a 2006 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. He started his active duty military career as a pilot, flew over twelve hundred hours and a T-38 as an instructor pilot after followed by the F-15C.

After flying, he cross trained into space operations: first in a space based missile warning October twenty twenty, he transferred to the United States Space Force. He’s got two Masters agree and a Military Operations Art and Science, Masters of Philosophy and Military Strategy, and up until recently it was a Lieutenant colonel at command of the Space Based Missile Warning Squadron in Colorado.

Welcome to the fifty five Ksey Morning Show. Now retired, Matthew Lohmeier, author of,  came out in 2021, but still so very important Irresistible Revolution: Marxism Goal of Conquest, and the Unmaking of the American Military.

Matthew, it is a pleasure to have you on the program. And what a scary title that is.

It is a scary title, very deliberately written, and I’m happy to join you.

Well, we’ve got a lot of military families in the listening audience. I do everything I can in my power on the radio to help out veterans and veterans causes, and so you’re going to sell a lot of these books, and rightfully so. DEI in the military.

I’ve been reading about it for years. I’ve had my I’ve got military folks currently serving and have recently served or retired talking about what a problem is all the resources thrown at DEI issues, and mostly the E is the problem.

They’re promoting people from outside the normal channels of the ranks, and people who are qualified getting pushed back to the side, and having folks promoted above those that are qualified merely because they fill the blank in on certain DEI related issues. I mean, that’s just not right.

That’s got to be terrible from morale. And what’s that got to do, if I may be so bold, Matthew Lohmeier, what has that got to do with killing people and breaking things, which is the primary goal of the military.

Well, you’re absolutely right that the E in DEI is a tremendous problem. But the diversity part is also a problem because what they pretend to aspire to is some kind of authentic diversity. What they really mean by that is race based quotas, and it destroys the merit based system that we need in a lethal and ready fighting force.

In the United States military, we’ve always had and prized a merit based selection and promotion process, and instead the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda effectively destroys that merit.

And so you’re absolutely right. It is debilitating of the morale, the good order and discipline of our troops, and it’s undermining our readiness and lethalities. Of course, well is looking at your subtitle Marxism goal of conquest in the unmaking American military.

That’s the goal, isn’t it to ruin morale and reduce the numbers of people willing to volunteer for an all volunteer military.

Yeah, your listeners are going to be well aware of the fact that for decades now the universities have been plagued with Marxist ideology, Marxist thought. The overarching aim of my book that I had written really at the time immediately following the transition from President Trump to the current administration.

The aim of the book is to clearly show that all of the diversity and inclusion trainings, the vocabulary, and the agenda first and foremost is rooted in Marxist revolutionary thought, and that it’s finally made its way out of the universities and elsewhere into the uniform services.

That it’s dividing our troops, it’s hitting people against one another and therefore crushing morale and readiness, and it’s also having a terrible impact on a recruiting and retention efforts, which is why we’re having abysmal recruiting rates and not meeting our goals.

And ultimately it’s a warning to the American people and to our service members and to senior defense officials that unless we abandon this divisive path that is part of the deliberately a part of the diversity and inclusion agenda, it will unfortunately lead to violence because of the visceral emotional response that people have for one another when they genuinely start to believe in these ideas that they’re not those ideas which include that the like, for example, the police are inherently racist.

That’s a BLM philosophy, and of course the BLM folks were admittedly Marxist. That’s one of the tenets of the legs of Marxist philosophy is to undermine our belief in and our respect for the military and the police.

Those are institutions which are directly connected with the evil need to be overthrown capitalist system. They are a the muscle for the capitalists, and what we need to do is undermine there. Therefore, the capitalist system will fall as the military and the police system falls. I mean, that’s a goal they have.

It is a goal. In fact, I recently went to Minneapolis as a part of a film that I’m shooting that’s going to come out this fall, just prior to the election. I can’t yet say the name, but everyone should end up hearing about it.

And what I saw in Minneapolis that was the result of one terrible leadership for a number of years. But this kind of activism that is fraught with the diversity and inclusion agenda and initiatives and language vocabulary, is that it completely wrecks a city.

And I’ve seen what happened right there on George Floyd Square where there’s a memorial there, and in the city surrounding that area. And I’m telling you that the same thing is happening to the military, and a smaller scale to be sure, But it’s not just a criticism of the police force. And it is exactly that, just like you’ve mentioned.

I heard at my base, and other troops are hearing at their bases a criticism of America’s founders as white supremacists and racists, and a criticism of America’s founding values and principles that actually made us the priest and greatest country in history.

That is so heart wrenching to hear. Let me ask you this. I mean, we’re, as you pointed out, we’re all painfully aware that college education is now replete and filled with DEI and woke Marxist philosophy.

It’s been that way for a long time. We know it’s seeped its way in K through twelve education with the same kind of principles being taught to our young people, and that worked itself into the Department of Education. That is a concerted effort. You can do that when you have this unified, uh just basically one size fits all education system.

Here’s the curriculum. Teach every kid that how in God’s name, did this curriculum, this philosophy make it into America’s military right?

Well, at first it began with activism after the death of George Floyd. We had service members high and low that were activists, just like you saw in the news where cities are burning and police cars are being smashed and windows being smashed.

That same activism and a small scale began to spread its way through the military because the seeds had been planted and they’re in trainings over the number of course of a number of years.

But President Trump in September of twenty twenty attempted to end forever: the diversity and inclusion trainings that we were seeing in the United States military by executive order, and he did just that, and there was a several month reprieve from this kind of training.

But Joe Biden in this administration, on January twentieth of twenty twenty one, reverse President Trump’s executive order by executive fiat and brought back these diversity and inclusion trainings and agenda with a bang.

And of course, he selected a Secretary of Defense in Lloyd Austin that is very much in support of this agenda. He has a very different world view the most Americans, and he believes in the oppressor versus oppressed narrative of human events that was taught by Marx and Engels one hundred and fifty plus years ago in the Communist Manifesto.

And these guys, through policy, expect these trainings and trainings to fill the military workplace. We’ve even had superintendents that are military service academy, such as the Air Force Academy, my own alma mater, say that they’re going to fill the university there, the Military Service Academy with diversity, equity and inclusion, in every nook and cranny of that service academy.

We need to eliminate poor leadership in the next administration. We need to make sure that we completely abolish all of these DEI policies, and we need to get our military back on track, which is my foremost concern, although it’s infecting every other federal agency as well as we’ve recently seen and are seeing in the headlines today as of yesterday and the day before well, and obviously that is a problem that’s not going to go anyway soon given the size, scope and inability to fire anybody in the administrative state.

But and you made a great point in bringing up Donald Trump in his efforts to get rid of this, which you’ve said, we’re successful at least for a short period of time.

As commander in chief, he essentially is the Department of Education when it comes to the curriculum in the military.

Right, can he eliminate this if Donald Trump is elected president again and turn the ship around. Yeah, that’s an important, or I should say critical part of fixing the problem. It’s getting the right commander in chief in and ensuring that we’ve got both corrective policy in place, and also selecting the right leaders the right oversight committees to make sure that and I’m not talking about Congress, I’m talking about they’re actually both congressionally mandated as well as executive a point of positions that provide oversight of our military service academies to ensure these kinds of things go away and go away fast.

But of course, cultural change doesn’t necessarily happen rapidly. It’s going to take time and concerted effort and courage from those that still wear the uniform of their country to speak up respectfully and say, hey, we disagree with what’s being taught. It’s against our values, it’s discriminating and makes it uncomfortable. It’s not inclusive. There’s no real diversity here. My viewpoint is denigrated.

I don’t see the authenticity and this approach, and I think if more and more people speak up about that, we’re far more likely to see the cultural change that we need. But it starts, indeed, with the right commander in chief setting the right policy. And unfortunately, because we’re so divided, that is what it comes down to at the moment.

But it would have been unthinkable two decades ago and three decades ago for any commander in chief to make policies that are deliberately apparently dividing our troops in uniform underscore what you just said, deliberately that’s the most frightening component of everything that we have talked about and everything that you talk about in your book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military by retired Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier.

I really wish your book was sort of like a warning about what could have happened or could happen, as opposed to the reality of what is currently happening. But you sound like you at least have some measure of optimism.

With a different commander in chief and different policies, we can turn this ship around and head back in the right direction. God bless you, sir for the time you spell my listeners and meet this morning. The book itself, Irresistible Revolution, which my listeners can get at my blog page fifty five KRC dot com. I will strongly encourage them to do that and share it with every single one of their friends.

Thank you very much, been my pleasure.

Thanks again for your time and your service to our country and your continued service.

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Persecuted ex-Space Force commander calls for eliminating woke ideology from U.S. military

by In the News

By Calvin Freiburger | LifeSite News

A longtime military commander ousted from the U.S. Space Force in 2021 for criticizing the spread of woke ideology in America’s armed forces is speaking out again, sharing the details of his experience with Fox News and calling for new leadership for the nation’s defenders.

Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, the former commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, was fired in 2021 after self-publishing a book titled Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.

In an interview at the time, he discussed the spread of critical race theory (CRT, the “view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself… is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of colour”) within the military through so-called “diversity and inclusion” programs.

In response, Space Operations Command head Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting relieved Lohmeier from his position over an alleged loss of confidence in his leadership ability and opened an investigation into whether Lohmeier’s comments qualified as “prohibited partisan political activity.”

“There was a whole string of events that did lead up to my being relieved of command,” the lieutenant colonel told Fox in a new interview published Friday. “The ultimate reason was because I was willing to be publicly critical of critical race theory, which I understood to be rooted in Marxist ideology… that I saw dividing the troops (…) I wasn’t advocating for Republicans over Democrats, and I’m conservative myself. But it didn’t matter to me. And it’s never mattered to our troops what someone else’s politics were.”

Since his firing, which came with the “gut punch” of losing his pension, Lohmeier has remained committed to exposing and uprooting the ideological priorities that have infected the military.

“You give your life and service to your country and the American people, and you’re not doing it for the pay,” he said. “You’re doing it because you become (convinced) of the greatness of the American ideal. And … senior leaders (then) say, ‘We want you out of the way because your view is not welcome here,’ even as they pretend to care about inclusivity, even as they pretend to care about diversity, (but) not diversity of thought.”

“We need to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion trainings from the military, from the service academies, and strip all vestiges of critical race theory out of the military workplace,” Lohmeier declared.

The steady rise of “woke” ideology within the military, which has persisted and grown since the Clinton years despite the presidencies of Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump, has been intensified by current President Joe Biden, who upon taking office quickly moved to open the military to recruits suffering from gender dysphoria in a reversal of Trump administration policy, then had  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin launch a review of supposed “domestic extremism” within the military that many saw as a pretext to purge conservative views from the ranks.

In March 2023, the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) published an update on the administration’s work to infuse the armed forces with left-wing gender ideology, ranging from enforcement of preferred pronouns to allowing cross-dressing and the use of opposite-sex showers and restrooms on military bases to making it harder to access information on the negative consequences of such policies.

Last November, the Pentagon requested an additional $114.7 million for diversity programs in the upcoming fiscal year, representing a total of $269.2 million in taxpayer dollars just on military diversity since Biden took office.

Such priorities have taken their toll. During a Pentagon press briefing in April 2022 on the Army’s budget for Fiscal Year 2023, Under Secretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo announced the Army had “proactively made a decision to temporarily reduce our end strength from 485,000 Soldiers to 476,000 in FY ’22, and 473,000 in FY ’23.” the Military Times reported at the time that this “could leave the service at its smallest size since 1940, when it had just over 269,000 troops.”

Gallup and Ronald Reagan Institute polls have both shown that the public has lost confidence in the military’s leaders, which presumably also has a significant effect on prospective soldiers’ willingness to sign up.

First published on LifeSite News

Some comments on the article:

“My husband (retired military) and I have read the book and highly recommend it. This is a brave man that put his life and career in jeopardy to speak out about the abuses occurring under this present Administration in our Military. We are a joke to the world and we will pay dearly for what is being allowed under this Administration.”

“A true leader. Reinstate this superb officer now.”

“I applaud this man’s courage. This is not the same country I grew up in. The lunatics are running the asylum. I pray for the young ones coming up behind me who will inherit this mess.”

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Former Space Force Officer Says ‘Separate Chain Of Command’ Enforces ‘Divisive Ideology’ In Military Academy

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By Harold Hutchinson   |  The Daily Caller

A former United States Space Force officer said Saturday morning that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is enforced by a “separate chain of command” at the Air Force Academy.

Former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier, who was relieved of command after he spoke out against DEI initiatives in the military in 2021 and says he lost his pension, told guest host Joey Jones on “Fox and Friends Saturday” that the academy “has diversity and inclusion cadet officers” who “report to a separate chain of command.”

Jones had referred to an Arizona State University study that found service academies encourage reporting “private conversations that challenge DEI precepts,” asking Lohmeier if he had similar experiences. (RELATED: ‘Congress Has To Step In’: Judicial Watch Sounds Alarm On CRT At West Point)

“In fact, come to think of it, I did experience that. A fellow commander informed me that they’re aware of my kind of politics and that they’d be happy to turn me into the base commander if I continued to privately criticize our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” he said. “But this problem has grown far beyond what I experienced, personally and professionally in the military workplace.”

“My own alma mater, the U.S. Air Force Academy, has diversity and inclusion cadet officers who wear a special insignia within their cadet squadrons, they wear purple braided rope over the shoulders and they report to a separate chain of command other than their military chain of command, relating to diversity and inclusion issues,” he continued. “It reminds one of Soviet political commissars that have been established both in the Soviet Union and in other Marxist revolutionary efforts throughout the last century.”

Lohmeier called DEI a “very dangerous, very divisive ideology” that is treated “like it is a protected religious worldview” that “others ought to step in line with and support in their words and actions, otherwise face consequences.”

The former commander spoke earlier in the segment about allegedly being fired over his concerns.

“Unfortunately for the American people and for all of the men and women in uniform, it’s been considered for a number of years now to be politically partisan to speak up against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” Lohmeier told Jones. “And of course, anyone who looks into this matter knows it shouldn’t necessarily be considered a partisan issue. I wasn’t interested in being politically partisan while I wore the uniform of the country and was in command of a space force unit, but of course, senior military leaders, especially under the current administration, decided that because of the climate of fear that we had created for ourselves they ought to treat my criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as partisan and, quote unquote, hold me accountable for speaking out against it.”

The Air Force Academy did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

CADET PROGRAM PROMOTES DIVERSITY, INCLUSION ACROSS ACADEMY CAMPUS (US Air Force Academy)

Cadets pose for a photo after graduating from the Cadet Wing Diversity and Inclusion Program this summer, allowing them to advise students on diversity at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Each cadet wears a purple rope across their left shoulder symbolizing their position as a diversity representative. (U.S. Air Force Academy photo and caption)

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Former Space Force commander Matthew Lohmeier sounds alarm on the ‘very dangerous’ impact of DEI policy

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Former Lt. Col. Space Force commander Matthew Lohmeier joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss how DEI in the military is potentially impacting military readiness.

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Fox Host:
In the military has our next guest, a former Space Force commander, lieutenant colonel, up in arms after he says he was fired and lost his pension for speaking out after serving in the military for over a decade. Matt Lohmeier ripped DEI training for dividing troops, decreasing morale, and ultimately affecting military readiness, which prompted action against him. Executive Vice president of STARRS Matt Lohmeier joins us now.

Good morning. Lieutenant Colonel, thank you for joining us. We were just talking in the commercial break there–you weren’t just fired from your position. You were also pushed out of the Space Force altogether. You lost your career over this?

Matt Lohmeier:
Yeah. You know, unfortunately for the American people and for all of the men and women in uniform, it’s been considered for a number of years now to be politically partisan to speak up against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And of course, anyone who’s looked into this matter knows it shouldn’t necessarily be considered a partisan issue. I wasn’t interested in being politically partisan while I wore the uniform of the country and was in command of a Space Force unit. But of course, senior military leaders, especially under the current administration, decided that because of the climate of fear that we had created for ourselves, they ought to treat my criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as partisan and, quote unquote, hold me accountable for speaking out against it.

Fox Host:
Now, one thing on my fact sheet here that I found really interesting a study, I believe it was by Arizona State University. And basically they found that part of the policy is that you’re mandated or required or encouraged to tell on others if they have a negative opinion of DEI. Did you experience that?

Matt Lohmeier:
In fact, come to think of it, I did experience that. A fellow commander informed me, that they’re aware of my kind of politics and that they’d be happy to turn me into the base commander if I continued to privately criticize our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. But this problem has grown far beyond what I experienced personally and professionally in the military workplace.

That report that you’ve just mentioned from Arizona State University’s Center for American Institutions, specifically mentioned some of the things that are happening currently at our military service academies. My own alma mater, the U.S. Air Force Academy, has diversity and inclusion cadet officers who wear a special insignia within their cadet squadrons that were purple braided ropes over the shoulders. And they report to us a separate chain of command other than their military chain of command relating to diversity and inclusion issues. It reminds one of Soviet political commissars that have been established in both in the Soviet Union and other Marxist revolutionary efforts throughout the last century. So this is a very dangerous, very divisive ideology and we treat it any more like it’s a protected religious worldview, but not just protected, but one that others ought to step in line with and support in their words and actions otherwise face consequences.

Fox Host:
Lieutenant Colonel, you show courage by joining the military. You showed even more courage by sticking to your oath and standing up for things you believe are American and honest and true and detrimental to our readiness. I can’t thank you enough for your service. Real quick, want to read this: the U.S. Space Force has not returned our request for comment. So we have your perspective today, and we appreciate it. Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier, thank you for joining us.

Matt Lohmeier:
Thanks for having me.

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Former Space Force commander speaks out again the CRT/DEI Agenda in the Military

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By Hannah Grossman, Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi | Fox News

A former space commander is calling for a change of leadership after he was fired for allegedly criticizing the Marxist DEI complex, which he believes is now being accelerated under the Biden administration.

Former Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier was in the military for over a decade before he joined the U.S. Space Force in 2020, where he specialized in missile warning systems. But less than a year later, in May 2021, he was “betrayed,” he told Fox News Digital in an interview.

Lohmeier publicly spoke out against DEI training because he believed it was dividing the troops and decreasing morale, which affected military readiness. He believes “the DEI industry… is steeped in critical race theory, is rooted in anti-American, Marxist ideology.”

“The blow was severe,” he said about allegedly being fired for his dissenting views. “It makes you feel like you’ve been betrayed.”

He said it was a real “gut punch” when he lost his pension.

“You give your life and service to your country and the American people, and you’re not doing it for the pay. You’re doing it because you become [convinced] of the greatness of the American ideal. And… senior leaders [then] say, ‘We want you out of the way because your view is not welcome here,’ even as they pretend to care about inclusivity, even as they pretend to care about diversity, [but] not diversity of thought,” he said.

Lohmeier believed he didn’t violate existing policy because the issue he took aim at was anti-Americanism, not politics.

“There was a whole string of events that did lead up to to my being relieved of command,” he said. “The ultimate reason was because I was willing to be publicly critical of critical race theory, which I understood to be rooted in Marxist ideology… that I saw dividing the troops.”

“I wasn’t advocating for Republicans over Democrats, and I’m conservative myself. But it didn’t matter to me. And it’s never mattered to our troops what someone else’s politics were,” he said.

The former commander is now trying to expose what he calls the “Marxist” military complex from the outside.

A new study commissioned by the Arizona State University Center for American Institutions revealed that the Pentagon’s DEI programs encourage reporting private conversations on dissenting views of DEI and has been steadily increasing its resources. DEI engines in the military cost taxpayers $68 million in 2022, $86.5 million in 2023, with a proposed $114.7 million for 2024, according to the ASU report.

The report, compiled by military experts, recommends abolishing the left-wing DEI agenda and replacing it with merit-based selections and American values curricula at the academies.

“We need to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion trainings from the military, from the service academies, and strip all vestiges of critical race theory out of the military workplace,” Lohmeier said.

The Space Force did not respond to a request for comment.

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Matthew Lohmeier: “I’m willing to die on this hill and speak up about this and say, this is, an extremely dangerous territory that we’ve entered. And I weighed the cost in doing that, knowing that, well, I might get in trouble somehow. I’m Matt Lohmeier. I was formerly a Lt Colonel and commander in the newest branch of the military, the Space Force.

I was fired for publicly criticizing diversity, equity and inclusion trainings and critical race theory. I was in command of our nation’s space based missile warning architecture and mission. While I was in command at Buckley Space Force Base out in Colorado, I was relieved of my command in May 2021 on a Friday. And there was a whole string of events that did lead up to to my being relieved of command.

The ultimate reason was because I was willing to be publicly critical of critical race theory, which I understood to be rooted in Marxist ideology.

I was willing to speak up against, diversity, equity and inclusion policies that I saw dividing the troops.

I was not partisan. I wasn’t advocating for Republicans over Democrat, but it didn’t matter to me.

It’s never mattered to our troops what someone else’s politics were. It still doesn’t matter to most of our troops what someone else’s politics are.

But what does matter is that when ideology—that looks and feels awfully religious in nature—that is pressed upon all of our service members as if they ought to believe it, or else face some kind of retribution or punishment. When that begins to become the policy of the services, and it’s dividing the troops, people have to speak up about it at the risk of looking partisan, because it’s been framed as a partisan issue.

But in fact, this is not a partisan issue. It’s about the American ideas and ideals that shaped our country.

Republicans and Democrats or the apolitical, if they’re American, ought to embrace the values that made our country free, that made, us a just a nation and that made us have a merit-based military that made us the most lethal and ready military on the planet.

You start to see all of that stuff disintegrate when diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, so-called de-emphasize merit and strive by fiat to ensure, equality of outcomes and enforced equality of outcomes.

All of that destroys the morale of the military. It sets people at odds against one another and divides the troops. And it dis-incentivizes service. They hear evil things about their country or about one another.

In an all-volunteer force, you need people to be self-motivated for service, both to retain them and to recruit them.

So what we’re seeing at the moment in our recruiting and retention crisis is immediately the result of the things that we’re talking about, the diversity, equity and inclusion trainings, the social justice activism and the celebration of values that frankly, only resonate with a minority of our service members, regardless of their political views.

So I’m willing to die on this hill and speak up about this and say this is an extremely dangerous territory that we’ve entered. I weighed the cost in doing that, knowing that, well, I might get in trouble somehow. I might get paperwork, I might get a slap on the wrist. I might even be asked to step down from my command.

But the response of senior leaders was so swift, it surprised me, even having considered the potential consequences. They acted out of fear. They acted with haste before I’m sure they read anything I said in that book, which I stated was my own opinion and not the views of the Defense Department. And it wasn’t politically partisan. It’s about Marxist history and ideology.

The blow was severe and the way it makes you feel is like you’ve been betrayed.

I mean, you give your life and service to your country and the American people and and you’re not doing it for the pay. You’re doing it because by and by, you become convicted of the greatness of the American ideal.

And to have senior leaders say, we want you out of the way because your view is not welcome here, even as they pretend to care about inclusive inclusivity, even as they pretend to care about diversity. NOT diversity of thought, that that one thing is clear.

They don’t want a diversity of thought. What they’re interested in accomplishing you recognize at once that speaking up and trying to be courageous makes you incompatible with the current policy aims of the administration of the Defense Department.

I lost my retirement, or that I lost my pension. All of that happened so swiftly that it’s a gut punch for sure.

I’m really hoping—and I can say this now and I couldn’t then, and I’ll say it on behalf of plenty of our our troops: I’m really hoping that come this November, there is a resounding victory for some other candidate than who’s currently in the white House, because we need to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion trainings for the military from the service academies and strip all vestiges of critical race theory out of the military workplace.

We need to focus on our mission. We need to get back to the basics that make a military great and allow our people to be free of that burden culturally, politically, socially. They can then be united. They can then genuinely allow for the differences of viewpoint, the differences of background and so forth.

They really don’t care about someone else’s views about any number of things and don’t want to hear them in the workplace. They just want to focus on the same mission together.

When we can get back to that, that same sucker punch, gut check that I had at the time I was fired, that troops are still feeling day in and day out and reeling from, quite frankly, because of these things that can be eliminated from their work life.

I think we’ll retain a lot more of our service members and we’re going to begin to recruit the right talent into the services once again and meet our recruiting goals.

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New Study Details ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ in Pentagon, Service Academies

by MilitaryReports

Matthew Lohmeier served on the National Commission on Civic Education in the Military. He and his fellow commissioners conducted a year-long evaluation of the history, evolution, and implementation of diversity and equity programs across all branches of the military and military academies. Here are their findings:

(Press Release) A year-long examination of DEI training in the military identifies millions of wasted taxpayer dollars are being spent to create a culture of “race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping.”

The report calls for an immediate end to the Pentagon’s multimillion-dollar DEI bureaucracy.

“Our research reviewed DEI policy in the military starting in the nineteen seventies to the modern day and concluded there are far more effective ways to promote unity and respect among military ranks than by spending millions annually to divide servicemembers by their gender or race,” said Prof. Donald Critchlow, Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.

“Just as private companies have abandoned the toxic advice of DEI consultants and programs, military leaders should end social engineering based on critical race theory and restore approaches that promote character and merit.”

“It’s no surprise that young people are turning away from military service in record numbers. As this comprehensive report illuminates, DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training that begins for officers even at the service academies,” said Matt Lohmeier, the former Space Force commander who was fired for his criticism of DEI policies.

“How can we be prepared to confront our adversaries if our warfighters aren’t laser focused on the mission but instead are divided and distracted by ideology?”

Highlights:

• “Eyes and ears” programs that encourage those trained and appointed to report overheard private conversations that challenge DEI precepts are common.

• An Air Force email claiming that personal pronouns are key to retention: “One way to foster a culture of inclusion is to add personal pronouns to email signature blocks. While this may not seem like a big deal, it can influence whether someone will stay in their organization.”

• Spending on DEI programming is increasing. The DOD’s allocation for DEI projects jumped from$68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86.5 million in fiscal year 2023. The Pentagon is requesting
$114.7 million for fiscal year 2024.

• A 2023 incident at the U.S. Air Force Academy where the former head of the history department implored the academy’s board to return to civic-minded education. His plea was ignored. As the report sums up the episode: “Knowledge of the nation that cadets defend is elective. DEI is the core.”

About the Report

The National Commission on Civic Education in the Military made up of Commissioners Matt Lohmeier, Karrin Taylor Robson, and John Cauthen, worked with a team of ASU researchers to conduct a year-long evaluation of the history, evolution, and implementation of diversity and equity programs across all branches of the military and military academies.

The report is titled Civic Education in the Military: Are Servicemembers More Prepared for Micro-Aggression or Macro-Aggression? It is available here: https://cai.asu.edu/civiceducation

The report makes a series of straightforward recommendations:

• Immediately end the DEI bureaucracy or pursue alternative avenues to affect positive change despite existing policies.

• Return to the military’s outstanding tradition of merit-based selections and promotions and non-discriminatory equal opportunity.

• Make the syllabi for all humanities and social sciences courses taught at our military service academies publicly available.

• Provide educational training materials to enhance personnel understanding of American philosophy, politics, government, and the Constitution.

About The Center for American Institutions
The ASU Center for American Institutions was founded in October 2022 with a single nonpartisan purpose: Preserving and renewing our fundamental American institutions to maintain well-ordered liberty in an exceptional nation through the fostering and renewal of foundational American institutions including civic, religious, legal, financial, political, military and family.

Read the report online: https://issuu.com/rbarwick/docs/civic_education_in_the_military

Download PDF: CAI Civic Education in the Military Report

EXECUTIVE INTRODUCTION

The U.S. Armed Forces Should Not Be a Laboratory for Social Experimentation.

The sole purpose of the U.S. Armed Forces is to defend the nation against its external enemies. The service academies train officers committed to fulfilling this mission.

This mission—defense of the nation—makes the U.S. Armed Forces arguably the most important institution in the United States. Without a nation, other institutions are meaningless because they would not exist.

Given its importance, the U.S. Armed Forces should not be a laboratory for social experimentation, especially one based on Critical Race Theory, a contentious and abstract social theory.

Yet, as this Commission Report on Civic Education in the Military shows in great detail, Critical Race Theory is promoted within Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training throughout the military from the Pentagon through the ranks and in our service academies.

Critical Race Theory is based on an assumption that no matter what progress is made on ensuring equal rights for minorities, “white privilege” and “sub-conscious” racism continues to prevail among whites, no matter their professed support for diversity and inclusion in their workplace, community, or immediate and extended families.

Critical Race Theory assumes that racism is systemic from the very founding of the United States and that the U.S. Constitution was drafted to ensure the white privilege of slaveholders.

Whatever the appearance of progress—constitutional amendments and legislation to protect equal rights for racial minorities—is a façade that still preserves white privilege.

Critical Race Theory is based on assumptions, not empirically derived evidence, and is by nature divisive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, which rely on Critical Race Theory, should not be seen as workplace sensitivity training.

The Commission on Civic Education in the Military began as a project to review civic education in the military.

Our research team did not expect to find Critical Race Theory so embedded and pervasive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are found throughout the U.S. Armed Forces and our service academies.

This year long study documents just how pervasive these training programs are in our Armed Forces and Service Academies and that DEI extends well beyond just formal training programs in the military and service academies.

The Founders of our nation understood and feared a politicized military. History had shown them that a politicized army easily became the tool of tyranny.

The Armed Forces of the United States has proudly upheld this long tradition of separating mission from politics.

The commissioners for this project believe that military training for service men and women in all ranks needs to inculcate and reinforce pride in our nation, pride in service, and in our country’s motto, E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One).

Donald T. Critchlow
Director, Center for American Institutions

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The National Commission on Civic Education in the Military finds that cadets and midshipmen at our military service academies are receiving extensive training in so-called civic education about racism, sexism, unconscious bias, and intersectionality that subverts our ideals.

Furthermore, soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen across all branches of the military are occasionally subject to similar trainings across the military at all organizational levels.

These trainings rely heavily on the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and are provided with the express goals of fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, and of rooting out alleged white supremacy in the military. Training is implemented by a vast DEI bureaucracy that extends from senior leaders at the Pentagon to the lowest ranks.

This year-long research project examining online and published materials available to the public, yet hidden from the unobservant bystander, is divided into three main parts.

The first section provides the background of DEI training beginning in the 1970s through mandated executive orders in the 2010s and 2020s. This background is important to understand the changing nature of DEI training in the military and the issues raised by today’s training.

The second and third sections—DEI training in the services and at the three major service academies, respectively—reveal how extensive, divisive, and damaging this training is for those serving in our military.

The research reveals serious problems within our military complex. The U.S. military now has a well-developed, taxpayer-funded DEI bureaucracy dedicated to rooting out “white privilege” and white supremacy, and that allows for (and sometimes teaches) the overt criticism of the United States, its founding, its founders, and its founding documents, alleging that they are all rooted in systemic racism.

This bureaucracy, with its accompanying trainings, is supported and implemented by Pentagon leadership. Trainings presented across all branches of the military and at our service academies not only include concepts but also encourage behavior that is prescribed by CRT without presenting alternative perspectives. Military leadership regularly asserts that DEI training is essential to building strong teams; how it does that is left unexplained, and no data are presented corroborating such claims.

Our vibrant religious, economic, and political history, with all its nuance, is simply glossed over or criticized, and little or no training is offered as a means of helping servicemembers, cadets, and midshipmen understand and appreciate America’s founding philosophy or the Constitution servicemembers swear an oath to uphold and defend.

The commission posits the following:

• An effective military and healthy citizenry need to share and understand a common story as to the unique creation of the American Republic. A common story is necessary for unit cohesion, morale, and an effective fighting force. DEI carries inherently negative messages about Western civilization generally, and about the United States and its people specifically.

• As demonstrated in numerous surveys and reports, public K-12 educations fail woefully in teaching even the basics of American politics, government, and the Constitution. We cannot assume that recruits, servicemembers, new cadets, and midshipmen know the basics about the country they will defend. As one leader put it, “We don’t do a good job of teaching civics in school anymore; the military has to make up for that deficiency in its own training.”

• A sole focus on identity-related themes produces divisiveness within our military rather than vital unity. This is not to argue that identity themes should be necessarily excluded in civic education, but those training and providing professional military education to our men and women in uniform should be required to teach American civic values to help them understand the unique nature of our constitutional republic.

• The massive DEI bureaucracy, its training and its pseudo-scientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time and resources. At worst they communicate the opposite of the military ethos: e.g. that individual demographic differences come before team and mission.

Central Findings:

• DEI themes dominate the training and education that members of the armed forces receive about their country. As “white supremacy” and racism have become a central focus of DEI trainings, white supremacist racism is assumed to be the core problem of the nation and of the military; positive messaging about the country and its values disappears with the shift in focus. Servicemembers are asked to defend a nation that is an alleged cesspit of racism and discrimination.

• The defense of dividing servicemembers into racial, gender, and sexual identities is Orwellian. Rather than emphasizing that the strength of our military is a product of its unity and steadfast dedication to the American ideals of individual liberty and freedom, it is instead asserted that diversity (our differences) is our strength. Emphasizing differences and grievances sows distrust and undermines unit cohesion and teamwork.

• Traditionally, young people enlisted for many reasons, with a major one being patriotism — to protect the family, country, and faith. That patriotism, if held by a white male, now raises suspicions of white supremacy.

• The DEI bureaucracy extending from the Department of Defense (DOD) through the services and in the service academies is extensive and entrenched. Dating from the 1970s, its reach continues to grow and even extends to those leaving the service.

• Efforts to root out white supremacy involve not only training but appointing service members to act as the “eyes and ears” of the bureaucracy to turn in suspects. Suspicion replaces trust, understanding, and teamwork.

• DEI training focuses on rooting out “white supremacy” even though there is little or no evidence that there is a problem of white supremacy in the military. The massive hunt during the stand-down in 2020 located roughly 100 out of a force of 2.1 million. The ongoing search, implemented by Secretary Lloyd Austin in December of 2021, has turned up equally small numbers of extremists of any variety. The most recent study released by the Department of Defense, the “Study on Extremist Activity within the Total Force” offered little new data and could only conclude that “extremism in the military is rare but dangerous.”

Recommendations

Historically, military veterans were held up as ideal democratic citizens. The internalized values of duty, honor, and country that military service imparted along with teamwork, leadership, working with diverse groups, and problem solving made veterans the glue of their communities.

Military veterans, more often than non-veterans, volunteered and engaged in solving community problems. They carried the positive aspects of an inclusive warrior ethos into their communities.

The surest way to eliminate the concerning trends we have identified, and the growth of race- and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping in the U.S. military, is to altogether end the DEI bureaucracy there.

However, until such a time as the executive or legislative branches of the government choose to end the DEI bureaucracy in our federal agencies and military, we are left to advocate the pursuit of alternative avenues that may affect positive change despite existing policies.

Therefore, to address the shortfalls noted above, the Commission makes several recommendations that are aimed at restoring the warrior ethos in our military, fostering a climate of genuine unity and strength, and helping servicemembers understand and believe in American civic values and the uniqueness of our Constitutional Republic.

• We join the members of Congress, the Heritage Foundation, and other organizations in calling for a return to the military’s outstanding tradition of merit-based selections and promotions, and non-discriminatory equal opportunity.

• We recommend that all syllabi that are taught in the humanities and social sciences at our military service academies be made publicly available. The public has the right to know, and to challenge, the extent to which fashionable or ideologically based academic theories – Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, etc. – shape the education of cadets and midshipmen at our military academies. These cadets and midshipmen will be commissioned as officers and are the future leaders of the United States military’s respective service branches.

• We support the inclusion of civic education – America’s commitment to freedom and opportunity – in military training. We recommend that the U.S. military provide educational training materials to its personnel that aim at enhancing servicemembers’ understanding of foundational American philosophy and values, the basics of American politics and government, the Constitution, and their oath to support and defend the Constitution. These formal training materials should be provided to personnel at our military service academies, in officer and noncommissioned officer (NCO) professional military education and training courses, and on a periodic and recurring basis on Department of Defense (DOD) installations, just as DEI trainings are offered at those places on a periodic and recurring basis

Read the report online: https://issuu.com/rbarwick/docs/civic_education_in_the_military

Download PDF: CAI Civic Education in the Military Report

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Lt Col Lohmeier: Speak the Truth, Exhibit Courage

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Matthew Lohmeier, former USAF/USSF Lt. Colonel and 2006 USAFA grad, has powerful words about the actions of US leaders have made a statement to the world that we’re not a serious nation, what real freedom-loving leaders would do, and the need for current military service members to speak the truth, stand on principles and values and exhibit courage. Censorship and self-censorship are harbingers of societal failure.

He was interviewed on Fox News by Pete Hegseth. Watch: