EXCLUSIVE — Home Republicans will usher in Military officers to testify at a listening to subsequent week on a coaching presentation that referred to pro-life teams as terrorists, Fox Information Digital has discovered.
The Home Armed Companies Committee’s Subcommittee on Army Personnel will hear Thursday afternoon from Agnes Schaefer, assistant secretary of the Military for manpower and Reserve affairs, and Lt. Gen. Patrick Matlock, Military deputy chief of workers.
Republicans led by Armed Companies Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks, R-Ind., wrote a letter to Military Secretary Christine Wormuth demanding details about the slide deck.
The Military just lately wrote again, admitting that the slides “inaccurately referenced” pro-life teams like Proper to Life and Operation Rescue, and a slew of pro-animal and inexperienced teams like PETA, as “terrorist organizations.”
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Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, speaks throughout a ceremony on Christmas Eve at Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan, on Dec. 24, 2017. (AP Photograph/Rahmat Gul, File)
Schaefer wrote that the coaching deck, which was used to show 9,100 Military troopers at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, between 2017 and 2024, was “inconsistent with Army’s antiterrorism policy and training.”
She stated the slides had not been reviewed by Fort Liberty management and are not in use. Schaefer added there may be “no evidence” to counsel the person who created the slide deck did so to “deliberately subvert” Military coverage or to “further a personal viewpoint.”
The slides have been used to conduct terror consciousness coaching for troopers assigned to guarding the gates at Fort Liberty. Schaefer stated the slides weren’t shared outdoors of Fort Liberty.
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The Republican letter in July stated the slides indicated members of pro-life organizations might be threats to the security of navy installations and that regalia of such teams, like a pro-life license plate, might probably point out terrorism.
Officers on the Fayetteville, North Carolina, garrison stated the particular person utilizing the slides stays employed on the facility.
Iraqi Military troopers safe streets in a village just lately liberated from Islamic State militants outdoors Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photograph/Hadi Mizban, File)
U.S. Military troopers in North Carolina till this 12 months have been being skilled to be skeptical of pro-life teams as “terrorists.” (Supply: U.S. Military )
“It’s downright ridiculous to claim the slide deck doesn’t ‘further a personal viewpoint,’ but there have been no consequences for the employee who ran anti-life training sessions at Fort Liberty that clearly violated Army policy,” Banks advised Fox Information Digital.
Rogers stated the listening to will probably be held “to get answers on how this occurred and ensure it never happens again.”
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In June, the Military revised a few of its insurance policies, with Wormuth asserting that “active participation in extremist activities can be prohibited even in some circumstances in which such activities would be constitutionally protected in a civilian setting.”
Service members at the moment are prohibited from liking, sharing or participating with content material supporting extremism, in response to the American Legion.
Fox Information Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
