Trump to sign executive order eliminating DEI from US military

US President Donald Trump is expected to move officially to remove diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives (Dei) from the Ministry of Defense, which is one of the many executive orders that focus on the army and plans to sign it on Monday.

The second matter will cost US officials to formulate a policy of sexually transformed forces.

An executive order will be restored to the third military personnel who were demobilized for rejecting the Kofid-19 vaccines.

The removal of DEI programs from within the federal government was one of the central promises of Trump’s election campaign – which moved quickly to implement it when he took office last week.

Dei programs aim to enhance participation in workplaces by people from different backgrounds.

Its supporters say they are addressing the lack of historical representation and discrimination against certain groups, including ethnic minorities, but critics say that such programs can be discriminatory per se.

The orders include imposing a ban on what the administration considers discriminatory preferences on the basis of race or sex by any branch of the army, the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Internal Security, according to a White House official assured the BBC.

In addition, any remaining DEI’s remaining bureaucracy will be removed from these departments.

Officials will also be directed to review the curricula at military service academies – such as the American Military Academy in West Point or the US Air Force Academy in Colorado – for materials that include “radical” or sexual ideologies.

It is still unclear programs that will be affected by the matter.

In a report issued in December 2020, the Board of Directors concerned with diversity and inclusiveness recommended a number of steps, including removing “efficiency test barriers that negatively affect diversity” and integrate “the value of diversity and inclusion development” into leadership and professional curricula.

In 2021, then President Joe Biden signed an order that allows sexual transgender people to serve the army and prevent their demobilization from service on the basis of sex.

While the new executive does not prohibit sexually transformed forces, it calls on the army to update its directives. The use of pronouns throughout the Ministry of Defense will be banned, and males will be explicit from using female facilities.

The Trump administration claims that removing these initiatives from the US military will help enhance recruitment levels.

Defense officials said earlier that the military services collectively erred the employment targets by 41,000 individuals in the fiscal year 2023.

The new US Defense Secretary, Beit Higseth, repeatedly promised to cancel similar initiatives from the army, saying on Monday that “there are more upcoming executive orders.”

During the weekend, it was reported that the US Air Force had declined materials related to the role of black pilots and women during World War II of its training programs as part of an attempt to comply with President Trump’s orders on Dei.

But the military officials explained on Sunday that some curricula will not be deleted from the basic military training.

Higseth told reporters on Monday that the army’s mission is “legitimacy, preparation and fighting in the war.”

He added that “military training will focus on the readiness of what our forces need in the field to deter our enemies.”

The third matter returns the US military personnel who were demobilized from service for their refusal to accept the Kofid-19 vaccines during the epidemic.

These members of the service will be returned to their positions with full salaries and benefits, and they will get their previous ranks.

In his inauguration speech, Trump said that these soldiers were “unjustly expelled.”

About 8,000 American soldiers were laid off for service because they rejected vaccines between 2021 and 2023 – only 43 of them were returned to their positions before Trump returned to the White House.

A senior Pentagon official said – on the condition that his identity was not disclosed – to the BBC that their refusal to eat vaccines was a harmful “good system” and discipline.

The official described the return of the forces as “worrying” and said he was afraid that this would be a precedent for the ability to exclude other vaccines, such as those given to members of service against yellow or smallpox.

Immediately after assuming his post, Trump ordered that all US government employees working in Dei plans a paid administrative leave immediately.

The White House gave them until 17:00 US ES (2200 GMT) from the next day to take a vacation before closing the offices and programs concerned.

In his matter, Trump said the programs were “dangerous, degraded and immoral.”