There Is Now an Official Air Force Pride Patch

Department of Defense via AP

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the disunited Pride people of America. 

Under Joe Biden, the motto of the United States of America is changing from E pluribus unum to Ex uno multis. It's a dangerous change to make. 

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One example: If you are at an Air Force Base in Korea, you now have the option of showing your allegiance to an ideology, and by inference a political party. 

You, too, can wear a patch on your uniform declaring your allegiance not to the United States Constitution but to sexual preferences, alternative genders, and of course (for some reason) people of color, who as far as I know are not usually included as part of the alphabet mafia but who have stripes on the Progress Pride Flag, after which the new patch is modeled. 

They are all part of the intersectional rainbow, though, which is by definition built on the notion that the United States of America is anything but united. Quite the opposite. Our country is made up of warring identities, and if you aren't in the preferred classes you have become second-class citizens. 

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Airmen stationed on this installation 30 miles south of Seoul are authorized to wear a Pride morale patch this month. A May 20 memo from 51st Fighter Wing commander Col. William McKibban approved the “Osan+” patch on Fridays and at special events. The patch’s circular design features the Progress rainbow flag at the center bordered by a black ring with “Osan+” on top and “Osan Air Base ROK” at the bottom. ROK is the acronym for Republic of Korea, the formal name for South Korea. “The Osan+ patch is the approved morale patch in honor of Pride month, which takes place in June,” wing spokeswoman Capt. Michelle Chang told Stars and Stripes by email Thursday. “The patch represents the advancement of the Air Force’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, dignity, and respect within the mission.” The idea of the patch came from Osan+, an LGBTQ group established at the base in October, group president Tech. Sgt. Brittany Ortega said by phone Thursday. The group’s mission is to “advance the Air Force’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, dignity and respect within the mission,” she said. The group has already sold out of the $10 patches, Ortega wrote on the group’s Facebook page Thursday. It’s unclear if more will become available.

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Under President Joe Biden the military has leaned hard into intersectionality (intersecting layers of oppression within a White Christian-dominated culture characterized by heteronormativity) and Critical Race Theory, promoting the divisive notion that the military is an oppressive institution that must be at the forefront of reforming American society. 

Luckily the region is characterized by peace, harmony, and faces no threats that the military should be focused on. If there were a looming war over the sovereignty of Taiwan or Chinese Coast Guard ships committing piracy against the boats of a government with which we have a mutual defense treaty it might seem flippant to focus effort on virtue signaling or counterproductive to create division within the US military. But luckily things are in perfect harmony right now. 

The Biden administration is laser-focused on the important issues: open borders, jailing Donald Trump and pro-lifers, transing children, and ensuring that this administration has more transgender people in positions of power than exist in your average medium-sized American city. 

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Seriously, the military is starting to look ridiculous, which is a bad look indeed. The Afghanistan debacle, the Gaza Pier embarrassment, the constant PR photos and press conferences about transgender officers and enlisted people are not just tiresome, but humiliating. Our peer countries in Europe may cheer, but our adversaries are laughing. 

Stop. Just stop. 

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