Transgenders aren’t who we ought to be worried about joining the military

A report out this week revealed that Pentagon officials are concerned about the possibility of jihadists infiltrating the U.S. military as well as those of other Western nations.

Fox News provided an exclusive report on the problem Monday:

After more than a year of investigation, the Pentagon’s inspector general recently issued a report – its contents still classified but its existence disclosed here for the first time – identifying serious problems with Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI), a DOD program that provides immigrants and non-immigrant aliens with an expedited path to citizenship in exchange for military service.

Defense Department officials said the program is still active but acknowledged that new applications have been suspended.

Created in the final weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration and launched under then-President Barack Obama, MAVNI was designed to recruit individuals with foreign-language and other skills the Pentagon deems useful and in short supply. The program has had many success stories – most notably the Army’s Soldier of the Year in 2012, Sgt. Saral Shrestha, originally of Nepal – and independent analyses have found MAVNI recruits out-perform non-MAVNI soldiers in critical areas.

Yet concern over management of the program has grown over recent months.

The report goes on to detail how poor oversight and sub-par vetting have potentially opened the military to sleeper jihadists.

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/08/03/western-countries-on-high-alert-for-isis-infiltrators-in-armed-forces/

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