{"id":128349,"date":"2022-07-27T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128349"},"modified":"2022-07-27T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:42:06","slug":"mn-national-guard-pays-77k-to-lgbtq-mag-for-recruiting-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128349","title":{"rendered":"MN National Guard pays $77k to LGBTQ mag for recruiting efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This guy proved it takes a real man to break the 4-star gender barrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota’s National Guard has a plan for recruiting problems. They’ve wasted<\/del> invested $77,000 in recruiting advertising with a Minneapolis-based LGBTQ magazine. According to Wikipedia, the magazine has a bi-weekly circulation of only 33,000. That might even be generous.<\/p>\n

Red State has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, the Senate Armed Services Committee has listened to the moribund news that recruitment for the military is at an all-time low. Despite this grim forecast, the Command Sergeant Major for Minnesota National Guard Recruitment told CBS News that he was still confident that he could find recruits:<\/p>\n

>\u201cThe more people that we can show what we do and what we\u2019re about, the more people are going to take interest,\u201d Command Sgt. Maj. Shawn Kor, of the Minnesota National Guard\u2019s Recruitment and Retention Battalion, explained to WCCO. \u201cMinnesota is a great state and Minnesotans are proud people and we offer them a way to give back to Minnesota and their country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, about that showing \u201cwhat we do and what we\u2019re about\u201d part. The Washington Free Beacon discovered what the real recruitment goals are for the Minnesota National Guard:<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Army National Guard paid tens of thousands of dollars to advertise in an LGBT publication that has promoted transgenderism and \u201cqueer\u201d identities among children.<\/p>\n

The National Guard, which operates through the Department of Defense, between 2019 and 2022 awarded $76,951 to Minneapolis-based Lavender magazine, paying for advertising campaigns in an effort to \u201creach the LGBTQ community\u201d and \u201clend credibility to the National Guard.\u201d Between May 2021 and May 2022 alone, it paid $22,224 to the LGBT magazine, according to a federal government contract disclosure. The advertising campaign appears to be related to the Minnesota National Guard\u2019s \u201cLGBT Special Emphasis Council.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a lot of money dumped into advertisement to one specific group. They may as well have lit it on fire, because frankly, it\u2019s already failed on the credibility front. While the LGBTQ Plus, Plus, Plus community might feel that the Minnesota National Guard has more credence, among the caliber of people who the military would normally attract, it is clear the National Guard \u2014 and the entire military apparatus \u2014 has already lost credibility. Otherwise, why would they be having recruitment problems?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source. Thanks to Poetrooper for sending this one in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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