{"id":171964,"date":"2025-07-25T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171964"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:27:05","slug":"woke-wars-veteran-named-af-undersecretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171964","title":{"rendered":"Woke Wars Veteran Named AF Undersecretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171965 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/afec.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Matthew Lohmeier<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Anti-\u2018woke\u2019 former officer confirmed as Air Force undersecretary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Stephen Losey<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matthew Lohmeier, the former Space Force lieutenant colonel who was relieved of command after publicly blasting the military\u2019s diversity programs and alleged Marxist ideology, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as the Air Force\u2019s next undersecretary.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-46 vote to approve Lohmeier was along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Lohmeier was fired from command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado in 2021 after appearing on a podcast to discuss his self-published book, \u201cIrresistible Revolution: Marxism\u2019s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During that podcast, Lohmeier decried diversity initiatives, critical race theory and Marxism, saying they were anti-American and divisive. He alleged those ideas were spreading through and weakening the military.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump tapped Lohmeier to be the second-highest civilian in the Department of the Air Force shortly before his inauguration in January, tasking him with changing \u201cwoke\u201d policies in the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatthew will work with the GREAT Secretary of Defense Nominee, Pete Hegseth, to end the devastating \u2018woke\u2019 policies that have destroyed our Military, and make our Country STRONG AGAIN,\u201d Trump posted online at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2025\/07\/24\/anti-woke-former-officer-confirmed-as-air-force-undersecretary\/\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then-Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the officer who relieved Lohmeier from command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado for the catch-all crime of loss of confidence, is now a four-star in charge of U.S. Space Command. Awkward&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Lohmeier Anti-\u2018woke\u2019 former officer confirmed as Air Force undersecretary Stephen Losey Matthew Lohmeier, the former &hellip; <a title=\"Woke Wars Veteran Named AF Undersecretary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171964\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woke Wars Veteran Named AF Undersecretary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":171965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}