Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell sent a memorandum to the entire department on Wednesday, with the priorities of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ordered to remove all the official online content promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, Breightbart News has learned.
In a memorandum called “Digital Content Refresh”, Parnell directed all senior Pentagon leaders, fighter commanders, and defense agency and field activity directors to remove the Defense News Department and feature articles, photos and videos promoting DEI. Memo states:
By March 5, by 2025, components should take all practical steps, conform to record management requirements, Al Dode News and feature articles, photos and videos, which promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DII). All articles, photos and videos removed from DOD websites and social media platforms should be stored and maintained according to the applied record management policies.
It adds:
DEL materials are included, but not limited to information that promote programs, concepts, or significant race principles, gender ideology, and preferential treatment or quota about sex, race or ethnicity, or other DEI- OT promotion and selection reforms, advisory boards, councils and other DEI-related affairs based on related matters.
Removal materials also include that that is a counter-based or color-blind policies (eg, such as race, ethnicity, or sex) or promotes the months of cultural awareness, as Secretary Hegseth’s 31 January 2025, in Memorandum, “Dead in the month of identity.”
It is clearly stated that the guidance does not apply to the material required by the law, which is related to publicly available or related to general installation or component operations and activities, but customer-focused materials such as not as limited:
- Basic conditions, activities and services;
- Current and historical leadership biography;
- DOD education activity school activities, operations and notifications; And
- Morale, welfare, and entertainment and monument operations and activities.
Digital content refreshed on scribed by Christina Wong
Parnell said that if an organization is required an exception or expansion, it would have to present a wide justification in his office before noon on March 5, 2025.
In the last decade, but especially during the Obama and Biden administration, the Defense Department and many official DOD social media accounts promoted months of identity such as Pride Month, Black History Month, Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month.
However, Trump Pentagon has focused on war skills, qualifications and standards in the US Army rather than focusing on the race or gender.
In the months, which banned its memorandum in the Pentagon, Hegseth encouraged military establishments, units and offices released last month to celebrate the valor and success of the military heroes of all castes, sexes and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos. “
He said, “We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service rather than their irreversible characteristics.”
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