It's corporate DEI policies vs. woke stuff, imo. I'm seeing in my corporate job, and just as I left the military (back in olden times), I saw more liberal policies appear. They were designed to get more people to sign up and show that the military was moving away from being solely a man's profession.

Now? It's crazy that their priorities have veered so far left when the bulk of the enlisted folks definitely swing in the other direction. Shame too. I take no issues with gays or trans people in the military. If you want to serve your country, works for me. But the more you erode the core principles, the less successful any unit will be. Boot Camp for example. The reason it works is that it tears you down to nothing and then builds you back up the way they need you to be to do your job. If you remove that initiation, you undermine the very chain of command and weaken the military.