Webinar | America’s Military Requires Merit-based Readiness, Not Marxist D.E.I.

As the U.S. Congress prepares to act on President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget for the Pentagon, six distinguished servicemembers will argue that corrective actions must be taken to spare the U.S. military further devastation at the hands of cultural Marxists.

Sponsored by the newly formed Military Readiness and Merit Coalition, this Zoom webinar draws on personal experience with the necessity of having the armed forces focused on merit-based readiness, not distracting and divisive “woke” identity politics.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; host, “Securing America”

Panelists:

- Matthew Lohmeier, Military veteran who, as a lieutenant colonel, served as a commander in the U.S. Space Force; fired from his command for publishing and speaking about his book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military”; member of the STARRS Board of Advisors; and working with independent filmmakers to release a feature-length documentary this year
• Topic: "D.E.I. has the Power to Destroy the U.S. Military"

- Brandi King, professional airline pilot; U.S. Air Force Reserve Colonel; C-5 Pilot, promoted despite being reprimanded for seeking an exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate; formerly assigned to lead the execution of the Air Force’s Rated Diversity Improvement Strategy.
• Topic: “Without Merit: Insights from Inside the Pentagon’s D.E.I. Bureaucracy”

- Kendall Qualls, Veteran Army Officer; former Fortune 100 executive; author, The Prodigal Project; member, Faculty-in-Residence, School of Business, Crown College; and Founder/President, TakeCharge
• Topic: “The Promise of America is Available to Everyone Regardless of Race or Social Standing”

- Scott McQuarrie, West Point alumnus; former Army officer; practicing attorney; subject matter expert on United States Service Academy admissions; and the founder and president of Veterans for Fairness and Merit
• Topic: “Exposing DoD’s Identity-based Preferences in Service Academy Admissions and Other Problematic Military Personnel Practices”

- Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker, U.S. Air Force, (Ret.), Former Assistant Adjutant General and Commander, West Virginia Air National Guard; former Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Manpower and Reserve Affairs
• Topic: “The Military Can’t Solve by Itself the Societal Challenges Facing America”

- Lieutenant Colonel Tommy Waller, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Fmr Commanding Officer, the Marines’ only Reserve Force Reconnaissance Company; President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy

- Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, U.S. Air Force, (Ret); former Commander, 3rd Air Force former Air Commander, Europe; Chairman of the Board, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)
• Topic: “Seeking Common Ground: Let's stop talking past one another on D.E.I.”