{"id":111954,"date":"2017-08-29T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=111954"},"modified":"2017-08-29T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T00:39:56","slug":"breaking-sec-mattis-issues-statement-transgender-u-s-troops-full-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-sec-mattis-issues-statement-transgender-u-s-troops-full-text\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Sec. Mattis Issues Statement on Transgender U.S. Troops &#8211; (FULL TEXT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Military Service by Transgender Individuals:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense has received the Presidential Memorandum, dated August 25, 2017, entitled \u201cMilitary Service by Transgender Individuals.\u201d The department will carry out the president\u2019s policy direction, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security. As directed, we will develop a study and implementation plan, which will contain the steps that will promote military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion, with due regard for budgetary constraints and consistent with applicable law. The soon arriving senior civilian leadership of DOD will play an important role in this effort. The implementation plan will address accessions of transgender individuals and transgender individuals currently serving in the United States military.<\/p>\n<p>Our focus must always be on what is best for the military\u2019s combat effectiveness leading to victory on the battlefield. To that end, I will establish a panel of experts serving within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to provide advice and recommendations on the implementation of the president\u2019s direction. Panel members will bring mature experience, most notably in combat and deployed operations, and seasoned judgment to this task. The panel will assemble and thoroughly analyze all pertinent data, quantifiable and non-quantifiable. Further information on the panel will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>Once the panel reports its recommendations and following my consultation with the secretary of Homeland Security, I will provide my advice to the president concerning implementation of his policy direction. In the interim, current policy with respect to currently serving members will remain in place. I expect to issue interim guidance to the force concerning the president\u2019s direction, including any necessary interim adjustments to procedures, to ensure the continued combat readiness of the force until our final policy on this subject is issued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Defense Secretary Mattis freezes transgender policy; allows troops to continue serving, pending study &#8211; USA Today<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/902678289097121797\">August 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Military Service by Transgender Individuals: The Department of Defense has received the Presidential Memorandum, dated August 25, 2017, entitled \u201cMilitary Service by Transgender Individuals.\u201d The department will carry out the president\u2019s policy direction, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security. 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