<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of <i>Stars and Stripes</i> (an Army news publication) at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-10-06/army-donahoe-carlson-social-media-7595162.html">https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-10-06/army-donahoe-carlson-social-media-7595162.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>————————————————-</div><div><br></div><div><h1 id="article-headline" itemprop="name" class="default-font b fs-normal lh-title headline-font-color mt0 mb3" style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; font-size: clamp(1.875rem, 1.5rem + 2vw, 3rem); margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; max-width: 950px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Service members defend general who was chastised after contradicting Fox News host Carlson</h1></div><div><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">An investigative report that faulted a two-star general for publicly defending female troops following ridicule by a right-wing pundit has opened up the Army to blowback over its commitment to stand up for women in the ranks. </p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, the former commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga., brought “negative publicity” to the Army in connection with his tweets directed at Fox News host Tucker Carlson and others, according to the Army report, which was obtained by Task and Purpose. </p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The controversy centered on Donahoe’s decision to take issue with Carlson over a March 2021 segment in which the Fox host described the U.S. military as becoming “more feminine” while China’s becomes “more masculine.” </p><div class="flex center mb4 dn-li" style="font-size: 16px; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Carlson complained about Pentagon efforts to make military service more appealing to women, such as changes to grooming standards that allow new hairstyles and the introduction of a flight suit for pregnant troops.</p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">Donahoe was quick to respond, posting a video on Twitter in which he reenlisted a female staff sergeant at Fort Benning and wrote “just a reminder that @TuckerCarlson couldn’t be more wrong.” Several other Army leaders made similar remarks on Twitter. </p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">The Army investigation, however, determined that the “national media coverage” that followed from Donahoe’s statements “brought a measurable amount of negative publicity to the Army, enough that (the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs) warned (the Secretary of the Army) of the fallout,” <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-investigation-pat-donahoe-social-media/" target="_blank" style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 89, 177); text-decoration-thickness: 0.06em; text-underline-offset: 0.1em;">Task and Purpose reported. </a></p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">The Army’s rebuke of Donahoe, which also included criticism of his public pushback on Twitter over COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the military, has sparked an outcry in military circles. </p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">On Thursday, the Army was among Twitter’s top trending topics, with many of the 235,000 tweets related to the Donahoe case. </p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">For the Army, the situation comes as the service struggles to attract sufficient numbers of new recruits. Some critics say its failure to back Donahoe in his defense of female service members could have a chilling effect.</p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;">“Army leadership is sending a very clear message: Pleasing gutless demagogues and loud mouthed extremists is more important than showing support for your brothers and sisters in arms,” wrote one popular military Twitter user who goes by Rising 1L Tom.</p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Another prominent military Twitter personality known as Lethality Jane made a similar observation: “Pretty depressing to consider that the military I’ve spent over a decade of my life serving in is now considering whether to punish a General Officer for stating that my existence does not make a mockery of the Army.”</p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Thousands of such messages flooded the social media site.</p><p class="storyline-p f4 " style="--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(147, 197, 253, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; width: 700px; max-width: 700px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The situation has delayed Donahoe’s planned retirement while the Army investigated. It’s not clear what punishment, if any, he faces.</span></p></div><div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>