Title: United States Military Meritocracy

Summary: Urges Congress to restore Department of Defense's superior warfighting principles of recruiting, assigning, training, promoting, & retaining personnel solely based on merit & ensuring such personnel maintain & display warrior ethos.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, the United States military dominance in warfighting came about through reliance on the concept of meritocracy, in which personnel are recruited, assigned to specialties, assigned to positions within a unit, retained, and promoted based on their demonstrated aptitude and performance in the roles they are assigned to perform, regardless of their race, gender, sexual preference, or other person-centric identifiers, and WHEREAS, the United States military dominance in warfighting also came about through the ability of personnel to have and maintain a warrior ethos, one in which they are able to WHEREAS, over the past several years, the Department of Defense and its military services have engaged in various practices eroding these warfighting principles to the point at which United States Military dominance has been called into serious question, which practices include, but are not limited to: (1) Overemphasizing and relying on dive rsity and inclusion in all its forms, including gender, gender identity, race, and sexual preference, as a primary determinant in how military forces should be comprised without providing credible and verifiable evidence that such a prescribed composition results in higher job performance, unit effectiveness, and mission accomplishment, as opposed to a model in which a meritocracy based force composition is used; (2) Making nonsensical "unconscious bias" training mandatory for all military and civilian pe rsonnel; (3) Instituting mandatory "emergency use only" COVID 48 vaccines with little regard to individual medical concerns in light of the Anthrax vaccine mandate problems of the late 1990s WHEREAS, such prac tices are having a detrimental effect on recruitment, as the United States Army was 15,000 soldiers short of its 2022 recruiting goals, the worst on record since the Armed Forces switched to an all-volunteer force nearly years ago, and the remaining bra nches of the Armed Forces are well behind their historic goal rates as they enter into the 2023 recruiting season, and WHEREAS, recent studies have found that most young Americans are not fit for military service, with the Department of Defense estimating that just percent of-to 21-year-olds have the desired combination of strong academic credentials, adequate physical fitness, and an interest in serving, and WHEREAS, the combination of an incapable and uninterested recruiting age group and nonmerit-based practices calls into serious question whether the United States military currently WHEREAS, those with the necessary warrior ethos currently serving in the United States military are more likely to leave service, and those with the necessary warrior ethos before entering into service are more likely to refrain from enlisting as they discover the composition and practices of the Armed Services as ou tlined herein, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: That the United States Congress is urged, through the use of its authorization and appropriation authorities, to prohibit the use of such "woke" social engineering and experimentation practices, which are eroding military effectiveness, and to mandate a return to a merit-based system for military force development and composition. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State dispatch copies of this memorial to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.