•HRES 575 IH 
military campaigns throughout the globe, establishing a 
deterrent effect that has prevented another World War 
for almost 80 years; 
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, re-
gardless of their race, gender, sexual preference, or other 
person-centric identifiers; 
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 transition from being a kind, compassionate individual 
in peacetime to one who is willing and able to engage an 
enemy in battle with violence and lethality, and this in-
cludes support personnel who may not typically be called 
upon to engage the enemy face-to-face but nonetheless 
may find themselves in situations that require them to do 
so; 
Whereas, over the past several years, the Department of De-
fense 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 diversity and in-
clusion in all its forms, including gender, gender identity, 
race, and sexual preference, as a primary determinant in 
how military forces should be comprised without pro-
viding credible and verifiable evidence that such a pre-
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scribed composition results in higher job performance, 
unit effectiveness, and mission accomplishment, as op-
posed to a model in which a meritocracy-based force com-
position is used; 
(2) making nonsensical ‘‘unconscious bias’’ training 
mandatory for all military and civilian personnel; 
(3) instituting mandatory ‘‘emergency use only’’ 
COVID–19 vaccines with little regard to individual med-
ical concerns in light of the anthrax vaccine mandate 
problems of the late 1990s and denying almost all re-
quests for exemptions based on religious grounds, which 
is particularly troubling given the recent decision by the 
Department of Defense to rescind the COVID–19 vaccine 
mandate; and 
(4) requiring mandatory training at the United 
States Air Force Academy to incorporate ‘‘person-cen-
tered’’ and gender-neutral language when describing indi-
viduals and to request cadets to consider using the term 
‘‘parent’’ or ‘‘caregiver’’ rather than ‘‘mother’’ or ‘‘fa-
ther’’ as to not offend those that may come from a dif-
ferent parenting background; 
Whereas such practices are having a detrimental effect on re-
cruitment, as the United States Army was 15,000 sol-
diers short of its 2022 recruiting goals, the worst on 
record since the Armed Forces switched to an all-volun-
teer force nearly 50 years ago, and the remaining 
branches of the Armed Forces are well behind their his-
toric goal rates as they enter into the 2023 recruiting 
season; 
Whereas recent studies have found that most young Ameri-
cans are not fit for military service, with the Department 
of Defense estimating that just 2 percent of 17- to 21- 
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year-olds have the desired combination of strong aca-
demic credentials, adequate physical fitness, and an inter-
est in serving; 
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 has a sufficient number of members who hold 
a warrior ethos needed to effectively engage an enemy; 
and 
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 prac-
tices of the armed services as outlined herein: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) prohibits the use of such ‘‘woke’’ social en-
gineering and experimentation practices, which are 
eroding military effectiveness, and to mandate a re-
turn to a merit-based system for military force de-
velopment and composition; and 
(2) credits Florida legislature for passing the 
Florida Senate Memorial SM 1382. 
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