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Matthew Lohmeier, a former House Pressure commander, has been nominated to function undersecretary of the Air Pressure within the incoming Trump administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, a former House Pressure commander, to function the following United States undersecretary of the Air Pressure.

“Matt is a former fighter pilot, and House Pressure Squadron Commander, who has devoted his life to serving our Nice Nation,” Trump stated in a Jan. 17 submit on Reality Social.

Lohmeier, who headed the eleventh House Warning Squadron within the House Pressure, was fired in 2021 after he appeared on a podcast to advertise a guide he wrote that claims Marxism is spreading within the navy. Within the look, he criticized U.S. establishments, together with the navy, universities, and media, for adopting what he characterised as leftist practices resembling variety coaching, blaming them for the nation’s rising divisions.
After Trump’s electoral victory within the November presidential race, Lohmeier advised the Each day Mail that a lot of his former colleagues in uniform have reached out to him to share their pleasure concerning the incoming administration and their hopes that Trump’s decide for secretary of protection, Pete Hegseth, would drive constructive change within the navy.

“They’ve expressed pleasure about, hopefully, a return to a easy sole deal with warfighting and never about politics and race discussions and political activist agendas,” Lohmeier advised the outlet on Nov. 17.

In saying Lohmeier’s nomination to function undersecretary of the Air Pressure, Trump stated he seems ahead to him working intently with Hegseth, who can be a critic of variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) and different progressive insurance policies within the navy.

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“Matthew will work with the GREAT Secretary of Protection Nominee, Pete Hegseth, to finish the devastating ‘woke’ insurance policies which have destroyed our Army, and make our Nation STRONG AGAIN,” Trump wrote.

In a submit on social media, Lohmeier thanked Trump for the nomination, whereas taking the chance to encourage Individuals to enlist within the armed forces.

“I’m grateful to your belief, and am very a lot wanting ahead to persevering with my service to our nice women and men in uniform,” he wrote. “To all women and men with a need to serve your nation in uniform, come be part of us now! We would like the most effective, brightest, and strongest of you at this essential juncture in American historical past.”

In 2021, after he was knowledgeable he was being dismissed from the navy, Lohmeier appeared on an episode of The Epoch Occasions’ “American Thought Leaders” program. Within the look, he stated that neither his guide nor his remarks throughout the podcast had been partisan.

“It’s not politically partisan to show Marxist ideology the place it exists and to speak about essential race concept; that needs to be one thing we’re unitedly standing in opposition to,” he stated on the time.

In the meantime, Hegseth appeared earlier than the Senate Armed Companies Committee on Jan. 14 to make his case to turn into the following secretary of protection. He stated he would deal with enhancing the warfighting functionality of the navy with out regard for the political affiliations of its servicemembers.

“We are going to stay patriotically apolitical and stridently constitutional,” he stated, including that each he and Trump need “a Pentagon laser-focused on lethality, meritocracy, warfighting, accountability, and readiness.”

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