The Pentagon is calling out streaming giant Netflix over its new military series shoeswhich follows the story of a gay man who enlists in the US Marine Corps in the 1990s.
The Pentagon accused Netflix of pushing an “ideological agenda” in the series, according to what the British newspaper “The Sun” reported. New York Post.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. military is returning to reclaiming the spirit of the warrior,” Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon’s press secretary, told the newspaper. “Our standards across the board are elite, uniformed, and gender neutral because the weight of a backpack or a person doesn’t matter if you are a man, a woman, gay, or straight.”
“We will not compromise our standards to meet an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix which constantly produces its own leadership and feeds garbage to its audience and its children,” the statement added.
The gay military series debuted on Netflix early this month, a week after Secretary of War Hegseth unveiled the department’s new personnel standards last month.
while to talk Addressing senior US military officers at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, Hegseth called for the restoration of “harsh, fair and rational application of standards.” Hegseth spoke about the importance of maintaining standards and making them “uniform, gender-neutral and high,” adding that “leaders are the ones who set the standards.”
“Today, at my direction, every member of the Joint Force at every rank is required to take a PT test twice a year, in addition to meeting height and weight requirements twice a year. Every year of service,” Hegseth said. “Also, today, at my direction, every warfighter across our joint force is required to do job training every duty day. It should make sense, I mean most units do that already, but we’re rationing it. And we’re not talking like hot yoga and stretching. Really tough job training. Both as a unit and as an individual. At every level from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to every person in this room to the youngest Soldier, Leaders set standards. “
“Standards must be uniform, gender-neutral and high,” Hegseth insisted. “If not, they are not standards. They are just suggestions. Suggestions that are killing our sons and daughters.”
The Netflix series has consistently ranked in the top 10 on the Netflix viewership charts since its debut.
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