Tuberville, who’s singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion policies, said he’s not going to change his mind and doesn’t care that people aren’t being promoted.
After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.
Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he’d use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could. Since February, he’s blocked more than 300 promotions.
I doubt most military people care. Those positions are being filled by acting commanders until people are promoted to fill them permanently, in most cases by the people nominated to fill them. They aren’t just vacant.
Retired military here, and I just can’t get too worked up over someone filling that position is getting 2-star pay instead of 3-star pay, or Colonel pay instead of 1-star pay.
It sucks if you are the one in line for a promotion though. To have all your hard work go to waste for some stupid political issue unrelated to you
Yeah that’s the thing here. Congress promotes officers. The enlisted corp ain’t gonna give a flying fuck. Promotion rates for enlisted have been shit for a couple years now
And forecast to remain shit for at least the next 4 years.