Captain Terry M. Hestilow
United States Army, Retired
Fort Worth, Texas
July 13, 2017
President Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Reference: National Defense Authorization Act, FY 2018; the absolute necessity of the Hartzler Amendment; and the need for immediate action to preserve the United States military from the effects of the Obama Administration’s efforts to destroy our armed forces.
Mr. President,
As a retired member of the United States Army I am extremely concerned with the continuation of the Obama agenda for destroying the ability of the military to defend our nation while changing its effective mission to one of using the armed forces as a de facto vehicle of social change to promote normalization throughout the nation of deviant sexual behaviors. I write to you, today, to plead with you to overthrow the Obama agenda now, and return the U.S. military to its proper war fighting mission!
Sir, as you know, our economy cannot afford to take money out of circulation for purposes that do not promote economic growth in the private sector without at the same time promoting our nation’s security. With that in mind, our Defense Budget may be hijacked by the potential for incalculable medical expenditures for ultimately ineffective treatments designed to promote the appearance of sexual change of members (removing them from their military duties for up to two years), but producing no real biological change in the person’s so-called gender or sexual identity. It is a fact that neither hormone manipulation nor sex reassignment surgeries can actually change a person’s sex, since a person’s sexual identity is programmed by nature in the individual’s DNA at the genetics level of each cell. Simply put, it is impossible to change a person’s sex, or gender, or sexual identity; and if a person has some dissonance with their biological sexual identity it is not correctable by hormone treatments or surgery; but rather, is a mental condition, by definition, that must be treated as a mental condition and not as an error of one’s biology to be changed or “corrected” by doctors. And since when did we enlist or commission people into the armed forces knowing that they already suffered a mental condition of any king, much less one that is incompatible with good order and discipline in the military? To enlist or commission such individuals into any of the branches of the U.S. military, knowing that medical treatments can never resolve their perceived biological dissonance, would be a betrayal of the best interests of the American People and those in the military depending on those Defense dollars to be spent on real readiness budget issues!
With that in mind, Mr. President, it would be unconscionable that even one dollar of the U.S. Defense budget to be diverted from actual DoD readiness “war fighting” requirements – to pay for so-called medical practices or procedures that cannot, by nature, actually alter or change a person’s true gender. Indeed, unbiased scientific studies of identical twins (who share from conception identical DNA) overwhelmingly reveal that a person’s sexual confusion about their sexual identity, be that homosexuality, gender confusion (aka transgenderism), and any other individual perceptions about “being” a gender other than “male” or “female” is mentally rooted and has absolutely no correlation to their biology; but rather, life influencing events, mental perceptions and psychological influences. No amount of hormone treatments or surgeries can ever resolve the issues these people face.
Much like Democrats today, who refuse to cooperate with you in seeking to serve our nation honestly and with your best interests in mind, no amount of honest intellectual reasoning with those who seek to integrate sexual perversion throughout our military will ever result in a good outcome for our nation, our armed forces, or the men and women who serve. They are not about moving forward governing or protecting our nation. The so-called LGBT/Democrat agenda is political and not based on sound defense policy, rational thought or true science. It is simply focused on throwing off all moral restraint and decency with the forced rejection of the very institution, like marriage, family, and a strong military, in their efforts to mandate social change and to usher in some form of government that we should all fear rather than embrace! It will not be one in which tolerance of traditional thought will be allowed, to be sure!
If you don’t believe me, this old veteran of both the Vietnam War and the War on Terrorism, then candidly ask Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis if he truly believes that the inclusion of sexual deviants in the military, promoted by budget authorizations, science fiction medicine, and legal threats of disciplinary action against those who hold traditional values under a perverted Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), can ever promote a lean, strong, and ready military force capable of defeating America’s enemies already preparing to attack us in every way imaginable, inside the nation and around the globe. If he is the man that I, and most patriotic Americans, believe that he is, he will assure you that the Left’s agenda is uniformly against our military’s readiness and its survival as an institution of strength for the enforcement of U.S. foreign policy abroad. The only purpose that the Left sees for the military is to be a command directed environment to grow perverted liberalism and spread its perverted philosophies across the United States as discharged reeducated troops return to their home communities.
It is my true fear, Mr. President, that unless you immediately reverse the Obama agenda to pervert and destroy the U.S. military through inclusion of personnel openly practicing and promoting a homosexual lifestyle in the military, and those who openly practicing and promote transgenderism in the force, we will be sad to see the eventually destruction of our powerful military’s ability to confront and defeat our enemies in the field. At a minimum, and I am certain that Secretary Mattis will confirm my suggestion, any retention or expansion of such inclusion of persons openly practicing and promoting the homosexual and transgender lifestyles in the U.S. military will make day-to-day life for not only commanders, but leaders at every level, a non-negotiable career mine field that sanity will demand they leave. I am certain that this is not your goal for our military?
Sir, I urge you to refuse to accept a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 that fails to contain the “Hartzler Amendment”, named for its author, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-4th Congressional District of the state of Missouri. It would begin to remove the cancer of the Obama Administration’s agenda in the military that, if left in place, will ultimately destroy our war fighting capability. Indeed, it would be the correct first-step to end the recruitment of individuals who are not coming into the armed forces to serve our national defense requirements, but rather, to obtain, free of charge, the medical treatments that they have been led to believe will allow them to “become” sexually different from their birth identity. The Hartzler Amendment would properly end the provision of taxpayer defense funds to pay for 100% ineffective medical treatments and surgeries (removing the member from duty for two years while undergoing the treatments and meaning that they cannot perform their assigned military duties). Let me repeat, that while we lose the member from their military duties, the medical treatments can never actually achieve the member’s desired purpose or outcome of changing their biological identity (gender reassignment)!
Of no lesser importance, the Hartzler Amendment would protect regular Americans in the military from the full-scale assault upon their conscience and their careers. Members of the military would not have the right of their privacy that would be assaulted in their latrines and living spaces by forced re-indoctrination under threat of disciplinary action. It is one thing to ask of service members that they jeopardize their lives and their families to the consequence of military service to keep our country free; but it is quite another to force them to literally shower with, live with, and work with individuals that hold their own gender identity in contempt! The Obama Administration, when fully implemented, will not only force the best of our service members out of service, but it will prevent the best of the next generation from believing that military service is morally suitable for their voluntary commitment to military service. The military will become a cesspool!
Think about it, Mr. President. How can we allow funds necessary for the proper operations and maintenance of our Defense structure to be diverted to pay for this deviant sexual social experiment when we have enemies flexing their muscles around the globe and challenging us with aggression while half of our equipment has to be cannibalized to keep the other half of our equipment operational and combat ready? I know that weak in the knee political types are willing to fall on their knees to betray our armed services in the name of social change if they sense the winds are driving the polls in that direction; but I do not believe that of you, Mr. President, nor your combat wizened and highly decorated Secretary of Defense. You are both made of more patriotic substance and moral courage than they! You have no common cause with them! You know that they would slaughter you, your children, and our military on their altars to the overthrow of the United States if you allowed them to have their way in continuing to implement Barack Obama’s anti-military agenda.
I saw you yesterday in a news clip saying to, I think, Dr. Pat Robertson, “If Hillary had been elected; our military would have been decimated.” I believe that you are right. But, Mr. President, unless you now prevail and refuse to accept the NDAA Budget for FY 2018 unless it contains the provisions of the Hartzler Amendment, and unless you now reverse the Obama agenda to allow those who practice sexually deviant lifestyles to continue to serve, enlist or receive commissions in the armed forces, it will not be Hillary Clinton who will decimate the military … it will be you! Mr. President, when the epitaph for America is read, the destruction of our military will be what you will be forever remembered. I don’t believe that you will do that.
Mr. President, I have faced the Communists in Vietnam, and the Taliban in Afghanistan (I left the Army between 1993 and 2002 because I could not serve Bill Clinton who had sought our military defeat in Vietnam). I was an enlisted soldier, a non-commissioned officer (Staff Sergeant) and commissioned officer (Captain) in the Military Police Corps (Vietnam), the Infantry “Airborne”, and Civil Affairs (Afghanistan). I tell you this because I have a very long history of service and have always been committed to our nation’s best interests (as is also your desire and commitment). The weasels (and here I slander the animal unfairly) who would allow our military to be destroyed are not your friends nor mine. Stand with me, sir, and refuse to allow the enemy to destroy our military from within. I will stand with you as long as you stand for our military forces. The enemy would destroy us both. Sir, I stand with you. If they kill me, so be it! Let us stand, or die, as men of genuine principle! I believe in you.
With prayers that God will grant you the exceptionally great wisdom for the man who leads the greatest Christian nation in the history of the world! It is with profound respect I urge to capture the victory,
Your servant and champion,
Terry M. Hestilow
Captain, Infantry, United States Army, Retired
Cc:
Vice-President Mike Pence
Secretary of Defense James Mattis
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
House Speaker Paul Ryan
Representative Vicky Hartzler, Republican, 4th District, Missouri
Representative Michael Burgess, Republican, 26th District, Texas
Senator John Cornyn, Republican, Texas
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican, Texas
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