Why Scott Perry, brigadier general, ultimately resigned: the Army’s woke agenda betrayed his core values
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After nearly four decades of military service, it was one small task that pushed Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., to the brink and brought an abrupt end to a long, successful career.
“I kind of slowly saw it coming,” the Pennsylvania Republican told Fox News Digital in an interview. He was talking about a trend toward progressivism that he saw as antithetical to a military that was designed to strip soldiers of their individual wants and needs and rebuild them into one fighting force.
“The culminating point for me is when my boss came to me and said, ‘You’re going to be in charge of enforcing the gender reassignment policy in the command,’” he said.
“The military is an organization where you take orders,” Perry said. “So, I decided that that was an order I wasn’t willing to take. And