WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move.
The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.
An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.” About a dozen service members had been “prematurely notified” that they would be able to retire before that decision was reversed, according to the spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal Air Force policy.
A memo issued Monday announcing the new policy, which was reviewed by the AP, said that the choice to deny retirement benefits was made “after careful consideration of the individual applications.”
All transgender members of the Air Force are being separated from the service under the Trump administration’s policies.
The cruelty is the point.
Fuck every idiot who voted for this.
There is a Hell and we are living in it.
This isn’t just cruelty
You don’t want trans people actively in your military when the insurrection starts.
The expediency here should make it clear how fast paced the plans are.
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I hope I live long enough to see every idiot who enabled this shit standing in front of Nuremberg 2
I agree that all guilty of treason. Not to mention really shitty people.
Imagine having 18 years in, just about to retire with full pension and this happens. Talk about radicalized.
They’re still building hell
We don’t have to live in it
it’s not just cruelty it’s the subtle (hell at this point not so subtle) hints that “we need to surround ourselves with loyalists to OUR cause, not the country” Because when the squads start rolling out to not just detain people but to line them up on the street probably not the best idea to have transgender/gay/people of color on the other side of the trigger.
the shit is coming, and soon. ICE is now recruiting teens as an obvious scapegoat for one slipped trigger finger.
What if we were unknowingly in hell?
“sepersted from the service”
You mean fired due to discrimination?
They’re after the wrong 1%
Social conservatives are a hateful people. Bitter and hateful. They’re the bad guys of the world.
If I had served in the military and this was how I was treated on the way out, I’d probably use my training to do my best to inflict harm on the decision-makers.
This has to be grounds for a lawsuit.
Maybe if the judiciary system would be fair, non-political and not corrupt. However…
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Air force report in January 2026: Because of no reasons whatsoever, there has been a surge in fragging incidents and former military involved mass shootings. For that reason, we are banning all members of the military who do not possess certain genetic attributes.
Heil trump.
