Soldiers 'don't join the military to express ourselves,' ex-Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill counters the Navy's use of a drag queen ambassador to help attract new recruits.
Joshua Kelley, a 24-year-old yeoman 3rd class, performs as Harpy Daniels for sailors aboard the carrier Reagan.
While Kelley’s Instagram and TikTok bios show that the performer’s opinions "are not endorsed by DoD or DoN," the drag queen claims to have danced in drag for service officers on a number of different occasions, sharing one video from 2018. The Digital Ambassador initiative that Kelley participated in ran from October 2022 to March 2023 and was "designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates," a Navy spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital. The reason, the spokesperson added, was that the Navy is navigating "the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force.
"We don't join the military to express ourselves," O’Neill countered. "All we have in common is that we're all afraid that we get our heads shaved, then we're part of a team, and our job as a military is alliance, solidarity, forward defense and deterrence. And a deterrent is a way you avoid conflict by projecting strength."
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