Maj. Andrew Calvert, Army Chaplain
NBC News reporting help PA pick our Family Advocate Award this week by reporting on Maj. Andrew Calvert posting on a military facebook his opinion, which Public Advocate salutes and cites as Family Advocate Award level leadership and policy, says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
Officials are investigating a Texas Army chaplain after he suggested in a social media post that transgender soldiers were "mentally unfit" and "unqualified to serve."
Maj. Andrew Calvert made the comments on a military newspaper's Facebook page on Monday, the same day President Joe Biden signed an executive order lifting a ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, according to officials. He is a chaplain with the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade in Fort Hood.
"How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve? There is little difference in this than over those who believe and argue for a 'flat earth,' despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary," Calvert wrote in the post on the Army Times' Facebook page, according to screenshots.
"The motivation is different, but the argument is the same. This person is a MedBoard for Mental Wellness waiting to happen. What a waste of military resources and funding!"