; Whereas, over the past several years, the Department of Defense and its military services have engaged in various practices eroding these warfighting principles to the point at which United States military dominance has been called into serious question, which practices include, but are not limited to— (1) overemphasizing and relying on diversity and inclusion in all its forms, including gender, gender identity, race, and sexual preference, as a primary determinant in how military forces should be comprised without providing credible and verifiable evidence that such a prescribed composition results in higher job performance, unit effectiveness, and mission accomplishment, as opposed to a model in which a meritocracy-based force composition is used; (2) making nonsensical unconscious bias training mandatory for all military and civilian personnel; (3) instituting mandatory emergency use only COVID–19 vaccines with little regard to individual medical concerns in light of the anthrax vaccine mandate problems of the late 1990s and denying almost all requests for exemptions based on religious grounds, which is particularly troubling given the recent decision by the Department of Defense to rescind the COVID–19 vaccine mandate; and (4) requiring mandatory training at the United States Air Force Academy to incorporate person-centered and gender-neutral language when describing individuals and to request cadets to consider using the term parent or caregiver rather than mother or father as to not offend those that may come from a different parenting background; Whereas such practices are having a detrimental effect on recruitment, as the United States Army was 15,000 soldiers short of its 2022 recruiting goals, the worst on record since the Armed Forces switched to an all-volunteer force nearly 50 years ago, and the remaining branches of the Armed Forces are well behind their historic goal rates as they enter into the 2023 recruiting season