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The State Department is still operating the office that oversees the efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.[http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/05/state-dept-requests-funds-for-office-to-close-gitmo/] Hopefully the Trump Administration will take action on this issue and stop this. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 22:24, 5 August 2017 (EDT)
 
The State Department is still operating the office that oversees the efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.[http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/05/state-dept-requests-funds-for-office-to-close-gitmo/] Hopefully the Trump Administration will take action on this issue and stop this. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 22:24, 5 August 2017 (EDT)
 
:The U.S. probably will repatriate a Gitmo detainee to Saudi Arabia, something which appears to have been part of a plea deal agreed upon in 2014: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-guantanamo/exclusive-u-s-advancing-toward-first-guantanamo-repatriation-under-trump-idUSKBN1GW07P][http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/03/22/u-s-military-to-reuters-first-repatriation-under-trump-of-gitmo-prisoner-moving-forward/] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 14:08, 20 March 2018 (EDT)
 
:The U.S. probably will repatriate a Gitmo detainee to Saudi Arabia, something which appears to have been part of a plea deal agreed upon in 2014: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-guantanamo/exclusive-u-s-advancing-toward-first-guantanamo-repatriation-under-trump-idUSKBN1GW07P][http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/03/22/u-s-military-to-reuters-first-repatriation-under-trump-of-gitmo-prisoner-moving-forward/] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 14:08, 20 March 2018 (EDT)
::This transfer just happened: [http://thehill.com/policy/defense/385919-trump-administration-makes-first-detainee-transfer-out-of-guantanamo][http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/02/guantanamo-convict-released-to-saudi-arabia-in-first-prisoner-transfer-trump-administration.html][https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/guantanamo-detainee-transferred-trump-al-darbi.html] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 18:37, 2 May 2018 (EDT)
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::This transfer just happened: [http://thehill.com/policy/defense/385919-trump-administration-makes-first-detainee-transfer-out-of-guantanamo][http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/02/guantanamo-convict-released-to-saudi-arabia-in-first-prisoner-transfer-trump-administration.html][http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/03/gitmo-concludes-first-prisoner-transfer-since-trump-vowed-load-it-up-some-bad-dudes/][https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/guantanamo-detainee-transferred-trump-al-darbi.html] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 18:37, 2 May 2018 (EDT)
  
 
== Military refuses to remove Confederate names from base ==
 
== Military refuses to remove Confederate names from base ==

Revision as of 22:53, May 3, 2018

Pentagon upgrades

The Pentagon will upgrade their email system. Good move, but not appropriate to me to add as an achievement.[1] --1990'sguy (talk) 13:40, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

UN anti-nuclear weapon treaty

The United States is boycotting a UN treaty to ban the possession and use of nuclear weapons. This is good, but I'm not sure if it should be added as an achievement. This seems like default U.S. policy, and eight other nuclear nations (the only nuclear nations in the world) also refused to take part.[2] --1990'sguy (talk) 13:42, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

Aircraft carriers

Although this new class of aircraft carriers was not a Trump Administration idea, they are beginning to be commissioned in his administration and are thus increasing the number of U.S. aircraft carriers and Navy ships.[3] --1990'sguy (talk) 14:21, 13 July 2017 (EDT)

Voter fraud commission

The establishment of the voter fraud commission is an achievement regardless of what happens next (someone is making the effort to simply check for voter fraud), but it will be interesting to see what happens with the controversy around it.[4][5][6] --1990'sguy (talk) 23:46, 13 July 2017 (EDT)

So the voter fraud commission was disbanded, but contrary to what the White House said earlier, the data it collected will be destroyed: [7][8][9][10] --1990'sguy (talk) 10:12, 10 January 2018 (EST)
I added some of this to the article, but maybe it should be moved to the "failures" section, at least partially? --1990'sguy (talk) 22:57, 16 January 2018 (EST)

State Dept. reorganization

The State Department is thinking about eliminating their cyber office. Something to watch.[11][12] --1990'sguy (talk) 12:44, 20 July 2017 (EDT)

The State Department sent a re-organization plan to Congress that includes closing the office: [13] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:43, 29 August 2017 (EDT)

Transgender military ban

Despite Trump announcing the ban, it will not go into effect until an official action is made.[14][15] We will see what happens. Hopefully, this ban will actually happen. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:54, 27 July 2017 (EDT)

The Trump Administration has started coordinating with the Pentagon for the implementation of the ban.[16][17] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:40, 31 July 2017 (EDT)
The Coast Guard chief has stated his won't follow the transgender ban.[18] --1990'sguy (talk) 17:38, 4 August 2017 (EDT)
According to WaPo, Defense Secretary Mattis recently recommended against a transgender ban: [19] The ban is uncertain either way because of the court blocks. However, the Trump Administration did delay it and studied it to make sure the military would not be harmed by it, so it is still an achievement regardless of what happens (though it might have to be re-worded a bit). --1990'sguy (talk) 21:33, 21 March 2018 (EDT)

Legal challenges

Several courts have ruled against the transgender ban, and the Pentagon appears to have caved and will accept transgender recruits starting January 1.[20][21][22][23][24] I don't think this is over, as the DOJ is still fighting.[25][26][27][28] --1990'sguy (talk) 23:30, 11 December 2017 (EST)

The DOJ will be forced to admit transgender people on January 1, but it says it is not abandoning the case: [29] --1990'sguy (talk) 23:34, 29 December 2017 (EST)
The DOJ and DOD have been criticized for not fighting hard enough for the Trump Administration's position on the transgender ban: [30][31] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:47, 2 January 2018 (EST)
The first transgender reqruit just joined the military: [32][33][34][35][36][37] --1990'sguy (talk) 21:56, 26 February 2018 (EST)
Yet another ruling by a leftist judge: [38] --1990'sguy (talk) 14:51, 16 April 2018 (EDT)

McMaster dumping conservatives from the NSC

McMaster has fired another conservative NSC member.[39][40][41] This is unfortunate and something to watch. This has happened several times already. McMaster belongs to the WH Democrats and must go. --1990'sguy (talk) 19:57, 2 August 2017 (EDT)

This Breitbart article shows the situation is not good at the NSC. Also, McMaster did not fire the Obama holdovers there -- only the conservatives and anti-globalists. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:52, 2 August 2017 (EDT)
If this is true, this is good: "Trump reportedly thinking about making Mike Pompeo national security adviser, shipping H.R. McMaster to Afghanistan" --1990'sguy (talk) 23:07, 2 August 2017 (EDT)
Turns out, McMaster worked for a liberal thinktank that supported the Iran nuclear deal: [42] --1990'sguy (talk) 17:14, 7 August 2017 (EDT)

Other appointments news

A Trump political appointee apparently resigned (pressured?) after he made controversial Facebook posts: [43] --1990'sguy (talk) 12:22, 4 April 2018 (EDT)

Gitmo news

The State Department is still operating the office that oversees the efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.[44] Hopefully the Trump Administration will take action on this issue and stop this. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:24, 5 August 2017 (EDT)

The U.S. probably will repatriate a Gitmo detainee to Saudi Arabia, something which appears to have been part of a plea deal agreed upon in 2014: [45][46] --1990'sguy (talk) 14:08, 20 March 2018 (EDT)
This transfer just happened: [47][48][49][50] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:37, 2 May 2018 (EDT)

Military refuses to remove Confederate names from base

Good news, in that the U.S. Army refused to remove Confederate names from a military base in New York.[51][52] A nice change from what we've seen in various city governments. --1990'sguy (talk) 17:13, 7 August 2017 (EDT)

Also, the Virginia Military Institute refused to remove Confederate statues from its grounds: [53] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:18, 12 September 2017 (EDT)

Other "SJW" issues in the military

Good news: Air Force Lt. Col. Leland Bohannon, who was disciplined for refusing to sign a card expressing appreciation for a homosexual "wedding", just won his appeal: [54][55][56][57][58][59] --1990'sguy (talk) 21:50, 6 April 2018 (EDT)

Nuclear arsenal upgrades

President Trump stated that he modernized the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal.[60][61][62] This is good news. I won't add this, at least yet, because his tweet (how we know about it) is very ambiguous, and this article seems to dispute this (I have respect for the Washington Examiner, which tends to be relatively conservative). --1990'sguy (talk) 22:49, 9 August 2017 (EDT)

According to this article, the Obama Administration was responsible for some modernization efforts: [63] --1990'sguy (talk) 17:02, 22 April 2018 (EDT)

Antifa --> terrorist organization

There is a White House petition to label the Antifa a terrorist organization, and it has received well over the minimum required signatures (including my own, actually) to get an official WH response: [64][65][66][67] Hopefully, the Trump Administration will act on this. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:28, 23 August 2017 (EDT)

Afghanistan -- war authority

The Trump Administration is still operating the war in Afghanistan under an authority enacted by the Obama Administration in June 2016 -- this authority actually seems like a good one, but it replaced one also by Obama that severely restricted the operations of the U.S. military in fighting terrorists.[68] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:00, 25 August 2017 (EDT)

Potential pictures

The U.S. Pacific Command Twitter account has some good pictures (I'm sure all the divisions of the military and broader government do as well), and these have caught my eye. But I will post these here for now:

--1990'sguy (talk) 09:09, 11 September 2017 (EDT)

Defeating ISIS

Interesting article on whether the Obama or Trump Administration played a bigger role in defeating ISIS: [69] The content may or may not be true, but it is still interesting. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:31, 7 October 2017 (EDT)

Military budget

Trump signed a large military budget bill,[70][71][72] which also legislatively enacts a ban on Kaspersky Lab software.[73][74][75][76] However, this bill does not actually become law until the 2011 sequester law is repealed, so there is no use putting this in the article yet. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:26, 13 December 2017 (EST)

Obama holdovers and national security

Apparently, Obama holdovers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, in the DoE, are undermining U.S. nuclear security through a lack of cooperation with Russia: [77] --1990'sguy (talk) 15:32, 19 December 2017 (EST)

Interesting articles

Here's an interesting article on President Trump's progress with his agenda related to the military: [78] --1990'sguy (talk) 19:27, 26 December 2017 (EST)

Middle East cargo restrictions

The Trump Administration is tightening screenings of imports from the Middle East: [79][80][81][82][83][84] This is a good move, but I'm not sure if it should be included, due to it appearing to be in response to a specific threat(s), rather than simply implementing a conservative agenda. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:31, 28 January 2018 (EST)

It's another thing Obama and Hillary wouldn't do, but adding it probably would water-down the list. Still, it's good to know! --David B (TALK) 18:43, 22 March 2018 (EDT)

National security threats

The intelligence community discussed its Worldwide Threat Assessment, which seems interesting although I don't think it should be added as an achievement: [85] Also, U.S. Pacific commander Andy Harris (who was just nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Australia) believes that the U.S. is not doing enough to confront China: [86][87] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:32, 14 February 2018 (EST)

I agree with Harris - a few tariffs aren't going to do it. They hold a huge amount of our debt, and so it's like we are just letting them do what they want. They are openly aggressive towards us, which means that more than ever, we need to counter their sabre-rattling and make sure that we posses enough military force that they dare not escalate. --David B (TALK) 18:41, 22 March 2018 (EDT)

The Commerce Department has stated that building a 5G network is a Trump Administration priority, partly for national security reasons: [88][89] --1990'sguy (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2018 (EDT)

National security against China

Here's something to watch: in April, the FCC will vote on at least one measure to protect U.S. national security: [90] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:21, 27 March 2018 (EDT)

Related to the Broadcom info I recently added, the company recently moved its headquarters to the U.S. despite Trump blocking its proposed acquisition for national security reasons: [91] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:52, 4 April 2018 (EDT)
China apparently is increasing hacking of American computers/entities: [92] Hopefully, Trump will retaliate. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:41, 10 April 2018 (EDT)
The FCC just began making official that measure I mentioned above, protecting U.S. national security against China: [93][94][95][96][97] If/When it becomes official, we should add it to the article. --1990'sguy (talk) 14:23, 17 April 2018 (EDT)
In other news, the Trump Administration is considering the hiring of Chinese technology graduates in order to protect American research: [98] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:46, 2 May 2018 (EDT)
Also, the Trump Administration is considering other actions against China: [99][100] The Pentagon already banned the selling of phones made by certain Chinese companies on its military bases because the phones might be used to spy on American servicemen.[101] --1990'sguy (talk) 23:53, 2 May 2018 (EDT)