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Obama transfroms troops from war fighters into guardians of the green

June 23, 2015

Once it was Army uniforms that were green. Now it's the whole Pentagon.
 
Global warming is a major national security issue, according to President Obama and his hand-picked general who now run the Pentagon.
 
We still have no strategy to deal with the threats from the Islamic State, but our troops now have a Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Over 7,000 bases are under orders to factor-in global warming in all that they do. Evidently the climate impact must be considered before America's troops can even twitch a muscle. 
 
Our military is sent to measure ice levels in the Arctic, but we don't have transports to send our Marines on their missions.  Military budgets suffer, but the Navy converts its ships to more-expensive and inefficient green fuels. The same thing for naval aviation.
 
As commander-in-chief, Barack Obama is transforming our troops from war fighters into guardians of the green.
 
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