Sen. Tommy Tuberville says the US Navy is too woke, citing a poetry night on an aircraft carrier.
"It is absolutely insane the direction we're headed in our military," Tuberville told Fox News.
"Secretary [Carlos] Del Toro of Navy, he needs to get to building ships, get to recruiting, and he needs to get wokeness out of our Navy," Tuberville said Wednesday evening on Fox News.
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