As reported by Breitbart under the banner of “exclusive,” the branch’s training details updated directions for bathing. And the rules are plenty far from what you might find familiar.

The training — purportedly delivered via scenarios — prescribes proper responses to issues concerning transgenderism.

Vignette Nine, for instance, deals with mandated urine specimens: What if an “observer” is uncomfortable having to watch a soldier — who has “not [had] sex reassignment surgery” — pee into a cup? //

Soldiers must accept living and working conditions that are often austere, primitive, and characterized by little or no privacy. All soldiers will use the billeting, bathroom, and shower facilities associated with their gender marker… //

Facilities will not be designated, modified, or constructed to make transgender-only areas. Any modifications made must be available to all soldiers to use. Accommodations cannot isolate or stigmatize the transgender soldier.

Might unrequired accommodations such as curtains make a transgender soldier sense stigma? Surely there’s a solid chance.

Of course, the situation was inevitable once government adopted the revolutionary notion of “gender.” //

All branches are bound to command co-ed cleaning:

Report: Navy Says Sailors Can Use Whichever Locker Room Suits Their Gender Identity https://t.co/tfn1dregSa

— RedState (@RedState) July 9, 2021

Work brings purpose. Without purpose we are doomed to turn inward, and that’s always a losing proposition, because the human spirit is sick and sinful. Without an outward goal, we are doomed to feast on our own, rotting flesh, and it makes us sick to the soul.

We’re sick with secularism. Yes, work brings us purpose, but purpose is bestowed by a Creator. Statistically speaking, most people in the world believe in a Creator, whether that’s the Christian God, or multiple gods or any other iteration of religion. Westerners are the outliers when it comes to faith, and it shows. Among Christians, there is a popular saying.

Every person is born with a God-shaped hole in their heart.

We are born with a space that needs to be filled. It’s not that controversial of a statement. “What’s the meaning of life?” is a very familiar question. That’s because we are all familiar with the drive to find meaning. It’s innate. Space abhors a vacuum, and if we don’t fill that space with outward motivations – God, family, country, etc. – then something has to fill it. Looking at the above chart, it seems that space has been filled with misery and meds. The further our nation drifts from the concept of being blessed by a Creator, the worse our sickness becomes. We have no outward drive and we are trapped in our own minds. I can’t count the number of friends I have with a debilitating fear of being alone. For them, being alone means being alone with their thoughts and they cannot handle it. When you feel connected to the concept of creation and Creator, it’s much easier to be alone, because you can lean on the concept that you aren’t truly by yourself. You can root yourself in prayer, and in the thoughts of God, rather than your own, chaotic thinking.

We are sick with brokenness. Our families are broken. Our notions of nuclear family have been destroyed by government intervention, cultural Marxism and our continuing drift away from corporate religion. We are raising generations of children without fathers, and the results have been tragic.

This is the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the cosmos so far. The view of the early Universe toward the southern constellation Volans was achieved in 12.5 hours of exposure with the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. Of course the stars with six visible spikes are well within our own Milky Way. Their diffraction pattern is characteristic of Webb's 18 hexagonal mirror segments operating together as a single 6.5 meter diameter primary mirror. The thousands of galaxies flooding the field of view are members of the distant galaxy cluster SMACS0723-73, some 4.6 billion light-years away. Luminous arcs that seem to infest the deep field are even more distant galaxies though. Their images are distorted and magnified by the dark matter dominated mass of the galaxy cluster, an effect known as gravitational lensing. Analyzing light from two separate arcs below the bright spiky star, Webb's NIRISS instrument indicates the arcs are both images of the same background galaxy. And that galaxy's light took about 9.5 billion years to reach the James Webb Space Telescope.