Unit Commander makes Melania film a designated UAE

From: (Active Duty Enlisted Military Member/MRFF Client’s email address withheld)
Subject: Unit Commander makes Melania film a designated UAE
Date: January 31, 2026 at 9:15:14 AM MST
To: Information Weinstein <[email protected]>

This email is to confirm a phone call I had with Mr. Weinstein late Friday his time and early Saturday our time at our military installation.

Our unit is a combat outfit. Our unit commander requires active participation from our unit members at what he determines to be official “Unit Activity Events” or UAEs which are supposed to create a bond within our combat unit and its families.

His UAE events have been everything from unit softball games, flag football contests, barbecues and picnics and  “movie nights” for our unit members and their families. He has also held Bible studies and given these “UAE” status for those of us who attend.

Attendance at all of these UAEs is not mandatory but our unit Commander requires attendance at least at 3 of the 4 these each month. He is the person who decides what is a UAE and what is not. Failure to attend the minimum of 3 UAEs per month will be negatively reflected in our fitness eval reports.

Yesterday he “advised” our unit members and their families to join him and his wife and children for a showing of that new documentary called “Melania” at an off base movie theater. He said that seeing the film would satisfy attendance at one of his UAEs. When he said “advised” we know what that meant.

Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending. He has made it very clear how he feels about anyone who does not support the MAGA agenda of our current leaders from the White House and Secretary of Defense down the chain. He has even worn MAGA red hats he owns at many of these UAEs. We feel helpless to try to fight against what he is doing here. I am writing on behalf of a dozen of our unit members and families of whom nine are Christians and white.

(Active Duty Enlisted Military Member/MRFF Client’s name, rank, MOS/AFSC/SFSC, unit, and installation all withheld)

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