Sen. Tommy Tuberville argues the Navy is 'too woke' because 'people are doing poems on aircraft...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville blasted the US Navy after one of its top officials took the Alabama Republican to task for his refusal to end his controversial blockade of hundreds of military promotions that has left unprecedented vacancies in the US armed forces.

"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. "We've got people doing poems on aircraft carriers over the loudspeaker. It is absolutely insane the direction we're headed in our military."

On CNN on Tuesday, Del Toro and the secretaries of the Army and Air Force, each the top civilian official in their service branch, criticized Tuberville for refusing to relent on his controversial hold on promotions that the Senate must approve. They echoed an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Monday.