H.C.R. No. 9 Summary

• Urges Congress to restore Department of Defense personnel practices based solely on merit for recruiting, assigning, training, promoting, and retaining military members with a warrior ethos.

• Criticizes current DoD practices including emphasis on diversity and inclusion initiatives, unconscious bias training, COVID-19 vaccine mandates with limited religious exemptions, gender-neutral language requirements at the Air Force Academy, and Critical Race Theory training at the Military Academy.

• Cites Army recruitment shortfall of 15,000 soldiers in 2022 as the worst recruiting year since the transition to an all-volunteer force nearly 50 years ago, and notes only 2 percent of Americans ages 17-21 meet desired military service standards.

• Calls for Congress to use authorization and appropriation authorities to prohibit "woke" social engineering practices and mandate a return to merit-based military force development and composition.

• Designates the resolution as the "Restoration of America's Readiness (ROAR) Resolution" and directs transmission of copies to the President, Congress, and Ohio's congressional delegation.