They're putting political correctness ahead of reason and common sense because they're terrified of being tarred and feathered as "not woke".

You need to understand, the executive class in the military i.e the ones who make these policy decisions, they are not what you think of when you hear the word "Soldier". On the contrary, they're largely worthless, unprincipled, sniveling cowards who would do anything to save their own skins. They see a woke communist outrage mob coming, and they drop to their knees and pledge their fealty.