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Opposed to warping military meritocracy momentum?

Seek counter-examples from “Heart of America” ... rather than coastal fringes!

https://nativesuccess.ku.edu/about (Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area)

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I can hardly believe that I just read a Diversity Thursday with good news!!! Thanks for that. Not to be too much of a curmudgeon, but it would be well to keep in mind that the entire White House/DOD establishment is firmly committed to enforcing DEI wherever they can, including our military. I suspect that no advice to the contrary, however well based or factual will dissuade them from their goals.

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Meh. Want my attention, repeal the Civil Rights Act.

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"Get the right leaders with spine and skin, remove the sectarian rent seekers from the payroll and redirect those funds and efforts towards the actual mission"....Indeed. The collective spines of our leaders (I'm looking at you SECNAV)have softened in recent years but many young warriors have largely shrugged it off. They didn't join the Navy to renew their library cards and read BLM/DEI/CRt/Global warming nonsense. They want to learn, grow, and fight. It's the leaders that need a little stiffness in their backbones. Stand up and lead, people.

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The rot is already deep in the DoD HR systems. I posted this a few months ago, but it goes directly to the Anti-meritocracy leadership we have now:

"Diversity among leadership dropped after photos were removed last year from Navy promotion packages", Vice Adm. John Nowell said during a panel discussion on diversity and inclusion at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference

“I think we should consider reinstating photos in selection boards,” he said. “We look at, for instance, the one-star board over the last five years, and we can show you where, as you look at diversity, it went down with photos removed.”

color of skin over character is today's DoD policy

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What will end Diversity, CRT and gay/trans in the military is a good old bloody war where as in early WW2 the Old Peace time Military was suddenly thrust into a long fighting retreat and a long fighting battle to win.

What is not needed to fight will be shed like an old snake skin.

But, it may just be the beginning that spells our end till reason and abject reality catches up.

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I agree.

Trans/Gay will "walk point" first.

Being on a battlefield is no place to argue Pronouns with your Sgt or wearing dresses when you are a man.

The troops involved will take action.

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A President DeSantis needs to fire about 80% of the SES Corps, half the flags, and then deep select the most based and serious replacements possible. Only then can they team up to excise the DIE tumor.

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It’s a beginning long awaited as the Silent Majority awakens and fights back against the foolish ways of the Dem Libs with RDS is leading our way.

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"One recent report on the Navy compiled for members of Congress observed that “non-combat curricula consume Navy resources, clog inboxes, create administrative quagmires, and monopolize precious training time.”

There are 195,000 civilians versus 343,000 active duty USN. - They all have to justify their existence. If we don't cull those numbers and immediately kill politically motivated initiatives like DEI they will simply find a new cause du jour.

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Equity (if defined as equal opportunity) and "inclusion" (defined as developing teams and organizations staffed by the people best suited to achieve the mission goals) are outcomes of a system that aims to ensure that every person can realize their potential. One way to do the is to recognize the power of "cognitive diversity." Cognitive Diversity is the different ways in which individuals see and categorize the world, solve problems and make predictions. It is not to be confused with the Identity Diversity that is the sole focus of the DEI zealots. A personʻs skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religion or other easily distinguished traits have nothing to do with a personʻs ability to contribute to the organizationʻs success.

Focusing on DEI and looking to create equity (defined as the right mix of various identities in a group or team) by force fitting people into job slots is counter-productive and demeaning to anyone who has achieved individual success through their own merit. The present CRT/DEI focus is ill conceived unless the true intention is to destroy society.

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I provided the FO4A letter to Gail Heriot of Instapundit. Gail passed it to Glenn and he referred to it in his excellent NY Post article. If anyone knows any flags who would like to get on board with FO4A, I do PR work pro bono for them and would be happy to put you in touch with MG Joe Arbuckle, President of FO4A. Brent Ramsey....shrblr@bellsouth.net

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as we said in the Army, the only acceptable skin tone is Green

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The problems with wokeness in the military (except for the Chair Force which is too far gone to fix) won't be cured until we get rid of every last vestige of the obama/bidum regimes. Every Perfumed Princes at the Pentagram need to be expelled.

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Colleges need to concentrate on educating students not indoctrinating them. They could save a ton of money by getting rid of DEI offices.

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It's sad that it often has to come down to a red vs. blue state issue (GA is definitely a bit of a change of late from earlier times) but somebody has to lay down the reality law. It's horrifying that we could drive good people out of the military under the guise of equity while boosting someone whom at best is a pawn in a scheme. I see it everyday in corporate America, with newly made up positions spouting out the garbage, every hiring statement at the end of a job using all the newly minted words (like they'd say they follow the Ku Klux Klan hiring practice or we are owned by a Lily White person, let's get real) such as we strive for diversity inclusion blah blah. I shudder to think too how many candidates are not hired because they are not a convenient demographic for this time and age. I think once the great blunder leaves the ultimate masquerade position (we won't mention his name), we can get back to running a country and for that matter let someone like a Desantis run it and hopefully work on things in the military like aligning a better tooth to tail, having strategy match procurement, winning a drawn out long war without running out of weapons, attack headcount issues and aligning how to squeeze out more to attack maintenance, etc., rather than how many more equity classes to force on the masses and how many promotions based on x, y and z were made...

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