Congressional pressure has zero effect on this. Gilday may be the most public and annoying face of this plague, but the true apostles are the products of the American university system (including the boat school) that have been poured into the officer corps over the previous decade. It is not going away anytime soon.
Had a good friend that I served with twice. Once when he was an EW2 and then when he was an EW1 and EWC. Sharp guy. How sharp? He was a JOOW/conning officer on our FFG as an E-6 & E-7. He promoted to EWCS in 11 years. When my shipmate was up for Master Chief at 14 years of service, it was a good year for that small rating. The board picked 5 EWCM's. My friend, being the junior man, was #5. We all know that the goings-on in selection boards are held secret. But not always. We both had a mutual acquaintance on that board. The selections were screened by whoever did that in Washington in the 1980s and my shipmate was dropped off the list and the selection board was told to pick the best qualified minority E-8 to replace him. The EW rating was very small so the picking was easy. The minorities in that rating were miniscule. I don't know that any kindness was done by that board member violating the confidentiality of that selection board. Before, I had a long 12 year dry spell sitting at E-6 & E-7. Not getting selected for promotion just made me work harder, and it paid off like I knew it would. When I found out about my friend getting de-listed from the EWCM picks I was a CWO2 and I sweated the next 3 promotions more than I ever had any previous ones. My friend retired an E-8. But he did pretty damn well with his second career at Raytheon. Raytheon only cared that he was brilliant. The fact that he was ethnically an Irish bogtrotter and freckled didn't even factor in to it.
Most definitely. I wouldn't want a wingman (wingwoman?) who was anything less than a first rate stick. Just like I wouldn't want to share a foxhole with a Marine who couldn't pass the annual PFT, but was the correct gender for the DoD stats. Your Dad was correct and prescient.
This shit gives me heartburn.
As a rational USMC Captain (RVN Vet) I just can't handle it. Although I saw it coming in the Small Dead Animals era.
Congressional pressure has zero effect on this. Gilday may be the most public and annoying face of this plague, but the true apostles are the products of the American university system (including the boat school) that have been poured into the officer corps over the previous decade. It is not going away anytime soon.
Can you get more racist, than to believe that minorities cannot succeed without " anti-racists " working to ensure that they can get ahead?
So WHY do we conquer the world and impose this by force?
Where's that pesky Oath to the Constitution fit in?
Why should China having gone through this once go through it again?
Or Hungary or Poland or the rest for that matter Afghanistan?
Only mentioning China because it's certain people's preferred nemesis.
Who is the real nemesis ? The real Hostes Humani Generis ?
Had a good friend that I served with twice. Once when he was an EW2 and then when he was an EW1 and EWC. Sharp guy. How sharp? He was a JOOW/conning officer on our FFG as an E-6 & E-7. He promoted to EWCS in 11 years. When my shipmate was up for Master Chief at 14 years of service, it was a good year for that small rating. The board picked 5 EWCM's. My friend, being the junior man, was #5. We all know that the goings-on in selection boards are held secret. But not always. We both had a mutual acquaintance on that board. The selections were screened by whoever did that in Washington in the 1980s and my shipmate was dropped off the list and the selection board was told to pick the best qualified minority E-8 to replace him. The EW rating was very small so the picking was easy. The minorities in that rating were miniscule. I don't know that any kindness was done by that board member violating the confidentiality of that selection board. Before, I had a long 12 year dry spell sitting at E-6 & E-7. Not getting selected for promotion just made me work harder, and it paid off like I knew it would. When I found out about my friend getting de-listed from the EWCM picks I was a CWO2 and I sweated the next 3 promotions more than I ever had any previous ones. My friend retired an E-8. But he did pretty damn well with his second career at Raytheon. Raytheon only cared that he was brilliant. The fact that he was ethnically an Irish bogtrotter and freckled didn't even factor in to it.
The best part of Trudeau is he’s not ours in the US. Then again, our Dementia Patient in Chief is barely a step above.
Most definitely. I wouldn't want a wingman (wingwoman?) who was anything less than a first rate stick. Just like I wouldn't want to share a foxhole with a Marine who couldn't pass the annual PFT, but was the correct gender for the DoD stats. Your Dad was correct and prescient.