Why Getting Rid of Affirmative Action at Service Academies is Stupid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Enlisted men have been known to turn on officers they don't respect or more commonly officers with "I'm better than you" attitudes. Fragging is an extreme example. The Army knows this an recruits for leaders. That magic dust isn't revealed in test scores. It is revealed when something hard needs to get done and soldiers follow the man they TRUST.

You keyboard warriors can read all the website statistics you want. You will never understand

Look, the Navy has a robust athletic program. There will be plenty of Academy kids in the military who had substandard stats and that are diverse. The rest should be based strictly on stats (including the CFA) without DEI. There is also a ton of diversity that comes through ROTC.

You will never understand. Cutting the pie has F all to do with stats. When a squad enters a building they need to all have confidence that the other guys are 100% going to do their bit. That can't be measured by HS stats.

You probably never even played football. Ever played tackle and taken hits just to give your QB an extra 0.5 seconds?

Service academies are not like other schools. Their recruiting standards are different and always will be.

I'm PP and respectfully disagree. Former all-state quarterback and USNA grad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason eliminating efforts to create a qualified, smart, diverse class there are stupid is that the graduates are supposed to be smart, strong, charismatic people who can persuade other people to risk their lives for what might or might not be important causes.

The soldiers and sailors will be diverse. They might, in a lot of causes, be poor people who will be fighting to protect other, richer people’s wealth and safety.

The soldiers and officers need to look at the officers and have enough respect for them and faith in the fundamental fairness of the military to get their jobs done.

If having a diverse group of officers makes the officer corps and the military more effective, the military needs to have diverse leaders, even if that means picking some officers who have lower stats than the people not picked for those roles.

I think you’ve lost sight of the original question. The service academies produce only about 20% of the military’s officers. The vast majority of officers are commissioned through ROTC or OSC. The service academies don’t need to use affirmative action to keep the military diverse. They are elite academic institutions and should keep strong admissions criteria without regard to race. Most colleges campuses from basic state universities that admit nearly everyone to Ivy colleges, have ROTC.