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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m Latina. My parents were both Army. My DH is a Marine. His father was in the Navy.

I don’t think there should be affirmative action in the service academies.

This doesn’t mean that I don’t think the academies should be diverse. I do think they should be diverse. Latinos - or my family at least- are service oriented. But I don’t think affirmative action, or even the mere appearance of affirmative action, does us any favors. [/quote]

One of the reasons the military worked so well in the past is because they (generally) used the same criteria and expectations for everyone.  When people think everyone gets a fair shake, regardless of external criteria it leads to a much stronger organization.

The military hasn’t been even handed for a while, and it hasn’t been good for the services.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/03/navys-personnel-boss-says-getting-rid-of-photos-promotion-boards-hurt-diversity.html

For example, in order to combat assumed discrimination during Navy promotions considerations, they removed the picture from the informational package.  This led to fewer diverse candidates getting promotions.  So there was discrimination, it was just being practiced against white male candidates.  They immediately added the picture back of course; can’t have merit being the primary metric in Biden’s military!

They added the picture back so that they could continue to discriminate.

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The U.S military is racist and discriminatory. The service academies too.

People need to study U.S. history.

Of all the soldiers who fought for the U.S. in the past wars, who got the G.I. Bill benefits,  and who didn’t?

And ironically, with all of the false "DEI " talk, Pete Hegseth leads the military?

GTFOH

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Were you a DEI hire let go recently due to your incompetence? [/quote]

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