Army Still Looking To Add Minority Officers To Combat Arms -- USA Today
Stories about race and opportunity and leadership touch a lot of buttons with readers and the Sept. 12 report in USA TODAY on the lack of African American commanders in Army combat battalions and brigades is a good example.
Readers — civilians and uniformed — didn't hold back. A number of blogs picked it up. Many readers thought the story was overdue, shining a light on a problem that has festered for decades, and not just in the Army. Some said it's not the military's problem to fix. Others denounced the story as race baiting.
A lieutenant accused USA TODAY of journalistic malpractice. More on that in a bit.
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My Comment: Since my last post on this issue I have been told by many that it is a "BS" issue. That may be true (and I personally believe that it is) .... but the push is still on to promote officers based on ethnicity.
Update: It is a side issue .... but even the Iranian media is taking note on America's race relations in it's military .... Black officers dismissed at greater rate than whites (Press TV)
3 comments:
NO one in the Army CARES about race. We are GREEN. (Only speaking for myself here, not the Army).
I've had officers of every ethnicity and gender and sexual orientation you can imagine and no one CARES.
What we CARE about is their competence. That's what matters.
What's the fastest way to finish destroying our military? Promote based upon skin color, plumbing, or sexual orientation so that our officer corps and NCOs are incompetent political hacks instead of SOLDIERS.
So, that's what's going to happen.
I can only hope the next country that forms up on this continent is true to the ideas enshrined in the United States Constitution. This one surely no longer is.
Orion
Amen,
Orion.
I inadvertently stepped into this one time.
An officer told me they were sending him back to school. I asked him in what subject was he going to earn a masters degree.
He said no you don't understand I am getting a Bachelors degree.
Quickly digging myself deeper, I said something the effect that "I thought that all officers had bachelors degrees unless they were warrant officer or something similar."
I did not understand, but it was minority privilege.
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