Like how many different ways he could destroy America's enemies and protect its citizens. ... but maybe this new f'ing pussification of the Navy and Army is the way to go. WTF???? is going on?
Posted on 11/10/2009 8:14:58 PM PST by Saije
Leaders of the U.S. Naval Academy tinkered with the composition of the color guard that appeared at a World Series game last month so the group would not be exclusively white and male.
Accounts differ as to who was added to or removed from the Oct. 29 color guard. But the net result was that one of the six who marched on Yankee Stadium's field, Midshipman 2nd Class Hannah Allaire, was selected because her presence would make the service academy look more diverse before a national audience.
The incident has captured the attention of the Annapolis campus and stirred up the broader community of alumni and military observers, who see it as part of a campaign to bring more racial and sexual diversity to the academy. Diversity is a sensitive point at the Naval Academy, an institution that has been accused by some faculty members and alumni of forsaking fairness in its quest to build a brigade that mirrors the nation as a whole.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, elevated diversity to a "strategic imperative" during his tenure as chief of naval operations. Academy leaders, on their official Web site, call diversity "our highest personnel priority."
That thinking reflects "a sea change, in that this initiative was generated from within the military, rather than imposed from without by civilian overseers," said retired Marine Maj. Gen. Thomas Wilkerson, an academy alumnus and chief executive of the U.S. Naval Institute, an independent think tank. Some alumni, he said, "have voiced concerns that it will happen at the expense of quality and combat readiness."
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Like how many different ways he could destroy America's enemies and protect its citizens. ... but maybe this new f'ing pussification of the Navy and Army is the way to go. WTF???? is going on?
schweet! advancement due to the circumstances of your birth (race) and not your abilities (merit)
if those are the rules we are going to play by... fine.
from now on, i will only hire white Judeo-Christians
if you don’t like it, you don’t have to accept my tax contributions. (that’ll teach me)
Sorry, a little off topic, but is that the Enterprise?
Any idea when it was taken?
I watch Military channel and most people they put in camera are either blacks or females unless he’s white admiral or general.
So, I suppose that if the really want to “mirror the nation as a whole” they will include an illegal alien waving a mexican flag around and wearing a ACORN t-shirt about every two or three times the color guard steps into public view.
Yea, do that and see all the best head right for Colorado Springs.
The Missouri after the signing...my uncle served with Halsey on the Enterprise for a while right after Pearl and I thought it might have been...the blokes in the background should have tipped me off, I guess...
There is a clear mathematical relationship.
Diversity in a given group will be inversely proportional to the total number of people within that group able to attain a traditional threshold metric.
Man, that wouldn't even make my top 25 priorities for the Navy's mission.
It is my understanding that positions on a color guard have to be earned and are never "given."
Diversity... Hey Navy, ask the Army how well diversity and sensitivity worked out for them at Fort Hood. Harsh yes, but the important lessons are harsh and almost always written in blood. That is why we value them and remember them. Whitewashing over these lessons is a disservice to everyone that paid a blood price so we could learn them. Fort Hood is what happens when you let PC get in the way of common sense.
The NAVY lying to the American public (this doesn’t sound very “Honorable” for our 21st Century military), the US Army covering up for muslim terrorists, and their top general worried about “diversity” we are like Chicken Little, only this time The sky really is falling! What has my country come to!?
When your goal is diversity you necessarily sacrifice excellence. You might reach excellence from time to time but you no longer control it.
Obama giving more orders for affirmative action within our military then telling the Brass to say that they, and not Obama, issued the orders.
Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi run the military now...
BUMP!
We saw it at Ft Hood. “Diversity” is poisonous. It not only sews disunity and rewards mediocrity, it can, quite literally, kill.
It does the same in private industry. Corporate America is plagued with diversity consultants who make a fortune running seminars in Fortune 500 companies. Plus quotas for hiring as the result of government pressure — if a company sells to the US government it has to provide diversity statistics.
Unfortunately “diversity” a code word for affirmative action, diminishes the accomplishments of minorities who perform and serves to foster racial divisiveness instead of the teamwork required to achieve the organization’s effectiveness.
Not merely fairness, but competence and, ultimately, national security.
Jimmy Carter famously titled his first book "Why Not The Best?" after a question asked him by Admiral Rickover. Valid question.
You absolutely nailed it there Soul!
I worked for a major defense contractor before retirement and witnessed the results of the Aff. Action and related clauses in the government contracts. The level of quality and performance of personnel went down because of the government mandates for inferior suppliers and employees based strictly only their race or gender.
Under the same picture that I found in net images it read, September 2, 1945
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