Posted on 09/03/2025 2:09:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The program used psychological assessments and bias reduction measures to select military leaders
The Army has canceled its Command Assessment Program (CAP), a promotion board that factored psychological assessments and potential biases into leadership considerations.
"Good riddance," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. "Promotions across [Department of Defense] will ONLY be based on merit & performance."
The program, which was implemented broadly across the Army in 2020, was aimed at reducing conscious and subconscious biases and using peer assessments and behavioral analysis to choose candidates for command posts.
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Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth had formally deemed CAP an official program of record in January 2025 just before President Donald Trump took office.
"The battery of psychometric assessments employs several different instruments to measure cognitive capacity, emotional intelligence, conscientiousness, self-awareness, and other behavioral traits," Army documents explaining CAP said.
Each year, around 2,000 candidates were assessed under CAP for Army leadership positions. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll paused the program and placed it under review last month.
The program did not generate greater interest in leadership roles. Around 54% of the Army’s eligible senior officers chose not to participate in CAP last year, declining the opportunity to take on a command role. That was up from 40% in 2019.
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The Army will now revert to its prior assessment process, Centralized Selection Board/List, (CSL), for choosing commanding officers. Officers who serve on CSL boards assess a candidate’s past assignments, performance and potential.
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Even Fox News can’t help being biased in the title. The best qualified person should be promoted, not simply based on their sex or ethnicity. The program they dropped was biased. This kind of reporting is the reason I haven’t watched Fox News, or any other news program, on any platform since 2008. They’re all disinformation.
Pete is still cleaning house. Good for him. And to those who criticize him for not going faster, Rome wasn’t built in a day either.
Get rid the freaks.
Good! The military is no place for liberal petry dish experiments!
I was selected for command using the old system and I had a very successful command. I doubt that I would have made it under the DEI system.
When I was in the Army bias against the Navy and Air Force was huge and approved at the highest levels.
There was even more bias against the Viet Cong.
And even more against the North Vietnamese.
If you want ranks of pretty ugly pansies...follow the obama biden policies.
If you want soldiers who can destroy enemies....Pete Hegseth.
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