Posted on 06/15/2009 7:12:14 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Diversity at the expense of competence ruins everything it touches.
I believe that is 200 for signing your name—but still scary!
The author of the article makes reference to the Naval Academy Preparatory School. I have hear only the most favorable comments about that school. I think McCain’s son went there for a year.
Many students attend high schools in small towns that don’t teach all of the courses necessary for success at the Naval Academy.
The Prep School offers such courses. If there are others who know more about this school, please comment.
The Navy needs good stewards, too; might as well get some from the dregs of the Naval Academy.
I wonder what caused him to write this article, if he really is a liberal on other topics. Maybe they have him teaching remedial courses or he is being pressured not to flunk students.
Indeed they do. As well as The Hispanic Caucus, MEChA, LULAC and the literally hundreds of Hispanic political, lobbying and “social” organizations.
And get their own people killed.
What a crock of Shite.
Add this to the computer based training and the failure of that great process and the Navy is ready for rowboats. But they all feel good about themselves and are diverse, inclusive and celebrating all people.
The further down it goes the further down it will go.
Great.
It’s past time for a couple of disgraceful admirals to have their half ass ideas and themselves thrown out of the Navy.
** Note: I’m am originalbuckeye’s son **
I just graduated from the Academy and this is definitely the trend I noticed while I was there. I got near-perfect SAT’s and had a high GPA while applying and was told by a senior person that the only thing stopping me would be the fact that I am white.
Luckily, it did not stop me and I succeeded at the Academy. However, while I was there I witnessed disproportionately high funding for the “Gospel Choir” to go to inner city neighborhoods to recruit for the Academy. In addition, the Brigade was constantly reminded of the need for the officer corps to “look like” the enlisted corps as the article notes. In addition, we had to sit through a mandatory lecture for “diversity training” in which the speaker said “if you are not promoting x number of black people to Admiral, something is wrong” arguing for a quota system to exist in the Navy.
As a newly commissioned Marine, the bottom line for me is “will the officer next to me hold up in combat?” It disgusts me to see political correctness brought into the officer ranks for the risks in our profession are anything up to and including our lives. I have no problem with any ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, etc. in a position of authority over me as long as they are competent. Competency should be the standard for promotion because in the military, the mission is everything.
Meanwhile the median age in the US is around 37. The median age of the native born is 39. The median age of the foreign born is 27.
In one portion of “Sea of Thunder” Evan Thomas tells the story of Ernest Evans, Commander of the destroyer USS Johnston at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Cdr. Evans, born in Pawnee Oklahoma of American Indian extraction, repeatedly attacked a superior Japanese battleship and cruiser force until his ship was lost. Evans was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Evan Thomas speculates that Cdr Evans’ valor and fighting spirit was related to his Indian heritage. There is diversity, and then there is diversity.
Originalbuckeye’s son-
Thank you for your service. My son has been in the Corps for 9 months. (He’s 18.)
I hope he gets a chance to serve under your command someday.
God Bless all our service men and women.
Mix of Spanish with Natives of South and Central America, who themselves are merely Asians, 40,000 year or so removed. Not a "race".
I’d be willing to bet that the other service academies are using the same criteria.
NAPS is a one year prep school for those whom the Academy wants to admit but feels are not strong enough academically to attend (prior enlisted and varsity athletes being the main categories). And, yes, Jack McCain went there for a year.
1. Prior enlisted that have been out of the academic environment for a while or need a little tightening up before entering Annapolis.
2. Athletes considered at risk academically.
3. Other candidates that don't quite make the cutoff, but have something special that makes the selection board think they are worth some extra effort.
My roomate was in that third category. Didn't really kick butt in high school, but had decent test scores. The result was he graduated 36th in my class in an engineering major. He flew EA-6Bs, was an LSO, Safety School graduate, FRS instructor, and finished his twenty with the Reserves last month. You would never meet a finer officer or friend.
In my era the Academy was still battling with integration of women, more than a decade after they graduated the first class of women. The trend then was to push minority women into engineering majors. Frat was also a major problem.
Congratulations on successfully completing your education at USNA.
Would you do us a favor?
During your military career you will undoubtedly be attending many mandatory lectures on diversity training.
When, during one of those mandatory lectures, the position of political officer is introduced kindly give US a heads up.
I’m pretty certain we wouldn’t hear about it any other way.
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