Posted on 06/26/2020 5:27:13 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The U.S. Army is dropping the use of photographs in officers' personnel files when being considered for promotions and other matters in an effort to stamp out unconscious bias, officials announced Thursday.
The move is part of Project Inclusion, an initiative designed to address possible racial disparities within America's largest fighting force. The elimination of photos for Army officer selection boards will begin in August, officials said.
Promotion board processes for warrant officers and noncommissioned officers are also being reviewed, the Army said in a statement.
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How woke can we make our national security?
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Our adversaries are watching and taking notes. Any signs of relaxation or deterioration in our readiness, morale or capabilities are quickly noticed and factored into their calculations. You can be sure of that.
“Soon enough it will be blind applications to be fair.”
The promotions panel will have to be blind. Any verbal communication will be done via a voice box that synthesizes the candidate’s speech into a homogenous monotone. Any hint of race, sex or origin of the candidate will be eliminated.
“ hardly think they will succeed in making an officer’s race some kind of secret.
And if they do, what happens if they suddenly realize that minority officers are getting promoted at a lower rate than white officers?”
That is going to be the unintended consequence. As I posted earlier affirmative action in the military has been a major priority for at least 40 years.
Employment quotas are now a fact of life in this country sadly.
Hiring and especially promotions are heavily influenced by quota considerations.
Whites face strong headwinds in today’s workplace environment. If I was younger my career path would be one of self employment as a consultant, working in a trade or starting a small business. There’s no future working inside large organizations IMO.
This is good news and based. There is and has been a bias for decades; to promote black officers at all levels to increase the number of black general officers. A truly blind process would help restore promotion based on merit.
My wife was an elementary school principal for years. While race wasn’t allowed to be used as a criterion for much of anything in the school system, “free & reduced lunch” was an identifying standard. Guess what the predominate skin color was in the “free & reduced lunch” group? Funny thing...if the wife was looking to hire an assistant principal (that often handles discipline), she generally wanted a strong, black male because she was in a predominately “free & reduced lunch” school in the center city.
There will always be ways to classify/separate “groups” if that’s a desire. As mentioned above...name, merit, mustaches...will be used to identify groups.
This crap is still going on, 3 1/2 years after Obama left office?
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Yep, the military has been politicized like everything else in this country.
+10!
With the diversity and inclusion mantra in corporate Amerika today I’d recommend all to avoid the large corps.
So, people will have to make it on merit alone?
Might not work out as they planned...
And some people on this site are convinced that military tribunals is the only way to in handling “Deep State” offenses !
The Pentagon is so infested with lefties I seriously wonder about their willingness to follow presidential orders in times of crisis.
With the diversity and inclusion mantra in corporate Amerika today I’d recommend all to avoid the large corps.
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Add to that suffocating bureaucracy, forced re-locations, and difficult commutes. Who needs all that?
Develop a skill set that is in demand and live a sane and prosperous life without all the hassles and employment risks.
And all those years I maintained weight standard because a full length photo didn’t lie. Officers with mustaches were encouraged to shave them off & if they normally wore glasses they were required to wear empty hornrim frames for the photo.
Then DA switched from B/W full length photos to a color 3/4 length closeup photo which made even skinny guys look fat.
All those years official photos were about weight, weight, weight, or so I thought. Never until now did I think there was a racial reason for the photo. But as noted it was also used as a form of affirmative action. Silly me.
So glad I’m retired.....all that B/S is in the past now.
I had to shave off my mustache every time I had an official AF photo, for fear of bias when it was reviewed by promotion boards.
No way I would join today’s military, getting passed up because I am white and not a faggot.
DUMB
That’s been my professional experience.
I predict instead that the proportion of Honkies will increase.
During my years in the military, official photos WERE used for racist intent - to identify and give special treatment to minorities. Affirmative action was rife in the military of the 80s & 90s and I suspect it still is.
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