[chuckee]

The article says there will still be a line on the form that you have to check your race.Doesn’t having a checkmark to denote race on the form defeat the purpose of not allowing a photo of the candidate on the form so the reviewer will not consider race. Why the kabuki dance when in the end we all know that affirmative action will dictate that minorities and women will be given a preference in promotion as it has always been in the military promotion system since the seventies.

[11th_VA]

Story: I spent several years in the reserves, and my CO told a story of when they were reviewing a reserve officer's package for promotion. The only thing he did since getting off active duty, was manage a McDonald's - that was it.

So when they were discussing his package, they were groping for a reason to promote this candidate, when someone blurted out, "He deserves a break today !"

The room broke out in laughter, and he got promoted ...