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Over the course of decades, she steadily advanced, becoming a flight surgeon, commander of flight medicine at Fairchild Air Force Base and, eventually, a lieutenant colonel.

And she's still angry that she was held back? The chip on her shoulder is massive.

ABW’s permeate the military, but they are the real racists. They cause drama and when called out cry racism. But, they are in the minority. They are just black Karen's.

The article is pure BS and this Col should be ashamed of herself for participating in it. It says a lot about her, none of it good. I am willing to bet she is a poor leader, and piss poor mentor. She saw racism where there was actually contempt for her as a leader. The military is the most diverse, non-racists institution in the United States.
I have roomed with men of all colors, ethnicity's and religions. We laughed at each other's stereotypes and we protected each other against real racism from the outside. I was training a group of Marines and Sailors. music was playing and I told the white Marines they were embarrassing me because they had no rhythm. Everyone started laughing, try that around a group of civilians. I once offered a black Sailor who worked for me a piece of Japanese gum, named “Black Black.” He looked at me held up the stick of gum and said “Chiefs, are you trying to tell me something?” The look on my face must have been priceless, because he laughed about it all day. We could joke like that because we knew there was no racism involved. Try it today and you will be pilloried by the new woke leadership.

All of us white oldsters can look back and see how many times we were denied jobs or advancement, were stabbed in the back, were simply lied to, in our history.

When we close our eyes and imagine ourselves being BLACK, suddenly we realized that in our imagination we were denied jobs, all of the advancements, got back stabbings, and lies because we were “black”.

I always found Nepotism and Favoritism to be the biggest hurdles to advancement.