Are you insinuating that the military doesn't have affirmative action hires??? Colin Powell comes to mind.
Actually, the military has led the way in this arena for women and minorities (not for homosexuals yet). It really made it extremely difficult for us white guys to compete for advancement. For us to make it, we quite literally had to "Walk on Water".
I made it. USN Retired
No-I was commenting that in fact we do have this very situation-majority files being replaced by minority files to “even out the ship” in naval terms.
I saw it quite often- a solid guy retiring early as his peer group minority counterpart steps up-everyone knew why Joe was moving on, as well as why the other was stepping up another rung...TMWG (too many white guys)
I retired shortly after my branch manager told me that due to my age I would never command a battalion-you see I was a “mustang” officer-at least in the USN there is a regulatory restriction on “mustang” types and command billets, if my intell from sailors was correct; in the Army, there is no such proscription, apparently just a glass ceiling....
I was told that I clearly was very competitive, but my age was the issue-45 year old O4 (whose FITREP history was solid by any measure-according to several boards-early promotion, advanced civil schooling, Army Staff College etc).
Oh, by the way, branch wanted me to go back to Iraq yet a third time since I was “indispensable and effective”. I wonder who they sent in my place when I punched out a few weeks from wheels up?
God Bless
COB-what boat?