With all due respect to General Casey - who has served honorably - isn’t diversity the very antithesis of the military model? Why is it that the first thing done to recruits when they enter training is that they are all given the same haircut and the same clothes to wear? Why is it that the recruits are indoctrinated from day one with the mantra that race, ethnicity, and gender are to be ignored and you are to react to your fellow soldiers as soldiers, not blacks, whites, Italians, Jews, etc.?
It seems to me the military is an exercise in minimizing diversity, not celebrating it. That is why the military is the very model of teamwork.
The fact is, the military should have cashiered the Fort Hood murderer because he was not on the same page as the command. Not only was he not on the same page, he was in a different library!
I thought everybody in the military was “GREEN”!
Very well said.