Thankfully I got out in 1990..
One can only assume how high up the chain that order really came from.
It sucks to be a straight white male.
I’m starting to feel like a victim myself....
What say you?
If they can’t compete, they don’t belong
Screw this, national security is far too important to place incompetents in charge. Just look at the White House for proof.
Don’t know much about this, but this member of the 1stMarDiv has your back, sailors.
Anchors away and semper fi.
Isn’t it this kind of PC insanity that brought us Maj. Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting and cold blooded murder of our troops?
Yes...I believe it was....(eye roll)
God Help Us!
this has been going on for a long, long time...especially gender preference.
Non-military politicians have been driving this for decades.
The military has not been a meritocracy for many years.
“best and brightest colored . . .”
some Navy ships came to port near me and the public could go on them.
Right on the wall was plastered the diversity crap, my son asked a sailor what a certain gadget was on the deck and she had no clue.
it was a prism compass for crying out loud, now how the hell could any sailor not know that.
At the entrance to get on there was two sailors and they were dressed scruffy, uniform not pressed, looked to have been dragged out of bed and had no manners what so ever.
WTH is happening to our certain parts of our military since I was in
This PC nonsense has been going on for 30 years. It is detrimental to good order and discipline. People have died on its altar.
It is going to be illegal to be a white male soon.
Obama wants the “right people” in command when the SHTF
And why would that be? Because you're getting ready to screw a bunch of people that really deserve the promotions?
This has been going on for a while now, folks. They're just getting more brazen about it.
This policy isn’t new, to anyone who has been around for awhile. He just got caught. I doubt this is unique to the Navy either. Too many senior officers are politicians first and leaders last.
Retired July 1, 2010. Had a good run, enlisted in 1980 and just retired.
Thank God I am out now. There were probably 3-4 times that I decided if I didn’t already have so many years invested, I would have just gotten out. A few bad bosses, bad commands but stuck it out.
I can’t complain about our deployment schedules: I know cruises ‘before my time’ were far longer than 6-10 months.
No way would I have joined today in this environment.
“Natch” thinks I.
Diversity - As sure as I am sitting here I know that all our ancestors including my dad didn’t fight and many die for diversity. Race & diversity has become the pinnacle of our nation. All our institutions espouse it. From our government, to our media to our churches. Silly me I thought honor, duty, integrity, hard work were what we strived for. What help to give us American exceptionalism. Apparently though all these years it was none of these. It really is and has been diversity. Diversity saves! Instead of rally round the flag boys it is rally round diversity boys.
Our nation is being usurped right before our eyes...
Poor widdle minorities can’t compete!