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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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Shocker that white male Americans dont want to go fight foreign wars when their govt does nothing but crap on them.

He should have been convicted of treason and shot for back door communications with ChiCom commanders. https://t.co/LEnYq1Idqk

— Cardinal Curmudgeon (@Gimblin) October 12, 2024

[Let's consider the institution every nation needs to survive: the armed forces. Compact has a short piece today about how the US military abandoned merit. Excerpt:

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When it comes to policy, the military must maintain a strict separation between values unrelated to the military profession and those values necessary to maintain an effective force. Like a drop of ink in a glass of water, the faintest hint of ideology outside the scope of the military profession will degrade the whole force's effectiveness. Historical examples from 18th-century France to the Soviet army of the late Cold War attest to the severity of this threat.

At issue here is much more than the relative quality of military units. A military consumed by identity politics threatens the integrity of the republic. In other sectors of society, the consequences of shirking the primacy of merit amount to a bad hire as university president, or maybe a missed revenue projection for a given fiscal quarter.

Nowhere are the consequences of hiring anyone but those selected for their professional qualifications higher than in the wars our military may soon fight. In May, the Daily Caller reported on the Air Force's efforts to diversify flight school by creating classes that mirrored the race and gender demographics of the nation. This manipulation of the most critical talent of our military produced consecutive flight-school classes below sustainable levels and far below average. This brutal case study is a harbinger of things to come in a military whose organizing principle is diversity rather than merit.

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The leadership class in the Pentagon is weakening America's ability to defend itself, for the sake of living by ideological lies. If that is not a full-blown crisis, what on earth is? And yet, our major media are not interested in reporting on it, no doubt because they have been colonized by the same mind virus that has consumed most elite institutions in our decadent society.]

Academic Malpractice at Annapolis

Our Naval Academy is a critical institution preparing future naval leaders for command at-sea. It is also a federal institution with a rich history and an impressive academic record thanks to a cadre of highly experienced and credentialed… pic.twitter.com/MVPUDtIggV

— Brent D. Sadler (@brentdsadler) October 30, 2024

🚨JUST IN:

General Mark Milley says he fears he will be Court-Martialed if Donald Trump becomes President.

What's your reaction? pic.twitter.com/xez3aYJ2Vf

— Ivanka Trump 🇺🇲 🦅 News (@IvankaNews_) November 6, 2024

"Apolitical"

The balls on these paper pushers

New: Pentagon officials are having informal conversations about how the DOD would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, officials tell @NatashaBertrand and me https://t.co/RHRksYPhvD

— Haley Britzky (@halbritz) November 8, 2024

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General Mark Milley says he fears he will be Court-Martialed if Donald Trump becomes President.

What's your reaction? pic.twitter.com/xez3aYJ2Vf

— Ivanka Trump 🇺🇲 🦅 News (@IvankaNews_) November 6, 2024

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If he's afraid of Trump, I'm glad he didn't have to engage the Chinese.

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He should have been convicted of treason and shot for back door communications with ChiCom commanders. https://t.co/LEnYq1Idqk

— Cardinal Black Flag (@Gimblin) October 12, 2024

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Convict him. Put him in stocks and let families who have lost loved ones because of this bozo get to stick him in a saber. Bullet to the head is too easy.

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He should have been convicted of treason and shot for back door communications with ChiCom commanders. https://t.co/LEnYq1Idqk

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Convict him. Put him in stocks and let families who have lost loved ones because of this bozo get to stick him in a saber. Bullet to the head is too easy.

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Another one calling for death to our political opponents. But we're not fascist or anything…nope.

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He should have been convicted of treason and shot for back door communications with ChiCom commanders. https://t.co/LEnYq1Idqk

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He does not realize it yet, but Mark Milley is about as relevant as an infected pimple on an elephant's ass. We need to not spend another dime of taxpayer money on his incompetence. Just GO AWAY! Please.

Newly appointed secretary of defense @PeteHegseth discussed how the military went woke with @BenShapiro:

"It’s not about how the military went woke; it's about how it allowed itself to go woke." pic.twitter.com/1AgaISuQv7

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 13, 2024

Classic example of how The Left operates. Democrats used their power to infect a respected institution like the U.S. military with extreme & racially divisive leftwing ideologies like CRT & DEI, but when you try to reverse the leftward lurch it’s you who’s doing the politicizing. https://t.co/DaHZcb0zhI

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) November 17, 2024

Every Ranger who has been out on a combat mission with a Female Engagement Team, Cultural Support Team, or other female attachment has a story to tell about what it’s really like with these supposedly “elite” women in combat.

They quit on the objective, couldn’t carry their… https://t.co/TUWLYZcnkr

— BowTiedRanger (@BowTiedRanger) November 22, 2024

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Another one calling for death to our political opponents. But we're not fascist or anything…nope.

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LOL

So now we take the internet seriously ?

I don't believe he needs to be executed but there needs to be a reckoning for his treasonous behavior.

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Amen

Striping him of his large pension, current security clearance, and a down grade in rank or two would suffice

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ret-gen-milley-america-okay-under-trump-after-reportedly-saying-fascist-core#&_intcmp=fnhpbt7

Trump is no longer the most dangerous man on the planet. Miley is now singing a different tune since Trump was elected.

The hammer of justice is coming Mark Miley.

Randy Manner is the prototypical GO/FO that was promoted under Mark Milley. He believes that he has a supraconstitutional authority. He believes he does not answer to civilian leadership or the Commander in Chief.

He is a threat to democracy. https://t.co/MsFCevDy0m

— Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) December 13, 2024

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

Promise? https://t.co/WZhfKbOBBI

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) December 14, 2024

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

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What is the oppression of whites

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs

All things that are against the Law….and yet all things that are now systemic

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Proves nothing except race is considered as it should.

No, I don't read court cases.

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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Shocker that white male Americans dont want to go fight foreign wars when their govt does nothing but crap on them.

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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What is the oppression of whites

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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Do you even read Supreme Court cases?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Proves nothing except race is considered as it should.

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Race should not be considered for higher education, jobs, or positions in the Government....and the Supreme Court confirmed its against the law

Why do you want to violate the law by discriminating against people on the basis of race?

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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What is the oppression of whites

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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Do you even read Supreme Court cases?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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Pundits said the same about black Americans yet they fought for a racist America.

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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What is the oppression of whites

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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Do you even read Supreme Court cases?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Proves nothing except race is considered as it should.

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Race should not be considered for higher education, jobs, or positions in the Government....and the Supreme Court confirmed its against the law

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400 years of racism needs justice.It is wrong head by SCOTUS. It like Dred Scott

Ole New York Times

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Mr. Trump's nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said at his confirmation hearing last week that the president wanted a military "laser-focused on lethality, meritocracy, warfighting, accountability and readiness."
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Via Rod Dreher:

A friend of mine who went to West Point at the start of the Great Awokening told me that in their first semester, they had to celebrate Transgender Awareness Month. At West Point. All the DEI, trans, gender ideology, Kendi-ism that has been dumped on the armed forces since round about 2012 none of that had anything to do with political and culture wars. It was just right-sizing the world, says the New York Times.
The culture war had been won in the military. The Left had marched through the institutions, through every hall in the Pentagon. Lo, the American people elected a Commander in Chief who thinks it was a bad thing for the Left to push the military into the political and culture wars. He's returning to the status quo ante. Therefore, he's some kind of provocateur.
There is not the slightest hint in that story that the reporter recognizes how thoroughly politicized the military has become since Obama. I don't even write about defense issues, and I've met a number of active-duty service members and recently retired ones who have testified in detail about how if you want to have any hope of promotion in the armed forces as they have been until, well, Monday of this week, you had better be politically on board with DEI and the entire ideological project....

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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation

Only about 23% of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards.

But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.… pic.twitter.com/OETMQCYTOm

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 30, 2024

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Shocker that white male Americans dont want to go fight foreign wars when their govt does nothing but crap on them.

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Pundits said the same about black Americans yet they fought for a racist America.

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And if the USA had been a completely voluntary force from 1865-1945 (vs having a draft) it would have had serious problems recruiting young black men to fight wars.

Racial discrimination against Blacks was not right then

And racial discrimination against Whites is not right now

The concept is not hard to grasp

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What is the oppression of whites

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Discrimination against Whites in hiring preferences in Corporate America, in university admissions , and in government positions/jobs Fantasy. What's your data?

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Do you even read Supreme Court cases?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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All debts were paid by 1865 with the blood of 400,000 dead Yankees.

Notice how cunningly these generals (and civilian leaders like them) tried to characterize critical race theory and the woke revolution as some sort of self-improvement doctrine that was here to "help" us. They never called it what it was: an insidious, subversive doctrine… https://t.co/4RGnmSwqK4

— QuintusCurtius (@QuintusCurtius) January 29, 2025

[Trump also killed federal affirmative action. Christopher Caldwell says this is way bigger than people may think. Excerpt:

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Trump's decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this centurymore significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid. How can people be talking about anything else? Yet major news outlets treat Trump's bold move as a detail of personnel management: "Distress and Fury as Trump Upends Federal Jobs," headlined The New York Times.
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It was possible to believe at the time of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that a good-faith moral commitment would suffice to remedy the devilish racial antagonism that had beset the country since its founding. That that wouldn't work became obvious very quickly. Barely a year later, at the start of the summer of 1965, President Johnson argued before a Howard University graduating class that it's not fair to make a runner "who, for years, has been hobbled by chains" compete with others.
It sounded generous. But it was dark. Three months later, Johnson would issue Executive Order 11246, realizing that it was possible to remedy a racist system only by favoring the victim race, in doses of remedial racism, or what the British-apparently a more straightforward people than we are-call "reverse racism."
This was a course that the public could not tolerate and neither government nor business could avow. A climate of dishonesty was the result. Affirmative action was a big factor- perhaps the biggest- in convincing about half of Americans never to trust anything any person of authority said.
Ten presidents managed to insulate affirmative action from public accountability. Then it became obvious to the public that changing anything would require dismantling everything.

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Trump is doing it. God bless him, he's doing it. No more of these squish Republicans saying they're against what the left-liberal state is doing, but barely lifting a finger to stop it, because they were afraid of being called racist. The Big Orange Honey Badger don't care. And lo, the people like it!

In the past couple of days, I've heard from military friends telling me that DEI in the armed forces is a lot worse than most people think. No doubt this is because the media think it's a great thing, and never report on its down sides. Madeleine Rowley in The Free Press has a stunning report on what DEI has done to the armed forces. She starts with the testimony of a retired Air Force Brigadier General, Christopher Walker, who says he was roped into DEI programs because it was assumed that being black, he supported them. He didn't. But he took notes on what he likens to "Soviet indoctrination." In the story, he chooses to be referred to as "Mookie," his pilot call sign:

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In 2022, Mookie recalls attending a training course at Georgetown University for Air Force generals and senior officers called "Managing for Inclusion." The professor, he said, informed the group that white people were oppressors and black and Hispanic people were the oppressed, so they couldn't be racist. The professor also taught the class how to ask someone for their pronouns at the beginning of a conversation.
"The whole thing was old-fashioned propaganda," Mookie said. "But there were generals, including Lt. General Mary O'Brien [now retired] and Lt. General Leah Lauderback, and higher-ranked people within this course who were going along with it, clapping like trained seals."
With the arrival of Donald Trump as president and Pete Hegseth as the new secretary of defense, the days of asking soldiers for their preferred pronouns appear to be over. Immediately after taking office, Trump signed an executive order putting an end to all DEI programs in the federal government. On Monday evening, he announced that he would issue another series of executive orders that would include the elimination of critical race theory and "transgender ideology" from the military.

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In 2022, General C.Q. Brown, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs who was then chief of staff of the Air Force, co-authored a memo that set "aspirational" race and gender quotas for Air Force officer applicants: He sought an Air Force that was 36 percent female, 67.5 percent white, 13 percent black, and 10 percent Asian. A subsequent lawsuit filed by the Center to Advance Security in America uncovered slides showing that the Air Force planned to achieve these quotas in part by making changes to its qualifying test to achieve the "desired end-state" of increasing the number of Hispanics in the Air Force. One would be hard-pressed to think of anything more corrosive to an organization that views itself as merit-based.

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It's gone now, at least on paper. Now the Trump Administration has to dismantle and destroy the entire infrastructure. God help them. This is a Herculean task. Pete Hegseth isn't my ideal Defense Secretary, but it is likely the case that it takes an outsider like him to have the gumption to implement these radical reforms. A more conventional establishment figure would probably behave like most pre-Trump Republicans: as a figure of the controlled opposition, more concerned with what the media and Respectable People think than doing the hard but necessary things.] -Rod Dreher