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Home Front: Politix

Independent report for Congress recommends military promote inexperienced to be senior officers

2011-03-08

Drawn from an article by the news source that shall not be named.
77% of senior officers on active-duty are white, while only 8% are black, 5% are hispanic, and 16% are women.
Give it time, oh impatient ones who pretend to be relevant. Senior means they've been at it a while. Far longer than most combat troops have been alive. I don't expect senior officers to have the same makeup as today's kids because they are 30-40 years older. In another 30-40 years, you idiots are going to be complaining that the makeup looks a lot like today's raw recruits. The only way to "cure" this is to reach down and promote some folks who don't have the necessary experience over those who can get the job done because they have actually been there and done that. I prefer to wait given that our soldiers' lives depend on experience, not PC.

These kinds of studies may be asinine, but at least they are idiotic.

Yet another place we could have saved a few million bucks by applying a simple relevancy test.

Posted by:gorb

#11 The problem is that the bulk of general officer billets in the Army are combat arms. The normal progression is a combat battalion, brigade, division or ADC, corps. One may skip one some place, but that's about it. Women by law are excluded from combat arms. This is what is now being pushed on the repeal of DADT. The fundamental problem is that once you withdraw that, the 14th Amendment kicks in forcing the expansion of the militia [upon which selective service, aka the draft is based upon] to include not just all males 17 to 45, but all citizens - men and women. Once women can be in the combat arms in order to satisfy the 'progressive' agenda, they become subject to the same responsibilities of citizenship that males have carried since the inception of the republic. This is the imposition of the failed Equal Rights Amendment by other means and one of the fundamental reasons it failed in the first place.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-08 22:04

#10 the report from the "Military Leadership Diversity Commission"

-end of story...the premise for the name of said commission says it all. Idiocy.

5yrs and change and I can retire. If we keep down the current path we are screwed. I'll be glad to leave. When they did away w/DADT I would've hoped a few of our senior leaders would've resigned in disgust to send a message. I thought that at least one Marine general would've said, okay, this is garbage, I'm out. The fact that they didn't tells me that so many are just politicians in uniform.

BTW - there are not enough 5'7" white men in the NBA - we need to have that changed pronto...

Posted by: Broadhead6 2011-03-08 21:53

#9 Don't forget lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders need their representative numbers in the higher ranks.

And short civilians, like me. I think we should have proportional representation in senior ranks as well, although they're going to have to redesign the uniform so I don't look silly. ;-)

Posted by: trailing wife 2011-03-08 18:10

#8 This is the only way Obama can get his pink-o gays in charge of the military he currently fears.

Posted by: Angineling Panda5304 2011-03-08 17:23

#7 Don't change it. They reason our military works as well as it does is because of the promotion system. The standard is set for everyone and it is up to the individual to meet the standard. When someone is promoted, their ranked is respected because it is earned. If you start giving promotions away it will destroy the military.

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-03-08 15:25

#6 The military and congress should tell the Independent report people to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: DarthVader 2011-03-08 14:08

#5 Don't forget lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders need their representative numbers in the higher ranks.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2011-03-08 13:04

#4 Sounds like they want to apply Affirmative Action to the military.

Stupidity at it's worse.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-08 12:30

#3 When I was an LT, my boss sent me to brief the general. Face time with a 2-star, hoo boy, big production. He made me rehearse repeatedly so I didn't screw up.

On the big day, I arrived punctually, 100% prepared - and mentally hiccupped for a nanosecond, because no one had bothered to mention that the general was black.

And then I mentally hiccupped again: was there any reason anyone SHOULD have mentioned that? No. And that's exactly as it should be.

Reports like this, with a flawed focus on equal OUTCOMES rather than equal OPPORTUNITY, undermine that rare and wonderfully color-blind culture, and promotes racism and divisiveness. Shame on them.

Posted by: RandomJD 2011-03-08 11:41

#2 I'm thinking of a "rapid promotions track" that involves duty stations in the Aleutian Islands to track icecap melting from MMGW with hourly ice measurements, while writing enormous reports on how having flamboyant homosexual military liaisons with conservative Muslim nations will improve America's image abroad.

If there were say, 500 black lesbians promoted to Brigadier in that duty station, it would balance everything out. They could be part of the reconstituted 92nd Infantry Division, known for its, uh, bravery in Italy in WWII.

I mean, since the Department of Truth has so effectively rewritten what happened there, proving beyond any doubt that they were *not* running away, but were decisively tricking the Wehrmacht into "over advancing" through the American lines. But only racism prevented the entire unit from all being given Medals of Honor for their brilliant tactics.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-03-08 11:14

#1 How about an idiotic analysis of the dead? No break down by the same groups? Who's paying the ultimate price? Then again, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs just thinks its another 'job'.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-08 06:39

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