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2024-03-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

Air Force Memo Reveals Racial Quota System-

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
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#1 "Revealing" only if you have ignored the realities of service promotion boards over the past 40 years or so. Actual performance has sat 'second chair' to diversity and quotas for nearly as long as I can remember. The rot permeates all services as well as Federal civilian employee hiring and advancement.

So called "minority owned" business contract awarding might be another area to examine, but I digress.

Today's popular term for the practice is DEI (Diversity, equity and inclusion).

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 01:09|| 2024-03-10 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 ZERO - University Of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 01:31|| 2024-03-10 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 And thus Austin Lloyd.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-10 07:44|| 2024-03-10 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 If you know the (DEI and pre-selection) game going in, your chances of survival are much better. Fighting the system is a loser. I sought the jobs that nobody else wanted. After a couple of those, you become known by assignment and branch as the "go to" candidate for the remote, hard to fill assignments.

Prestige assignments will always go to the anointed. No godfather, no problem. "Row hard and live." A Top Block OER at the 1426th Mess Kit, is still a Top Block.

Low profile, "back in the rear with the gear," no problemo. Put me in coach, I know the play. Smiling rescue dogs with waggily tails will usually, not always but usually find a good home. "It is, what it is."

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 07:51|| 2024-03-10 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I sought the jobs that nobody else wanted.

Often enough, those are the ones where one can really make a difference, and because one isn’t closely watched, get much more creative about it. That was Mr. Wife’s experience, anyway, though he didn’t set about it deliberately. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-10 12:02|| 2024-03-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I sought the jobs that nobody else wanted. After a couple of those, you become known by assignment and branch as the "go to" candidate for the remote, hard to fill assignments.

"...but watch him."

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-10 13:47|| 2024-03-10 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Even before race quotas, if you deliver in the "hard to do well" jobs, more tolerance of your slightly out of bounds tendencies is allowed. As you approach key senior staff assignments after successful 05 command level, the tolerance is gone, even if you have a solid Rabbi chain. The harder look at your GO potential is as much inside-the-family politics as competence. And, learning when to NOT outshine your Senior Rater is a huge factor. Finally, the War College sabbatical has an audition component you never see until afterwards.

The part about being the best Warrior/Leader the system can produce, less and less important these days, consider that history has few examples of winning Generals who cannot be sure of their gender!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-10 15:38|| 2024-03-10 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Ref #6: Oh, they certainly did! But that was my secondary goal.

Everything said in #7: Bulls eye, keyhole shots.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 15:43|| 2024-03-10 15:43|| Front Page Top

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