Biden Administration Says It Opposes Using
‘Merit’ in Military Personnel Decisions
Breitbart,
by
Kristina Wong
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/12/2023 12:01:25 AM
The Biden administration on Monday slammed the Republican-controlled House’s version of 2024 National Defense Authorization Act for requiring military personnel decisions to be based on merit and not race or gender, among other provisions.
“The Administration strongly opposes the House’s sweeping attempts…to eliminate the Department’s longstanding [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access] efforts and related initiatives to promote a cohesive and inclusive force,” the Biden administration said in a Statement of Administration Policy.
The House’s NDAA contains a number of Republican-authored provisions to roll back the Biden administration’s efforts to push Marxist-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives throughout the entire Department of Defense establishment, including the military.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sw penn 7/12/2023 12:15:07 AM (No. 1510805)
Annnnd,
it shows...
34 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/12/2023 12:30:38 AM (No. 1510807)
Thanks for identifying yet another white privilege. If I know I was going to be expected to bathe every day and do homework, I'd have picked a better victimhood.
20 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
pixelero 7/12/2023 12:44:08 AM (No. 1510811)
Again why? Sure tear it alll down but after merit and objective truth and natural development are scuttled what are the …uh, PROGRESSIVES gonna replace em with?
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
weirdone 7/12/2023 12:44:46 AM (No. 1510812)
The incompetent promoting incompetence.
38 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/12/2023 1:12:03 AM (No. 1510819)
"Longstanding"? Really? Nobody ever heard of the DEI absurdity until recently.
28 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 7/12/2023 1:17:57 AM (No. 1510820)
And opposed to winning wars, obviously.
22 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 7/12/2023 1:45:38 AM (No. 1510823)
Sorry, IMHO, even beginning with kids, the ‘participation trophy’ should only be given to the youngest group of children of any sport or challenge, to help the family decide their child’s most capable natural tendencies and strengths.
Then it’s merit, competence and prayers… and lots of encouragement. Period.
[Both daughters worked bussing tables for their spending money in the same upscale fine dining restaurant near our home, only two blocks away in a very safe neighborhood then.
This no doubt helped each get full merit scholarships, one to Sweet Briar in VA, which was perfect for her as her dad had just left us. I had never seen anyone cry as much as she did when he left. Sweet Briar was only 400+ then, and her English and Creative Writing and Finance Majors were perfect for her. Plus she was able to learn more in her athletic passions, Dressage and swimming. She is currently getting her masters in finance and was recently promoted at one of our world-renowned most distinguished hospitality leaders.
The younger daughter was also awarded a full merit scholarship, but at Johns Hopkins… God knew she was my ‘city girl.’ She loves her consultant work and as a top manager, has a great team and is a busy mom to two here in CA, the reason she asked me to move here to help. Music to my ears, as my amazing church is nearby, and I decided to use my two masters to teach here part-time, and applied to the vast need last week. [If any LDotter is considering part-time work, please look into substitute teaching in your community…
Be a light in this darkness!
TBIYTC
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
leonardo 7/12/2023 2:41:33 AM (No. 1510831)
Yep the very last things you’d want from your military is competence and meritorious service.
How would the soldiers meeting today’s standards handle Omaha Beach?
They’d look for a safe space.
Spechen ze Deutsche?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/12/2023 3:09:39 AM (No. 1510837)
So the insanity is official? We will see their theory proven when China attacks us or one of our allies and I'm sure Xi knows as well as we do that there will never be a better time than now.
#7, I suspect that you are a very good parent.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/12/2023 3:34:41 AM (No. 1510842)
Merir has always been the "special sauce" that distinguished US military forces from a the rest in the world.
This racist ans sexist garbage is literally destroying the US military.
The US military has long been a place where a minority in a position of authority, you could count on the fact that they wete there because of their competence, not their race.
That is sadky no longer true.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/12/2023 4:25:10 AM (No. 1510846)
Naturally, Joey wants conformance to DEI or whatever it's called. They want to totally ruin the military by going along with dumb dumb policy is promoting only incompetents.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 7/12/2023 4:42:36 AM (No. 1510852)
I like it.
Incompetence in the White House, and suspected, but now confirmed, in the military, too.
(To use a tired cliche: what could possibly go wrong?)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/12/2023 4:56:54 AM (No. 1510855)
I wonder if they've pulled Jimmy Carter's book "Why Not the Best?" from the shelves yet?
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 7/12/2023 5:04:42 AM (No. 1510859)
When I was in the military, we called it "The Screw-up, Move-Up" program. That was 28 years ago. Guess nothing's changed.
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 7/12/2023 5:19:20 AM (No. 1510861)
I think I have finally figured out why we have not won a war since 1945.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cThree 7/12/2023 5:39:18 AM (No. 1510868)
I recall Gen. Powell's autobiography, in which I believe he extolled the virtues of the military's merit-based system, warts and all. It allowed him and other minorities to advance unhindered by racial bias, and to enjoy the assumption by those he commanded that he was competent to do so.
This DEI insanity undermines all of that. It's thoroughly racist, fueled by an assumption that minorities cannot compete without favoritism, and it poisons the command structure with suspicion and disrespect.
When you apply the rule, "go woke, go broke" to the military, the "broke" part is lethal and calamitous.
20 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Krause 7/12/2023 6:04:36 AM (No. 1510875)
It seems there are lots of people already employed in our federal government who don't merit their jobs. Isn't it important that we have the best and brightest in these jobs?
9 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/12/2023 6:23:51 AM (No. 1510885)
Is anyone comforted in the knowledge that our military is turning into a social experiment at the same time that our enemies are flexing their muscles? Add to that, Biden leaves billions of dollars of equipment in Afghanistan in an act of breathtaking irresponsibility that we have never seen before. Then Joe steps up and in a live interview pops his mouth off regarding military information that should not be shared in public. I am gobsmacked by not only the recklessness of this administration but by their utter incompetence.
Democrats are destroyers, everything they touch goes to ruin. They tear down anything good and want to replace it some outlandish experiment that is doomed to failure. The military is the one thing that should never be part of any experiment. The foundational principle must be to always be ready fight to win, period. This DEI garbage is not only foolish. It is dangerous.
Our enemies are watching us do to ourselves what they could never do. This administration is destroying our ability to fight and win and the bad guys are just sitting back and waiting before they pounce. The USA has always been the protector of freedom around the world and Biden’s cabal has turned us into a paper tiger.
15 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/12/2023 7:47:44 AM (No. 1510935)
Biden"s plan to assure the US has a weakened military is going full throttle using DEI policies. Sure, we will have diverse military leadership, but will they know how to lead and win? Add to the questionable personnel decisions the recently admitted ammunition and equipment shortages, this is one Biden policy that is working as planned; but not for the good.
4 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra 7/12/2023 8:10:06 AM (No. 1510960)
And MLK, Jr. said .... ?
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/12/2023 8:16:46 AM (No. 1510968)
I have maintained for more than a couple of decades that 'N*****' is the second most racist word in today's America. The worst being Merit.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/12/2023 8:27:03 AM (No. 1510975)
They wonder why they have trouble recruiting.
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Didn’t the Supreme Court just declare this kind of garbage illegal?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Encore 7/12/2023 9:01:19 AM (No. 1511002)
Story time’s over. These are full grown men and women in the real world. ‘Our strength is in MERIT’!
5 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/12/2023 9:35:50 AM (No. 1511028)
Seeing as the citizens of the US are much more likely to be under attack by their own government than an outside invader, I’d say this is good news.
3 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/12/2023 10:34:40 AM (No. 1511070)
Which means a total cleaning of the Pentagon House is in order.
Fire all of them, NO RETIREMENT!
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/12/2023 10:39:54 AM (No. 1511077)
We’ll have get rid of everyone who was promoted to General or Admiral since 2009.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
paral04 7/12/2023 10:57:30 AM (No. 1511096)
I hope that goes for the Secret Service people who protect him. They can't shoot or defend anyone but all the boxes are check. One guard is a transgender elf who speaks no English as his father, a murderer sneaked over the border with his girlfriend and the later to be agent. The other agent flunked out of the 7th grade and is a reformed drug addict who has serious mental issue..
1 person likes this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 7/12/2023 12:41:19 PM (No. 1511155)
Merit based decisions are historically rewarded on the battlefield.
Unfortunately, a segment of our population and government thinks that a military career is akin to a career in the Post Office.
2 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/12/2023 12:54:35 PM (No. 1511165)
Just wondering --- maybe part of the $$$ the CCP pays to the Resident and possibly also to Milley is so they support exactly that? A weak military is one of the goals toward destroying the country. Remember that in order to be paid employees must obey their employers instructions.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 7/12/2023 3:42:14 PM (No. 1511318)
This is exactly how we got the current line-up of bloated, prancing, political Generals who never leave the Pentagon.
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