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From STARRS Lt. Gen. Bishop's message to Senators:
. . . . . . But we’ve also urged the leadership, “Okay, you don’t want to listen to us, then listen to the people that we’ve entrusted to your care. And please: trust and confidence should go up and down the chain of command. Just listen to them.”
Unfortunately, there’s not much evidence that they’re listening to them either.
If they were, they would hear things like, “This isn’t working. This is just an overemphasis on an immutable characteristic, an immutable body trait.”
They would hear things like, “If I hear we are leaders of diversity one more time, I’m going to throw up.”
They would hear, “Well, if we just keep our heads down and we push through this. We don’t like this indoctrination.”
They would hear, “I do everything I can to get out of this training.”
They would hear, “There is not one pilot in my wing, nor squadron in my entire wing that’s staying one second past their commitment date.”
They would hear from minority cadets, “If I thought I am here because of my color of my skin, I would just be so upset. That would be so demeaning.”
They would hear from another minority cadet, “The majority of us see what’s going on here is wrong. We just don’t have the courage to speak up.”
Or you’d hear from people on active duty like this retired colonel friend I know who just got a job working in ops in the Pentagon. He tells me, “Yep. Been here two months. I’ve seen three DEI briefs and I’m in ops and I haven’t seen one on readiness yet.”
There’s so many examples I could share with everyone. Don’t take it from me. Go to our website, STARRS.US. You can see it on the first page, there’s two links:
“Boots on the Ground: What’s happening in America’s service academies“ and “What Military People are Saying: Evidence DEI/CRT hurts recruiting“. The document on that page of collected comments is now 104 pages giving examples from people in the military of why recruiting and retention is in the tank. . . .
From: Message to Senators: Listen to the People
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