Woke politicians claim there are no quotas?

DEI does no service to anyone involved

“I graduated USMA in 1983. Special recruiting and retention criteria were absolutely in force. I guestimate about 33% each across special recruiting for blacks, women and athletes. Retention was entirely focused on women and blacks. White, Latino, and Asian men got or no special attention when they failed. Women and blacks got multiple tries. One woman tried to kill herself over stress 5 or 6 times and rather than removal on a psych basis they fought to retain her. Yup that's the kind of person you want making life and death decisions.”

“I was seeing this in the Army before I got out in 2007. People getting priority and promotions based purely on their race, and it wasn't white. It's the biggest reason I got out. I had better scores, better PT tests, attitude, etc. and it just didn't matter."

Watch this video on X (Twitter) where a former USAF recruiter said he was told not to call them quotas but targets, and they lowered the standards for blacks and hispanics to get them in.

“We were given a class back years ago by a senior officer that served as the head of the promotion board one year. He talked about how aviators were selected for promotion. First the list was generated based on their performance files... Then the "rack and stack" began. People were moved around, and rightly so, based on the needs of the airframe. By that I mean if the first 50 names on the list to CW3 were Blackhawk and Chinook pilots and the Army needed more Apache CW3s then those top Apache pilots would move up into the list. After all that happened they then went back and racked and stacked based on color so that there was more "diversity" on the final promotion list. He said that then meant that of the first African American Apache guy was no. 100 on the list he would then move up passed all others to be promoted not based on his performance or Army needs but rather his skin color.”

“I actively dissuade people from joining. I was almost killed in 2011 when a diversity hire f’ed up and froze. Now that the military focuses on it, I cannot in good conscience give support towards our youth joining with the current leadership and military values in place.”

“My Dad worked for the Coast Guard as an electrician. This was back in the 60's, 70's & 80's. He was self-taught to become an electrician doing the electrical repairs on Military ships. He got passed over for promotion 3 times for a younger black less than knowledgeable people. He had to constantly review and fix what they messed up. These aren't ships that can afford to have electrical problems on mission. He complained about it and got passed over again. However, he was not going to let our seamen go out there and get stranded, so he kept doing his job and theirs.”

“My husband retires from the Air Force with a 20 year career in less than 2 years and it can’t come soon enough. Wokeness is an infection rotting it from the inside out. Good airmen no longer get promoted due to the strat program. White men are time and time again looked over to meet diversity goals regardless of their achievements.”