Defense secretary’s latest interposition resulted in all-male, overwhelmingly white picks for promotion to admiralty
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals.
Hegseth’s unusual intervention violated promotion rules designed to be merit-based and apolitical, the New York Times said on Tuesday, and extended the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the military.
The original promotion list included three women and two Black officers in addition to the two who remained, the newspaper said.
If you’re wondering why the navy can’t figure out how to serve a hot meal on a boat anymore, this is why.
A large number of women officers were relegated to the logistics divisions. Because promotions were heavily favored towards combat veterans, and women were regularly prevented from participating in combat roles, logistics and back-office administration became the de facto “women’s branches”. Famously, the first woman 4-star general came up through Army Logistics. You’ll find women officers all through inventory, engineering, comms, and medical roles.
When Hegseth starts purging women from these officers’ corps, what he is effectively doing is Male-centric DEI in woman-dominated fields. And the end result is a much lower quality of officer with lackluster experience and more skills at kissing ass than doing the fucking job.
It sounds suspiciously like you’re saying that men don’t know how to cook…
Edit: Downvotes aren’t changing my opinion that this person is saying that women are a requirement for a hot meal and that I feel like that’s sexist. In fact they’re really just confusing me more than anything else.
Right-wingers: they were only on the list because they’re women/minorities!
No, that’s the reason they were taken off the list.
So you admit white men are disadvantaged and need help to reach higher rank, yes?
Every navy personel who accepts a promotion from that guy is a traitor. and should be known as DUI hires and shamed through their entire career.
Surprise surprise a neo nazi does nazi things.
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Oh they want the latter. But they want to call it meritocracy so they feel better about it
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Is it better to be shot in the face or the back?
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Deja vu except I’m sure this is not old news / a repost, just today’s news about (yet another) fucking prominent Nazi
Damn, women that bad huh?
They all got removed from the cabinet
guessing thats not illegal
Not anymore
Yeah because the fascists want an army comprised only of soldiers and sailors who agree with fascists.
And they wonder why people keep shooting at Republican politicians?
Better to be a wheel on their hearse than a cog in their machine.
You know, not all white people voted republican, also, not all women and black people voted democrat. They are definitely going to hurt.
America voted for this.
One third of elegible vorerst voted for this. One third didn’t bother to show up.
