{"id":163379,"date":"2024-11-22T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163379"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:27:36","slug":"pro-dei-groups-worried-that-their-dei-progress-within-the-dod-will-be-rolled-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163379","title":{"rendered":"Pro DEI groups worried that their DEI progress within the DoD will be rolled back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away-300x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away-350x333.png 350w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away-768x730.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Woke-brain-walking-away.png 884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of &#8220;Protect our Defenders and Human Rights First&#8221; are among those expressing concern over Donald Trump&#8217;s plans to undo their efforts. They&#8217;ve spent the past few years advocating for DEI within the military. They feel that DEI would strengthen the military and aid with recruiting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opponents of the Pentagon&#8217;s DEI programs claim they harm recruitment efforts by deterring people with conservative views. Those who support the programs argue they can improve recruitment by showing would-be recruits that the military doesn&#8217;t tolerate discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study published in 2021 by Blue Star Families, a nonprofit that supports military families and veterans, about 30% of service members identify as minorities. By 2027, most recruitable adults in the United States will be people of color, the study said. National security experts have increasingly viewed women, too, as having an important role to play in reversing the military&#8217;s recruitment woes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that has just been incredibly politicized, when in reality these are the kinds of programs that have been supported by people throughout the services who see them as useful to the mission of trying to create a more lethal force and improve recruitment,&#8221; Yates said.<\/p>\n<p>Little evidence exists, meanwhile, that DEI initiatives play much of a role in recruitment. The Pentagon&#8217;s Inspector General reported last year that the majority of would-be recruits are not enlisting because of fear of death in combat, having grown up hearing about casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also increased competition between the military and the private sector for top talent, and private companies offer higher pay on average, the report states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wentling, N. (2024, November 21). Advocates fear dismantling of DOD&#8217;s extremism prevention, DEI programs. <em>Military Times<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/extremism-disinformation\/2024\/11\/21\/advocates-fear-dismantling-of-dods-extremism-prevention-dei-programs\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of &#8220;Protect our Defenders and Human Rights First&#8221; are among those expressing concern over Donald &hellip; <a title=\"Pro DEI groups worried that their DEI progress within the DoD will be rolled back\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163379\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro DEI groups worried that their DEI progress within the DoD will be rolled back<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,469,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dei","category-donald-trump","category-get-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}