{"id":22517,"date":"2011-03-07T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22517"},"modified":"2011-03-07T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:56:16","slug":"military-leadership-diversity-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22517","title":{"rendered":"Military Leadership Diversity Commission report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Leadership Diversity Commission delivered it’s report to Congress and there’s nothing surprising about it. The leadership of the military isn’t diverse. For some reason, since higher echelon leaders should know something about the way in which war is fought, you know, hands on experience, too many white men are in those higher echelons. From UPI<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Military Leadership Diversity Commission said the Defense Department should end policies excluding women, and other “barriers and inconsistencies, to create a level playing field” so women get the credit they deserve.<\/p>\n

The recommendation was one of 20 made by the commission, led by retired Air Force Gen. Lester L. Lyles and established in 2009 by the National Defense Authorization Act.<\/p>\n

“We know that (the exclusion) hinders women from promotion,” Lyles said in an interview published by American Forces Press Service. “We want to take away all the hindrances and cultural biases.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know, if my experience was in the Air Force, I might think the same thing. You may infer whatever you want from that statement. My experience, however, was as a combat infantryman (with the exception of a few years training cadets and a year as the Fort Drum G1 NCOIC) and I don’t find it quite so easy to wave away the current restrictions on women in combat – just for the sake of having women in combat. Think it’s not that simplistic? How about this statement from MSNBC<\/a>;<\/p>\n

One barrier that keeps women from the highest ranks is their inability to serve in combat units. Promotion and job opportunities have favored those with battlefield leadership credentials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an occupation that occurs on the battlefield, battlefield leadership credentials are essential. Would a company hire me to lead their quantum physics laboratory if I didn’t have the practical experience? Now, if I was the janitor in the quantum physics lab, why would that same company let me work in the lab just so I could get some practical experience so I could lead the lab?<\/p>\n

I’ve known and worked with wonderful female NCOs, cadets and officers. All very proficient at their jobs, physically fit, excellent leaders and trainers. A very small number of them, however, would have made good infantrymen. Ya know what? There is probably a small percentage of infantrymen who can’t be good infantrymen, too. But if it’s one, it’s one too many.<\/p>\n

From Canadian Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Seventy-seven per cent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only 8 per cent are black, 5 per cent are Hispanic and 16 per cent are women, the report by an independent panel said, quoting data from September 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, it’s a volunteer force. People volunteer to get out as well as stay in. If you think that the leadership is holding back minorities because of their particular levels of melanin, you haven’t been in the military…even for a day. There is no institutional racism in the military. Not like the racism I’ve seen out here in real world. If they had a valid point, they would have included the diversity breakdown of the 2008 year group of 0-1s (lieutenants).<\/p>\n

They could have just left the word “Leadership” out of the name of the Commission. It’s all about bowing down to the diversity gods and it has nothing to do with leadership. Do you want the doctor that operates on your child to be the diversity choice of his med school class? Do you want the commander who takes your child into combat to be the diversity promotion of his year group?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jerry920 for one of those links above and getting my blood pressure jacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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