U.S. Army Abandons Diversity Requirement for High-Level, Non-Commissioned Officers

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by Eric Lendrum

 

The United States Army has formally eliminated the diversity requirement from the process of selecting candidates for the roles of top noncommissioned officers.

As reported by Daily Wire, the announcement was made by Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, the top enlisted official in the Army. The new guidance, intended for the process of choosing command sergeants major, removes a single line from the previous version: The line which dictated that candidates must “consider diversity to ensure leaders represent our formations.”

In addition, the new guidance added provisions such as once again considering physical fitness a top priority for any enlisted leaders seeking airborne roles.

The decision comes amid ongoing backlash from Republicans in Congress over the military’s efforts to become more overtly political, due to directives from the Biden-Harris Administration to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, as well as implementing the teachings of critical race theory (CRT) and transgenderism, among others.

The White House had previously paid third-party groups millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to lead the implementation of such far-left initiatives within the military, including race-based career advancement programs.

“The U.S. and its allies are facing challenges and threats all over the globe. Despite the increased concern for military preparedness, the DOD continues to prioritize DEI initiatives,” said Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI). “Rather than maximizing readiness training to ensure a capable military, the DOD’s training seems calculated to foster sowing internal discord with aggressive efforts to promote controversial ideologies.”

“Americans join the military to serve their nation and protect the homeland, not to sit through sensitivity training,” McGinnis continued. “The DOD owes them better.”

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Eric Lendrum reports for American Greatness.

 

 

 


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2 Thoughts to “U.S. Army Abandons Diversity Requirement for High-Level, Non-Commissioned Officers”

  1. The Professor

    The DEI directive from the Biden administration simply for vote pandering. There was no place for it in the military, it as unneeded and only implemented by Biden simply because he could. When President Trump returns to office it is my hope, he rids the military and the academies of all senior level who supported DEIs implementation. This was ill advised, never warranted and a disaster. Yet one failure of the Biden/Harris administration of which she is trying to escape.

  2. Joe Blow

    DEI should never have been allowed to invade the military forces at ANY level. Get rid of it all. Anyone one ranked above major has to be political to be promoted to a higher rank. It is dumb but true.

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