The phrase that sticks out in my head time and time again, and they use it at the Naval Academy, they use it from the Pentagon podium and they use it from West Point. Is that our diversity is our strength, and that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard in my life. Especially in the military. Our strength is not our diversity. Our strength is our unity. Our strength is the fact that yes, we are individuals of different backgrounds and different genders and different races but we all go through the same Crucible of training,
We want the best people, regardless of backgrounds, competing for those positions, ready to fight, accountable to their senior leaders. DEI does not do that. Not only does it not do it, it undermines it. So, everyone's going to be treated equally based on merit.
Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
If we want to present a deterring force to the world so we don’t have to go to war, we have to be ready to win the next war. That is the deterrent force we project.
I can’t really imagine a scenario where a general needs to be able to run across a battlefield. But he’s right that generals should have to meet the same standards they expect of the people they lead.
The phrase that sticks out in my head time and time again, and they use it at the Naval Academy, they use it from the Pentagon podium and they use it from West Point. Is that our diversity is our strength, and that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard in my life. Especially in the military. Our strength is not our diversity. Our strength is our unity. Our strength is the fact that yes, we are individuals of different backgrounds and different genders and different races but we all go through the same Crucible of training,