Ditching promotion file photos may have helped minorities, report says

That is bullshit!

I had a black One Star General as my commander.

Watch them say next that you don't have to take CGSOC/ILE to make Lieutenant Colonel due to 'equity.'

https://youtu.be/0fHYL6ZWEsg?si=uLqZYjPSmxwaps5v

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Eugene Chu
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col Charlie Brown Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CPT Jack Durish LTC Stephen F. CSM Charles Hayden 1SG Russell Scott 1SG Patrick Burke SFC Dr. Jesus Garcia-Arce, Psy.D SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC John Davis LTC Trent Klug CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD Col (Join to see) 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel CPT (Join to see)
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

Funny thing, in the mid-1960's the Army completely removed race from military records (we didn't have photos in the personnel records then). The idea was to make all Army processes (promotion, assignment, schooling, etc) colorblind. It worked, but not the way people thought it should.

Once assignments were completely colorblind, the racial composition of units became effectively random. That is exactly as it should be -- but it is NOT what anyone wanted -- because random does not mean that every unit will be 60% White, 19% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Other. Random really means random! Which means some units might end up being all white, or mostly black, or any other combination that doesn't precisely match the racial composition of the general public or of the army.

In the late 1960's the Army put race back into everyone's military records so they could ensure that processes were "balanced" to make everything "fair" because somehow being completely colorblind wasn't fair enough for the bean counters. Being completely colorblind gave the Army equal opportunity but they quickly found that equal opportunity does not ensure equal outcomes. In 1969 the Army made numerous specific by name unit assignments (which were much more specific than usual) to ensure that each unit had the proper number of each racial group in the proper positions.