Breaking Barriers: Marine Corps appoints first white male equal opportunity advisor

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I’m guessing you have visual acuity issues MSG Dowler. I attended DEOMI (EOA class 96-2), and there were more White Males in my class than Hispanics, Women, Asians, etc. They comprised about 1third of the total class. While I was Air Force, each class has members of every branch, and each small group is also divided up to ensure as much diversity of branch of service as well as ethnicity, race, gender, etc.
I was the Token Hispanic in my small group (we only had one or two in each small group). This was quite amusing to me as my mother is English, and my Puerto Rican father was lighter skinned than my mother! I am a blue-eyed, White guy until you hear my last name. Grew up in Europe for the most part too (father was in the AF as well).
Due to the way the army doles out its EOAs, you don’t see many around. And it is leaders like yourself who should be encouraging great NCOs to become EOAs regardless of whatever type of meat sack they travel in. The AF makes this our MOS, and we can spend the rest of our career doing this work (and it worked out for a nice career since I retired). The other branches treat it as a special duty, and most don’t want to be there at DEOMI or be an EOA...regardless of their race or ethnicity, etc. Us AF types do...we had to retrain into the field, and we are the most junior in class....listening to SNCOs and CPOs whine about being EOAs.
If you want an idea of what it is really like as an EOA, pm me and I’ll pass on my email and number.

I actually had to threaten lodging an EO complaint to get trained as one back at Fort Carson. In a world where everything is racism and discrimination it was quite entertaining to hear all the reasons why a white male couldn't be trained to ensure an equal opportunity environment could exist. I learned all about percentages and quotas in the submissions and approvals of awards and promotions. I learned that if 2 equal candidates were vying for the same position with equally strong NCOERs, TIS/TIG, mirrored duty positions/locations, and one had a masters degree and a PT badge while the other was a minority.......even the Supreme Court would be ignored at the mere suggestion of racial bias and impropriety. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, (/ˈbɑːkiː/) 438 U.S. 265 (1978) was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific racial quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students by the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, were impermissible. Bummer.