Solely on merit and capabilities - that the most qualified person for the position should be the one placed in that position - yet the most qualified person according to him and his cronies always seems to be a white male as far as the military is concerned. He has already replaced the only two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were not white men, one a woman and the other a black man. Apparently only a lily white, all male staff is qualified to lead the US Military.
Now, his administration is railroading anyone who is transgender out of the military, claiming that, "Expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-separated-military-...
So, because I am transgender I cannot meet the requirements of service? Funny how every one of my superior officers felt differently. Funny how the sailors and Marines serving in my unit felt that I was well qualified to meet the requirements of my position. Funny how I kept getting the toughest assignments, especially since I apparently wasn’t qualified to handle the job! Funny how I was awarded multiple commendations and awards, including a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three awards of the Purple Heart. Yeah, I guess those belonged to someone else, or perhaps they were given to me because of DEI. And funny how I made multiple promotions below the zone. That must have been because of DEI too, huh?
I, as well as every other transgender person in the military, had to pass the same requirements that all of the non-transgender members were required to complete - as did every female member of the military. The only quotas in military recruitment are the total number of soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen that are needed each year. There are no free rides given because you are trans, or female, or black, or Hispanic, etc……..
White males are not any more qualified for service because of some stupid genetic trick of fate.
How long will the American public put up with Trump and his cronies pushing their ignorant prejudices on the country?
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Absolutely revolting
We have a draft-dodging Commander-in-Chief and a SecDef who is a DUI hire, making decisions about who is sufficiently honest, trustworthy and competent to lead our military. It’s not hard to see how that’s going to end.
— Emma
Most qualified person
I remember that press “conference” right after the Army helicopter flew straight into a civilian airliner on short final to land at Reagan National Airport across the river from the District of Columbia, at which Trump accused all air traffic controllers to be DEI hires and thus the cause of the accident. He promised the immediate dismissal of all DEI hires and the hiring of the “most qualified person for the position”, all but stating that only white males could even remotely be qualified for any position. Except for eye candy, where only white and young females would be qualified.
Barely a month later, and we have the runway incursion and near collision on the active runway of a private jet and an 737 airliner at Chicago Midway Airport on 2025-02-25. Listening to several copies of the ATC tapes of the incident published on the web, several things stood out to me:
The accent of the Tower controller indicates a pretty obvious origin from Sout- or South-East-Asia, and that English is most likely not his mother language. Thus Donald, together with Elon, has either imported the most qualified (that is the cheapest) for ATC. Or he will have another excuse to have more people deported.
The radio discipline of the ATC controllers is seriously deficient! They missed several opportunities where the Flexjet pilots missed the read-back of instructions. The ground controller even failed to transfer the Flexjet to the tower controller for clearance to enter runway 4L/22R or cross the runways 31L or 31C.
Kudos to the Southwest pilots who had the situational awareness to initiate a Go-around even before the nose of the Flexjet started to cross the runway edge where the Southwest 737 was cleared to land by the ATC tower controller. They saved the lives of easily 150-200 people.