Outrage at Naval Academy as Racism and Diversity courses replaced by Strategy and Navigation

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Naval Academy faculty to stop teaching on racism, sexism

After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.

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Faculty at the Naval Academy are no longer permitted to use materials in the classroom that teach about systemic racism and sexism, according to an internal email obtained by The Baltimore Banner.

Instructors have also been told not to promote the concepts of “environmental justice” or “gender ideology.“ Officials at the military college confirmed to The Banner that the email was sent by the provost’s office earlier this week.

The changes come as the Trump administration has targeted diversity programs, signing executive orders to shut down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices across the federal government and halting grant funding for programs that study diversity.

President Donald Trump has also placed federal workers in roles focusing on DEI, which he calls illegal, on leave. The moves have unsettled universities and other organizations that rely on federal funding, as they look to interpret the broad and vague directives, some of which are facing legal challenges.

OMG, the horror that midshipmen would be taught about ships.

Ship steering 101 should be a course with part #2 on how to miss big-ass civilian ships.

 

[excalibur]

Let the Navy be the Navy!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Naval Academy faculty to stop teaching on racism, sexism

After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

Faculty at the Naval Academy are no longer permitted to use materials in the classroom that teach about systemic racism and sexism, according to an internal email obtained by The Baltimore Banner.

Instructors have also been told not to promote the concepts of “environmental justice” or “gender ideology.“ Officials at the military college confirmed to The Banner that the email was sent by the provost’s office earlier this week.

The changes come as the Trump administration has targeted diversity programs, signing executive orders to shut down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices across the federal government and halting grant funding for programs that study diversity.

President Donald Trump has also placed federal workers in roles focusing on DEI, which he calls illegal, on leave. The moves have unsettled universities and other organizations that rely on federal funding, as they look to interpret the broad and vague directives, some of which are facing legal challenges.

OMG, the horror that midshipmen would be taught about ships.

Ship steering 101 should be a course with part #2 on how to miss big-ass civilian ships.

You do realize, in your own ignorant way, that enlisted personnel actually steer the ship, usually an 18-year-old who didn't score high enough on his ASVAB to get a school guarantee. They are not rocket scientists or brain surgeeons.

Academy grads could use more training on how not to be arrogant assholes to the enlisted personal, but that's just MHO.

 

[DGS49]

One could make a fairly strong argument that the topics of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual irregularity, and religion, should not even be mentioned or recorded in the military context.

 

[The Duke]

You do realize, in your own ignorant way, that enlisted personnel actually steer the ship, usually an 18-year-old who didn't score high enough on his ASVAB to get a school guarantee. They are not rocket scientists or brain surgeeons.

Academy grads could use more training on how not to be arrogant assholes to the enlisted personal, but that's just MHO.

Al-righty then Bosun.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Al-righty then Bosun.

No, the Bosuns are busy steering the ship if the Quartermasters are not.

 

[Mushroom]

Academy grads could use more training on how not to be arrogant assholes to the enlisted personal

Annapolis has not been known as the "Prick Factory" for decades for no reason.

During my time in the Marines, it was not hard to tell what Officers I served under were Canoe U grads, and those that had graduated through an ROTC program. I have even witnessed Annapolis grads talk down to their peers that were from some other commissioning (ROTC or OCS), as their position was permanent as a graduate of the Naval Academy while the others were "Reserve Officers" and had to go through a transition known as "Augmentation" to become permanent officers.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Annapolis has not been known as the "Prick Factory" for decades for no reason.

During my time in the Marines, it was not hard to tell what Officers I served under were Canoe U grads, and those that had graduated through an ROTC program. I have even witnessed Annapolis grads talk down to their peers that were from some other commissioning (ROTC or OCS), as their position was permanent as a graduate of the Naval Academy while the others were "Reserve Officers" and had to go through a transition known as "Augmentation" to become permanent officers.

You must have been in a different Marine Corps. Those academy grads must have been stuck on stupid. Navy ROTC grads receive regular commissions in the Navy and Marine Corps. I know because that is where I got mine. The Academy only produces about eleven hundred a year. My NROTC had over 400 students when I went there, meaning we produced about a hundred every year. There are 161 NROTCs and only one academy.

Of all my 12 or so commanding officers, I had not a single academy grad in the bunch. All were NROTC or OCS.

 

[Mushroom]

You must have been in a different Marine Corps. Those academy grads must have been stuck on stupid. Navy ROTC grads receive regular commissions in the Navy and Marine Corps. I know because that is where I got mine. The Academy only produces about eleven hundred a year. My NROTC had over 400 students when I went there, meaning we produced about a hundred every year. There are 161 NROTCs and only one academy.

Of all my 12 or so commanding officers, I had not a single academy grad in the bunch. All were NROTC or OCS.

No, it was that way then and it is that way still today. They were "Reserve Officers", as the very name of the program states. The Reserve Officer Training Corps.

For more than a decade augmentation has been the great hurdle facing Reserve officers who would like to remain on active duty in the Corps. In this article, an officer close to the process shares his observations on how it works.
Soon after completion of the Officer Retention Board 93 (ORB), as the retention/release officer in the Officer Assignment Branch, I began to receive numerous calls requesting information on the results of the board. Many lieutenants and captains were notably disappointed as they were informed of their nonselection by a selection process that statistically has been one of the most difficult throughout the entire Marine Corps.

The records for those applicants who were not selected for further service through either augmentation or extension on active duty (EAD) were humbling. Looking at them, one quickly realizes that failure for selection to augmentation is an inappropriate statement for those affected. Simply put, no one failed augmentation; there just were not enough augmentation vacancies available for every highly qualified Marine officer. With the administrative preparations for ORB 94 quickly approaching, I wanted to take this opportunity to give potential applicants some general information about the augmentation board process, comment on last year's board, and put the upcoming board in perspective.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/221424420?sourcetype=Trade%20Journals

And then you have MCBul 1040 in 2003.

DUE TO CURRENT OVERAGES IN THE NUMBER OF JUNIOR
OFFICERS ON ACTIVE DUTY AND A REQUIREMENT TO MANAGE AND SHAPE THE
OFFICER CORPS TO MEET FUTURE REQUIREMENTS (BY YEAR GROUP), THE
MARINE CORPS WILL REINSTATE ITS COMPETITIVE AUGMENTATION PROCESS
THAT WILL CONSIDER RESERVE OFFICERS FOR RETENTION ON ACTIVE DUTY.
THIS OFFICER RETENTION BOARD IS DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FROM THE
CAPTAIN'S PROMOTION SELECTION BOARD, WHICH DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT
AN OFFICER IS QUALIFIED TO SERVE IN THE GRADE OF CAPTAIN IN THE
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. THE AUGMENTATION PROCESS WILL DETERMINE
WHICH OFFICERS WILL REMAIN ON ACTIVE DUTY AND WHICH OFFICERS WILL
TRANSITION TO FILL THE COMPANY GRADE REQUIREMENTS IN THE RESERVE
FORCES.

MCBUL 1040. FISCAL YEAR 04 OFFICER RETENTION (AUGMENTATION, DIRECTED LATERAL MOVES, EXTENS

R 221600Z SEP 03FM CMC WASHINGTON DCTO AL MARADMIN(uc)MARADMINUNCLASSIFIEDMARADMIN 438/03MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC MP//SUBJ/MCBUL 1040. FISCAL YEAR 04 OFFICER RETENTION (AUGMENTATION,

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Not quite sure how I know about this, and you do not. It is a process that many officers I knew went through if they intended to remain in the Corps past their initial six years. Most who remained went through it, some just relied on the fact that until the early 1990s there was always more demand for officers than they had warm bodies to fill so remaining on Active Duty as a Reserve Officer if they wanted was pretty much guaranteed. But another reason many would put in is that it pretty much capped out any future promotions at Major. Which means that once they advance past a Company Commander, there would most likely be no future commands and they would spend the remainder of their career as Staff Officers with no chance to command a Battalion.

It was just a paperwork process. Make a packet and send it off to Headquarters, and about six months or so later got a letter back making them an Active Duty Officer. I learned a lot about this because when I was in S-4 I worked for a First Lieutenant graduate of the Prick Factory, another officer in the section was an ROTC First Lieutenant that was going through the process to get augmented. And our Captain was an ROTC graduate that had been augmented years earlier.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No, it was that way then and it is that way still today. They were "Reserve Officers", as the very name of the program states. The Reserve Officer Training Corps.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/221424420?sourcetype=Trade%20Journals

And then you have MCBul 1040 in 2003.

MCBUL 1040. FISCAL YEAR 04 OFFICER RETENTION (AUGMENTATION, DIRECTED LATERAL MOVES, EXTENS

R 221600Z SEP 03FM CMC WASHINGTON DCTO AL MARADMIN(uc)MARADMINUNCLASSIFIEDMARADMIN 438/03MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC MP//SUBJ/MCBUL 1040. FISCAL YEAR 04 OFFICER RETENTION (AUGMENTATION,

www.marines.mil

Not quite sure how I know about this, and you do not. It is a process that many officers I knew went through if they intended to remain in the Corps past their initial six years. Most who remained went through it, some just relied on the fact that until the early 1990s there was always more demand for officers than they had warm bodies to fill so remaining on Active Duty as a Reserve Officer if they wanted was pretty much guaranteed. But another reason many would put in is that it pretty much capped out any future promotions at Major. Which means that once they advance past a Company Commander, there would most likely be no future commands and they would spend the remainder of their career as Staff Officers with no chance to command a Battalion.

It was just a paperwork process. Make a packet and send it off to Headquarters, and about six months or so later got a letter back making them an Active Duty Officer. I learned a lot about this because when I was in S-4 I worked for a First Lieutenant graduate of the Prick Factory, another officer in the section was an ROTC First Lieutenant that was going through the process to get augmented. And our Captain was an ROTC graduate that had been augmented years earlier.

If you dig further, that is for non-scholarship students who just enrolled in the classes. They receive a reserve commission because the Navy invested very little in not paying for their education. The Navy Reserve has no comparable status to the Army Reserve as all Navy reserves must serve active duty first. My commission was as a regular line officer on active duty. I transitioned to reserve status after 11.5 years.

My daughter also received a regular Army commission though her ROTC.

 

[Ringo]

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