There were hundreds of highly qualified white applicants applying for our service academies over the past four years and were denied acceptance in the name of diversity so academically unqualified minority applicants could attend in their place.
The first of Obama's "Moron Officers Corps" just graduated a few months ago from our service academies.
The navy is getting orders from above to be more "diverse"..unfortunately the ability to fly isn't something that can be awarded to unqualified minorities through "affirmative action"
Aviation, Diversity, and Uncomfortable Truths | USNI Blog
We are spending millions of dollars chasing numbers for the sake of numbers. What if we – the Naval service – knew that the ability to change the racial and ethnic numbers coming in to aviation was totally outside our control? What if we also knew that the data being entered was full of errors, inaccurate, and not related to the larger desired outcome?
What if we knew that – but – decided that we were not only going to continue to try to control the uncontrollable, but to try to create accurate metrics from inaccurate data?
Well – that is what we are doing – and we’re even saying it.
The Naval Audit Service put out a report in OCT of 2011 titled, “Naval Pilot and Naval Flight Officer Diversity” that was released in a redacted version via a FOIA. You can get your own copy of it. There is a lot of good in the report, and it deserves a full read.
The problem as some see it is outlined early.
The Naval Pilot/Flight Officer communities, a significant portion of the Navy’s commissioned officers, are not on track to reflect the diversity of the nation. In his 2011Diversity Policy, The Chief of Naval Operations states that we “must…build a Navy that always reflects our Country’s make up.” Low enrollment, high attrition, low preference,and low selection at commissioning sources for certain minority groups, and low performance in flight training, are contributing to the lack of diversity.
If this trend continues, future senior leadership in the aviation community will not reflect the diversity of the nation......
"Student Naval Pilots/Flight Officers’ performance is measured using a Navy standard score. To be eligible for the jet training pipeline, a student Naval Pilot must receive a score of 50 or above. We reviewed the flight training performance standards and found that they appeared objective.
"However, we determined that African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic students’ average Navy standard scores were lower than Caucasians. These lower scores negatively affected the number from each minority group entering the jet pipeline."
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As I say one can't just award pilots wings based on race in order to meet "quotas"..one has to actually be able to fly.
Read the article if you have a minute. It points out that navy pilots can't be awarded their wings by "affirmative action". They have to actually be able to accomplish the task, regardless of race..without killing themselves and their crew.
One commenter wisely said;
Aviation is a meritocracy--flying skill and astute judgment cannot be produced on demand to fit a social/political agenda.
