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highplainsdem

(54,661 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 12:03 AM Feb 11

Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

Source: Military.com

The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President Donald Trump's purge of diversity initiatives in the military.

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a long-standing public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM.

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"This is one of the most talent-dense events we do," one Army recruiter told Military.com on the condition that their name not be used. "Our footprint there has always been significant. We need the talent."

The services cited concerns that participation in the predominantly Black event could run afoul of Trump's orders and the Pentagon's intensifying push to erase diversity efforts in the military, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 31 ordered that Black History Month, Women's History Month and others were officially "dead" and that the military would no longer mark them.

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Read more: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/10/military-drops-recruiting-efforts-prestigious-black-engineering-awards-event.html

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Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 11 OP

We're returning to the 1960s groundloop Feb 11 #1

Freakin' Drumphf, and his racism... electric_blue68 Feb 11 #2

Wait! What? kkmarie Feb 11 #3

Here is the evidence that this is raw racism. no_hypocrisy Feb 11 #4

but but but... purr-rat beauty Feb 11 #5

When all the cards are on the table, I'd like to be confident the military will support democracy and freedom. Magoo48 Feb 11 #6

If the goal is to hollow out our military capability dlk Feb 11 #7

groundloop

(12,638 posts)

1. We're returning to the 1960s

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 12:51 AM

Feb 11

I'm totally ashamed of this country right now.

electric_blue68

(20,237 posts)

2. Freakin' Drumphf, and his racism...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 12:57 AM

Feb 11

It's certainly the Arm Forces, and then our loss.
Hopefully many can get good work in the private sector that they trained for.

kkmarie

(79 posts)

3. Wait! What?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:22 AM

Feb 11

You mean there's a huge recruiting event at the prestigious Black Engineer's Award event. How is that possible when space nazi and vivek have both said they need to bring in Indians to work? Because Americans are stupid and lazy. Oh that's right they'd have to pay the Americans!

I keep wondering where they are going to get all the straight white christian maga trump loving males to serve in the military.
Here comes the draft!

no_hypocrisy

(50,576 posts)

4. Here is the evidence that this is raw racism.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:06 AM

Feb 11

The Military is ordered not to recruit at prestigious Black engineering event.

The participants are a key pool and are highly qualified. These are students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM. That sounds like MERIT, not DEI. Not diversity. MERIT.

purr-rat beauty

(676 posts)

5. but but but...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 01:56 PM

Feb 11

....I thought the magats didn't see race? So why would this event be treated any different than a event that involves mostly white people? They shouldn't see these talented individuals for their skin color but for their skills. Isn't the knowledge base and talent enough to know that they're MERIT is the reason for recruitment?

the ANTI-DEI movement is outright racism, sexism, and ableism

Magoo48

(6,039 posts)

6. When all the cards are on the table, I'd like to be confident the military will support democracy and freedom.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 02:45 PM

Feb 11

They must stand up to him now.

dlk

(12,587 posts)

7. If the goal is to hollow out our military capability

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:11 PM

Feb 11

This is a large step in that direction.

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