Comments on: Navy Sports

By: Mongo

Mongo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:50 +0000

Not fair, Cookie. Not fair. It took me forever to read through the article, having to stop frequently to run the wipers on the windshield. Esprit de Corps in its typically remarkable fashion.

By: LT B

LT B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:42:23 +0000

RonF, it is the all the acts in summation. First, the act of removing two for their race. There would be a problem if this were done to put Whites ON in place of another race. If what they did was, in fact, correct and right, then fine. Don’t obfuscate and hide behind the PAO. If you are afraid to address it head on, if you hide behind the PAO and spin the story, then, there is probably an ethical problem.

In truth, Prof Fleming has shined a big bright light at an ugly problem that is inching its way through the very fiber of the academy and the Navy as a whole. Furthermore, the young man that was the replacement showed exactly why he wasn’t on the “varsity” squad. He clearly was NOT ready for prime time. But, if we need to make it all conform to the demographics of the country, feel free to putting short people on the basketball team, and skinny people on the football team. Or, keeping race as the central deciding factor, adjust the racial composition of the football team. Why does adjusting team composition based on race sound so much more fullish than adjusting team composition based on race and gender for combat teams? Ya know, when real lives are on the line.

By: RonF

RonF — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:59:45 +0000

Is too much being read into the composition of a color guard? On what merit are the members of a color guard at such an event chosen? Now, I’ve taught young men why and how to do a color ceremony for a while now, and I make sure they take them seriously. But when you’re on national TV it’s also a marketing opportunity. Unless there’s a merit selection process for that group that was circumvented I’m not sure what the controversy is here.

By: twofivezulu

twofivezulu — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:56:36 +0000

Flatlander, affirmative action is routinely written into law now, like in our shiny new health reform law, see • Secs. 2521 and 2533 (pp. 1379 and 1437) establishes racial and ethnic preferences in awarding grants for training nurses and creating secondary-school health science programs. For example, grants for nursing schools should “give preference to programs that provide for improving the diversity of new nurse graduates to reflect changes in the demographics of the patient population.” And secondary-school grants should go to schools “graduating students from disadvantaged backgrounds including racial and ethnic minorities.”

By: Just John

Just John — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:46:26 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. It’s a sad state of affairs when the true warrior ethos falls in line behind “multi-culti,” “progression,” or whatever the term-du-jour of the left is.

I was personally and professionally saddened when the words, “Warrior Spirit,” were removed from the mission statement of Marine Corps Recruit Training. Some of us have not forgotten, but I think we fall into a minority group.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:10:44 +0000

Gosh, you guys are being openly contemptuous. Do you have a chit for that?

One of those frequent reader admirals here is going to tell your mom and won’t you be sorry then.