Department of Defense to Abolish DEI Initiatives at Military Offices and Academies

On January 29, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a memorandum to senior Pentagon leadership announcing the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force Task Force,” an effort aimed at eliminating all diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, practices, and educational programs associated with the Department of Defense.

The memorandum reads that “the DoD will strive to provide merit-based, color-blind, equal opportunities to Service members but will not guarantee or strive for equal outcomes.”

To ensure compliance with this mission, the DoD has outlined several areas of focus for the new task force. These directives include eliminating the consideration of sex, race, or ethnicity for promotions, command, or special duty assignments; eliminating all DEI-based quotas, objectives, and goals; prohibiting instruction of critical race theory, gender ideology, and DEI from workforce training curriculums; and ceasing all advisory boards, councils, and working groups’ operations related to CRT, gender ideology, and DEI.

Additionally, the memorandum emphasizes that “the U.S. Service Academies and other defense academic institutions shall teach America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”

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  1. It’s quite evident that the ‘drunkard’ and ‘philanderer’ and highly unqualified SecDef Pete Hegseth aspires to return the ‘greatest fighting force on the planet’ to the pre1960s era in which it was literally ALL WHITE and especially within the officer ranks, aviators, and SOCOM. In lieu of the that ole Pete has literally launched a Blitzkrieg on DEI due to his unapologetic ignorance of its purpose he aspires to create a military environment that he’s most comfortable with, White males. Ole Pete needs to recognize that he’s shining example of White male affirmative action of the highest order. Regardless of ole Pete serving in the capacity as the SecDef the more experienced military personnel and his counterparts overseas don’t respect him. In the end, ole Pete will continue to EMBARRASS the entire US military as he already shown for his imprecise public commentary.

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