DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at Service Academies
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Bruce Fleming
Real Clear Wire
This is an excerpt from Bruce Fleming’s new book, Saving Our Service Academies (Post Hill Press).
Applicants who self-identified as a member of a race the Academy wished to privilege—at the time I was on the Admissions Board it was African American, Hispanic, and Native American—were briefed separately to the committee not by a white member but by a minority Navy lieutenant. Briefings (a minute and forty seconds per applicant, no more) ran through a number of factors quite quickly and offered a recommendation that we had been told was appropriate: “qualified” for USNA if grades A/B for white applicants (but not minorities,
