Whistle Pig

weski, the USNA old salts are rather rankled, it seems. Understandably. Try as anyone might, and many do, there simply is no logic to this beyond the sad, incorrect, implicit notion that somehow those with a bit more pigment in their covering require special boosting.

Isn't it interesting that no one ever seems to suggest that a more viable, equitable solution to the Navy's contrived top priority of developing mirror images of its enlisted and commissioned membership. In fact the better option might be to recruit more white guys and gals for the enlisted ranks. In turn the Navy would then better reflect the country's racial mixture.

What kind of outrage would that conjure up, one might wonder. Now THAT would be racist, right?

But the bigger question of why these groups must mirror each other to begin with? No one's asking, no one's answering.