Exclusive-For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data Reuters 18/12/2020 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Sergeant Major Das'Chara Champ couldn't have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy. Few people do. "Has there been any kind of survey done on the perceived level of racism or racial discrimination in the Army," Champ, who is Black, asked in a video played at a Pentagon town hall on Sept. 24. https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2356477/top-dod-officials-hold-virtual-town-hall-meeting On the other end of the question were some of the most senior leaders in the U.S. military: Then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Milley's senior enlisted advisor, Ramon Colon-Lopez.