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MARCH 11, 2021 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS The United States military is the greatest the world has ever seen because of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news briefing this morning. Kirby addressed this because a Fox cable show host [Tucker] used his show to denigrate the contributions of women in the military and to say the Chinese military is catching up to the U.S. military because it does not allow women to serve in the percentage the United States does. Kirby addressed the insults to the entire U.S. military straight on. “I want to be very clear right...

DEC. 18, 2020 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller has accepted all 15 recommendations proposed by the Diversity and Inclusion Board chartered by former Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper in July. The first recommendation is for military recruiting content to reflect the current and future racial, ethnic and gender demographics of the United States. It’s almost as if the friends of Tiger Woods in the Navy Seals are about as white as the PGA tour: The second recommendation deals with the dearth of diversity at the higher levels of the military. The recommendatio...