Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

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Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math.

www.military.com

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

good. not ur fight blackman....

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Gotta be brief, no orders from a chief
Hot butter on what, say what, the popcorn

 

[Buddy]

On one end, I don't want that life for us but everybody ain't fit for college. Military can provide a trade. Plus, I see the way my pops is eatin off his veteran benefits and

 

[BaggerofTea]

good. not ur fight blackman....

this what people say when they have no idea about white people and how they work.

military service is considered a vestige of honor in anglo military tradition, particularly the officer class.


recruiters will still target poor blacks for non com roles but they want to pivot the officer representation to 100 percent whites.


Sleep on the military at your own peril.

The military provides housing, food, skillset and opportunity if you take advantage of it.


The black man pays taxes to this military, its our fight (perhaps not yours)

 

[IIVI]

They got the minorities to fight for them. Mexicans are the fastest growing group in the military. They already make up about 20% of those in active duty and growing. They know after these ICE raids more kids will be joining.

If this administration wants to limit military options to Black folks they’re not doing it with good intentions though.

 

[Brolic]

good. not ur fight blackman....

This isn’t good for black people.
Black men with engineering degrees aren’t gonna be on the front line. And military experience usually helps get you a job in the government or the private sector.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

This isn’t good for black people.
Black men with engineering degrees aren’t gonna be on the front line. And military experience usually helps get you a job in the government or the private sector.

I agree with @BaggerofTea and his nuanced point.

 

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DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities

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DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities

DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities​

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By Josh Marshall

March 6, 2025 10:44 p.m.

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Just found out that a new memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), dated March 5th, 2025, directs all acquisitions executives through the military to stop including language which requires contractors to agree that they will not use segregated facilities as a condition of being a DOD contractor.

Specifically the memorandum bars the use of FAR 52.2220-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities. This is a provision which dates back to 1965 and has been updated by a series of Executive Orders over the years adding additional forms of restricted segregation. The most recent change came in 2015 when sexual orientation and gender identity were added via executive order to the list of prohibited forms of segregation. The history and evolution of the Prohibition of Segregated Facilities is discussed here in the Federal Register.

Presumably it is the addition of gender identity which drove the OSD to ban usage of the Prohibition of Segregated Facilities in DOD contracts. Maybe? But the 2015 addition of gender identity to the Prohibition could simply have been revoked. It was added in 2015 and it could be removed in 2025. What they did here, however, is remove everything. So military contractors will no longer have to warrant they don’t have racially segregated facilities or facilities segregated by religion or ethnicity or anything else.