In 1921, the armed forces would not be integrated for another 27 years. WAAC would not be actualized for 21, and American Women’s right to vote was recognized less that a year prior.
The efforts of countless Service Members willing to face discrimination, inequality, and abuse within the ranks have given the Army so many firsts of which to be proud and role models to aspire to and emulate.
This ethic - built on #respect, motivated by #EspritdeCorps, and sustained by #honor - is what makes the Army, the DoD, and the Nation a little better every day.
I pause and remember one of the first lessons I learned when I reported for BCT @FortKnoxKY,
“Always leave it better than you found it: barracks, field site, your unit, the Army, yourself.”
A lesson I do my best to live by and pass on. I hope you will do the same. #DoYourPart
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“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, the successes and the failures...I divide the world into the learners and the non learners.” ~ Benjamin Barber
As Army leaders, we are charged with subordinate development. Of all the challenges to this outcome, maybe the most significant is the idea that some Soldiers are incapable of being developed.
‘John Brown: A Biography of American abolitionist’ by W.E.B. Du Bois. A fascinating telling of the antebellum abolitionist whose belief -"Slavery is wrong"- thrust him and into a personal war to uproot an institution older than the nation he loved.
Du Bois, the author, and civil rights activist was born in 1868 and was raised during the postbellum period where he advocated vehemently against lynching, segregation, and discrimination.
1909, the year he first published his biography of John Brown was the NAACP was founded in NY in response to continued violence against Black Americans. bit.ly/2T8rloV
We are charged to care for our Soldiers. To do this we must know our them. My first questions to any Soldier is where are you from, why are you here, what is your story?
Never degrade a Soldier for who they are. Respect is foundational to the #ArmyEthic. Will you have disagreements? They are inevitable, but honesty without tact is cruel and callous. #DoBetter
History is often viewed as a series of conquests and successes resulting in a modern humans sitting at the paramount of civilization. Petroski turns this on it's head through an analysis of design and engineering failures that stimulated invention and innovation.
“Successful tests are unremarkable... Failures are remarkable. The failures always teach us more than the successes about the design of things.”
“Seeing men as the default human is fundamental to the structure of human society.”
‘What? No. Really?’ The first line, and already my bias was showing. A common occurrence through the meticulously presented data of how at every turn, half the world’s population is let down.
It is no wonder that “Women will buy books by and about men, but men won’t buy books by and about women (or at least not many.)” I noted that my reading list just form this year is skewed to male authors. (3 to 12)
I have seen several persons stating that the Army needs a definition of extremism and that it is wasting Soldiers’ time until it makes one. Maybe they are not familiar with AR 600-20 4-12 a. (1)-(9)
a. Participation. Military personnel must reject participation in extremist organizations and activities. Extremist organizations and activities are ones that advocate—
(1) Racial, sex (including gender identity), sexual orientation, or ethnic hatred or intolerance.