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The Army Equal Employment Opportunity Program (EEO) is a U.S. Army mandated program designed "to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, reprisal, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a parent, or other impermissible basis, and to promote the full realization of EEO through a continuing diversity and inclusion ...
H.R. 1364 Equal Justice for Our Military Personnel Act, 2005, 109th Congress (referred to committee—did not pass); On April 23, 2004, the House Armed Services Committee sent a bipartisan letter, written by Reps. Davis (D-Calif.) and John Michael McHugh (R-NY), to The Pentagon asking for feedback on MacLean's proposal. [6]
The committee's findings were published in their final report Freedom to Serve: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services on 22 May 1950. The committee argued that segregation was detrimental to the military's efficiency, in contrast to the claims of pro-segregation officials including the Secretary of the Army, Air Force, and ...
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) Scholarly review of this book online; Bristol Jr, Douglas Walter, and Heather Marie Stur, eds. Integrating the US Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II (2017) excerpt; Dixon, Chris.
Executive Order 9981. Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.
885,945 went into the Army, 153,224 into the Navy, 16,005 into the Marine Corps, and; 1,667 into the Coast Guard. The African American inductees made up: 10.9 percent of all registrants inducted into the Army (8,108,531), 10.0 percent of all inductions into the Navy (1,526,250), 8.5 percent of all Marine Corps inductions (188,709) and
A one-year pilot program for fusion of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment directorates was announced in October 2021. Fusion directors will aggregate individual case services to give visibility to each victim's case, by installation [40] [41] as previous attempts to address sexual harassment and assault in the Army have not solved the problem.
Past activities have included white-water rafting, paintball and mountain biking. Army officials hope that by utilizing the program, there will be a reduction in high-risk off-duty activities. WAQ is managed by the Outdoor Recreation Program of Family and MWR. According to Army officials, the average cost per person to participate in WAQ is $86 ...