Comments on: Trump’s order to have the military return to a meritocracy-based institution is the correct decision https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/ The news site for government and politics in the Free State Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40376 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:49:23 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40376 0.5

]]> By: Katherine Larrabee https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40236 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:23:35 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40236 Marc King’s recent commentary missed an opportunity to bolster the military academies’ education and readiness missions and to highlight the President’s visit to the USNA without stooping to the current practice of using divisive language such as “left-winged ideology” and to demean a congressWOMAN who thinks diversity strengthens warrior organizations. She may be right, even without combat experience on her resume. In WWII, Black airmen, female pilots, and other minority groups played key roles in assisting the war effort. My mother was a Rosie Riveter at the Washington Navy Yard. We didn’t call it DEI back then, but diversity was at work; it has been underway for decades to include people who are other than White male to add strength when and where needed.

We who have lived in Annapolis for decades and have close ties with the USNA know diversity has long been a consideration there, beginning with the first Black midshipmen (one of whom has a building named for him), first female professor, first female mids, first woman to serve as commandant of midshipmen, and most recently the first female superintendent, a Latina.

I’m disappointed to read this unbalanced, in-your-face commentary in the MarylandReporter, which has always focused on gathering a healthy mix of news that appears balanced and nonpartisan.

Kathy Larrabee
Annapolis

]]> By: Frank Silver https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40201 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:32:15 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40201 You could not be more right about Trump’s position on the academy, but you are absolutely wrong in stating: “If our universities and colleges want to indoctrinate students with these far-left ideologies regarding wokism, transgenderism, and the notion that “diversity is our strength” then as private institutions I say let them have their way.”

Parents do not send their children to colleges and universities for the purpose of allowing them to be indoctrinated into believing in woke ideologies. To state that left-leaning indoctrination is perfectly okay with you suggests you are very much out of touch with what either Trump or the responsible parents of believe to be the mission of our institutions of higher education.

]]> By: Kennardn Wiggins https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40186 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:40:33 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40186 Who establishes the standards for a meritocracy? What criteria would you test? In a bell curve of “merit” would only the right hand quartile qualify? Would the blessings of our democracy apply only to this privileged few? This meritocracy that you speak of suggests, for example, that there should be no special veteran’s preference for civil service jobs, unless they passed your ideology test. .

]]> By: Anonymous https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40164 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:06:33 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40164 4

]]> By: Anonymous https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40162 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:12:43 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40162 5

]]> By: Dr. Suzie Burke bebee https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/05/trumps-order-to-have-the-military-return-to-a-meritocracy-based-institution-is-the-correct-decision/#comment-40161 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:20:08 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=4828115#comment-40161 Mr. King – so, do you want to go back to Oct 7th 1974? As a fellow Marylander, FYI we’re in the 21st century.

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