DEI Medal
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The Trump administration’s attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives got some initial support from various Even the Liberal types, who thought that the attacks were aimed at pointless HR Power Point presentations, featuring upper class white consultant grifters talking about white privilege for $500 an hour.
The real target has turned out to be quite a bit broader:
The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.
On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.
Now to be scrupfair, Gen. Rogers seems to have had something of an attitude about supposed racism in the military. Some of his comments during his long career — he was at the time the highest-ranking black member of the Armed Forces ever to receive the Medal of Honor — could even be described as uppity:
By 1954, after Rogers had been denied a path to becoming a chemical engineer with the Army, he submitted his resignation, in part because of a “‘clear pattern’ of discrimination…He could count on being the ammunition officer or the supply officer, but not the battery executive officer which he called ‘the cream-of-the-crop assignment.'”[His commanding officer declined to accept his resignation, telling him he had the makings of a good officer.[ He was promoted to captain, after which he noticed his commanders had started reliably assigning him work he enjoyed doing. He decided to stay with the Army for the time being, although he observed that until the mid-1960s reports on personnel performance included statements like “So-and-So is the finest black captain I know. . . .As a two-star general in 1975 he told a reporter, “We still have and will have what the Defense Department describes as institutional racism. [Discrimination] happens. It’s there. In many cases, it’s inadvertent. In some cases, it’s deliberate. We’re never going to eliminate racism in the Army. As long as we do everything to reduce it, we’re making some legitimate progress.
Charles Calvin Rogers’s official (for now anyway) Medal of Honor citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Lt. Col. Rogers, Field Artillery, distinguished himself in action while serving as commanding officer, 1st Battalion, during the defense of a forward fire support base. In the early morning hours, the fire support base was subjected to a concentrated bombardment of heavy mortar, rocket and rocket propelled grenade fire. Simultaneously the position was struck by a human wave ground assault, led by sappers who breached the defensive barriers with bangalore torpedoes and penetrated the defensive perimeter. Lt. Col. Rogers with complete disregard for his safety moved through the hail of fragments from bursting enemy rounds to the embattled area. He aggressively rallied the dazed artillery crewmen to man their howitzers and he directed their fire on the assaulting enemy. Although knocked to the ground and wounded by an exploding round, Lt. Col. Rogers sprang to his feet and led a small counterattack force against an enemy element that had penetrated the howitzer positions. Although painfully wounded a second time during the assault, Lt. Col. Rogers pressed the attack killing several of the enemy and driving the remainder from the positions. Refusing medical treatment, Lt. Col. Rogers reestablished and reinforced the defensive positions. As a second human wave attack was launched against another sector of the perimeter, Lt. Col. Rogers directed artillery fire on the assaulting enemy and led a second counterattack against the charging forces. His valorous example rallied the beleaguered defenders to repulse and defeat the enemy onslaught. Lt. Col. Rogers moved from position to position through the heavy enemy fire, giving encouragement and direction to his men. At dawn the determined enemy launched a third assault against the fire base in an attempt to overrun the position. Lt. Col. Rogers moved to the threatened area and directed lethal fire on the enemy forces. Seeing a howitzer inoperative due to casualties, Lt. Col. Rogers joined the surviving members of the crew to return the howitzer to action. While directing the position defense, Lt. Col. Rogers was seriously wounded by fragments from a heavy mortar round which exploded on the parapet of the gun position. Although too severely wounded to physically lead the defenders, Lt. Col. Rogers continued to give encouragement and direction to his men in the defeating and repelling of the enemy attack. Lt. Col. Rogers’ dauntless courage and heroism inspired the defenders of the fire support base to the heights of valor to defeat a determined and numerically superior enemy force. His relentless spirit of aggressiveness in action are in the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.