We have often received warnings from people about DEOMI being a DEI center, including this one:
“The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) stationed at Patrick AFB, FL, has become over the years one of the hives of cultural Marxist infiltration, perhaps second only to the service schools in my opinion.”
If you have information on what’s going on there, let us know.
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By Rick Neale | Florida Today
After conducting internal reviews, the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute at Patrick Space Force Base is continuing its training programs in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders that canceled military education courses focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
DEOMI was established in 1971 as the Defense Race Relations Institute in the wake of the civil rights movement. The institute serves as the Department of Defense’s center for occupational training and research in Equal Employment Opportunity and Military Equal Opportunity laws, which deal with unlawful discrimination and harassment.
DEOMI has graduated tens of thousands of students from bases and units around the world, and they return to their units as advisers and trainers.
In recent years, DEOMI expanded its reach to a wide array of issues “including disability, diversity, sexism, extremism, religious accommodations, and anti-Semitism,” an agency press release said.
On Jan. 20, Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.” The U.S. Air Force issued a memorandum two days later, which is posted on the Space Launch Delta 45 website, immediately canceling all military or civilian education or training courses focused on DEI.
“DEOMI conducted an internal review of our website, social media platforms and curriculum to ensure we are in line with the recent Executive Orders and conduct all our operations as defined by federal law and policy to ensure we produce capable, trained professionals to best serve the Department of Defense,” a DEOMI public affairs staffer said in a Thursday email.
The institute declined to provide details on specific changes. DEOMI has a staff of about 150 military and civilian personnel, with a command staff composed of Air Force, Army and DoD leaders.
The institute, which has its headquarters at Patrick, produced more than 2,000 EEO and MEO graduates during the past fiscal year.
“DEOMI will remain in compliance with the Executive Order, future directives, law, and policy to give our stakeholders and the U.S. public a trained and capable warfighting force in support of the defense of the Nation,” the email said.
First published on Florida Today
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