DOD's Equity Action Plan 2023 Update

DoD recently released a report called “Equity Action Plan 2023 Update” (pdf). Written like something out of the Soviet Union, the school-indoctrinated political commissars explain in their Executive Summary their goals of advancing “equity” throughout the military. (Equity is equal outcomes, not equal opportunity):

“The Department has identified five key Strategies to advance and embed equity. The five Strategies are:

1. Advance equity for military families with a focus on healthcare, education, and economic challenges and opportunities;

2. Advance economic equity and rectify past harms for communities around military installations and bases;

3. Integrate environmental/economic justice tools into DoD planning tools for decision-making, where applicable;

4. Advance gender diversity, equity, and inclusion by removing barriers to the recruitment, development, retention, and advancement of women in DoD; and

5. Advance women’s participation in democracy, representation, and decision-making in peace and security processes.

Key barriers to achieving equity include the high demands of military life, historical actions that have resulted in adverse community outcomes, and disproportionate environmental impacts on underserved communities, among others.

The Department continues to acknowledge these barriers and, as provided in the Strategies described below, takes steps to eliminate them.

Plans to address these barriers include:

• Explore changes to Military Health System (MHS) GENESIS to address gaps in food insecurity screening;

• Invest over $1.4 billion (B) in the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) and $20 million (M) in the NALEMP that address legacy impacts from past DoD actions;

• Develop an implementation strategy by September 2024 for E.O. 14096, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All

• Standardize reproductive health care policies through the development of a new Department of Defense Instruction; and

• Work with partner nations to (i) promote women in those partner nations meaningfully participating and serving at all ranks and in all occupations in defense and security sectors, and (ii) conduct related security cooperation programs and activities.

The report gives updates on various Action Plans, talks about “Environmental Justice Scorecard results, how they are advancing equity through “key” legislation, and provides their strategies to advance Equity and overcome barriers to Equity in the military in FY2024.

These are people doing the work on a daily basis to push a Marxist agenda on the military. No one naturally writes like the Soviet wording in the report; they were taught to do this by Leftist professors in the academic environment. They then enter institutions with their woke mind virus and begin to change things as their mission from the inside, infecting others with the virus.

The Takeover: Self-righteous professors have spawned self-righteous students and unleashed them into the public square (Tablet Magazine)

The University as the Woke Mission Field: A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. Speaks Out (New Discourses)
. . . I no longer believe that the fundamental ideas of Women’s Studies, and of Critical Social Justice more generally, describe reality; they are at best partial explanations—hyperbolic ideology, not fact-based analysis. I have seen this ideology up close and seen how it consumes and even destroys people, while dehumanizing anyone who dissents. . .

Watch:

Revealing the Strategies of the Left with James Lindsay