Biden’s Pick for Top US General Grilled About Memo Seeking Racial Quotas in Air Force Recruiting
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the United States armed services co-authored an August 2022 memo that stipulated preferred racial quotas for Air Force recruiting efforts—spurring criticism from several Republican senators during a July 11 confirmation hearing.
Also touched on at the meeting were military challenges posed by China and Russia—among others—but festered on conservative criticism of Pentagon “woke” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
Air Force commanding officer Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown was nominated in May by Mr. Biden to assume the chairmanship of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Chiefs of Staff to succeed Army Gen. Mark Milley, who is retiring in September….