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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate
Diversity Training Costs Because Congress
Defunded DEI Offices

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Posted By: snakeoil, 4/30/2024 12:35:48 PM

The Pentagon told Congress it could not provide a required accounting of diversity training to Congress because it didn’t have enough people working in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) positions, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.Congress mandated the Pentagon compile a report detailing how much the entire military spent on diversity training, salaries for DEI administrators and any impacts on recruiting and retention across the force that was due March 1

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In plain English: Give up more money so we can find out what happened to the last pile of money we got.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bur Oak 4/30/2024 12:39:00 PM (No. 1709022)
Congress should put a hold on all promotions above colonel until the Pentagon learns to count.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: curious1 4/30/2024 12:47:26 PM (No. 1709028)
They shouldn't have ANY 'people' working in D I E positions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/30/2024 12:54:07 PM (No. 1709037)
Make the "diversity training" costs ZERO, by STOPPING ALL of it. Yesterday.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley 4/30/2024 1:01:13 PM (No. 1709044)
The military keeps careful track of everything from bullets to nuts and bolts to gallons of fuel. When it gets to the end user it may disappear, but before that its all on paper. They can find out what these shysters cost any time they want just by asking the computers. They obviously dont want to. I wouldn't want to either.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: skacmar 4/30/2024 1:27:07 PM (No. 1709061)
Interesting how government bureaucrats can track things when they want to and are totally incompetent when they need to be for the exact same thing. THe military tracking of DEI is an example of feigned incompetence. Another excellent example of government selective monitoring/tracking is the Archives knowing exactly which "classified documents" Donald Trump had but not not knowing which Top Secret Classified documents that Joe Biden had signed out and stole over his 50 years in government. This is an example of government tracking and feigned government incompetence when necessary at its finest.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: thefield 4/30/2024 1:59:03 PM (No. 1709088)
Very easy to write about how much it cost. Just type, "too much".
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JayD 4/30/2024 2:13:17 PM (No. 1709102)
Pentagon has people running the place that are too stupid to understand the request was because there is already too much being spent on DEI.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JackBurton 4/30/2024 2:23:46 PM (No. 1709107)
If you paid out money for DEI, it's on the books. I say, find it or get fired.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: sdavidf 4/30/2024 3:29:13 PM (No. 1709152)
There’s a code associated with everything in the government. That’s how agencies budget. They could find it. Search the DEI codes in all the databases. They don’t want to.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 4/30/2024 5:18:00 PM (No. 1709253)
I'll tell you what it cost, a military that is about thirty percent less effective than it was ten years ago and morale low enough to make a laughing hyena sad.
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