Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Hard to say there is positive discrimination if it took over 30 years for the Navy to have ONE black female fast air pilot. As for Lt Hultgreen, why is she vilified when there have been plenty of male pilots with major Fu*kups who got a pass ?
This is the reason for positive discrimination. To open the door for those minorities that have not even considered this career pathway (or in the case of King Hussein to get his people into the mind set of earning via working). But you either ante up and take the hurt by diluting the standards to get people in these careers. Thereby attracting more to walk through the door and acknowledge the considerable risk associated with this from having weaker links in the chain too never being able to re-establish the standard to what it once was. Or stay with the current system.
As for Lt Hultgreen, vilification is totally unjustified. This is where professionalism is supposed to come in by identifying the chain of events that contributed or lead to the accident.