Comments on: Judge orders New Haven firefighters promoted http://blastmagazine.com/archive/the-news/local-news/judge-orders-new-have-firefighters-promoted/ Video games, movies, music, and smart magazine journalism Sat, 26 May 2012 16:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: George http://blastmagazine.com/archive/the-news/local-news/judge-orders-new-have-firefighters-promoted/comment-page-1/#comment-15608 George Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:26 +0000 http://blastmagazine.com/?p=34184#comment-15608 The same thing happened to me under the US Army's affirmative action plan. I had the highest Skill Development Test score in my military occupation. I studied very hard for it for several years. Minorities did not do so well on the exam - at least the ones I knew. The Army threw the test out, promoting a person i knew who had scored a 30% on the exam! By this time I had held each position that the next pay grade functions in, had served in two combat zones. Lead a company of soldiers as First Sergeant twice. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination, Affirmative Action is just another flavor of it. In the end, used my GI Bill to go to college. Finished with a GPA of 3.8. Continued on into a professional career. The same thing happened to me under the US Army’s affirmative action plan. I had the highest Skill Development Test score in my military occupation. I studied very hard for it for several years. Minorities did not do so well on the exam – at least the ones I knew. The Army threw the test out, promoting a person i knew who had scored a 30% on the exam! By this time I had held each position that the next pay grade functions in, had served in two combat zones. Lead a company of soldiers as First Sergeant twice. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination, Affirmative Action is just another flavor of it.

In the end, used my GI Bill to go to college. Finished with a GPA of 3.8. Continued on into a professional career.

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