THE Naval academy said that he had canceled two classes and encourage a more in -depth examination of prices following the order of President Donald Trump to prohibit all the federal government's diversity programs last month.
THE Navy Also takes more of its offline training programs – the last in a series of silent criticisms, policy changes and websites of websites stimulated by a pair of presidential orders. Despite the measures made at the request of the commander -in -chief, naval managers and other service branches have often not announced publicly or provided information when equipment is withdrawn or an exam is initiated.
Instead, many of the changes is accountable is based on military interior or visibly identified changes. The result is a dispersed and probably incomplete image of what soldiers have examined, modified or exceeded or entirely deleted while Trump and his administration seek to erase policies and programs recognizing women, troops with minority history and gay and lesbian soldiers.
In the case of the naval academy, officials began working to reduce prohibited subjects after Trump made orders on the first day of his mandate in late January.
CMDR. Ashley Hockycko, spokesperson for the Naval Academy, said on Tuesday at Military.com in a statement that the school had examined “the 870 courses in our catalog”. While most of the lessons were in accordance, “NL445 Gender Matters: The Sociology of Gender” and “He374 Gender and Sexuality Studies” were canceled.
The Baltimore banner reported last week This provost Samara Firebaugh – The school leader of the school – sent an e -mail after the cancellation of the schools at the school faculty which aimed to offer other advice to move forward.
E-mail, according to reports from the banner, had advice for “not using equipment that can be interpreted as being blamed for generalized groups for sustainable social conditions, in particular discrimination or inequalities”.
The Republicans and the Trump administration have long deteriorated any teaching which highlights the history of discrimination and racism in America, and Trump promised to delete these subjects During the campaign campaign last year.
During Trump's first term, Russell Vought, the current director of the White House management and budget, ordered the federal agencies to identify agency contracts or expenses to train in critical race theory, a white privilege, or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests … that the United States is a racist or maleficent country or … Whether any breed or ethical is inherent or bad, “racist or bad or … A reading of the 2020 note.
A large part of American story is linked to racial tensions and civil rights movements, in particular the era of slavery, the integration of the army, female suffrage and, more recently, the repeal of “do not ask, do not tell yourself”, a policy which has prohibited the military service opened by the American gays.
Asked about Firebaugh's electronic mail, Hockycko did not challenge any of the e-mail quotes in the banner, but refused to publish it in Militar.com, citing its nature as an internal document whose liberation could have a frightening effect on internal communication at the Academy.
“This email did not necessarily say to anyone to change certain things,” said Hockycko. Instead, she said that her message was: “Make sure you examine the course equipment and the content that would be against the decrees.”
Hockycko said that the email offered “directives” and examples of what to look for in the course equipment “to ensure that we continue to teach and educate and remain in alignment with these decrees.”
Banner reports said the e-mail asked the faculty to search for course equipment for words such as “diversity”, “minority”, “belonging”, “biases”, “representation” and “oppression”.
The Naval Academy is not the only one to calmly make changes in response to decrees and answer questions on the subject only when faced with internal documents.
Last week, Military.com examined an email from February 7 in Marines of a senior official in the training and education command saying that the Ministry of Marine interrupted four training programs on harassment and discrimination until the updated training was available.
E -mail has specifically cited the Navy Department prohibiting training on prevention of harassment, training of equal employment chances of the supervisor and Treatment of the act not for fear – none of which had been publicly disclosed.
The email also mentioned a break in training for the prevention and response of civil sexual assaults, or SAPR, but that Hault has already been reported. We do not know how Business Insider, who Reported for the first time on the newsbecame aware of the judgment.
After a week, an official of the navy, who spoke of context in order to be able to offer more frank information, confirmed that the email was authentic, but that the impact would be minimal because the programs themselves were still in place and the civilians for which the training only went there once a year.
“From this morning, two of the four training presentations are already back online and available for the visualization of employees,” added the manager.
We did not know what changes had been made to the programs.
Branch managers did not explain why there is a reluctance to openly discuss the actions they take under Trump decrees and not department heads. They said on several occasions that the services “execute and implement all the directives described in the decrees published by the President”.
While some of the actions undertaken following orders have been significant – for example, most services Cut links with a prestigious black engineering event It was supposed to be a source of better recruits – the services said that the effects are minimal, without providing additional information.
According to the head of the navy who spoke with Military.com, the magazines for harassment, equality of employment and sexual assault training were brief. Yvonne Carlock, spokesperson for the Sea body“The workforce and reserve affairs, said its changes to the SAPR training were” minimal “.
Carlock said the changes were: “For example, the” genre “was replaced by” sex “.
“The changes made will have no impact on the learning objectives of the respective courses, which target the prevention of sexual assault and the response to individuals affected by the crime of sexual assault,” she said.
However, when Military.com asked the navy the commitment to provide the same overview of the same training, these requests were ignored.
However, a theme that has emerged as the effects are discovered by journalists is a distance from the soldiers of American women and blacks.
Maryland National guard canceled a planned overview From an event celebrating Frederick Douglass, one of the most important defenders of black civil rights in the 19th century, scheduled for February 22. THE Army The group canceled a concert at George Mason University in Virginia, where he was to play music by Janelle Monáe, singer and black rapper.
The army too Cut links with Ashley Hall girls school where he had participated in the annual day of the Girl to Engineering of the preparatory school “.
At the end of January, the Aviation The training equipment was rubbed with the aviators of Tuskegee, historic black aviators and the pilots of the Airforce service for women, or wasps, who helped pilot the planes in the United States during the war, which prompted outcry and the public.
The training was restored a few days later.
Earlier in February, both The army and the navy also removed,, Then restored, web pages This featured the stories of soldiers and sailors.
– Jenny Morber and Drew Lawrence contributed to this story.
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