Malicious Compliance at the Defense Dept.?

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.

On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.

Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.

According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers’s remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge.

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address

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[passenger]

Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry​

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[passenger]

Jackie Robinson article on MLB legend's Army history restored to Department of Defense website after removal​

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[Cam]

I'd imagine they used some form of AI to determine what content to remove, and they removed too much. It's ridiculous regardless.

 

[Webster]

I'd imagine they used some form of AI to determine what content to remove, and they removed too much. It's ridiculous regardless.

Pentagon Restores Deleted Records of American Heroes to Website, After Possible Malicious Compliance

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There is an old military aphorism, one usually attributed to the E-4 Mafia that all of our branches of service have in one form or another, and that is that if the troops want to get rid of a bad NCO or officer, they can do so by mindlessly following their order to the letter, and doing nothing else. It often works. Government bureaucracies, no doubt, have personnel that may well likewise follow this practice of malicious compliance. There's no evidence that this is what happened here, at the Pentagon, but in the vast (and largely unconstitutional) scope of the federal government, when ordered to undo something as pervasive as DEI, there are bound to be some instances of just this. If the system works as we hope, the people engaged in this will be identified and, if there's any sense to any of this, will find themselves in the unemployment line.

That's pretty much what happened here, Cam: they went well overboard and it wasn't AI that did it. Odds are, it was a live person(s) who did it, hoping to get DoD officials in trouble with the Mainstream Lying Snake Media.