Department of Defense scrubbing non-white Medal of Honor awardees from website

[RobDownSouth]

By decree of Orange Julius Caesar, alcoholic former Fox News Weekend Anchor and current Secretary of Defense "Tiny" Peter Hegseth has had the Department of Defense scrubbing all pictures and articles of non-white and/or non-male service members.

The latest victim of this "whitewash' effort was Medal of Honor winner Major General Charles C. Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970 for bravery in combat in Vietnam. The DOD spotlights a different Medal of Honor awardee each week, Major General Rogers' heroism was featured in 2021 on the DOD website.

The spotlight page AND Major General Rogers' Medal of Honor citation have now been removed from the DOD website.

The URL to Rogers' biography and citation was altered from https;//www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/ to https;//www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/DEImedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

https://i.imgur.com/S8DnGMM.png

Hegseth has been highly critical of American failure to achieve "unconditional victory" in Vietnam, which he has blamed on the American military having integrated the Army in 1948. He has pointed out in the past that many prominent front-line combat positions, often sought by conservative white men, were routinely given to far less qualified black and Hispanic enlistees. This resulted in the "DEI movement' that grew and existed until the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.

It is unclear if President Trump will revoke Rogers' Medal of Honor or downgrade it to something more appropriate to Rogers' race. Rogers passed away in 1990. If President Trump does downgrade/revoke MG Rogers' Medal of Honor, Elon Musk's DOGE savings commission could, in theory, seek financial restitution from Rogers estate (for the monetary amount difference between a Medal of Honor funeral service and a basic military funeral service).

 

[Lazaran]

By decree of Orange Julius Caesar, alcoholic former Fox News Weekend Anchor and current Secretary of Defense "Tiny" Peter Hegseth has had the Department of Defense scrubbing all pictures and articles of non-white and/or non-male service members.

The latest victim of this "whitewash' effort was Medal of Honor winner Major General Charles C. Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970 for bravery in combat in Vietnam. The DOD spotlights a different Medal of Honor awardee each week, Major General Rogers' heroism was featured in 2021 on the DOD website.

The spotlight page AND Major General Rogers' Medal of Honor citation have now been removed from the DOD website.

The URL to Rogers' biography and citation was altered from https;//www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/ to https;//www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/DEImedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

https://i.imgur.com/S8DnGMM.png

Hegseth has been highly critical of American failure to achieve "unconditional victory" in Vietnam, which he has blamed on the American military having integrated the Army in 1948. He has pointed out in the past that many prominent front-line combat positions, often sought by conservative white men, were routinely given to far less qualified black and Hispanic enlistees. This resulted in the "DEI movement' that grew and existed until the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.

It is unclear if President Trump will revoke Rogers' Medal of Honor or downgrade it to something more appropriate to Rogers' race. Rogers passed away in 1990. If President Trump does downgrade/revoke MG Rogers' Medal of Honor, Elon Musk's DOGE savings commission could, in theory, seek financial restitution from Rogers estate (for the monetary amount difference between a Medal of Honor funeral service and a basic military funeral service).

Karma is going to visit a horrific fate upon those racist, misogynistic, corrupt MAGAt scumbags.

And I’m here for it.

 

[Bn2f]

 

[DeluxAuto]

"... but this is just like removing the Robert E. Lee statue!"

 

[Lazaran]

"... but this is just like removing the Robert E. Lee statue!"

You forgot the obligatory “REEEEEEEE!!!”



Edit:

You forgot the obligatory “ROBERT E LEEEEEEEEE!!!”

 

[jomar]

Pretty fucked up and actually kinda surprising. DEI Medal of Honor recipients? Whitewashing is apt.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Another day, another "disappearance". Today, the Dept of Defense removed yet another "DEI page" that failed to give credit to white males.

Today's victims were the Navajo Code Talkers of World War Two fame. These were members of the Meskwaki tribe who confounded Japanese interpreters in World War Two. All content with the keyword 'Meskwaki' has been removed from the DOD site.

Asked for a comment, Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot replied "As Secretary [Pete] Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department."

Makin' the military white again!

 

[DeluxAuto]

Disgraceful actions by a disgraced felon.

 

[DeluxAuto]

The administration doing away with DEI: decency, ethics, and intelligence

 

[eric_erosfan]

These people are the lowest of the low. I have never seen such evil.

 

[Wylie3]

Maybe all the current non-whites in the USA military should resign on mass and then see how the Orange Turds white only army performs.

 

[PaxNurgle]

These people are the lowest of the low. I have never seen such evil.

Certainly not in America. Not even during the Jim Crow era, was it this bad. At least then, they would give recognition to those who earned their valor in service to the country.

This is....downright chilling. Utter, open, uncontested hate, and even the board's resident Jim-Crow racists (Ultra Chad, Chloe, all the various iterations of the Hisarpy/Rebel5/Horatio guy, etc.) are no longer trying to deny that. (Though they obviously celebrate it, like all sick assholes do.)

I would agree that if I was a person of color in the current military, I would resign in protest- and I certainly wouldn't be enlisting any time soon.

 

[colddiesel]

I would agree that if I was a person of color in the current military, I would resign in protest- and I certainly wouldn't be enlisting any time soon.

The real problem is that the administration is terrified to admit the degree to which the military is dependent on Puerto Ricans, Samoans and Blacks. White folks are much less committed to join any service.

Incidentally I served in the British Army though I was from a racial, liguistic and National minority. The regimental tradition I experienced, celebrated difference rather than hiding it.

 

[Bn2f]

Republicans despise funding for mental health. Pity. Can you imagine the degree of insecurity in these mediocre white males that has them fearful of even dead minorities?

I’m disgusted by these people.
I’m barred by the TOS of this site from expressing how I really feel.
They’re not patriots.
They’ve dishonored our current military and its honored vets.
They’ve desecrated the memory of our fallen.
Fuck trump and his supporters to fuckin Hell.

 

[Bray123]

Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order​

Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI."
Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

• They were critical to securing America's victory at Iwo Jima.

As someone once said, "What was in it for them?"
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-la...code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

 

[Bray123]

Trump once hailed WWII vet Medgar Evers as a ‘great American hero.’ Now the U.S. Army has erased him from the Arlington National Cemetery website​

The U.S. Army purged the section that had lauded the late Army sergeant and civil rights leader, who was assassinated by a white supremacist in Jackson in 1963. The decision to erase Evers came after an executive order by Trump to eliminate all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programs.

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/0...evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/

 

[YDB95]

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/0...evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/

That one just might get a certain element of the right riled up. It deprives them of a classic "but Democrats were the real racists" story.

 

[Bray123]

“The page dedicated to Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was indeed deleted, but restored soon afterward.

The Pentagon said it had been scrubbed during an "auto removal process."

- Snopes

So that's OK then.

'Delete everything we don't like, then undelete whatever gets unwanted attention.'

 

[Lance_Castro]

So that's OK then.

'Delete everything we don't like, then undelete whatever gets unwanted attention.'

Rob is wrong…Rogers has not been scrubbed.

 

[RobDownSouth]

So that's OK then.

'Delete everything we don't like, then undelete whatever gets unwanted attention.'

Yep, that is EXACTLY what they're doing.

After the shitstorm about Major General Rogers on Saturday, he was de-rabbit-holed yesterday.

A lot of irate Americans of Japanese descent managed to get the all-Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Regiment page restored as well.

That 442nd regiment earned a record 21 Medals of Honor during World War2, earning the sobriquet as 'the most decorated combat unit of World War 2'.

By way of comparison, the 101st Airborne Division (depicted in the 'Band of Brothers' miniseries) won two Medals of Honor, a discrepancy which I am quite sure that alcoholic Secretary of Defense "Tiny" Peter Hegseth would to 'DEI favoritism towards non-white males'.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The hits just keep on coming...

Today's DOD DEI casualty is Marine PFC Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, one of seven men who raised the flag over Iwo Jima in the most iconic photo of World War Two.

• Hayes was immortalized in the Johnny Cash song 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes'.
• Hayes was portrayed by actor Tony Curtis in the 1961 film The Outsider
• He was also portrayed by actor Lee Marvin in the 1960 TV movie The Story of Ira Hayes
• Hayes portrayed himself in the 1949 John Wayne movie 'The Sands of Iwo Jima". Hayes and the other two Marines who survived World War 2 after raising the flag portrayed themselves.

Alcoholic Secretary of Defense "Tiny" Peter Hegseth is fuckin' serious about whitewashing the military.

Welcome to the Golden Age of White America.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Jackie Robinson's Army history scrubbed from Department of Defense websites

An article about the baseball great Jackie Robinson's time in the Army has been removed from the Department of Defense's website.

The new webpage URL, now adding "dei" to the link, shows a "404 - Page Not Found" error, implying the change is connected to President Donald Trump's executive order on DEI.

 

[eric_erosfan]

"1984" was supposed to be fiction.

 

[Wylie3]

"1984" was supposed to be fiction.

It was in 1984 just set 40 years to early now its becoming fact

 

[RobDownSouth]

It was in 1984 just set 40 years to early now its becoming fact

"We have always been at war with Eastasia....errr, Ukraine"