[3] The controversial program has sparked great divisions among armed forces officials who wonder whether social comfort or unit cohesion, as well as combat efficiency, is more important to the U.S.
The U.S. Army advocated for the expansion of spoken languages other than English among its armed forces personnel in order to attain a strategic military advantage.
In 1973, the Civil Service Commission first authorized the use of goals and timetables to counter and eventually eliminate rising discrimination in U.S. federal government work.
The UCMJ was made more responsive to all forms of discrimination by writing into law that the punitive measure for any military personnel engaging in that line of behavior to be an Article 15.
An Article 15 is the official form of punitive discrimination for violation of the UCMJ that can result in company level punishment or a criminal charge.
The method consisted of annual training for all soldiers about how to avoid racial, sexual, and gender discrimination as well as the consequences for UCMJ violations.
[9] United States Army EO representatives are non-commissioned officers trained to report, instruct, and know the legal policy of discriminatory behavior in the armed forces.
In order for a non-commissioned officer to become an EO representative, s/he must receive an appointment from Army command, pass a background investigation, and complete extensive sensitivity and legal training.
The U.S. Army operates predominantly in a white male-dominant environment with a history, not limited to, the following: extreme aggression, misogyny, harassment, racism, hazing, bullying, ostracization, reprisal, coercion, exclusion, and re-victimization of soldiers outside of their majority demographic.
[11] Teaching soldiers, who identify with the majority demographic, to be compassionate of others' experiences and systemic biases of the minority populations within the U.S Army is a ghost of a chance.
The Army EO program protects the fair treatment of women in combat-related positions under the UCMJ; however, military culture often characterizes female combat soldiers as inferior and counter-productive due to their inherent physiological disparity concerning muscle mass, bone density, and body fat.