Originally Posted by nene

Reminds me of the day back in circa 2008 or so the Navy had an EO committee that had decided minorities were not be promoted enough in quantaties from selection boards and it must be the "racist board members" (despite the rule that all promotion boards be staffed with females and minorities already) were seeing the candidates pictures during the tank deliberations and bypassing the minority pictures. So to remedy this, they ordered all pictures to be removed from the official record so that when a candidate went before the promotion board it was just thier fitreps, awards and submission that was considered.

Well fast forward a couple of years and a few boards and low and behold, minority promotion as a % went DOWN, not up as expectd due to the racist board members. In fact it was really hard to give any special consideration (which was often listed in the promotion board precept) to females and minorities when all you had to consider was their record and no name and no photo to consider.

The Navy subsequently said to resubmit official photos to be included in all promotion boards going forward.