Ray Mabus

As Secretary, Mabus overruled the Marines and opened all ground combat (armor, artillery and infantry) jobs to women. He also pushed for and then implemented the repeal of “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell.” The percentage of women at the Naval Academy was greatly increased and he brought NROTC back to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton. He also opened NROTC units at Rutgers and Arizona State, the two most diverse universities in the nation.

If everyone looks the same, comes from similar backgrounds, thinks in like ways, then the military or other organization becomes predictable and a predictable military (or any other organization) is a defeatable military. The only qualify to get a job should be the ability to do the job, and gender, race, birthplace, who you love, gender identity, etc. become as irrelevant as eye color or who you root for in football.