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young African-American officers, but somewhere along the line in the officer corps, we have―we fall short of the mentoring, and we’re changing that. We’re making a commitment, and we’re committed as the Marine Corps, to turn that around. “We want to make a home for
our African-American engineers, our officers, our young enlisted men and women. We want to bring them into our Corps. I’m committed to this, and our Marine Corps is committed to this, and this is the reason why you see all these two- and three-star and one-star gener- als we have here tonight.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is critically important for the future of our country. “Think about what’s happening in cyberspace. Think about what could happen on the World Wide Web. Think about what could happen in our own country with things like our banking system. Think about our military. Think about command and control. “Then, switch gears and go into the technology and the engineering that MIT and Geor- gia Tech and other great engineering institutions across this nation provide. Lockheed Martin with 6 million lines of code on the Joint Strike Fighter. Think about those great ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance] platforms that we cannot get enough of. If you’re a commander on the ground, you can’t have enough technology and capability streaming into your command post. That didn’t come by a finance ma- jor from Idaho. That came from a young man or woman that had the wherewithal and the education to reach out and bring that to bear and focus it tightly on things like unmanned aerial systems. “The airplanes we’re developing right now and the systems that we’re flying, Raytheon’s missiles, Raytheon’s capabilities, Boeing’s, Lockheed
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General James F. Amos, commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
www.blackengineer.com
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