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b'As the nation marked the 75th anniversary of desegregation in the military and the federal workforce, it celebrated progress \\u2014 but the occasion also served as a reckoning. A combination of congressional concerns about quotas and recruiting problems for the armed services reveals a fault line in how the military should set policies to increase diversity.\\n\\u201cI think we as a nation have always been three steps forward, two steps back. And every time there is a movement toward equal rights, there has been a counter-movement for that,\\u201d retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, who served as the vice chairman of the Congressional Naming Commission, which renamed DoD bases honoring Confederates, told Federal News Network.\\xa0\\u201cWhether it\\u2019s after Reconstruction, or it\\u2019s the reaction to the civil rights movement, or the reaction to a black president, or the reaction to the call for equal justice after George Floyd.\\u201d\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'