{"id":80926,"date":"2025-03-18T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/03\/18\/articles-about-navajo-code-talkers-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:18:02","slug":"articles-about-navajo-code-talkers-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2025\/03\/18\/articles-about-navajo-code-talkers-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles about Navajo Code Talkers removed in Pentagon\u2019s DEI purge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Department removed articles about Navajo Code Talkers from its websites amid an ongoing campaign to rid the military of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many links that previously took viewers to informational articles about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/12\/24\/indigenous-wwi-veterans-get-long-awaited-medal-of-honor-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Native American service members who used their native language as an indecipherable code<\/a> to help win World War I and II were no longer accessible as of Tuesday afternoon. A Pentagon spokesperson said the department was working to rectify the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe department is restoring content about the Navajo Code Talkers,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cIt had previously been removed during the auto-removal process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quick search on the Army website with the keyword \u201cNavajo Code Talkers\u201d on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/search.usa.gov\/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&#038;affiliate=www.army.mil&#038;query=code+talkers&#038;commit=\" target=\"_blank\">produced<\/a> several pages of results. But many articles that mention the Native American service members, once clicked, took viewers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/280951\/honoring_native_american_contributions_in_u_s_military_history\" target=\"_blank\">pages<\/a> that read, \u201cInternal Server Error.\u201d Of 45 links that populated when searching the site for articles about Navajo Code Talkers, 20 had been removed, including one article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/280951\/honoring_native_american_contributions_to_us_military_history\" target=\"_blank\">Honoring Native American contributions in U.S. military history<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The removals came as the military was purging its sites of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/03\/07\/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-in-dei-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/02\/10\/army-navy-remove-web-pages-highlighting-womens-military-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">webpages<\/a> that were deemed DEI content. President Donald Trump signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing\/\">executive order <\/a>on his first day in office calling for the end of \u201cradical and wasteful\u201d DEI programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When questioned Monday about the removals of some pages honoring contributions to the military by women and minority groups, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell defended the decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the president and the secretary have been very clear on this \u2014 that anybody that says in the Department of Defense that diversity is our strength is, is frankly, incorrect,\u201d Parnell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear when exactly some of the pages about Navajo Code Talkers were taken down. According to the Internet Archive, several of the pages had been available as of November, and at least two articles that were removed were still on the website just days ago. One article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Feature-Stories\/Story\/article\/3956714\/airman-honors-grandfathers-wwii-code-talker-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Airman honors Grandfather\u2019s WWII Code Talker legacy<\/a>,\u201d included the term \u201cDEI\u201d in its broken link early Tuesday. By the end of the day, the page had been restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250305181224\/https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Feature-Stories\/Story\/Article\/3951611\/code-talkers-helped-us-win-world-wars-i-and-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code Talkers Helped U.S. Win World Wars I and II<\/a>,\u201d still included the term \u201cDEI\u201d in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Feature-Stories\/Story\/Article\/3951611\/deicode-talkers-helped-us-win-world-wars-i-and-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">broken link<\/a> late Tuesday. Other articles \u2014 like ones entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/47896\/navajo_soldier_inspired_to_serve_by_code_talker_grandfather\">\u201cNavajo Soldier inspired to serve by \u2018code talker\u2019 grandfather\u201d <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/91583\/code_talkers_heroes_of_both_world_wars\">\u201cCode Talkers &#8211; heroes of both World Wars\u201d<\/a> \u2014 were never taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A search on the U.S. Marine Corps website produced more articles about Navajo Code Talkers, and \u2014 like with the Army site \u2014 some articles had been removed, while others were left active. An article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/News-Display\/Article\/496609\/last-of-original-navajo-code-talkers-passes-away\/\">\u201cLast of original Navajo Code Talkers passes away,\u201d<\/a> and a video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/Marines-TV\/videoid\/810065\/dvpcc\/false\/#DVIDSVideoPlayer27131\">\u201cNavajo Code Talkers day,\u201d<\/a> were among those that remained online. An audio interview with Navajo Code Talker Bill Toledo, however, appeared Tuesday to have been taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, some articles on the Defense Department website related to Navajo Code Talkers were left up, and some were removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon did not respond to questions from Military Times about what the auto-removal process entailed and why some of the articles remained active while others were taken offline. These discrepancies came as the Pentagon worked to restore other pages that were taken down as part of the DEI removal initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military Times initially emailed the Defense Department asking about what prompted the removal of Navajo Code Talker articles, as well as what prompted the removal of an article about Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, who is the highest-ranking Black recipient of the award. The Rogers article\u2019s broken URL included the text \u201cdeimedal-of-honor.\u201d The link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/03\/18\/pentagon-restores-pages-on-black-moh-recipient-japanese-american-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\">has since been restored<\/a>, and the URL no longer includes \u201cDEI.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Department replied that both were removed during the auto-removal process. When Military Times sent a follow up email asking whether the articles were removed accidentally, a spokesperson clarified, \u201cThey were removed by mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A separate spokesperson who answered the Defense Department Press Operations number said the Pentagon realized certain information was taken offline and was working to restore it, though the person said they would not characterize the removals as a \u201cmistake.\u201d The spokesperson would not offer more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some articles about Navajo Code Talkers that were taken down have contained the term &#8220;DEI&#8221; in their broken 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