As someone who works in aerospace manufacturing, 100% confirmed. I work with a manufacturing engineer who was a machinist for 6 months, and he pulled the race card to get promoted to engineer. Openly brags about it, because he knows nobody can touch him. He is also, unrelated note, the Most incompetent nitwit in the engineering department. Has no clue what the fuck he is doing. DEI for the win. He got picked over a guy who knows all the machines and has been there for 20 years.