The director of the Air National Guard, LtGen Harry Wyatt recently addressed a graduation of an Equal Opportunity course for the Reserve Component.  Wyatt described “equitable treatment” as a “moral imperative:”

[Equal opportunity] graduates are the ‘change agents’ that help to educate people on the need — the moral imperative — to be equitable in our treatment of all people.

The semantic choice is interesting, if you think about it, because he doesn’t say equal treatment.  Equitable means “fair;” equal means “the same;” the distinction is often missed.