U.S. Air Force Safety and Qualifications vs. DEI - What Happens When Leftists Run the Military

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/05/08/u-s-air-force-safety-and-
qualifications-vs-dei-what-happens-when-leftists-run-the-military-n742702

It became pretty clear as far back as the Clinton administration that the 
left views the military as a giant social experiment. It is where we got 
the phrase “Don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding gays in the military. But the 
advent of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements takes that 
leftist social experiment to a whole other level, one that is dangerous 
and could have serious effects on military readiness and ultimately 
national security.

In 2021, during a push to promote diversity in all branches of the 
military, the U.S. Air Force decided to do a little “experiment” with some 
female and minority students in pilot training classes. While anyone’s 
initial thought at experimenting with potential pilot trainees might be to 
think about selecting the most qualified candidates, not in today’s woke 
military, home of the Navy drag queen. The idea was to see if such a class 
would improve graduation rates among those demographics. It did not 
produce the equitable results the Air Force was looking for — and may have 
resulted in breaking discrimination laws.

When a large backlog of pilot training candidates began to pile up at the 
19th Air Force Command at Laughlin Air Force Base near San Antonio Texas, 
officials at Air Education and Training Command decided that they would 
compose a class from “clustered” and “underrepresented” groups of people 
for the Special Undergraduate Pilot Training class (SUPT). The class was 
designed to reflect the gender and racial makeup of America. Class 21-15 
became known as “America’s class,” their class motto which was stitched 
onto the class patch, “hand-picked for excellence.” Only they weren’t.

The US is now the laughing stock of the world. With US military 
recruitment plummeting over the past couple of years, how does the 
leadership think this will boost recruitment or display American military 
strength? The answer is they don’t. It’s a plan to destroy us from 
within.…

— officialjoshuagaddis (@officialjgaddis) May 8, 2023

Officers became concerned when a memo began to circulate, saying, “We have 
been verbally ordered through the chain of command by the 19AF/CC [19th 
Air Force commander] to purposefully restructure the students assigned to 
[SUPT] class 21-15 to meet specific racial and gender demographics.” 
Signatures of officers on the memo were redacted. Again, the idea was to 
have a class that “looked like” America. But the racial and gender makeup 
of the incoming contingent would not have provided the necessary numbers. 
At that point, the Air Force resorted to outright exclusion, and the memo 
was changed to include the sentence: “The order was changed by verbal 
order of the 47 OG/CC to restructure the class with ‘anybody non-white.'” 
The memo essentially canceled out the previous procedure of forming 
classes based on a first-come, first-served basis based on time served in 
a student’s unit.

A complaint was made regarding the memo to the base’s equal opportunity 
office in August 2020 but met with a response that restructuring the class 
was not illegal. But even the officers who signed the memo stated they 
believed that base commanders had violated the Air Force’s non-
discrimination policy by issuing the memo, but they would obey the order 
given in the memo unless further scrutiny showed it to be illegal. The 
officers also correctly stated:

None of the parties signed below agree with the order from an ethical 
standpoint. SUPT class structures have never been based on a minimum quota 
for a student’s race or gender, and the message this sends to students and 
future students is harmful.

In yet another example, DEI is the last thing the military should be 
concerned about. Military recruitment is in a free fall. According to 
Department of Defense data, the Army is at 69 percent of the number they 
need to reach 100 percent on their mission by September 30 of FY2023. The 
Navy is at 60 percent, Air Force at 87 percent. Only the Marines and Space 
Force reached 100 percent of their goals. The Department of Defense’s 
first inclination is to blame potential recruits themselves, citing a poll 
that said just nine percent were interested in joining the military. The 
poll also claimed that only 23 percent of those aged 17-24 were eligible 
without having a waiver granted. Obesity and drug use are cited as the 
most common disqualifiers.

Drag queen on a military recruitment poster will have the 'Bud Light' 
effect on patriotic young men.

But isn't that the idea?

The emasculation of American military courtesy of the left.

— Jake 2.0 (@bigsky) May 4, 2023

The DoD poll would also have you believe that more people are reluctant to 
join the military because they are concerned about discrimination against 
women and minorities. What the DoD does not want you to know is that woke 
policies like the pilot training class are the very reason that straight 
white males, who (unfortunately for woke commanders) are traditionally the 
demographic that most often enlists, are reluctant to do so. Apparently, 
no one has thought to wonder, or even care if the Navy’s new spokesperson, 
drag queen “Harpy Daniels,” will pull in the traditional recruits. They 
have ceased to matter because…equity!

And speaking of equity, initial results from “America’s class” were shown 
to be “inconclusive.” Minority and female students did not progress at 
faster rates, and “not all students saw clustering as beneficial.” Here is 
a radical thought for America’s military: Enough with the social 
experiments. Let’s recruit the best and the brightest for whatever needs 
the military has so that if called, America has a fighting force that is 
second to none.

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While the U.S. is hiring drag queens to boost military recruitment

Communist China is laughing at the free entertainment we’re providing for 
them while they grow and train their forces.
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