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demmiblue

(37,990 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:58 PM Jan 26

After uproar, Air Force says recruits will again be taught about Tuskegee Airmen

The head of the service's San Antonio-based training command said a video about the famed Black aviators would remain in the Air Force basic training curriculum. The course had been shut down in response to President Trump's DEI ban.

The Air Force said Sunday that videos about the famed Tuskegee Airmen and a unit of pioneering female aviators would be restored to the basic training curriculum for new recruits beginning Monday.

A course that included the videos was shut down last week so officials could review it to make sure it complied with President Trump's executive order ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, an Air Force official said. "DEI material" not permitted under Trump's order was removed from the course, but the historical videos will remain, the official said.

"The documented historic legacy and decorated valor with which these units and Airmen fought for our nation in World War II and beyond will continue on 27 January," Lt. Gen. Brian S. Robinson, head of the San Antonio-based Air Education and Training Command, said in a statement.

"Their personal examples of service, sacrifice and combat effectiveness are illustrative of the core values, character and warrior ethos necessary to be an Airman and Guardian," Robinson said.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/tuskegee-airmen-video-air-force-changes-course-20057246.php


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After uproar, Air Force says recruits will again be taught about Tuskegee Airmen (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 26 OP
This sounds awfully woke to me newdeal2 Jan 26 #1
Depends on the spin. Igel Jan 26 #6
Thank you USAF. Irish_Dem Jan 26 #2
Is anything not having to do with white males considered DEI? Intractable Jan 26 #3
I bet dollars to donuts, they got pushback from Tony Gonzales and John Cornyn. LeftInTX Jan 26 #4
Uproars work... lame54 Jan 26 #5
Did they reinstate the WASP video? obamanut2012 Jan 26 #7

newdeal2

(1,554 posts)
1. This sounds awfully woke to me
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 07:00 PM
Jan 26
"Their personal examples of service, sacrifice and combat effectiveness are illustrative of the core values, character and warrior ethos necessary to be an Airman and Guardian,"


Is there a hotline where I can report this man and collect a reward? /s

Igel

(36,515 posts)
6. Depends on the spin.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 09:38 PM
Jan 26

Was it really "personal examples of service, sacrifice and combat effectiveness are illustrative of the core values, character and warrior ethos necessary to be an Airman and Guardian" or was it really the USAF breaking glass ceilings and moving the culture "forward" towards "social justice" against "white supremacy" towards, I guess a "bright, shining future" that's, well, yet bright, shining, and future?

If not for "patriarchy oppressing women" could they have done more? Or should they be commended for their service and laying the grounds for a later generation of women to continue to show that they, too, can serve admirably.

If it's billed as one thing and delivered in person by another, that might eventually go poorly for that instructor.

LeftInTX

(32,048 posts)
4. I bet dollars to donuts, they got pushback from Tony Gonzales and John Cornyn.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 07:22 PM
Jan 26

I thought of writing both of them to complain.

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