We have (sadly) been documenting the Air Force and Space Force’s slide into divisive, even racist policies aimed at reducing the number of white male officers for some time now:
When confronted with their own policies, leaders in these services tend to downplay them when it’s convenient:
Of course, the Army isn’t immune from this nonsense: Army Corps of Engineers to Solve “Nation’s Toughest Engineering Challenges” Through “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”
Nor is the Navy: Biden Overrides Defense Secretary Recommendation for Navy Chief of Operations, Appoints Woman To Achieve “A First”
Those posts are just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening with the U.S. military, and there is no doubt that the Biden/Harris Administration loves them some DEI and wants to reduce the number of white males in the service.
Now we have proof.
From the Daily Caller: New Docs Shed Light on Air Force’s ‘Goal’ to Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks
The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown—at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force—issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.”Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps officer’s applicant program.The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls, and low pay.[emphasis added]
The Daily Caller article details the lengths required to unearth the documents underlying this policy:
The Center to Advance Security in America requested records regarding the Air Force’s new officer applicant standards through a federal transparency request in 2023. At the time, the Air Force said it couldn’t find any records, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.The Center to Advance Security in America then sued the Air Force for the records in April 2024 and received hundreds of documents and slides in response, which the Daily Caller News Foundation subsequently obtained.
Of course, the Air Force apologized for not producing the requested documents when asked (which is a violation of the FOIA law, by the way).
Wrong:
A spokesperson for the Air Force told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “The FOIA request was being processed at multiple levels within the Air Force.”“One of the units responded to the FOIA request with a ‘no responsive records’ response after conducting their own local search, while the remainder of the units continued to process the responsive documents that were ultimately provided,” the spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Your Air Force is lying to you.
Now, on to the docs:
One of the slides in question, labeled “AFROTC White,” depicts a graph that shows the percentage of white male ROTC officer applicants declining from approximately 60% in fiscal year 2019 to a projected 50% in fiscal year 2023. The graph further details how the Air Force’s goal is to reduce that percentage down to approximately 43% by fiscal year 2029, denoted by a star with the label “achieve(d) goal.”“White male population will decline as other demographics increase,” the slide reads.The respective slides in question also explain that the Air Force is either on track or needs to do more to hit racial and gender quotas in the ROTC’s officer applicant pool.For example, with the African American population, the slideshow suggests the Air Force “target [the] male population through ongoing programs and marketing” and notes it has already met its “female goal” for ROTC officer applicants. For the American Indian, Asian, and Hispanic applicants, the slideshow says the Air Force is “on track to grow diversity.”
So now we see confirmation that “diversity” is just code language for reducing White (usually male) populations in certain groups, in this case, the Air Force. Other documents reinforce this:
In a separate set of documents from as early as 2022, the Air Force outlines its efforts to modify ROTC scholarship programs, which “play an important role in accession and diversity goals.” The Air Force suggests modifying the scholarship models could remove certain “testing barriers” to entry for underrepresented groups.The diversity plans extend to the Air Force’s Aim High Flight Academy, an aviation scholarship program for high school, ROTC, and Air Force Academy students, according to the documents. The Air Force notes that the Aim High Flight Academy applicant pool should be made up of a “minimum” of 60% underrepresented groups, further noting that it must be at least 35% minorities.
The Daily Caller sums up:
A yearlong study from the Arizona State University Center for American Institutions found that the Pentagon has turned into a “vast DEI bureaucracy” in the last four decades, a challenge that has been exacerbated by the Biden-Harris administration.“It’s no surprise that young people are turning away from military service in record numbers … DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training that begins for officers even at the service academies,” Matt Lohmeier, former Space Force commander, said in a statement in June.
Sad, indeed. It is long past time we retire these racist, sexist, and not to mention unpractical, destructive policies once and for all.
Vote.
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