New Documents Detail Air Force’s Plan to Cut Number of White Male Officers
Documents obtained from Air Force after lawsuit to force their release show reduction in White Male officer ranks dates from early in Biden/Harris Administration
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:
- Air Force Colonel, Selected for Promotion to Brigadier General, Pushes DEI, CRT, and Racist Dogma
- Next Space Force Commander Grilled Over Firing of Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier
- Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley’s Replacement [Air Force General Charles Q. Brown] Even More Woke, If That is Possible
When confronted with their own policies, leaders in these services tend to downplay them when it’s convenient:
- Space Force Personnel Chief Walks Back General’s LGBTQ+ Personnel Assignment Policy
- Joint Chiefs Chairman Nominee Soft Pedals His Prior Racist Policies in Confirmation Hearing
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.
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Harry Truman was right to drop the bomb. Executive Order 9981-not so much.
For those who may not know, that EO was the one where Truman, himself a southern politician, ordered desegregation of the military and military contracting firms.
Mr. “Hunt”, shame on you.
Desegregation has nothing to do with what’s going on here.
Truman, as a decorated veteran (trivia : he turned down an offer of a CMOH, believing as an artillery officer he was not a front line soldier and hence didn’t deserve one.) was infuriated by scenes of black combat veterans being mistreated upon return to civilian life. He was, as a southerner, raised to believe in segregation. As a veteran, he was ashamed that brother soldiers would be mistreated despite their service.
What’s going on here is racism by definition, given a pass because our self-appointed “elites” claim it’s A-OK to discriminate against whites (or Asians, being “honorary whites” somehow).
Not only that, it’s the military shooting itself in the foot. The worst possible time to hinder recruitment among any portion of potential soldiers is at a time when you are not meeting total recruitment requirements. But…. since the “elites” hate the military anyway it’s a double win for them I guess.
Wait a minute
buttieg would make an excellent secretary of defense
He would alsto be the best general in the US military
Critical Erase Theory. Xi and Putin approved.
Hugging my DD214.
As I have previously stated – Obama was a vastly worse president than biden
1) appeasement with Iran, facilitating Iran’s nuclear program, funding Iran’s terrorist network, hamas, hezbollah, houthi, etc
2) facilitating the conversion of the military into a woke organization instead of a 1st class military organization
3) reversal of the progress of eliminating racism through out the country with the encouragement of dei, critical race theory etc
Biden is just Obama’s third term…
No offense but you refer to the Obama administration and the Biden administration as if they’re two different things. They’re not. Biden has the intellectual prowess of a parking lot speed bump and is nothing more than a corrupt puppet of Obama. Kamala Harris is no better. If she were to assume office she’d represent Obama’s fourth term. At that point, Obama will have successfully achieved the fundamental transformation that he promised at the outset of his first term.
There are no public (and quite a few private ones) institutions left that are trustworthy.
Burn it all down and hit the redo button – back to the Stone Age if necessary.
They’re going to succeed in their goals. Given the systemic and institutional racism against whites in the military, why would any sane white person join?
Whites and Asians who are discriminated against too. As either officer or enlisted. Although for the enlisted, they would probably bring back the draft while making sure that NCO’s are non-white.
One interesting thing about the attempt to reduce the number of white officers in any service. Unless they change the rules of the game, you have to have a 4 year college degree to be an officer. What percentage of college students are BIPOC? And what percentage of BIPOC college students have any career interest in the military, especially for such a publicly declared “racist and oppressive” regime?
Of course, since the goal of the military under the Left is to lose to any foreign attacker, it won’t matter all that much.
Subotai Bahadur
I was reading an article the other day that the causality rate for whites in the military was
This is an old report from 2005, but the latest report was showing even worst numbers.
Whites, who constitute 67% of the active-duty and reserve forces, accounted for 71% of the fatalities. African Americans are 17% of the overall force and were 9% of the fatalities. Hispanics are 9% of the force and were 10% of the fatalities.
How many AAs are REMFs as opposed to those on the front lines?
The argument that AAs were over-represented in Vietnam was also incorrect.
And the “disparate impact” crowd are strangely silent…..
This is just a sub-set of the Great Replacement happening right before our eyes.
Though, we’re told by our betters, this is just a conspiracy theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement
Hmmm, all those theories seem to be eating a lot of dogs and cats and doing a lot of robberies and rapes.
This sort of thumb on the scale shenanigans has been going on for a long time in the military, in govt service and corporations. What changed in last decade is that it moved from behind closed doors to being openly discussed. It isn’t really being hidden anymore. The folks backing this version of racial/sex based discrimination are proud of their efforts. The other big change is that ‘white women’ have to a large degree been shifted out of the ‘oppressed’ category and into the role of ‘oppressor’. Their buy in and support for discrimination was needed to establish the programs but now they find themselves no longer advantaged but harmed by the discriminatory programs they demanded.
White males should stop applying for programs that they know will discriminate against them. Let the numbers go toward 100% DEI hires. That should work about as well as it did for Boeing and the Secret Service.
Exactly. There is no reason for White men to put their lives on the line for a government that hates them. Let them learn the hard way, if necessary. If the Cathedral can fight its wars entirely with PoCs, that’s fine, too.
There are two underlying assumptions within the Airforce’s plan neither of which have been shown to be true:
1) Demographic diversity is our strength (It is a fact certainly but generally there is no objective evidence that operating and maintaining aircraft benefits from demographic diversity. Rather this is political dogma.)
2) All demographic subgroups will naturally participate in all endeavors in equal numbers. (Only one exception is required to disprove this mathematically and that exception, professional sports, is readily perceived by all as truly driven by merit. There are many more exceptions.)
I get it that this nation’s demographic mix is changing over time and the military, as well as any other American enterprise with a long term vision, needs to be aware of this trend. However, I think that the military should let events naturally unfold and focus on maintaining the best capabilities to execute their given mission.
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