Posted on 09/06/2023 4:56:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards?
Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a memo to impose a 43% quota for white male officers in the Air Force. That would be catastrophic at a time when the Air Force is struggling with recruitment, faces a shortage of over 1,000 pilots and 86% of its pilots are white men.
Brown, who claimed that America is racist and that he faced racism when someone questioned whether he was parked in the right spot, has been obsessed with remaking the Air Force in his own image. Even with only 1 out of 2 key aircraft and bombers ready to fly, the woke chief of staff has emphasized diversity in hiring and promotion at the expense of merit and ability.
Now a Rand report funded by the Air Force shows what it will take to achieve diversity. And diversity, which is more important than winning, won’t be achieved as long as the Air Force clings to basic qualifiers like weight, test scores and no criminal record.
“The most-important barriers for all gender and racial and ethnic groupings,” the report argues, are the Air Force’s “BMI” or Body Mass Index and “height requirements” as well as the “minimum standards” for the Armed Forces Qualification Test and education standards.
Earlier this year, the Air Force had lowered BMI standards from 20% for men to 26% and from 28% for women to 36% for women. And in 2020, the Air Force had dropped a waiver for a minimum 5’4 height requirement for pilots in order to attract more women. There were also complaints that aircraft had been designed around the height of the average white man.
The fighter jets of tomorrow will need to come in a variety of height and weight cockpits to accommodate every possible body shape no matter how impractical that may be.
“For black men, the greatest barrier is the AFQT and education requirement, which decreases their representation by roughly 3.5 percentage points. For Hispanic men, the BMI and height requirements decrease their representation by more than 2 percentage points,” the Rand report notes.
Armed Forces Qualification Test score standards have already been lowered. The Navy will be accepting those who score as low as “the 10th percentile, lower than 90 percent of all test results”.....
Wow. Test scores in the 10th percentile are now O-Tay.
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Wow, the first Chief of Staff that I’d love to give the finger to. Eff him and the sewer he oozed out of.
Brownie sounds like another Brandon Administration carnival sideshow freak. These people Bidenskyyyyy hires shows that he doesn’t take the White House job very seriously. An Air Force General who thinks America is “wasis”. Friggin’ dork needs to get a life. He’s a general for pete’s sake. The boy doeth complain too much. Whiner.
Damn, 10th percentile? What is that, do you have to think hard to do the autonomous bodily functions?
Read this comment from the article carefully - “Brown, who claimed that America is racist and that he faced racism when someone questioned whether he was parked in the right spot...”
Let that sink in. Charlie Brown is HOLDING A GRUDGE over a case of “perceived racism” that most likely occurred many YEARS AGO. HE is intentionally getting his REVENGE.
Is THIS the kind of military leader ANY country needs/wants???
Brown’s concerns are racism and a lack of diversity. He’s presented with a solution that would ‘fix’ this by allowing fatter and less educated people join.
If he doesn’t see the root issue, and how it could effect performance of their mission... perhaps Brown should be working somewhere else. In fact, he should take the fight to the right places: failing schools, crime in the cities, family values, access to jobs, etc. That’s a fight that needs to be won.
.....”There were also complaints that aircraft had been designed around the height of the average white man.”
complaints....? what kind of crap is that...? many if not most of the single-seat fighter or attack aircraft in the current USAF inventory probably were designed around a 5 foot 11 inch person or thereabouts.....so now we get “complaints”....??
Now we are lowering our standards to accommodate fat, dumb criminals who may be completely inappropriate for the job, but will hit the racial and ethnic quota numbers.
The racial quotas that Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. signed off on specify in granular detail that there must be 4.5% male multiracial officers and 3.5% female Asian officers. It doesn’t matter if they can read or write, are too fat, too short or have eight kids by eight different fathers. What matters is that they’re diverse. And when diversity is the only thing that matters, everything else is lost.
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I never thought there'd come a day when I'd support all piloted fighter and bomber aircraft being phased out--but the consequences of having O'Biden's woke idiots running the Air Force is giving us no option.
“...diversity, which is more important than winning”
The only bright spot for me is that the US Navy now trails the US Air Force in wokeness.
But not by much.
"height of the average white man"... So... height is white?
It will cost billions to redesign seats and their corresponding maintenance, since some airframes will require completely different seat and rail models for shorter individuals. That leads to all the ensuing logistics that entails. So much for hot-swapping pilots. "Sorry, we need another shortie to take that jet. It's got the baby seat in it. Putting in the big boy seat will take two hours with the inspections, including for the explosive actuators for the ejection seat."
Note that they said nothing about changing the seats (and deck beneath them) to accommodate taller pilots who have also always been disqualified from pilot positions. It's not just discriminating against male pilots anymore because now that 6'8" transvestite can claim to be one of the female pilots the Air Force is determined to put into a cockpit.
The sad truth of it all is that the Air Force has had trouble meeting their goals for years and they're trying to find anyone they can stick in a cockpit.
Bring back Project 100,000 when Johnson proposed drafting 100,000 men who had been classified as 4F because of low IQ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
[The Navy will be accepting those who score as low as “the 10th percentile, lower than 90 percent of all test results”.....]
Excellent. What could possibly go wrong?
So, sacrifice the performance of the aircraft for the sake of being woke.
On a side note, when I was in the Air Force 50 years ago, we had a guy in our shop who was 6'6" tall. It was a squeeze for him to get into the cockpits of our F-4s.
Yeah—I’ve worked with a lot of AF fighter pilots when I was active duty and now work with test pilots and retired pilots as a government civilian. All represent the best of the best. Sad that AF leadership is willing to dumb down and lower pilot standards just to be stylish.
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