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”.....
When I was in AF BMT, one of the classes that I was in involved testing with various.parameters.... some that we try to deliberately fail, in whatever way we thought would work. They were looking for ways in which draftees might deliberately fail tests. This was early ‘80s. I guess they’ve gone a different route...just take dumber volunteers.
There is zero extra room anywhere in the F-16. It's like the fighter planes of WW2. You don't sit in it as much as you wear it around you. It's surprising to walk up to it and see just how compact it's all put together.
I sat in an F-16 and have flown the simulator. The seat is high to give the pilot a better view and the seating is tight, not just in height but also shoulder width. We didn't see anyone with any excess body weight in the fighter squadrons despite most of them being Guard and Reserves.
The tests for enlisted personnel are all multiple choice, with four possible answers, as I recall. Let that sink in. 10%? Wow. A crow ought to grt 25%. In the classes I mentioned above, you’d have to know the correct answer to deliberately get a lowball score of 10%.
If Diversity makes you stronger, Austria-Hungary would have won WWI.
Climbing into a B-52 was that way. There’s room to get to your seat. That’s about it.
It is the kind of leader that obama wants.
The new standards will benefit stupid fat people of all colors and genders.
Sr. Officers taking revenge is getting more common now. Fact, not opinion.
We are being conquered from the inside.
When the hammer falls our military will be too fat to run to their battle stations and too stupid to remember what to do when they get there.
Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone? It was “Pedo Peter”. -- Jim Hoft
Bureaucrats just waive magic wands and fix everything. They assume an aircraft seat is just like the one in their Prius.
How did a man who has a grudge after about a parking spot dispute get so far?
By being a rabid American hating racist who knows how to work the racial grievance industry.
Negroes with such heavy chips on their shoulders aren’t fit for military leadership.
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