Air Force Forms 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups, and Top-Down Changes Are Eyed

Red State ^ | 05/30/2021 | Alex Parker

[SeekAndFind]

Do American Indians who join the Air Force have unique challenges?

According to the military, yes.

The same goes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning recruits.

Therefore, last month, the United States Air Force put together two focus groups to address barriers impeding airmen and Space Force Guardians.

An April 26th announcement breathed official life into each:

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Initiative Team, otherwise known as LIT
• Indigenous Nations Equality Team, or INET

From the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs:

The establishment of these two teams builds on the successes of the Department of the Air Force’s other teams and allows the Department of the Air Force to identify and address the issues impacting diversity and inclusion for Airmen and Guardians.

The LGBTQ Initiative Team focuses on the LGBTQ community and identifies and works to resolve the issues that disproportionately impede the success of LGBTQ Airmen and Guardians.

The creation of this team comes 10 years after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the legislation that prohibited LGB service members from serving openly. For many of the senior-ranking military members, some of whom served under DADT for nearly two decades, the creation of LIT is a watershed event.

And in case you were bummed that “LIT” was so much cooler than “INET”:

The INET, a play on words for the term Innit which is a slang term among tribes meaning, “yes, I agree,” will review and analyze guidelines, programs, data and other information for barriers to employment, advancement and retention of American Indian/Native American and Alaska Native employees and military members.

Gwendolyn DeFillippi — assistant deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel, and services — praised the creation:

“Once again, our Airmen and Guardians are leading the way. With the addition of these two groups, we will have a better understanding of barriers to service which allows us to enhance our diversity and inclusion. Our Airmen and Guardians are the pulse of our Department’s culture and the diverse backgrounds. Inputs from these volunteer groups is vital.”

As reported by Military.com, in a roundtable interview Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback — head of LIT — expressed the need for top-down change.

“If we want this to succeed,” she said, “it requires that leadership…first and foremost be part of the process.”

Leah’s also the director of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for the U.S. Space Force.

She’s concerned for young servicepeople who are doubting their gender identity.

“We need to be able to get support through our providers, through our medical professionals within the service, in order to work that.”

Where do the LGBTQ corrections start?

The answer may involve HIV:

A first step, she said, could be to encourage medical staff members to commend airmen for seeking care to protect themselves against HIV exposure. Airmen must fill out request forms to use pre-exposure prophylaxis treatment medication — something that was once prohibited for pilots and aircrew. That policy was amended in 2018.

One simple improvement would be to change the language on the forms, which categorizes these airmen as “high risk,” Lauderback said. “This airman is looking for help, he’s doing the right thing, he’s being responsible, and so we want to make him feel good about that, as opposed to making him feel that he’s doing something wrong.”

Leah would also like family programs addressed with gay and lesbian family structures in mind.

As for INET, Cherokee/Creek leader Terrence Adams said his goal is to “begin to champion, to make those small voices [into] large voices as we begin our journey.”

He’s working with the Society of American Indian Government Employees and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society to identify and remove what Military.com calls “challenges indigenous airmen see in the ranks.”

The military is definitely in a transitional phase.

Cases in point:

Military Generals Call for Increased Diversity, Encourage More Women in Combat

The Pentagon Forms a Diversity and Inclusion Office, Installs a Chief Who Likened Trump to Hitler (he was later reassigned)

Military in Motion: The U.S. Navy Adds Antiracist Books to Its Official Reading List

History-Making Defense Secretary Hails More History: For Transgenderism in the Military

Be All You Can Be: U.S. Army Announces the Allowance of Lipstick, Nail Polish, and Better Breastfeeding

Back to focus groups, where diversity and inclusion’s concerned, America’s Armed Forces are trying extremely hard to get things right.

Hence, the creation of all the following groups:

• Black/African American Employment Strategy Team
• Disability Action Team
• Hispanic Empowerment and Action Team
• Indigenous Nations Equality Team
• LGBTQ Initiative Team
• Pacific Islander/Asian American Community Team
• Women’s Initiatives Team

There was a time when the only groups, generally, were the branches of fighting.

I guess they’ve determined more groups is better.

Let’s hope they’re right.

[Williams]

This S has got to stop.

[null and void]

Indigenous Nations LGBTQ?

I think I’ve heard of this guy.

He’d register at hotels as Homo The Brave...

[irishjuggler]

Let’s face it. This is the U.S. military in 2021... “woke” establishment liberals.

Part of me is still surprised by this turn of events because I remember well the military of 30-40 year ago. But it shouldn’t surprise me or anyone. Why would the military be immune to the same forces that have allowed liberals to take over and destoy our schools, churches, universities, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc etc?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This S has got to stop.

It will continue until at least 2024, unfortunately.

[kiryandil]

Tonto Kowalski...

[Sgt_Schultze]

Making Rush Limbaugh’s “all Amazon battalion” a possibility. How was he able to imagine leftist policy results before they even knew the possibility?

[null and void]

Name him, ping him!

[realcleanguy]

We are going to be defeated in the battleground

[beethovenfan]

We’ll no longer have real warriors, just “social justice warriors”. This country is so screwed.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Indigenous Nations LGBTQ?“

He Who Sits On Cucumbers

[kiryandil]

I didn't want to make his wife mad by distracting him, what with all the Tonto-ing and Kowalski-ing in the late evenings...     

[ocrp1982]

The INFILTRATION of LEFTISTS into our MILITARY is nearly complete. Just like the INFILTRATION OF OUR Churches is nearly COMPLETE.
While Good Men and Women were going about our lives for decades wishing not to be bothered, the Anti=Christian Leftists realized our desire to just be left alone and not to be bothered. They used our Complacency against us. Right under our noses. Our Complacency and our wish to just be left alone to live our lives was/is our greatest WEAKNESS. The Marxists realized this and used this fact against us.
While we were attending PeeWee Football, Baseball, and Soccer games, they were INFILTRATING School Boards and local commissions.
They had a plan. We were oblivious. We continued to live our lives, raising our kids, and then sending our kids every single day to their reeducation camps, called, the Public School System. Where everything we believe in was undermined by Marxist Public School “teachers”.
They turned our children against us and our country and we payed to send them there to do so.
We continue to send them there by the MILLIONS to this very day.

[kiryandil]

[Will88]

And they can drop the requirements that members of these special groups wear “uniforms” and allow them to wear hairstyles and clothing that expresses their
unique, true inner selves.

All this diversity and lack of uniformity will give us our strongest military ever, or something.

[brianr10]

There must be a prize for posts like that.

[daniel1212]

Will expand the list of the WOKE capabilities of the new liberalnation army, from allowing transgenders to serve in the military,

and ensuring free gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel,

and with the The Pentagon Forming a Diversity and Inclusion Office,

and the Air Force creating 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups,

as well as the Army's woke recruitment ad featuring lesbians at a gay wedding and an LGBTQ pride march, along with the CIA's 'cisgender millennial with anxiety disorder' campaign,

to the Navy's first all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew

to lower fitness standards for women

while nearly half of female soldiers are still failing the new Army Fitness Test,

yet calling for Increased Diversity and More Women in Combat,

and changing its song to be gender-neutral,

and also Forcing Marines to Make Boot Camp Coed,

and feeding cadets cultural Marxist propaganda about gender and masculinity therein,

to its new diversity and inclusion operation from West Point

and for its Special Operations Command ,

while showing a rapid response readiness to engage in online combat with the likes of Tucker Carson and other such enemies

while nuking Jesus-themed candies on an Air Force bases -

not just Pepe the Frog -

while allowing turbans and hijabs in the Air Force,

while working to rid the military of “extremism”

such as the head of the US Space Force unit being fired and put under investigation for criticizing Critical Race Theory

[Skywise]

Except white people.

All white people are homogenous and have no differences or speshul needs - we can stereotype them as a race.

[Jay W]

How about if the air force were to focus on winning wars instead. Is this asking too much?

[chuckee]

Economics, taxes, foreign policy, infrastructure, education, have all been issues that Americans generally prioritize as concerns when polled. Since when did skin pigmentation and what should be the proper pronoun for a man in a dress, and which stereotyped identity group is the latest imagined victim of our system become overarching concerns force fed by the media on the American population as a replacement for the real issues facing this country. Are we now only polling academe, the media, congressional Democrats and the victim industry for issues of the day?