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Air Force Forms 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups, and Top-Down Changes Are Eyed
Red State ^ | 05/30/2021 | Alex Parker

Posted on 05/30/2021 9:03:53 PM PDT by 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:

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:

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.


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: airforce; faggotry; focusgroups; lgbtq
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To: SeekAndFind

A once proud military........


21 posted on 05/30/2021 10:22:33 PM PDT by cranked
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To: SeekAndFind

Emphasis on diversity rather than what unites us as Americans will only lead to weakness and chaos.


22 posted on 05/30/2021 10:31:23 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: SeekAndFind

23 posted on 05/30/2021 10:41:12 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Williams

Some people are by nature less/unable be a superior warrior.

Test that statement, a
optimize on victory, and let potential adversaries worry about being insensitive to social deviant subgroups.


24 posted on 05/31/2021 12:35:53 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Something tells me we’re never going to win another war.


25 posted on 05/31/2021 12:42:22 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: realcleanguy
We are going to be defeated in the battleground

Not necessarily.

Our enemies on the battlefield may be laughing so hard they will be unable to fight.

27 posted on 05/31/2021 2:37:22 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: SeekAndFind
Why is L always first in LGTBQ? Why do they always get top billing? Why do liberals always discriminate in favor of them? Why can't one of the other letters get the lead off position once in a while? Who are they to say that the "L's" are the most important members of the group? Doesn't that fail to account for the sufferings of the other members of LGBTQ?

And yes, it is sort of a serious question.

28 posted on 05/31/2021 3:57:11 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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To: Hardastarboard

I suppose it could go alphabetically. BGLQT


29 posted on 05/31/2021 3:59:29 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Hardastarboard
Who are they to say that the "L's" are the most important members of the group?

Because the pigs are the more equal animals. Even amongst the fagphabets they still have the old fashioned notion of ladies first. Ironic. That is a Sirius answer.

30 posted on 05/31/2021 4:03:00 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ocrp1982; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; MamaB; ...
To the degree that this nation believed the gospel and turned from it, then it much parallels the growth and decline of Israel of old, and will also find its judgments to do so.

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. (Deuteronomy 32:11-14)

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. (Deuteronomy 32:15-18)

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. (Deuteronomy 32:19-25) ..

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! (Deuteronomy 32:28-29)

31 posted on 05/31/2021 4:06:00 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Mogger

IIRC joke warfare was banned by the Geneva Convention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prDoDPIpX4E


32 posted on 05/31/2021 4:30:36 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

The USAF is institutionally racist and sexist.


33 posted on 05/31/2021 5:59:27 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Woke woke woke woke woke.....


34 posted on 05/31/2021 6:37:57 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

USAF: Whites need not apply


35 posted on 05/31/2021 6:51:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: realcleanguy

We are going to be defeated in the battleground


Why do you imagine that we’d even get there before declaring defeat?


36 posted on 05/31/2021 6:52:55 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Veggie Todd

Something tells me we’re never going to win another war.


Last one we won was WWII ...


37 posted on 05/31/2021 6:54:31 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

Xi and Putin are laughing their collective asses off.

5.56mm


38 posted on 05/31/2021 6:54:45 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’ll rename it the “U.S. Fair Force”.


39 posted on 05/31/2021 6:55:03 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: SeekAndFind

Come on people, you all know this is how you build a formidable military. Just ask Gengis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Attila the Hun, and Charlemagne. All taught their soldiers to integrate woke, mentally ill, and sexually confused recruits into their ranks.

Why, even Sun Tzu said: “Have more women who used to be men among you, and you will win many battles.”

Y’all are a bunch of troglodytes...


40 posted on 05/31/2021 7:01:08 AM PDT by Magnatron
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