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Wokeness Hits the Upper Echelons of the Air Force
American Thinker ^ | 19 Jan, 2022 | Mark Jarrett

Posted on 01/19/2022 5:10:18 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Air Force Special Tactics community encountered wokeness, but resistance in the lower ranks sparked a backlash.

A few days ago, I noticed a disturbing tweet by Representative Dan Crenshaw about preferential treatment and lowered standards in the Air Force Special Tactics selection course. Having sufficient background to be fairly confident in my understanding of the matter, I'll place links to many of my sources here, here, here, here, here, and here. The gist of the story is that the Air Force Special Tactics community encountered wokeness, but resistance in the lower ranks sparked a backlash.

Air Force Special Tactics provides Air Force experts who can ensure world-class Air Force support for any Special Operations team. They must be ready to join any Special Operations team on short notice, whether Navy SEALS, Army Green Berets, Rangers, or even more secretive units.

In 2018, a female Special Tactics Officer entered Special Tactics training, where she quit in the first week of dive training. She was then not selected for continued training. In 2019, she returned and retook the course and did not pass again, but higher leadership dictated her selection for Special Tactics officer training. She then went through more training while continuing to quit. She quit in dive training, but the leadership had her retake a more relaxed version of the course. She then quit in the solo land navigation portion of her tactical training.

She encountered the physical differences between highly athletic men and women being tested to their limits. In one event, "she just physically couldn't flip the tire," the instructor said. "The team handed her a kettlebell and she just kind of walked behind the team for the rest of the iteration."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 01/19/2022 5:10:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 01/19/2022 5:10:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Pentagram “Wokeness” is a euphemism for KNOWINGLY CHOOSING
treason, sedition, and the rape of the American People.


3 posted on 01/19/2022 5:13:38 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

.....as I have written previously, I think it a wise thing to begin taking lessons in conversational Mandarin.....


4 posted on 01/19/2022 5:16:41 AM PST by TokarevM57
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To: Diogenesis

Pentagram. Love it!


5 posted on 01/19/2022 5:20:11 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: TokarevM57

A useful Chinese phrase is “ Wo men qu bu lan deng ba.”


6 posted on 01/19/2022 5:23:36 AM PST by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: ssapro

“ Wo men qu bu lan deng ba.”

Let’s go Brandon!.....?


7 posted on 01/19/2022 5:34:14 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: ssapro

Whoa man. What a dingbat?


8 posted on 01/19/2022 5:35:01 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: TokarevM57

I think it a wise thing to begin taking lessons in conversational Mandarin.....


Here you go:
Jerry Teaches Chinese - YouTube, and you get to watch his commentaries on MMA matches.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_E_R34VQo47FfnwF3ABlDQ


9 posted on 01/19/2022 5:38:59 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

“Despite her repeated desire to quit — Air Force Special Operations leadership would not allow her to find a different career path. Instead, she began working directly for the commander of Air Force Special Operations Command — where she wrote a report and an Equal Opportunity Complaint resulting in investigation of everyone who interacted with her.”

I cannot help but wonder if the commander ordered her to file the complaint.


10 posted on 01/19/2022 5:47:58 AM PST by Glennb51
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To: READINABLUESTATE

You win!


11 posted on 01/19/2022 5:52:24 AM PST by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s been like that for 16 years.

Absolutely rotten at the top.


12 posted on 01/19/2022 5:52:26 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Glennb51; Red Badger; BenLurkin

Likely. Very likely that her “Letter” asking for the EEOC complaint was demanded by the Pentagon “masters” - or was sent after many weeks of psych op warfare while subjected to that staff pressure.

The Army Rangers pushed through their original “hand-picked” women going through the ranger course. Took several tries for those women to get through as well.

Don’t know if later women made through the course “on their own” or by taking advantage of lower standards.


13 posted on 01/19/2022 5:58:03 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: TokarevM57

When the Big War comes (and it will-sooner than we expect) these woke policies will be the first to go. These woke generals will be the first to fall. Our enemies are not stupid—they have been waiting for decades for the coming moment to take us down. The border will be full of people fleeing south to escape the draft and destruction. We will not be fighting one Nation but a cabal of states. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria. and others. The war will happen here. We will be lucky to be alive at the end. Biden will be seen as a Benidict Arnold.


14 posted on 01/19/2022 5:58:21 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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Yup, it will get very interesting.


15 posted on 01/19/2022 6:30:03 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: MtnClimber

IMHO, women are superior to men in many, many ways. Physical strength is just not one of them. Pretending that women are just smaller versions of men doesn’t make it so.


16 posted on 01/19/2022 7:45:59 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!?)
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To: MtnClimber; Squantos; CodeToad

Ping


17 posted on 01/19/2022 8:02:03 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Hey, let’s get rid of grades and give participation trophies. If we don’t reform education, we’re dead.


18 posted on 01/19/2022 8:04:02 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Travis McGee

The USAF has had a policy that ALL career fields must include women no matter what. They fail, pass them. They perform below standards, say otherwise. They displace men in these roles, so the affected career fields are always short handed. The AF has many special operations teams of all sorts. They are not door kickers, but teams that can operate in any condition, anywhere, at any time, and get there through rather unconventional means, and use weapons as needed. They are highly trained, highly motivated, intelligent, and very capable, but then they have to drag women around for the woke AF politics. This has been going on since at least the 1970’s. I was in the AF in the 80’s and I had a new trainee that just graduated school who knew nothing. She admitted she was given the answers to the exams so that she could pass.


19 posted on 01/19/2022 8:10:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Women are not supposed to be stronger nor as strong as men. Men are/ were supposed to protect their women. Women are to compliment men. Not be men.


20 posted on 01/19/2022 8:24:34 AM PST by sport
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