Posted on 12/02/2023 4:43:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
Nearly two decades ago, I left my hometown for Lackland Air Force Base. Every enlisted airman since 1968 has completed Basic Military Training at this historic base in the Alamo City. First, trainees work to graduate from being a “rainbow,” referring to the mixed colors of their civilian clothing, which involves getting a free haircut, getting new uniforms, and learning how to move in a formation. Trainees are further unified by reminders from military training instructors that they are no longer “back on the block,” and from here on out, they “all bleed blue!”
Trainees from across America are honed into a team of airmen. The military has always excelled at forming our diverse citizenry into a unified force — it embraced “E pluribus unum.” However, the U.S. Air Force is currently indoctrinating airmen in neo-Marxist ideology and creating activists thorough its Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) programs.
Some will push back and claim that DIE is simply about being inclusive of diverse viewpoints, and if this were the case, there would be little controversy. Yet when senior leaders discuss diversity, as in DIE, the word has a neo-Marxist meaning. Herbert Marcuse in his 1969 “Essay on Liberation“ stated the following: “the familiar (used and abused) vocabulary of freedom, justice, and equality could thus obtain not only new meaning but also new reality,” with a “methodical subversion of the linguistic of the Establishment.” Today, diversity as part of DIE is in line with Marcuse’s subversive definition, which is used in Critical Theory and its offspring, intersectionality.
Critical Theory and intersectionality spawned out of Marxist scholarship and have grown into legal studies, history, education, social sciences, and military studies. It undergirds identity politics, which has been institutionalized into the Air Force through Barrier Analysis Working Groups, or BAWGs.
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There is a reason for the ASVAB test - the brass wants to know who has the brain power to operate, maintain and repair their jet engines and other high tech equipment.
Yep.
Yes, I know the plane that overran the runway in Hawaii was a US Navy plane.
I got DDA'd to a supply squadron after bombing out of language school at Monterey. I experienced reverse racism to the max there. All of the NCOs were black and my first APRs were 7s and 8s because I "needed experience". The two black guys that also DDA'd with me got straight 9s. I got the sh!t TDYs also which turned out to be good.
They wanted me out of there and my career soared after I crosstrained into ICBM maintenance where actual performance mattered more than race.
The current brass ignore it to increase our peril.
During WW II, the brass didn’t depend on diversity to win the war - as they claim they need now to keep the U.S. military ready with its high tech equipment.
And they wonder why they can’t get white guys to sign up any longer.
Yes, I know the plane that overran the runway in Hawaii was a US Navy plane.
Following three completely avoidable collisions of US Navy warships in 2017 and a fire in 2020 that resulted in the scuttling of USS Bonhomme Richard, a $750 million amphibious assault craft, two retired marines conducted off-the-record interviews with 77 current and retired Navy officers. One recurring theme was the prioritization of diversity training over ship handling and warfighting preparedness. Many of them openly admit that, given current issues, the US would likely lose an open naval engagement with China. Instead of taking the criticism to heart, the Navy commissioned “Task Force One Navy,” which recommended deemphasizing or eliminating meritocratic tests like the Officer Aptitude Rating to boost diversity. Absent an existential challenge, US military preparedness is likely to continue to degrade.
During WWII, we were fighting alongside a murderous communist tyranny, against a different form of socialist tyranny. Victory for communism was essential. During the Cold War, we were fighting against murderous communist tyrannies, and the communists in our government increasingly sought to damage and degrade our military.
***“rainbow,” referring to the mixed colors of their civilian clothing,***
I remember that! And the taunts those who had been in for a few weeks used to say while marching past some new inductees.
“Rainbow, Rainbow don’t be blue!
Our recruiter screwed us too!”
One TI did not like it and chewed out the “Flight” instructor giving him a new a*****e!
I remember the anti sodomy training once a year. Had to sign papers we had had the “talk”. 1966-1969.
***Blacks ran the EM clubs and so they tailored it for the black male and put pressure on white chicks to date blacks. ***
I remember those dances at the EM clubs. No white airman ever went to them.1966-1969.
They already will.
In our AFSC we conducted the STD investigations that were turned in from the base hospital and we had an inside track on what white women we needed to stay away from. The white women that commingled with the blacks had STD’s and they met them at the Airmen’s Club. Sounds racist but it was the gawdawful truth.
Is that the plane - in the water - that overshot the runway at Kaneohe? Looks like it..
I served in the USAF, was discharged in 1960. I wish I had saved my old Airman’s Guide; I believe that’s what it was called. From what I can remember, I’m almost certain that there were offenses listed that could put you in a court martial situation but aren’t even considered an offense now. This puts our country in a very bad position.
Forty-three years ago at this time, I was on my way to Basic Training at Lackland.
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60 years ago for me and now I’m advising my grand children against it.
Yes.
With an all woman crew.
The Navy (it’s a US Navy plane) were bragging about the crew.
You can see the results...
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