Now it's "Bring me those who identify as men."
Posted on 05/30/2024 11:27:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
During their final year at the Air Force Academy (AFA), cadets choose the specific jobs they will be assigned while on active duty. This crucial decision, made in the nascence of one’s career, has far reaching implications with regard to career advancement. The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) links available jobs with an alphanumeric designation, and not surprisingly, pilot training represents the most popular AFSC for graduating cadets at the AFA. But the second choice is astonishing for cadets who have received a four year education worth $416,000 at an institution that is tasked to train career Air Force officers.
The minimum commitment for an AFA education is five years of active duty service, and the AFSCs that obligate cadets for the least amount of payback time represent the second most popular job selections in the aggregate. The act is known among cadets as “dive in five,” and it is borne of disillusionment and the realization that DEI entrenched military leadership, quota-based promotions, and falling standards are not what they signed up for.
DEI’s nonsensical, unsupported claims that phenotype and sexual identity are indispensable components of superior military performance and the intimidating effect of DEI political officers embedded within the cadet wing breed cynicism and psychological fatigue. Recent undercover investigative reporting that exposes blatant corruption within Air Force DEI programs and an admission of DEI’s lack of benefit, affirms the negative view of DEI held by most cadets. If the real Air Force is at all similar to the academy experience, then why devote a career to an organization with priorities more in line with Cloward-Piven than the Constitution?
DEI receives unabated, effusive praise in the AFA Association of Graduates (AOG) magazine Checkpoints, the primary information source by which graduates receive news about their alma mater. Other than an occasional, truncated letter to the editor, the settled science of DEI is treated like a godsend. The editors promote an embellished, one-sided narrative of DEI’s dubious benefits, but fail to sound the alarm that cadets are subjected to attend mandatory indoctrination sessions on gender identity. Delving deeply into the murky world of pseudoscience, civilian professors, who constitute 42% of the faculty, proclaim the proven existence of fifty-odd gender types—the validity of which cadets cannot contest in the classroom.
The ideological direction of the academy provokes escalating concerns from the graduate community, and as a result, their financial contributions to the AFA Foundation have plummeted. Corporate donations compensate for the shortfall, but as in the case of the United Services Automobile Association’s sponsorship of a DEI Reading Room at the academy’s McDermott Library, there is a risk of further polarization to the institution. Dependence on large contributions from entities committed to corporatism and stakeholder capitalism disenfranchises individual donors whose commitments are based on loyalty and commitment rather than politics.
Most graduates and cadets understand that DEI leads to detrimental repercussions and these problems will not be solved in the absence an open, non-censored forum. Too little free speech once again embroils a noble institution in a quagmire of its own making, and as a consequence, cadets are diving in five.
I would not want to be a DEI Specialist either.
The USAF is a rotting fish. Those in who are of any quality count days until they can get out and are just clipping coupons until then. It is not worth the effort to do anything else.
I have to agree. I know of many who are counting the days.
I just saw an 18 year officer walk this year.
Not worth staying in for the 20
Her sister resigned a few years ago.
Her brother will most likely resign at 20 next year
“...the proven existence of fifty-odd gender types...”
PROVEN???????????????
Half a century ago I was joining AFROTC, planning to apply for missile officer, since with my eyesight I didn’t have a chance in h#ll of ever making it as a flight officer. At that time I didn’t know if I wanted to make it a career or not, though the AFROTC decided it for me since there was a drawdown at the end of the Vietnam War, the draft ended, and they didn’t want as many new officers outside of the academy. Today, I would do exactly what the dive in fivers are doing, and for the same reason.
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So “dive in one” or less...refuse to wear the high heels at the tranny training or use the three-letter “f” word or wrong pronoun in an email a year into the job.
That's a fact Jack!
Something missing in this story. How does USAF Capt. Griffin Jax with 200 parachute jumps fit in with his MLB career?
We’ve deindustrialized and now are demilitarizing. Can’t wait until we definancialize.
There are "consultants" advising government that such indoctrination is needed to bridge the widening gap between the military and society - ignoring that the "society" they refer to is in the minds of the mentally ill and those who profit from their behavior.
The US Military Academy at West Point removed their motto of
“Duty, Honor, Country” so I’d bet many USMA people are doing
the same.
I knew more than one officer who walked before 20, did a few years in Federal employment, and then retired with their top year salary calculating their pension.
Yeah.....RIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!
With a history degree one would qualify to run the Colorado Department of Transportation
Now it's "Bring me those who identify as men."
Unless you’re a pilot or other flight crew member, I don’t think it would a lot of fun to be an Air Force officer. I guess a few math wizards might enjoy communications, but most other AF officers are just administrators.
One can have a long and satisfying career in aircraft maintenance but the few officers in my Avionics Maintenance Squadrons (3 I think) wouldn’t have a clue as to how to fix an airplane. Of course they outrank the enlisted maintenance people, but they certainly don’t LEAD them.
I just saw an 18 year officer walk this year.
The military just saved over a million dollars. They are not sad.
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