[MtnClimber]

I would not want to be a DEI Specialist either.

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[JBW1949]

“...the proven existence of fifty-odd gender types...”

PROVEN???????????????

[chajin]

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.

[T.B. Yoits]

Makes one question the validity of their degree programs outside of Political Science. Biology in particular is fiction if XX = XY.

Aeronautical Engineering
Astronautical Engineering
Behavioral Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Cyber Science
Data Science
Economics
Electrical Engineering
English & Fine Arts
Foreign Area Studies
Geospatial Science
History
Legal Studies
Management
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Meteorology
Military & Strategic Studies
Operations Research
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Systems Engineering

[mikey_hates_everything]

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.

[jjotto]

Something missing in this story. How does USAF Capt. Griffin Jax with 200 parachute jumps fit in with his MLB career?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We’ve deindustrialized and now are demilitarizing. Can’t wait until we definancialize.

[T.B. Yoits]

The lesson the cadets are learning from the very start is that it's not a "career", regardless of what the brass call it.

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.

[laplata]

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.

[libertylover]

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.

[immadashell]

The Air Force desperately needs John Boyd and his acolytes back! Mandatory reading list for first year Zoomies: Coram, Robert, BOYD the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

[usafa92]

This article is complete BS. There’s a sizable percentage of officers who leave as soon as their commitment is up, me being one of them. It may very well be true that officers are leaving because of DEI, but the 5 year ADSC has always been utilized by many. My reason was to get a top notch 4 year education and 5 years of work experience while serving my country as my parents were going to have a hard time affording any 4 year college and I didn’t want the loans.

[13foxtrot]

There are plenty of reasons former cadets leave the military at the end of their first contract. DEI is one but probably not a prime one.

Most I know just leave to go to graduate school and join the work force.

Also, cadets can leave without penalty if they leave before the beginning of 3rd year. A few do that.

[Da Coyote]

It would warm my heart to learn that DEI slime currently infecting the Academy feared going out alone at night.

[Albion Wilde]

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.

And yet the Air Force Academy has been a leader in allowing Christian-hater hater Mikey Weinstein to force his anti-Christian ideologies into the regulations and punishments at the AFA.

[logi_cal869]

I tried, but I don’t yet grasp the ‘second choice’ for AFSC.

[smokingfrog]

So, what are the most popular 5 and dive AF jobs?

[daniel1212]

But the second choice is astonishing for cadets

Which is exactly what? What is its name?

[higgmeister]

What is that second AFSC that the cadets call do me five and drop.?   Probably a personnel admin billet.

My enlisted AFSC has long since been abolished and replaced two or three times.   At least some still call it Tech Control.