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86% of Air Force pilots are white men. Here's why this needs to change.
Yahoo News ^ | 10/20/20 | Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas

Posted on 10/22/2020 5:47:40 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

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To: Robert A Cook PE

That’s how I saw it.


141 posted on 10/22/2020 11:03:12 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Yep.


142 posted on 10/22/2020 11:03:52 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Pining_4_TX; RJS1950; mad_as_he$$; Billyv; Celtic Conservative; T.B. Yoits; Robert A Cook PE; ...
Maybe not a ring knocker but brought up just the same?   Being an Aggie, could there be a connection with President Bush?   Was it the old film plot of the guy breaks his arms ejecting from the trainer, then is felt sorry for on the way up?   You officers know more about these things. Even Jimmy Carter's Air force didn't have this.
EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Science, Journalism, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
1992 Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
1995 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
1998 Master of Arts, Organizational Management, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
2004 Master of Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2004 Information Warfare Applications Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2006 Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence
2010 Royal College of Defence Studies, London, England
2012 Leadership Enhancement Program, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.
2012 Joint and Combined Warfighting School, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia.


143 posted on 10/22/2020 11:31:13 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I hope some affirmative action, POC lesbo-tranny doesn’t corkscrew a fully- laden refueling tanker into his office.

I tried to leave this message on the AF page but it wouldn’t work. Probably I AM THE WRONG GENDER/COLOR.

Dear AF Recruiting Office:

Please tell the MG we will be contacting the Secretary of the Air Force, and members of the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces, as well as the CIC (after he beats the balls of the MG’s fellow pro-tranny pal Joe Biden), and request a thorough overall of the AF recruiting division, starting at the top.

We need to clean house because AMERICA ISN”T PAYING BILLIONS IN TAXES to have you run some affirmative action BULLSHIT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT.

Your job is to BLOW SHIT UP and kill our enemies, not worry about the skin-color or gender of who is doing it. Any dilution of that mission to follow some BULLSHIT, FAR LEFT LIE about “systemic racism” or “sexism” or whatever is jingling your boxers this week PUTS AMERICAN LIVES AT RISK.

Time for the MG to retire.


144 posted on 10/22/2020 11:36:54 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I hope some affirmative action, POC lesbo-tranny doesn’t corkscrew a fully- laden refueling tanker into his office.

I tried to leave this message on the AF page but it wouldn’t work. Probably I AM THE WRONG GENDER/COLOR.

Dear AF Recruiting Office:

Please tell the MG we will be contacting the Secretary of the Air Force, and members of the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces, as well as the CIC (after he beats the balls of the MG’s fellow pro-tranny pal Joe Biden), and request a thorough overall of the AF recruiting division, starting at the top.

We need to clean house because AMERICA ISN”T PAYING BILLIONS IN TAXES to have you run some affirmative action BULLSHIT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT.

Your job is to BLOW SHIT UP and kill our enemies, not worry about the skin-color or gender of who is doing it. Any dilution of that mission to follow some BULLSHIT, FAR LEFT LIE about “systemic racism” or “sexism” or whatever is jingling your boxers this week PUTS AMERICAN LIVES AT RISK.

Time for the MG to retire.


145 posted on 10/22/2020 11:36:54 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: higgmeister

Educated as all get out, but no real combat or command experience. The guy was brought up on the more political side of the air force. An administrator, not a warfighter. In other words, a REMF.

CC


146 posted on 10/23/2020 1:39:47 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Viking2002

I don’t want home and hearth dependent on an Affirmative Action hire in the middle of a war.


If Biden wins, get used to it - like waiting for your appointed social worker to show up and resolve the situation while someone is robbing you ...


147 posted on 10/23/2020 4:29:42 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: pfflier

This was all explained in “The Right Stuff”. There is no quota system only the best reach the apex of the pyramid.


The “Right Stuff” will be re-written to reflect modern reality where there are no pyramids, just flat lines.


148 posted on 10/23/2020 4:32:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: TomServo

Correct, college education earned not given. Unlike in WW2, these are highly sophicated planes. Not all whites who apply get chosen. Written test come first. Can’t speed read and retain forget getting in. Will Subs be next, crew is mixed, Officers mostly White. It has to be EARNED.


149 posted on 10/23/2020 5:38:55 AM PDT by GailA (TRUMP IS A GUTSY PRESIDENT)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I certainly do NOT want an unqualified pilot at the stick of a multimillion $$$ plane that MY taxes helped to pay for.

IF we are in a war footing, I don’t want UNQUALIFIED pilots anywhere in the USA military.

There are plenty of places that affirmative action hires don’t need to be.

I don’t want a blind person driving for Greyhound or Fed Ex.

I don’t want an allergic person as a sniper in a war zone...what if they sneeze???

I personally had to deal with affirmative action hires in companies I worked for in accounting positions. None of those persons could do the workload with accuracy—and that meant that all the rest of us were carrying that person.

I quit & found another job at a smaller company. I went out on my own self employed after the 2nd time.


150 posted on 10/23/2020 6:41:03 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: chuckee

Selling drugs with the local gang on the corner in the ghetto doesn’t replace a degree in engineering.


151 posted on 10/23/2020 6:43:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: alternatives?

Ask HP how well that went for them........


152 posted on 10/23/2020 6:44:30 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Pining_4_TX

It’s always the jobs of white men that are endangered.


153 posted on 10/23/2020 7:25:53 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: SaveFerris

The man wrote what he wrote. Yahoo only published it.


154 posted on 10/23/2020 7:38:11 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Agatsu77

“Oh, OH, I know, make it easier!!!”

That was Floridas answer to get more black teachers many moons ago!!


155 posted on 10/23/2020 8:30:28 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Yahoo selects this kind of stuff every day of the week - I’ve seen them do it for years - plus their TDS articles

They might as well be Huff Po


156 posted on 10/23/2020 9:37:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Thanks RACPE.

157 posted on 10/23/2020 10:17:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: cgbg; Pining_4_TX

Perhaps sent him to Thule, Greenland and let him shovel snow all winter.


158 posted on 10/23/2020 10:32:47 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

One other option would be to loan him to North Korea or China—I am sure they would love to hear his lectures on “diversity in the military”!


159 posted on 10/23/2020 10:40:52 AM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: cgbg

Being an old military intel guy, I’d not send him to the ChiCom’s or Norks, as he has too much classified knowledge that they could get out of him, one way or another. I think we still have a military weather station/early warning station at the end of the Aleutian Islands that would literally place him in ‘cold storage.’


160 posted on 10/23/2020 10:52:24 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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