Posted on 03/06/2015 5:19:28 PM PST by Snickering Hound
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James has decided to celebrate Womens History Month by announcing a set of nine initiatives to increase diversity and inclusiveness in the service. The most notable is a new requirement that unless those aspiring to leadership roles can demonstrate their commitment to diversity and inclusion, they will not be considered for promotion.
James first declared the changes on Wednesday during a Women and Leadership in National Security conference at the Center for a New American Security, and justified the new initiatives by proclaiming, Theres simply no country in the world as widely diverse as the U.S.
According to James, while theres been some movement toward diversity in the past, it hasnt been enough. This new strategy will ensure that the service is able to continue to attract the most talented and able minds. Career-field-development team chairs are now required to conduct analyses to figure out what is blocking airmen from reaching their highest levels of performance, as James put it, according to Air Force Times.
Out of all services in the military, the Air Force has the highest percentage of women at 18.9 percent, but the female attrition rate is twice that of the male attrition rate during mid-career phase.
One of the initiatives coming to the forefront will allow top performers to take up to three years off without risking prospects for future promotion. Additionally, James wants to see more women take up the role of pilot, as this job category is usually dominated by men. But because the exclusion occurs as a result of height requirements that is, a standing height of 64 to 77 inches and a sitting height of 34 to 40 inches James has elected to modify the waiver process. Previously, the waiver could only be offered to Air Force Academy Cadets, but James will expand the process to include Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets, meaning that 900 women will now be eligible to become pilots.
For James, women should constitute more than the 25 percent of the applicant pool thy already are. Instead, that rate should be boosted to 30 percent.
This is not just about how we look. Its about our readiness. Its about our capabilities today and for the future. Its about how we are going to perform as an Air Force
in this very uncertain geopolitical environment, James stated at the conference.
Oh dear lord... I had to work with one of these women Air Force officers, academy graduate at that. It was watch your back time, all of the time. I made sure that I was NEVER alone with her and when called to her office I always asked that the door be left open and an ‘observer’ was within eye shot.
I’m so glad I retired before all this evil was perpetrated.
Let me remind every body of a little bit of history. Years before Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union, Stalin got rid of all the fighting generals in the Russian army, and replaced them with POLITICAL APPOINTEES. This also happened to the French army, and somewhat to the British army. Most, if not all the fighting generals were forced to retire or, in the Soviet Union’s case, killed. What was left were POLITICAL APPOINTED generals and Admirals. Then came WW2. It took these countries almost two years to replace all those POLITICAL APPOINTEES, with real fighting men. They almost lost the war. Now, in this country, we have Air force Generals that has never flown a plane, and Naval Admirals that has never commanded a ship. All of them are POLITICAL APPOINTEES. OBAMA has forced all our fighting generals to retire, and all our fighting admirals to do the same. Isn’t there any one in this country that will fight back?
Future wars will be sooooo fabulous.
If you guys get a grip on that, then maybe we can revisit your "commitment to diverse acts of faggotry" later.
So if an enemy soldier wants to join a unit, they have to let him in the name of diversity.
Yet more insanity from “progressive” losers. Sheesh!
Is there any doubt that today’s military will fire on US citizens when SHTF?
“Im sure there will be a sentence added to the end of every APR. Airman So and So supports diversity. What a crock.”
Yep. Don’t go overboard about it :
“So and So FULLY supports diversity”;
and don’t underrate a man:
“So and So IS IN FAVOR of diversity”.
Just fill in the blank exactly as they want to read it: “So and So supports diversity”.
Mission accomplished.
Please tell me this is satire....
Just part of the fundamental transformation the president has been working on for the last six years. Two more to go and his job should be done.
The only reason they had any competent Generals at all is because Hitler attacked before Stalin could get rid of them too. One can become too good of a communist, then they become a threat to the other leaders. Prison or execution is the usual method of dealing with them. Leftists get upset when you bring that up.
Under King Obama (America’s first illegal alien, homosexual Ruler) our military is being fundamentally transformed
from waging war on America’s enemies to waging war on normality in America.
In diversity is our strength. That is, a chain is as strong as its weakest link. Oh, check that. What they’re saying is that if you have a capable person, and an incapable person, the combination of capability and incapability will make us super-capable. Once again, the Air Force leads the way!
It’s a religion masquerading as PC.
People used to laugh about the idea of the inmates running the asylum. Now that the inmates have actually taken over it's not quite such a laughing matter.
No, because the Republicans have all been replaced by political appointees.
So the ability to fly far & strike hard, to lead aircrew and support crew under the strain & duress of combat, to come up with solutions critical to victory all drop down the list after “can spout the diversity mantra and cover your bosses ass & kiss it as well”??
We are a country simply cruisin' for a bruisin'. We are on track to get it.
this f-ing Dem CIV has absolutely no business being the Secretary of the USAF . I hope the minute our folks in uniform take over she will be immediately removed . With prejudice
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