Posted on 03/07/2015 2:48:54 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James has decided to celebrate Women’s 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, “There’s simply no country in the world as widely diverse as the U.S.”
According to James, while there’s been some movement toward diversity in the past, it hasn’t 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. It’s about our readiness. It’s about our capabilities today and for the future. It’s about how we are going to perform as an Air Force… in this very uncertain geopolitical environment,” James stated at the conference.
I legitimately obtained an appointment and graduated from a service academy over 25 years ago. Most of my female classmates couldn't say the same- that's why most didn't graduate and of those that did most weren't willing to make the personal sacrifices necessary to making it past O-3 and didn't last long thereafter.
BTW, if you were an expendable white male (they made even bigger accommodations to retain blacks and hispanics) who pointed out any of these truisms, your military career pretty much ended in your next FITREP- forget the next promotion board.
The military is now run by politicians hiding behind General and Flag Officer insignia"
You vill prove your loyalty to ze rezime and ze grouptink! Or else notink is going to go right for you!
One would think having a female secretary of the AF would demonstrate a high degree of diversity; right out of the gate no glass ceiling.
Let’s ALL scream
Cultural Marxism. Will unit commissars be next, or has that already happened?
Hey Deborah ...I GOT YER DIVERSITY RIGHT HERE!
No Promotion Unless A Commitment To The Destruction Of the Military Is Demonstrated, Air Force Sec Says
Oh Lord God we are in the hands of degenerates and crazies. I think God has abandoned America.
I used to be able to recommend a military career, but ever since political correctness and obama entered the equation, never would I make that recommendation again.
BTW, IIRC, the Air Force already has the slowest promotions. I made E-6 in a little less than 4 years. As I understand it, that’s unheard of in the Air Force. Plus, they have no warrant officers.
The next President is going to have a really hard time cleaning all of this PC BS up (Should we actually win in 2016)...
I see she put on a pink uniform to make the announcement.
Never mind if you can fly. You aren’t going anywhere in today’s Air Force unless you’re gay! Do you hear me?
Your post about sums it up, though things are much worse today. The diversity and safety nonsense was intolerable by the time I left. I’d say 80% of the flag officers were pure politicians, and cared about nothing but their next rank.
Pure unadulterated bullshiite.
Diversity or mongrelization and sexual perversion?
“I used to be able to recommend a military career, but ever since political correctness and obama entered the equation, never would I make that recommendation again.”
I used to give kids the full military sales pitch. No more.
Call me a curmudgeon, but that might just be part of the problem right there . . .
Diverse doe not mean capable
BTW, IIRC, the Air Force already has the slowest promotions. I made E-6 in a little less than 4 years. As I understand it, that’s unheard of in the Air Force. Plus, they have no warrant officers.
You are correct, I knew an E-4 who retired after 20 years with a spotless record. As she told me, in the Air Force you have kiss, ( a lot of different things), to get promoted in peacetime. And Gulf War I and II didn’t help.
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