I don’t know if this is true, but I have heard from people in the military that the Air Force is the wokest of all the military branches.
“I don’t know if this is true, but I have heard from people in the military that the Air Force is the wokest of all the military branches.”
By far.
I did 21 years active duty Air Force followed by 20 years as a contractor spring both the Army and the Navy (and having to sit through EEO compliance training for both), as well as a whole bunch of civilian agencies.
As far as woke talk through training, both the AF and the Army were right up there. I had to sit through some trainings with the Army that would put the AF to shame. Having said that, the Army EEO training was Obama-era training so by its very nature it may have made it seem more woke than what I experienced in the AF.
But the Navy utterly shocked me...because while both the Army and AF tried to convince people it was the right thing to do, the Navy's attitude was "this is the new policy. You will not argue about it. You will not question it. You will do it. Screw your feelings." A very unwoke way of implementing very woke policies.
But all of them are equally bad as far as the policies (which come down from the DoD level).
HAVING SAID THAT, none of the military branches can hold a candle to civilian agencies of the federal government, including DHS (and this was even during the Trump Administration)
I remember being in a meeting with some fairly senior people in one agency (that will remain unnamed) shortly before Christmas. Our last meeting for the calendar year. All the govvies have their required, politically-correct 'Happy Holidays' at the end of the meeting. I said a hearty. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each of you!"
There were audible gasps in the room.
As the program manager for a very large contact with that agency, they couldn't believe I had the audacity to speak those words.
I was called aside by the Contacting Officer's Representative after the meeting ended and asked me...
My response: our contact says that both Christmas and New Years Day are federal holidays, right? Why would I not wish people well for those federal holidays. Should I wish a person Happy Holidays on MLK Day or Juneteenth?
Obviously, there was no response. But the year after, there were several more govvies who dared to say the name of the holiday that must not be named.