Airmen stand at attention during a retreat ceremony March 30, 2018, on Kadena Air Base, Japan. (Staff Sgt. Micaiah Anthony/Air Force)
Air Force Times: Here’s the Air Force’s plan to diversify its pilot corps
Air Force leaders have signed off on a new plan to build a more diverse pilot corps by 2030, looking to level the playing field in a profession that remains dominated by white men.
The strategy aims to grow opportunities for women and minority airmen in some of the Air Force’s premier professions, including manned and unmanned aircraft pilots, air battle managers, and combat systems officers.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. Air Force goes out of its way not to use the word quotas. But it sounds like quotas to me.
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The Army has been doing what the AF proposes for decades, any new female officer that wants to go Aviation automatically gets a slot vice having to go through the competitive process. Two points: First, after decades there are about 25% female officers in the Branch. Second, keeping in mind there are no single pilot Army platforms, it’s been working ok. Remember women flew Blackhawks in the 82d Airborne’s helo assault on Calvigne Barracks, Grenada circa 1989. Plenty of bullet holes to prove it was a combat assault.
It isn’t the system, it’s the female person. The desire isn’t there as much as the ‘woke crowd’ thinks.
another step down for the US military. they are more concerned with being diverse than winning a war. The generals who foisted this upon the military need to be dishonorably discharged
At the end of many great civilizations, eg the Roman empire and Greek empire, when the lawyers ruled and the empire became so vast and ungovernable, before the fall, they got all absorbed by gender issues. Maybe it's a bug,maybe a feature, maybe a virus :)
The space laser and underground martian bunkers have made me a gay man.
I was once super hetero and drove a pickup truck with skulls on it.
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