On the “Securing America” show with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice network, Air Force Reserves Colonel Brandi King talks about how the constant DEI push in the military is making minorities wonder if they were chosen for their hard work and abilities, or for something they have no control over: their skin color and gender If the latter, it makes them feel diminished.
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Frank Gaffney
We’re back, and it’s a remarkably important topic, and we’ve got a remarkably important group of professionals to speak to it. It is the assault on the United States military that is now being mounted, well, not just by Marxists, as we heard from Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier, but from government officials who are doing the bidding of those Marxists.
We’re going to talk a bit more about how it looks from not only inside the armed forces of the United States today, but from someone who has quite courageously come forward, even though she is still serving in the reserves of the United States Air Force, to tell about what she is witnessing, what she has seen in previous assignments responsible for this whole diversity agenda.
I’m very pleased to have our wingman, if I may call him that, Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, co-hosting this entire show to introduce Colonel B. B. King.
LTG Rod Bishop
Thanks again, Frank. We just saw a lot of talent there in Matt. Speaking of talent, the reason I asked B. B. To come on with us is Matt may have experience. B. B. has current experience. She’s a mom, an Air Force Reservist, still serving, as you said, a pilot, and the head of R2. I’ll let her talk about that if she has time. Another organization that’s standing up against this Marxist march and just has a phenomenal story to tell about DEI inside the Pentagon and how she sees it. Perhaps she’ll tell us about her experience with the Rated Diversity Initiative as well. Bibi, over to you.
Col. Brandi King
Yes, sir. Thank you, General Bishop. I appreciate it. I’m very glad to be here. I must say, as a currently serving member of the United States Air Force, that the views and opinions that I share today are mine alone and do not reflect that of the Department of the Air Force or DOD.
As I said, I’m grateful to be here. I do have recent experience. Currently, I’m serving as a Deputy Commander of a unit, and prior to that, I was the Rated Diversity Improvement Lead Officer.
Basically, what I’ve seen in the last few years is that the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement is actually harmful to those that it is trying to help.
For example, I find myself, my personal experience in being promoted to colonel, being an evaluator and an instructor pilot, I fight an imposter syndrome. That imposter syndrome would not be there naturally or organically, I don’t believe, but for the fact that the Air Force and the DOD continually verbalize and take action to put people in roles that they may or may not have earned and solely based on race or gender.
In my case, I start to wonder, am I a colonel because I actually earned it and I’m capable and able? Or am I a product of the DEI movement?
That is detrimental not only to my own psyche, but to my ability to lead. That alone undermines good order and discipline in the chain of command. Just the question of whether I am in the position I am in because of merit or because of DEI initiatives.
I find it extremely imperative for our national security to address this issue as Lieutenant Colonel l Matt Lohmeier expressed. This is detrimental to our security as a nation, and it’s undermining the constitutional law and historical intent of the Constitution in our forefathers.
Frank Gaffney
Colonel, can I just ask you, you spoke about your own questioning. I’m wondering, is it likely, does this weigh on you as well, that others you serve with are also pondering those questions?
Col. Brandi King
Absolutely. I am still at a level in rank and position that I have, that I am in touch with the boots on the ground troops, and not only in the Air Force, but also across the Department of Defense. I have a vast network of boots on the ground troops. I hear the same thing from every color, every ethnicity, every race.
The Individuals that are being proponents of this initiative have fallen, in my opinion, to selfish ambition and vain conceit. The way that the Air Force, in particular, is structured, and for that matter, the military as a whole, is through a chain of command and a rank and file.
You must, as an individual, as a service member, do the bidding of the individual that is supervising you, or you will not be promoted, and you will not be able to feed your family as well, or house your family as well, or go on vacation, or have any of the creature comforts that we’ve all grown accustomed to in the United States of America. It really is. It’s a Ponzi scheme.
It’s a method of controlling all the way down from the top to the bottom, which can be used for good, as we’ve seen historically with our military, or for evil, as we’re currently seeing, in my opinion.
LTG Rod Bishop
Either you called me, or I called you one day and you were very upset about what you saw in the Air Force’s Rated Diversity Initiative program. You even called it immoral. Could you just tell us a little bit about that?
Col. Brandi King
Yes, sir. As a as a follower of Christ and believer in those who came before me that took the great commission and went out to the ends of the Earth to spread the good word. I believe that we were all–color, race, ethnicity, gender–we were all created equally by our Lord. That when he did that, he gave individuals the ability to go out and make things as good as his intent was in the beginning for all people.
I think we saw that with what our forefathers did. They really tried to construct a Republic and set down laws that were founded in God’s natural law. We read that in all the texts, the forefathers’ texts. Yet here we are today, and we’ve diverged from that to the point where the agency that has been given to the DOD by the Congress has taken this charge, and they have gone to basically try and undo past wrongs by creating current wrongs.
I have personally witnessed people being chosen for applications and et cetera, solely based on race, ethnicity, and their gender.
I have watched that, and it happens because of a lack of moral courage and a selfish ambition in vain conceit, the love of money, the love of power.
It happens in the United States military, just like it happens in corporate America. We’re seeing that to our demise. I mean, our nation, it is in demise currently unless we stand up and have the moral courage to speak out. Even if it is to our own detriment, even if I don’t get to put as good a food on the table for my children, I have a moral imperative to speak truth as a Christian and as an American, and definitely as a military member.
Frank Gaffney
This is so inspiring as well as painful to hear. But I wanted to come back just to this point about merit, which has been, it seems to me, the indispensable character of the military, certainly since, I guess, the end of the Second World War, not identities of whatever kind, but merit. What I was asking earlier, Colonel, was, do you fear that people around you think you are not in your position because of merit? And is that corrosive to your unit’s cohesiveness and fighting trip?
Col. Brandi King
Yes, I definitely do. It’s not a fear. It is a fact. I know that there are individuals that believe that I am not in my role and that I have not gained the rank and the associated benefits because of my merit, but rather because of my gender. And yes, it is absolutely detrimental to good order and discipline and the chain of command.
Frank Gaffney
Colonel Bishop, fabulous segment. Thank you very much, Colonel. We so appreciate your service and the fact that you’re coming forward to speak out for those who feel that they cannot at the moment. We’ll be right back with much more folks. Stay tuned to this very special edition, Securing America.
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