Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a memo to impose a 43% quota for white male officers in the Air Force.
That would be catastrophic at a time when the Air Force is struggling with recruitment, faces a shortage of over 1,000 pilots and 86% of its pilots are white men.
Brown, who claimed that America is racist and that he faced racism when someone questioned whether he was parked in the right spot, has been obsessed with remaking the Air Force in his own image.
Even with only 1 out of 2 key aircraft and bombers ready to fly, the woke chief of staff has emphasized diversity in hiring and promotion at the expense of merit and ability.
Now a Rand report funded by the Air Force shows what it will take to achieve diversity. And diversity, which is more important than winning, won’t be achieved as long as the Air Force clings to basic qualifiers like weight, test scores and no criminal record.
“The most-important barriers for all gender and racial and ethnic groupings,” the report argues, are the Air Force’s “BMI” or Body Mass Index and “height requirements” as well as the “minimum standards” for the Armed Forces Qualification Test and education standards.
Earlier this year, the Air Force had lowered BMI standards from 20% for men to 26% and from 28% for women to 36% for women.
And in 2020, the Air Force had dropped a waiver for a minimum 5’4 height requirement for pilots in order to attract more women.
There were also complaints that aircraft had been designed around the height of the average white man.
The fighter jets of tomorrow will need to come in a variety of height and weight cockpits to accommodate every possible body shape no matter how impractical that may be. . . . .
. . . .Diversity requires further compromises in even the most basic expectations. The problem is that “enlistees must have a high school diploma or GED, no more than two dependents and not be a single parent, and have no felony convictions.” They’re also not supposed to be criminals or drug users.
And without the illiterate single parents with extensive criminal records and drug use (who are also short and fat) how are we ever going to find the Top Guns of tomorrow to win our wars?
Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, the head of Strategic Command, who claimed that he could have been easily killed by racist cops just like George Floyd, bragged that at the Air Force diversity is a “warfighting imperative”.
An ongoing theme of Air Force press releases is that, “diversity makes the Air Force stronger”.
But if diversity is making the Air Force stronger, why does the Air Force have to accept fat and dumb enlistees? How do fat dumb personnel make the Air Force stronger?
Those are questions that we’re not supposed to ask.
The premise behind DEI in the Air Force and across the military was that talented and qualified personnel were being kept down by unconscious bias and overt racism.
The only reason that the Air Force didn’t have the same percentage representation as the country as a whole at every level were systemic barriers that had been put in the way of a naturally diverse service.
If this were true then diversity would not require lowering standards. The fact that it does shows that the accusations of racism were a lie.. . . . (read more on FrontPage Magazine)
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