TO: AFA Membership Renewal
FROM: Bill Scott
After roughly 51 years as an AFA member, I’ve decided to NOT renew my membership for several reasons:
• The $50/year dues are excessive, in my opinion. AFA should offer a special “Senior” rate for retired airmen and USAF supporters.
• Today’s Air Force is no longer the elite “Fly and Fight” powerhouse in which I once proudly served. Current USAF senior leadership has buckled under political pressure and is now so blasted “woke” that I no longer recognize the service.
Until the AFA openly and aggressively opposes the USAF’s and USSF’s mindless indoctrination of airmen and Guardians with the disgusting Marxist propaganda dubbed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and “Critical Race Theory,” I can’t, in good conscience, continue to be an AFA member.
In truth, DEI really means Division, Exclusion and Indoctrination—and will ensure our airmen and Guardians DIE, when tested in combat. I will not lend my support to a corrupted agency that values DEI and CRT more than protecting and defending our nation.
Why does AFA tolerate top USAF leaders intentionally dividing a once-great fighting force by insisting we have “too many white pilots,” and an AF Academy instructor (civilian?) referring to a cadet as “White Boy No. 2,” because the bigot claims “all white boys look alike”?
If I were on active-duty, my promotion and assignment possibilities would be limited, because I’m too white and the beneficiary of so-called “white privilege.” BS!
If AFA leaders are unaware of the devastation being wreaked on OUR Air Force by these poisonous, divisive policies, they should digest the considerable data and evidence collected by thousands of loyal American patriots and veterans who comprise STARRS at starrs.us.
When AFA finally wakes up and openly campaigns to eliminate DEI and CRT from the U.S. Air Force, I’ll be glad to rejoin the association.
Regards,
William B. Scott
Author, Combat Contrails: Vietnam
COMBAT VIETNAM comprises 18 stories told by combatants who fought on the ground, in the air and over the water. From rescuing downed pilots as a determined enemy closed in, to dealing with a crazed water buffalo in the back of a lumbering C-123K transport, weathered warriors share their amazing, unforgettable Vietnam War experiences.
William B. (Bill) Scott is a full-time author and consultant. He retired as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology, following a 22-year career with the international magazine. He also served as Senior National Editor in Washington, and in Avionics and Senior Engineering Editor positions in Los Angeles. He covered advanced aerospace and weapons technology, business, flight testing and military operations, wrote more than 2,500 stories for the magazine, and received 17 editorial awards.
Bill is a Flight Test Engineer (FTE) graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and a licensed commercial pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings. In 12 years of military and civilian flight testing, plus evaluating aircraft for Aviation Week over 22 years, he logged approximately 2,000 hours of flight time on 81 aircraft types. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University-Sacramento.
During a nine-year Air Force career, Bill served as aircrew on classified airborne-sampling missions, collecting nuclear debris by flying through radioactive clouds; an electronics engineering officer at the National Security Agency, developing space communications security systems for satellites; and an instrumentation and flight test engineer on U.S. Air Force fighter and transport aircraft development programs.
He also served as a civilian FTE/program manager for three aerospace companies: General Dynamics (F-16 Full Scale Development), Falcon Jet Corp. (Coast Guard HU-25A development and certification), and Tracor Flight Systems Inc. (Canadair Challenger development and certification, plus numerous fighter, transport and helicopter test programs).
From Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret:
As a life member of the AFA (and a life member of the USAFA AOG) is pains me to read emails like this. But Bill is clearly on the right side of history when he says:
“Until the AFA (and the USAFA AOG) openly and aggressively opposes the USAF’s and USSF’s (and USAFA’s) mindless indoctrination of airmen and Guardians with the disgusting Marxist propaganda dubbed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and “Critical Race Theory,” I can’t, in good conscience, continue to be an AFA member.”
The folks leading these organizations seemed to have forgotten the lessons taught to us by Napoleon and Clausewitz–“i.e.–that the “spirit of the force” is considerably (3x) more important than the physical attributes (beans and bullets).
DEI is clearly “divisive, demeaning and causes resentment”. The more we hammer the message, the more it seems America is waking up!
From all reports we see and hear, the “spirit” of the force is in the dumps–and we all know the reason.
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