The Military Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Wokeness

By Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire

In October 2020, Major General Ed Thomas — who at the time was the commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service — wrote an op-ed for Yahoo News. It was entitled, “86% of Air Force pilots are white men. Here’s why this needs to change.”

In about 800 words, Major General Thomas outlined his plan to recruit pilots without regard for their competence or fitness or loyalty to the United States.

Instead, Thomas explained, the most important thing for the Air Force to focus on was the skin color of its recruits.

He said that hiring more black and brown recruits was vital in order to keep pace with Russia and China.

They’re busy developing hypersonic missiles that can fly at 20 times the speed of sound, the general wrote — but we’ve got our secret sauce that will keep us competitive.

And that secret sauce, as he described it, is diversity.

According to Ed Thomas, “Our goal is to get in front of every demographic group in America and show them someone who wears a flight suit every day they can look up to and say, ‘That could be me.’”

Three years after he wrote that op-ed and launched the Air Force’s anti-white recruitment plan, Major General Ed Thomas retired.

He inflicted his DEI recruitment strategy on the Air Force, and then he left. So he doesn’t have any reason to care about the consequences.

But especially as World War III seems more plausible by the day, the rest of us have an important question to ask, which is: how did this DEI strategy turn out, exactly?

Thomas’ replacement — a general named Christopher Amrhein testified this month before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

He informed Congress that for the first time in 24 years, the Air Force has failed to meet its recruitment goal.

Once again, for the first time in more than two decades, the Air Force didn’t hit its recruiting objective.

It was off by around 10%. And they’re not alone.

Amrhein went on to testify that the Army and Navy – which also put a new emphasis on recruiting minority candidates – also fell short of their projections. . . . (read more on Daily Wire – subscription required)

TO RECEIVE TESTIMONY ON THE STATUS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RECRUITING EFFORTS AND PLANS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024 (Senate Armed Services Committee, 6 DEC 23)

Witnesses

Brigadier General Christopher R. Amrhein, USAF
Commander, Air Force Recruiting Service
Statement (pdf)

Major General Johnny K. Davis, USA
Commanding General, United States Army Recruiting Command
Statement (pdf)

Rear Admiral Alexis T. Walker, USN
Commander, Navy Recruiting Command
Statement (pdf)

Major General William J. Bowers, USMC
Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting Command
Statement (pdf)