“the Air Force’s best rated aircrew by harnessing diversity as a force multiplier and fostering a culture of inclusion.”
Diversity as A Force Multiplier! That sounds like Common Core Math.
I can’t agree with that on any level. Excluding any race from selection is a terrible idea. It should be best available, not best available from a certain subgroup of people. This reminds me an awful lot of that garbage. If you can’t make the cut it is what it is. Dropping the standards just to graduateWell, sounds like it failed and they scrapped it. Isn't that the point of experiments? They disproved their hypothesis. If it had worked, wouldnt that be a good thing, if they truly had found a better way of doing things? I think the only reason to complain about this is if they said, well, it failed, but we're going to keep doing it anyway.
Are you just making a general opinion statement about the article or commenting specifically on my statement, above yours?The experiment was to ignore the properties that made better, safer pilots by excluding candidates based on race.
I'm not defending what was done, I'm just saying that sometimes you have to do "dumb" experiments to find meaningful answers. Could have been worse, they could have just made it policy and moved forward. Then it TRULY would have impacted safety and piloting abilities.I can’t agree with that on any level. Excluding any race from selection is a terrible idea. It should be best available, not best available from a certain subgroup of people. This reminds me an awful lot of that garbage. If you can’t make the cut it is what it is. Dropping the standards just to graduate
I’m all for experiments, test, whatever you want to call it but let it actually make sense. Seems like nothing more than woke garbage. I don’t see how something like this actually gets taken seriously or approved.
Are you just making a general opinion statement about the article or commenting specifically on my statement, above yours?
I'm not defending what was done, I'm just saying that sometimes you have to do "dumb" experiments to find meaningful answers. Could have been worse, they could have just made it policy and moved forward. Then it TRULY would have impacted safety and piloting abilities.
I don't disagree with your second statement. But hopefully you learned something when losing either the $500 or the $1000, as they may have done here. Painful lessons learned usually aren't what we would consider "good". And I'm not saying they didn't do this for the wrong reasons, it was probably all politically motivated, I'm basically saying It's surprising and refreshing that they scrapped it because it didn't seem to work instead of just forcing it into SOP.
It looks like you are basing your other statement on the 4th graph of the article. A comment by an anonymous training officer. That looks like the only area in which safety and competition (better pilots) are mentioned.
I agree that you are stifling some of the spirit of competition in the class by stacking the deck one way or another, but safety? Assuming they are all going to learn the same thing and all starting at about the same level of knowledge, seems like the only safety issue is if the trainers don't teach it. They aren't saying the took the dregs of society into the training program, just excluded white guys for this experiment. I'm not sure what the safety argument is for excluding white guys...
As for better pilots, well, seems like that was what they were trying to figure out. Again, clearly the experiment failed because they scrapped it. If it had even partially succeeded, they would have touted it and kept it going, especially in today's political climate.
Back when I was between basic and OCS in the USAF, about a two month period, there were two barracks buildings that housed gays awaiting discharge/seperation. This was early 1969.I swear if I hear/see one more story touting inclusiveness or anything similar as a virtue, I'm going to puke.
No biggie for all y'all - I'll have to clean up my own mess.
Long ago, had 2 gays in my platoon. Both were fit & competent. One thought being in barracks was a hunting license - that lasted about 30 hours. Not sure where he went but it was away from us.
The other guy was a good, reliable soldier - we kept him. Last I heard he retired at 20 yrs as a Company SgtMaj.
I was USAF during that period. Spent a little over six months at Lackland for basic, a couple of months in hold status, actually processing incoming basic trainees, then OTS. I remember some of the old times talking about and shaking thier heads about some of the people coming in and out of that program. As I understand it did not last very long, most were just not up to the intelligence levels needed for most Air Force jobs.I'm an AF vet, served during the Viet Nam era. This reminds me of Robert McNamara's "Project 100,000", less formally known as "McNamara's Morons". It amounted to a gigantic "dumb class", to use a dated metaphor, wherein personnel who weren't the brightest bulbs in the knife drawer could presumably be trained to a level of competence on par with their more sentient counterparts. All it would take, allegedly, would be extra training and TLC. It went over like the proverbial chunk of fecal matter in the proverbial bowl of fruit flavored party beverage - we got some of the most inept, dumchit trainees most of us had ever seen.
That's bad enough when you're talking about someone whose job was to drive a typewriter or shove boxes around down at Supply. But when we're talking about people who would be put in command of $80M aircraft it becomes next-level serious. It is absolutely mandatory that the best and brightest be trained to accept that responsibility regardless of sex, race, perceived gender, whatever. The defining criteria should be ability and capability, not whether a particular sex or demographic is under-represented.
I am a military veteran/ LEO and don’t care what race, religion, gender or sexual orientation the candidates are. If they are the best at what they do and want to stand that watch so that we may live and sleep in peace knowing we are protected then I commend them and stand with them no matter what. The protection of this nation, however screwed up it is, is of the utmost importance. If the Air Force actually did this little experiment or not just thinking this way is trying to rehash old racist ideologies and looks more like a Hitler idea.” Oh German people are better fighters than Africans and Jewish people and therefore are the chosen people? “ Come on people. It’s just another way the government has to cause separation between races and institute more hate into our lives. In the military we were all Blue or Green, no in between.