Air Force to resume teaching on first Black, female pilots after DEI backlash
In a post on X Sunday, Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt called the decision to pause teaching the videos “malicious compliance.” ...
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Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots
Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
'This will not stand': Air Force resumes teaching on first Black pilots after DEI review
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...
US Air Force Cuts Training Course on Tuskegee and Female WWII Pilots
The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to ...
U.S. Air Force revising training course that includes videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black ...
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U.S. Air Force restores use of training course that taught about Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
The videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) – the female World War II pilots who were ...
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Trump’s DEI purge guts Air Force team tackling obstacles for women
This week, the Air Force faced severe blowback — and was forced to backtrack — after briefly removing from its recruit-training curriculum educational films about the role that female pilots ...
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U.S. Air Force revising training course that includes videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots
Lesson plans that include videos of the Tuskegee Airmen, groundbreaking Black pilots known for their service during World War II, and the Women ... used in Air Force basic military training ...