Thorpe of Rome, N. The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training. The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework.
However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.
They flew P Thunderbolt, P Mustang and other fighter aircraft to escort American bombers on dangerous missions over Germany. Before the fighter escorts began accompanying the slow and heavy U. In a statement late Saturday, Tuskegee Airmen Inc. We believe the content of these courses does not promote one category of service member or citizen over another. President George W. In , in his State of the Union address, Trump announced he had promoted one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, to brigadier general.
McGee died in at age The WASPs contributed to World War II by learning to fly and ferry new bombers off the assembly lines to airfields where they were needed to ship off to war — freeing up male pilots to focus on combat missions overseas. They earned the right to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery just in the last decade.
The Air Force, like other branches, has recently tried to broaden the number of people they reach to consider military careers like aviation that historically have had few minority service members in their ranks.
