Reuters via The Guardian; US Air Force resumes teaching videos on first Black and female pilots after DEI review
[Kip Currier: This is a positive development to see that the U.S. Air Force has reinstated the use of videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service Pilots (or WASPs) in its training courses at its San Antonio-Lackland base in Texas. Providing access to information and the historical record is a basic building block of informed citizenries and free and democratic societies.]
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"The US air force on Sunday said it would resume instruction of trainees using a video about the first Black airmen in the nation’s military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, which has passed review to ensure compliance with the ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that Donald Trump imposed early in his second presidency.
Trump, who retook office on 20 January, has prohibited DEI throughout the US government and military. Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, who was sworn in on Friday, has made eliminating DEI from the military a top priority.
Reuters reported on Saturday that the video about the Tuskegee Airmen as well as another about civilian female pilots trained by the US military during the second world war, known as Women Air Force Service Pilots (or WASPs), were not being taught in basic training at the San Antonio-Lackland base in Texas pending a review.
The move was first reported by the San Antonio Express-News.
The Air Force on Sunday said both videos will be taught."
