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| USAF Announces It Will Mandate Diversity Quotas In Candidate Pools For Key Positions |
| 2016-10-03 |
| [Daily Caller] The Air Force announced a new set of 13 inclusion initiatives Friday with the goal of ensuring the force isn't as white, male and heterosexual as it is now. Air Force officials are intent on building upon a foundation of nine initiatives from 2015, in order to boost diversity. Those nine initiatives weren't enough to make the Air Force as diverse as desired, which is why it is taking more intensive steps in 2016. The first new initiative mandates that at least one diverse candidate will have to be in the running for important developmental positions like aide-de camp, senior enlisted advisor and executive officer, among other roles. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Hopefully the next POTUS will make unwinding all of this crap a priority in getting our military back to combat ready status. Right now we couldn't fight Venezuela |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-10-03 21:10 |
| #11 Yeah when I go into combat I know I want a person chosen for the gender, color and orientation instead of their competence. Don't give me a good surgeon, give me a mexican black oriental transgendered gay one. |
| Posted by: Hupineter Elmaimble6388 2016-10-03 16:08 |
| #10 navy tried that with female carrier pilots and tomcats: instead of most capable, just drafted some. remember how well that worked out; this will e more of the same, only clusterfuck-sized. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-10-03 15:57 |
| #9 So we get a diversified pilot corps based upon quotas to fly the F-35...what could go wrong. Maybe they'll subcontract the pilot training to some Indian call center so they can figure out how to make the "flying computer" actually fly. Every pilot will have a cell phone with the customer service number on speed dial. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-10-03 12:59 |
| #8 This is NOT how the Nations Defense works. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-03 12:43 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-03 11:49 |
| #6 Just don't blame the straight white males when you lose the next war. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-10-03 11:06 |
| #5 The branches of the military should cut a deal. Diversity will include all of them, not each individually. The Air Force will take on as many women as required and correspondingly the more physically demanding forces will take on fewer. The Navy/Coast Guard will take on gays and transgenders and can crew entire ships with similar types to avoid prejudice among a crew. What could possibly go wrong? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-03 10:54 |
| #4 Momentum is keeping the country moving forward but stupidity is pulling us down. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-10-03 10:05 |
| #3 'Dumbening' the citizenery isn't bad enough? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-10-03 09:59 |
| #2 The Air Force announced a new set of 13 inclusion initiatives Friday with the goal of ensuring the force isn't as white, male and heterosexual as it is now Simple - bar them from enlisting or taking a commission. We'll see how that works out. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-03 08:29 |
| #1 Codifying at least three decades of past practices. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-03 07:58 |