A culture notably absent from the Diversity Day festivities at Minot is a culture of competence.
Two Air Force commanders have been fired after their units failed nuclear surety inspections. Another four of their subordinates also went out the door. Firings have become common at Minot AFB which maintains a unique status in the nation’s defense and in the botched leadership that focuses on diversity and political correctness over national security.
The chain of disasters was kickstarted in 2014 when the commander of the 741st Missile Squadron at Minot AFB was forced out over allegations that he had discriminated against pregnant women. Afterward, the "ball began rolling on Minot’s diversity program".
"I believe that President Obama said it best when he stated, ’our nation derives strength from the diversity of its population," Senior Master Sgt. Neil Armstrong, the first black man to occupy his position, claimed. He warned that, "implementation of the Air Force diversity policy is the responsibility of everyone. Moreover, diversity is critical for successful operations in the international community." Apparently you can’t nuke China and any other parts of the international community unless you have diversity at a base in North Dakota.
Press releases were filled with woke buzzwords like "accountable and sustained diversity effort".
In 2018, Lt. Col. Paul Goossen returned from leading a successful bombing campaign against ISIS and the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...only to be forced out from his position because his "air crew members had a habit of drawing crude stick figures with penises" on the bombs they were dropping.
This wasn’t because they were an offense to morals or values, but because they contributed to an "inappropriate work environment". Goosen was a respected leader whose subordinates believed that he "emphasized taking care of each other" and focusing on the mission.
Instead of battling the cartoons and the "culturally insensitive phrases", Goosen had "focused on the mission and unspecified new threats" and was "halfway relieved" that the airmen were releasing stress in a harmless way instead of engaging in serious misconduct. None of the women present were actually offended. One had even drawn her own cartoon.
It’s unknown what the "culturally insensitive phrases" involved, but they likely targeted the Moslem gunnies who were being bombed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
much more seriously, a colonel at Minot who was relieved of command after losing a machine gun and hand grenades, but was moved to a leadership position at Air Force Special Operations Command. At least his men and women hadn’t been culturally insensitive.
Since then, Charles Q. Brown, who claimed to be the victim of racism because someone questioned his parking spot, became the Air Force Chief of Staff. In a speech in which he "seemed to barely contain his rage", he ranted "that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ’that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ’liberty and equality’ to all."
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Minot Air Force Base: 2023-02-28 Air Force relieves 2 commanders, 4 leaders at North Dakota nuclear bomber, missile base
Minot Air Force Base: 2020-12-30 B-52 bombers fly low over Persian Gulf in message to Iran
Minot Air Force Base: 2018-02-15 Cold War-era B-52 to outlive younger, sleeker rival Air Force bombers
