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2022-02-14 -Great Cultural Revolution

Whistleblower Gives Evidence The Pentagon Holds Female Soldiers To Lower Standards

[The Federalist] According to an anonymous whistleblower letter posted by Air Force Times, Pentagon policy makers are promoting "diversity and inclusion" at the expense of high, uncompromised standards in an elite Special Operations Forces command. The letter focuses an unnamed female captain who began training with the Special Tactics Training Squadron (STTS) in 2018, hoping to become the first woman to join a combat controller team (CCT).

The female captain dropped out of physically demanding combat controller course exercises several times, but unlike male trainees with similar difficulties, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) officials kept extending special concessions to keep her in the program.

The detailed anonymous letter reported 11 examples of unusual concessions that AFSOC extended to retain the female captain, even though she had not met longstanding standards and repeatedly dropped out of essential training events, such as rigorous diving exercises and solo land navigation. Air Force Times, which confirmed details with a second source, obtained performance forms and score charts that appeared to support the whistleblower’s letter, and submitted them for comment to AFSOC Commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife.

Slife did not refute specific allegations, citing privacy considerations, but he vehemently denied that AFSOC standards had changed: "While the standards remain the same, the norms have not." This is an equivocation, based on a half-truth.

"Norms" did change last year when U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Commander General Richard Clarke released his Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan. The Center for Military Readiness analyzed the SOCOM diversity mandate, noting that 12 times on 20 pages, the document asserted without evidence that "Diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives." These vacuous, unsupported words have triggered turbulence in one of the nation’s most elite fighting forces, and probably more we don’t know about.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-14 03:21|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Any company commander or first shirt from the 70s on will say "Yeah, so what's new?"

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-14 07:22|| 2022-02-14 07:22|| Front Page Top

When two or three of you ladies figure out how to replace a winch cable, service or change a tire on this SOB let me know. I won't be calling you sojurs until I sees it.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-14 09:08|| 2022-02-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 "Diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives."
"The Chairman is in power and the situation is excellent."
"We are building Communism."
"The Party is always right."

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-14 09:13|| 2022-02-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 ...A lot of the info I've seen indicates that the Captain made the call at least twice that she was in over her head - but the AFSOC leadership was apparently terrified that they'd be held to account.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-02-14 09:19|| 2022-02-14 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 There are tasks women do as well or better than men (on average) but carrying standard infantry loads is not one of them - they will break down the backs and knees of most men over time, never mind women.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-02-14 10:06|| 2022-02-14 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually Besoker, we had a couple of Female mechanics who could do that, they could even break track and the other nasty work that nobody ever talks about when crewing a tracked vehicle - thing is, they were few and far between, and there was no special Diversity Equity slack given back then. Either they could do the job or they were moved out to become the unofficial 71L for the motorpool. Same for the guys - they'd move them from heavies to doing simple -20 stuff, or loaned out to being a driver for HQ. Some place where they wouldnt be in the way.

Thanks for your insightful comment CC. Please do not relay my comment to either of them. :-(

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-02-14 12:15|| 2022-02-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 This Captain knew her limits, but the brass is too concerned with proving DIE (Diversity Inclusion Equity) dogma to worry about things like putting her in a situation where she would not only get killed due to physical limitations but take her troops with her.

This is sickening, and completely ignores the first job of the military: Win Wars.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-02-14 12:20|| 2022-02-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 completely ignores the first job of the military: Win Wars.

Huh? What's that "win wars" shit all about?

We all know the goal of the woke military is to Protect Pronouns.

Or as Patton said, the goal is to "make our poor bastards D-I-E for our country!"

- Merrick
pronouns: They / Shee-It

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-14 13:20|| 2022-02-14 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like a replay of what killed that female Tomcat pilot, top dogs mandated passing…. at all costs.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-02-14 15:15|| 2022-02-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

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