No specific guidance was provided about what falls under DEI, and in this case, the Tuskegee Airmen—some of the most admired men in U.S. military history—fell under “Radical and Wasteful ...
The military and other agencies have scrambled to comply with President Trump's sweeping executive order barring DEI programs ...
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...
While DEI components were removed from the Air Force curriculum, so were videos that taught the history of the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). As of Monday ...
"Black Angels Over Tuskegee," a historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen by Layon Gray, will have a free public performance ...
There is nothing malicious about associating the Tuskegee Airmen with DEI because those are the concepts this proud episode in U.S. history represents. Diversity: The corps of U.S. pilots ...
The removal of the video about the Tuskegee Airmen from basic U.S. Air Force training was, perhaps, a regretful casualty of the government’s overall effort to rid the government of DEI efforts.
In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...
The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...
Air Education and Training Command clarified changes to basic training after a course with lessons on the Tuskegee Airmen was ...
Their heroism is not ‘DEI.’ It is American history. I’m calling on the Air Force to immediately reverse this decision,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham. The Tuskegee Airmen story ...
The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the unit's legacy.