Well, there goes the United States Air Force.
The wokesters who have been wrecking our colleges for years with their insane diversity and inclusion codes have infiltrated the Air Force Academy.
Cadets there now have to take a training class that includes a slide presentation titled, “Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do.”
The diversity pitch not only instructs cadets that they should “include all genders” when they speak among themselves, it tells them to drop terms like “mom” and “dad.”
Why?
You guessed it – some poor cadet might be made to feel uncomfortable or sad because they do not have a mom or a dad.
Our Air Force cadets, says the presentation, are to refrain from using “mom” and “dad” because “Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mom and dad.’ ”
Not using “mom” or “dad” ought to generate a few good laughs on campus.
Can you imagine a future F-15 fighter pilot casually asking one of his beer buddies, “Is your parent coming down for Caregivers Weekend?” or “Did your caregiver send you another box of they great chocolate chip cookies?”
Colleges have been enforcing pronoun madness and other politically correct codes of woke speech and behavior for years. Big corporations too, like Disney and Google, are all in.
The whole woke thing is absurd, but it’s not funny. It’s being pushed by some people who want to destroy America and blow up our public and private institutions.
Every individual American obviously should be free to be what they want to be.
The Woke should be free to call each other by whatever pronoun they want, or gender-identify any way they want, and the rest of us should be tolerant and leave them alone.
But we should not be letting the Woke bully the rest of us or harm our children with their wackiness.
You or I would never be allowed to go into a classroom with a Bible and preach to the kids about the joys of Christianity – or even free-market capitalism.
But apparently a lot of people think it’s perfectly OK to spread the Gospel of Transgenderism to third graders.
Now our military is catching up on wokeness – and letting itself be weakened by a bunch of bad ideas that appeal to a minuscule percentage of Americans.
But instead of telling the Woke mob to get lost and leave the armed services alone, the military leadership of today is enabling and welcoming them.
Think about how the military leaders of yesteryear would handle this subversive threat.
The leaders who wouldn’t cry in public or botch a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The ones who were real men, who fought wars to win, not to tie.
The ones who knew why the military had to be as tough, ready and well-armed as possible.
Unfortunately, today all of the good leaders in our military are apparently cowering in their foxholes, afraid to publicly stand up to those who are emasculating our armed forces.
If our current batch of military leaders had been in charge during World War II, there would have been no D-Day and we’d all be speaking German.
Heck, if they had been leading us in 1776, we would still be a part of the British empire.
The sad truth is, though, we’ve essentially lost every war since World War II anyway.
The next big war will likely not go well for us, either, because we’ve been slowly destroying our military from within.
So who’s going to defend Taiwan from China? The Woke U.S. Marine Corps? The All-Inclusive U.S. Air Force? The U.S. Navy Crybabies?
I’m sure President Xi is shaking in they boots.
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The military started down a destructive slope when they allowed homosexuals to be in the service, then this has steadily gone down hill. Now we have the woke, cancel culture, the transgender and all forms of the LGBTQ+ culture in the military which use to be a honorable, proud and effective military force to protect our country. We the U.S.A. even have a treasonous Democrat Party ruled government that is destroying our economy, our
supply chain and even supporting multi-millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to invade our country. And to make things worst we have a corrupt, demented, puppet president who obediently obeys his puppet masters that are in the background and not being held accountable for their orders given and obeyed by puppet Joe Biden.
More and more i am regretting being a military veteran, seeing what is BECOMING of this nations great institutions.. AND AM GLAD i retired out when i did.
Don’t regret serving your country. What they are doing today has nothing to do with your service. Thank you!
My friend, and I’m very sincere, I am very thankful for your service to our country. I consider you a good friend, though we have never met only on this platform. Thank you!
Concerned. THe reason i joined and served, to PROTECT this nation, but more and more its obvious that we are being RUINED from the inside out, so all that ‘protection’, was meaningless…
That is why i some times say “i am thinking that i am regretting it”..
The sad truth is that most of our real military leaders have been purged from all branches because they didn’t agree, or go along with all the loony things the woke bunch wanted to do. What we have now is a bunch of politicians in uniform, and that is not good for the welfare of our country. For the sake of this nation we must purge all left wing democrats from our government or they will destroy our constitutional republic. The elections of this November and November of 2024 may well be the last chance we have to rid ourselves of them, and keep our republic.
Even if we DO win this november, AND IN 2024, i still can’t see this utter deconstruction of our military might, being turned around in four years..
WE NEED a good 10, to purge all the ROT in the military.. ESPECIALLY the upper ranks.
With a woke military, we could end up like russia. Have our butts handed to us on a plater. Remember the woke left hates the U.S. And they want us to fail.
… c’mon Brothers and Sisters in Blue!! Don’t let the loonies dictate THEIR norms to us. That’s not a fighting force – but a cringing pathetic gaggle of MILKSOPS. Message is clear – NOT in this Air Force. If you have to be “covert” until the doddering old fool is out of O U R Oval Office, then so be it. I know if you have inside you what I have inside me WE CAN’T LOSE and we won’t. I love my country now more than ever, because it’s being threatened from within [as we were warned is the only way]. Think of these interlopers as commies — and the only GOOD commie is one that’s dead – trust me. GOD BLESS AMERICA, and the United States Air Force.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV — THE “SMALL DOSES” QUOTE – 1960 “We cannot expect Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”
Incrementalism, slowly and deliberate, Just like taxes, they never say 13.6% tax, they say .75%, and then 1.25%, and on and on. Until you wake up one day and your looking at 15.7%. And you wander what happened. Remember, the left creates nothing, they only destroy everything they touch. The Air Force is no different.
hey, i won my war. We won so easily you probably forgot it even happened. we liberated kuwait and demonstrated a capacity to win wars using conventional weapons. all we have to do is limit our military objectives to military objectives. All of the nation building ******** aside, we easily removed the people presenting a threat to us from power in iraq and afghanistan. we should have hung their leaders in the cities they ruled and left them as an example. they can govern themselves however they want, but if they present themselves a threat to us, we can eliminate the threat from power and leave. rather than punish the people with our military presence, pull our military out leaving behind the scorched earth we made of the threat in their country.
Agreed. LET THE Military get back to what its SUPPOSED TO.. Defeat the enemy!
There goes the military leadership of this country. Unfortunately, most of these trained lap dogs will become victims of their own ineptitude and perish, while the field-trained forces will manage to survive.
If someone in the military is hurt by words, then they don’t belong in the military.
The Air Farce formally the U.S. air force (Lack of caps shoes contempt for their attack on 1st amendment that they were supposed to support) has decided to follow that O whatever milley traitorous lead.