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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.

In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”

The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework. However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation’s first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit and their all-Black 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss records of all the bomber escorts in the war.

They flew P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang and other fighters to escort American bombers on dangerous missions over Germany. Before the fighter escorts began accompanying the slow and heavy U.S. bombers, losses were catastrophic due to getting dive-bombed by German aircraft.

President George W. Bush awarded the Tuskegee Airmen the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda in 2007.

In 2020, in his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced he had promoted one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, to brigadier general. McGee died in 2022 at age 102.

The WASPs contributed to World War II by learning to fly and ferry new bombers off the assembly lines to airfields where they were needed to ship off to war — freeing up male pilots to focus on combat missions overseas. They earned the right to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery just in the last decade.

The Air Force, like other branches, has recently tried to broaden the number of people they reach to consider military careers like aviation that historically have had few minority service members in their ranks.

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YoungLionken:
Donald Trump obviously know what he's doing and right on track. With the way he is going with the US, it would create fear, uncertainty, bewilderment, etc in the minds of everyone, especially enemies of the state..

Donald Trump, with less than how many days in office, have by far achieved much more than what the ozuor in aso rock is doing for close to two years now, forcefully making Nigerians acclimatize to unnecessary hardship and gnashing of teeth!!!

nlfpmod:
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YoungLionken:
Donald Trump obviously know what he's doing and right on track. With the way he is going with the US, it would create fear, uncertainty, bewilderment, etc in the minds of everyone, especially enemies of the state..

Donald Trump, with less than how many days in office, have by far achieved much more than what the ozuor in aso rock is doing for close to two years now, forcefully making Nigerians acclimatize to unnecessary hardship and gnashing of teeth!!!

Legend44:
Every president gets him own time to do whatever he wants.

Opportuneke:
In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”

How I wish we can have a leader in Nigeria with a strong will for his people with that clear message that “Nigerians First”


THE CLEAR MESSAGE FROM TRUMP

God has blessed your country. Go back and hold your corrupt leaders accountable. Stop loitering the streets of America.

If Americans were docile and refused to initiate Revolution, then you would never see such an amazing nation like USA.

If France kept mum in 1775, you wouldn't see a developed nation like France.

If you like, keep playing tribal politics in suffering while your ruling class loot with reckless abandon.

Stop depending on WHO for subsidized drugs. At your age, you ought to have home-made drugs for common ailments. On that ground, America has left WHO.

Go and hold your ruling class accountable for rots in health care delivery. When they are sick, they run to USA for treatment with your national resources.

Keep playing tribal politics but get out of USA. If you're ready, you will take over your country from destiny destroying ruling class as the did in France.

All decent nations have accurate population index. Even in hell fire, God has a record of those in it. America belongs to Americans not indians, Nigerians, Chinese, Mexicans, and other nationals who want good life and escaped to USA.

We fought for liberty and advancement. Keep quiet and wait for angels to repair your bad roads. Remain dumb as ministers, Governors, commissioners, etc loot in trillions.

Return to your country and change the narratives. No more running to America with your heavily pregnant wives. You want them to give birth in America and automatically become citizens of America. That is revoked immediately.



The message is clear. Let it sink into the skulls of all those who desire a new Nigeria.

wonder233:
Make America white again .
Nigerian indigenous "white people", una don dey see how e dey go abi? First, he has blocked your worthless asses from getting jobs in America via inclusivity, second he has blocked your offsprings from being citizens even if you hustle to go and give birth there.
Trump knows how to press your buttons, he is very smart, while doing these to you, he also gives you something to applaud, like giving Isreal more bombs to wipe out those moslems you so much hate. And tackling lgbtq people (werey people wey go still continue to do their shits anyway), so overall you continue to applaud the "Christian" Trump.

wonder233:
Make America white again .
Nigerian indigenous "white people", una don dey see how e dey go abi? First, he has blocked your worthless asses from getting jobs in America via inclusivity, second he has blocked your offsprings from being citizens even if you hustle to go and give birth there.
Trump knows how to press your buttons, he is very smart, while doing these to you, he also gives you something to applaud, like giving Isreal more bombs to wipe out those moslems you so much hate. And tackling lgbtq people (werey people wey go still continue to do their shits anyway), so overall you continue to applaud the "Christian" Trump.

Okechinwadike:
oga trump please tell that to agbadorians in Nigeria, they brought buhari who didn't finish primary school as a president, now a renowned drug lord infact elder colleague to Pablo Escobar that has a drug cartel as a president of Nigeria, the worst is after supporting, campaigning and voting nonsense they run to UK to base like that criminal that called himself kumuiyi. Oga trump I know you are talking to yorubas not Nigeria pa say

bitsAndpieces:
I’m beginning to lose respect for African Americans. They are usually the cause of their demise! During Trump’s first presidency, particularly with the way he handled race relationships, BLM sprang up and African Americans collectively made sure they voted Trump out by showing strong presence at the poll.

I was hoping this time, they would show up again with the same vigour but some of them didn’t even vote. They stayed home! They talked about issues like transgender and the economy. Who gives a flying fuuuuck what those issues are if a certified criminally corrupt racist is on the ballot?

Even if the economy gets better but you lack inclusivity, how are you suppose to benefit from it?

Also, with Trump getting rid of DEI….. Every Nigerian reading this and supporting Trump, ask yourself this question and provide me with an answer.

If we kept everything constant about Trump but change his colour from non-white to a black man, so every trait remains the same, from the way he talks to how he acts, would he be US president?? If your answer is NO, then Trump is the embodiment of WHITE PRIVILEGE also known as White DEI…. No black man in a white country would ever tell people to inject bleach during a pandemic and get re-elected! If Obama said that, he is getting impeached next day!!

diamond68: