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\nIn order to create a \u201cforce more representative of our nation\u201d Air Force leaders laid out a new vision for more diversity in the officer corps, aiming to boost the proportion of minority airmen in fields traditionally staffed by white men.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiversity and inclusion are an essential part of our society and key to the success of any organization,\u201d said a memo cosigned by Air Force Secretary, Undersecretary, Air Force Chief of Staff and Space Force Chief of Space Operations.<\/p>\n
This thought process went into increasing minority representation in the pilot ranks. Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n
Micaela Burrow<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.S. Air Force abandoned an experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minority pilots after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results and officers privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).<\/p>\n As part of the larger military-wide effort to promote diversity in the service\u2019s pilot ranks, the 19th Air Force command near San Antonio, Texas, \u201cclustered\u201d racial minorities and female trainees into one class, dubbed \u201cAmerica\u2019s Class,\u201d to find out if doing so would improve the pilots\u2019 graduation rates. However, not only did the effort fail to boost minority and women candidates\u2019 success rates, but officers involved say they were ordered to engage in potentially unlawful discrimination by excluding white males from the class, documents show.<\/p>\n Unlawful or not, the Air Force\u2019s actions raised red flags for an active-duty pilot instructor who spoke to the DCNF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n