The Air Force aimed to reduce the number of “white male” applicants, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller.
A slideshow dated 2022 outlines the Air Force’s racial quotas, including its goal of reducing the number of white men in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.
One of the slides details how the Air Force planned to reduce its white male population 43% by fiscal year 2029.
The documents reflect the Biden administration’s effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
A recent report from Arizona State University’s Center for American Institutions draws attention to the pervasive DEI policies in America’s military.
“The U.S. Armed Forces should not be a laboratory for social experimentation, especially one based on Critical Race Theory, a contentious and abstract social theory,” the executive introduction to the report says. “Yet, as this Commission Report on Civic Education in the Military shows in great detail, Critical Race Theory is promoted within Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training throughout the military from the Pentagon through the ranks and in our service academies.”
Military academics have offices for diversity and inclusion, the report describes, which “coordinate training, support ‘affinity groups’ based on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity, and promote celebrations based on those identities.”
The Naval Academy also incorporated DEI systems, requiring “faculty candidates to submit diversity statements describing how applicants will contribute to the Academy’s diversity and inclusion mission.”
At the U.S. Air Force Academy, DEI trainings include CRT and the 1619 Project. During a 2023 meeting, a proposal to implement American history education was rejected.
“Traditionally, young people enlisted for many reasons, with a major one being patriotism — to protect the family, country, and faith,” the report states. “That patriotism, if held by a white male, now raises suspicions of white supremacy.”
It adds that DEI efforts focus on eliminating “white supremacy,” even though there is “little or no evidence that there is a problem of white supremacy in the military.”
