DEI ban: Air Force removes course videos of Tuskegee Airmen, …
Jan 26, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War II pilots.
The Truth About Air Force Basic, Tuskegee Airmen, and Trump's DEI …
Jan 27, 2025 · During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Corps trained its first Black pilots at Tuskegee, Ala., even as the Armed Forces remained largely segregated. Between aviators, ground crews, and support personnel, nearly 14,000 individuals became “Tuskegee Airmen.”
The Tuskegee Airmen Are Not DEI, As Air Force Reinstates
Jan 27, 2025 · President Trump’s push to eliminate DEI from federal agencies through executive orders claimed an unlikely casualty: The Tuskegee Airmen.
Trump's DEI orders: Some agencies scrub US history in response
Feb 2, 2025 · TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — The tails of the Alabama Air National Guard’s F-35 Lightnings are painted red, like those of the Guard’s F-16s before them. It’s an homage to the famed Alabama-based unit of the Tuskegee Airmen, …
Hegseth: Removal of Tuskegee Airmen video after DEI order ‘will …
Jan 26, 2025 · Tuskegee Airmen Pearlee E Saunders, Leroy Bowman, William M Gordon and Lloyd Singletary studying maps before flying a fighter plane at Tuskegee Army Flying School, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1942.
Air Force reinstates course with Tuskegee Airmen video after outcry
Jan 27, 2025 · An internal message leaked online Friday indicated videos on the Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs were pulled immediately from the class to comply with Trump’s DEI orders.
Air Force says it will teach video on first Black pilots after DEI review
Jan 27, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force said it will resume instruction of trainees using a video about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen in the U.S. military, after it passed review to ensure compliance...
Tuskegee Airmen's history reinstated in U.S. Air Force training ...
Jan 30, 2025 · Learn how President Trump's diversity, equity, and inclusion ban threatened to erase the Tuskegee Airmen from U.S. Air Force training, but was later reversed.
Air Force pulls class with Tuskegee Airmen video after DEI order
Jan 25, 2025 · The Air Force has pulled, and is reviewing, a course from its basic military training curriculum that includes videos on the elite, all-Black Tuskegee Airmen pilots. (Air Force)
Air Force won't teach about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen, female pilots
Jan 26, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with...