Fox News Digital obtained screenshots of the training seminar. According to the screenshots, Air Force trainers show recruits using words like " partner " and " parents” instead of " girlfriend, " "boyfriend," " mom, " and " dad." Other words trainers are recommending include’ person with ‘disabilities’ instead of ‘disabled.’
‘Folks’ and ‘y’all’ are acceptable, but the use of ‘guys’ is not. Fox News made the diversity and inclusive slides public, resulting in outraged citizens across the U.S., including Republican Representative Mike Waltz of Florida.
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Rep. Waltz, a veteran of the Afghan War and a Green Beret, voiced his feelings with the news agency about the ‘destructive’ lessons for the cadets. Waltz spoke of communist China and Soviet Union recruits pushed to support extreme ideologies and compared the seminar workshops to those tactics.
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In the Waltz interview, he said, “That is absolutely destructive to morale, to unity, to everything that I know from a military, that by the way, integrated way before the rest of the country in 1948.”
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President of the academy’s faculty senate, Mark Jensen, noted, “We need to foster an understanding about the challenges of diversity, racism, and injustice, promote a wide range of perspectives and be respectful of people we agree and disagree with.”
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Fox News Digital reported earlier this week about the Colorado Springs Air Force Academy’s Diversity and Inclusion program and the academy’s support of ‘woke’ initiatives. Fox News Digital reached out for clarification of the academy programs to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and AFA Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark.
In a Thursday statement, Lt. Gen. Richard Clark said using inclusive language helps produce “more effective warfighting units” for the Air Force.