I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The only purpose of the nation’s military is to find bad guys and revoke their birth certificates. When I was in Army basic training – they called it basic combat training in those days – they told us that, no matter what other military occupational specialty (MOS) we selected, we were all riflemen first, and that the mission of the soldier was to close with and destroy the enemy by fire, maneuver and shock effect.
But, as Bob Dylan famously observed, the times, they are a-changing. Recently released documents from the United States Air Force, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, describe an openly racist “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” (DEI) practice for selecting candidates for an officers’ training program, the goal of which is to reduce the number of white male applicants:
The Air Force finally handed over a trove of…