Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the US Air Force to return training modules about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, to the basic training curriculum. This training was reported as canceled Friday, an alleged casualty of President Trump’s anti-DEI executive order; see The Air Force Seems to Have Decided to Use Malicious Compliance to Fight Trump’s DEI Order – RedState.
The Air Force said Sunday that videos about the famed Tuskegee Airmen and a unit of pioneering female aviators would be restored to the basic training curriculum for new recruits beginning Monday.
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In reporting on the videos Friday evening, the Express-News cited a memo in circulation among Air Force personnel.
According to a screenshot of the memo, it said three videos were being cut from a basic training course on “airmindedness,” a term for…
