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The U.S Air Force will resume using a video about the Tuskegee Airmen in its trainee instruction after the footage was reviewed for compliance with President Donald Trump’s ban on DEI initiatives.
Trump quickly handed down an order prohibiting DEI throughout the U.S. government and the U.S. military after taking office on January 20 for his second presidential term.
According to Reuters, a video about the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the U.S. military’s first Black airmen, and another one about civilian women pilots trained by the U.S. military during World War Two, known as “Women Air Force Service Pilots,” or WASPs, were no longer being used in basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland pending a compliance review with Trump’s ban.
On Sunday (January 28), the Air Force said both videos will be taught in training.
“No Airmen or Guardians will miss this block of instruction due to the revision, however one group of trainees had the training delayed,” Lieutenant General Brian Robinson, who leads the Air Education and Training Command, said in a statement.
The Tuskegee Airmen were made up of 450 pilots who fought overseas in segregated units during World War Two. Their efforts paved the way for President Harry Truman’a move to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.
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