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 the habits and values the Air Force seeks to instill. One was a video on the Tuskegee Airman. A second was titled "Breaking Barriers," and a third was about WASP, the memo said.

In addition, a video on diversity was stripped from a human relations course for trainees, the memo said.

As I noted in two posts, the USAF signaled last week that it was going to fight a guerilla war against Trump's order disbanding the military's DEI infrastructure; see Has the USAF Decided That It Will Keep DEI No Matter What the Commander-in-Chief Has Ordered? – RedState. This culminated in the Tuskegee Airmen-WASPs kerfuffle Friday. That was no misunderstanding; it was clearly aimed at labeling an executive order designed to keep the federal government from engaging in racial tribalism and grievance-mongering as racist. None other than Texas's favorite anti-America Marxist, Joaquin Castro (naturally, right?), was standing by to proclaim it "white nationalism at work."

The act by the media and their allies in the military didn't fool anyone.

This is the Air Force indulging in political theatrics.

We’ve seen this “passive aggressive” performative nonsense in Florida where activists claim complying with anti-woke curriculum standards requires them to exclude basic history that everyone knows should be taught.

It’s… https://t.co/bufdQCuSze

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) January 26, 2025

As the issue gathered momentum in social media, it caught the attention of Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt.

I have no doubt Secretary Hegseth will correct and get to the bottom of the malicious compliance we’ve seen in recent days. President Trump celebrated and honored the Tuskegee Airmen during his first term, promoting legendary aviator Charles McGee to Brigadier General and pinning…

— Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) January 26, 2025

Hegseth acknowledged that he was on the case.

Amen! We’re all over it Senator. This will not stand. https://t.co/Hii282f1d8

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 26, 2025

Four hours later, the deed was done.

This has been immediately reversed. Thank you @SenKatieBritt. https://t.co/bmoJ4obPNL pic.twitter.com/fXCP3lisLN

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 27, 2025

While this crushes this rebellion, there is more work to do. The people behind it are open about their intentions. This is a clip from a closed Facebook group called "Service Academy Women." The author is apparently a former Army intelligence officer.

Hey Lisa Yates, you do realize that you left your name up there at the top, right? pic.twitter.com/iwBiplUxLb

— TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint) January 26, 2025

What we are seeing is coordinated resistance. Pete Hegseth has stomped out this fire, but unless he starts making an example of people, this will become a sport among leftists in the Pentagon.