The Air Force has dropped videos referencing the Tuskegee Airmen and Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, from the Air Force basic training curriculum. 

"In accordance with NEW DEIA [diversity, equity, inclusion and acceptance] Guidance the lesson plans listed below have been changed/alternated to meet the guidance," the leaked internal message said, adding that the revised lessons should be used "immediately," with the final word underlined and in bold.

An Air Force official told Air Force Times the videos themselves were not targeted for removal, but BMT classes that include diversity materials were pulled and are now under review to make sure they are in compliance with this week's executive orders.

Stop right there.

The Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs have nothing to do with DEI; in fact, I would wager they were part of the basic training curriculum long before Marxists gained control of the military services. Even if they were rolled into a Marxist indoctrination class, you don't have to be much more than a low-functioning midwit to determine how to get rid of DEI material and leave the videos alone. We can debate the extent to which either WWII program was more than symbolic, but we can't debate that the symbols were important to both the Air Force and the nation. When one takes this in context with the instances of the USAF openly rebranding its DEI programs, it starts to create an ugly picture of a military service that has decided it will do what it wants to do, and the president can just FOAD; see Has the USAF Decided That It Will Keep DEI No Matter What the Commander-in-Chief Has Ordered?

This is not new behavior by the military services. Everyone thinks Harry S. Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948. He didn't. The Army responded to desegregating infantry regiments by putting Black soldiers and officers in the regiment's third battalions. Black officers assigned below the Mason-Dixon Line found they could not use the Officer's Club and other off-duty facilities. It took a retired five-star general getting elected president to end this whack-a-mole. He knew the institutions of the military and how they were resisting Truman's executive order. Integration was not achieved until 1953.

This tactic is commonly known as "malicious obedience." You're told to do something, and you do it in a way that will cause the most disruption to business processes and create maximum embarrassment for whoever directed it, all the while claiming you were loyally following orders.

Unless the parties involved in this stunt were totally brain-dead and oblivious to the political climate, there is no possible reason to pull those videos and then ensure the word gets out.

Fortunately, there is an easy solution to this: You need to fire people. The only reason this happened was that people were trying to sabotage Trump's DEI order or were too stupid to realize the stink their actions would raise. In either scenario, you don't need people like that working for you. The result helps the resisters get their minds right and teaches the remaining idiots to be more careful.