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 documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.

The obvious question is this: Why? In what way does this enhance the Air Force's effectiveness at war-fighting? Is there some innate attribute of white males that makes them less effective at un-aliving bad guys? There is not; these practices are actually racist - as in, basing the decision as to whether a candidate should or should not be accepted into the Air Force ROTC based at least in part on their melanin content. That's the very definition of racism.

Libs of TikTok provides a breakdown from the Air Force Academy's "Lines of Effort."

BREAKING: Leaked internal Air Force docs obtained by @DailyCaller outline DEI quotas and how they aimed for a reduced number of White males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) applicant program and discriminated against White people. pic.twitter.com/Cnk98wPcJo

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2024

This isn't happening without some pushback, the DCNF added in its story (linked above):

“The American people are rightly concerned that, at a time when our country is facing dangerous and increasing threats throughout the world, the Air Force is focused on recruitment efforts based on arbitrary racial diversity goals — not merit or increasing the force’s lethality,” James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA), told the DCNF.

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There's a good argument to be made that these racial diversity goals - institutional racism, in fact - decrease the force's capabilities in warfighting.

The military - be it Air Force, Army, Navy, or Coast Guard - is like no other institution in the United States. The nation's military forces are essential to the survival of the republic. Members of the military volunteer for duties and hazards that are just simply not a factor in almost any other line of work. Their purpose is to fulfill the ultimate role of government at any level, and that is to protect the liberty and property of the citizens.

Anything that helps the military in this is good. Anything that impedes it is bad. End of story. These DEI practices impede this mission. They should be - must be - reversed. If a beer brewer adopts DEI practices and their produce declines in quality, or their marketing department screws up by adopting some "diverse" screwball as a promotional "influencer," well, then they sell a lot less beer. But if a military operation is compromised by people put in a position of command, not because they were the very best at the job but because they check a "diversity" check box, then a whole lot of young servicemen can die.

This policy needs to be reversed immediately.