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Decorated Tuskegee Airman combat pilot Harry Stewart Jr. dies at 100Harry Stewart Jr. learned to fly even before he could drive and helped save the world from the evils of fascism.
The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the unit's legacy.
Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were ...
as well as video of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) − a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to fly during World War II − was also pulled from basic training ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) courses they took during basic military training.
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