Goodbye Mom and Dad

 I recently came across a letter a U.S. Air Force Academy first year cadet sent home.

Dear Mom and Dad Care Giver and Care Provider,

Things are going well here at the Academy.

I am learning a lot of things that will make me a better Air Force officer, warfighter and leader with character.

It is hard to believe that we were ever able to fight and defend our country without the diversity, inclusion, justice and identity-based training we have received.

I know I came here in order to be an Air Force pilot or be in the Space Force but this training has made me aspire to be a Diversity and Equity officer when I graduate.

My roommate has his  zie girlfriend partner visiting this weekend. He My roomie said she zie may be able to fix me up with a girlfriend  friend of hers zis for the football game on Saturday.

As you can see, I unconsciously slip into microaggression mode from time to time but I fortunately caught my mistakes before signing off.  Sorry for the cross outs above but I did not have time to rewrite the letter. 

I have to get to my next training session. In the last session we had to list all the animals we could think of that started with the letter G. I am thinking that we may be asked to do animals that begin with H today. 

I have one already in mind. HORSE.

Care Provider,  that came to me as I thought of the picture of your favorite horse, Man o' War, that you have in your office.

What a beautiful animal but I think you might want to take it down because we just don't know who you might be offending with that name.

Love,

Your son first born,

Tru

(P.S. I have decided that I should no longer be called Truman. I know you named me after Grandpa Care Provider but I don't want to risk offending someone here or to jeopardize my future career.

Yes, the letter is fictitious.

However, I couldn't help thinking what one of those young cadets might be writing to their parents about the new Air Force Academy training program.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-academy-diversity-training-tells-cadets-to-use-words-that-include-all-genders-drop-mom-and-dad

A diversity and inclusion training by the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado instructs cadets to use words that "include all genders" and to refrain from saying things like "mom" and "dad."

The slide presentation titled, "Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do," obtained by Fox News Digital, advises cadets to use "person-centered" and gender-neutral language when describing individuals.

"Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mom and dad,'" the presentation states. "Use words that include all genders​: ‘Folks’ or ‘Y’all’ instead of ‘guys’; ‘partner’ vs. ‘boyfriend or girlfriend.’"

This is the activity to name as many animals beginning with the letter G as possible.

It was designed to then compare answers to that of your squad to show the value of diversity of views and knowledge.

 

One slide in the presentation claims that D&I training is critical for "developing warfighters" to be "prepared to lead the USAF/USSF with character."

An Air Force Academy spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the D&I training is to help prepare cadets for "warfighting effectiveness." 

I bet you feel safer and more secure already.

Doesn't this make you wonder who is in the leadership positions in our military today to sign off on this stuff and believe that it was going to result in a better fighting force?

What is incredible in all of this is that our military is facing shrinking numbers of young individuals who even have the the bare minimum in qualifications to be able to serve.

75% of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 do not even meet the minimums to serve based on pure fitness standards due to education, drug use, mental issues, criminal history or obesity.

Source: https://www.novinite.com/articles/215900/75+of+US+Youth+are+Unfit+for+the+Military

Military recruiting this year has reached crisis levels.

Source: https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/national-security/2022/september/military-recruiting-hits-crisis-level-lows-americans-urged-to-return-to-a-society-of-service

The U.S. Army has only reached 52% of its recruiting goals for the fiscal year that ends September 30.

The other services are doing better in their recruiting but none will meet their goals this year.

For example, this is what an Air Force general recently told Congress.

"We've reduced our pilot shortage by 250 airmen, yet we still have over 1,600 pilot vacancies," Gen. David Allvin, USAF, told lawmakers during a recent military readiness hearing.

All of this is even more inexplicable considering that the target audience for military recruiting is probably people who are anti-woke by nature. They want to be warriors and our leadership seems more interested in turning them woke. 

Of course, this is the same military who last year was unwilling to consider any exemption requests (including religious) for the mandatory Covid vaccines.

The National Guard is on the verge of discharging 20,000-25,000 service members who had concerns about the vaccine.

Why would they follow through on these discharges in light of the readiness numbers? 

With what we know now, does any of this make sense?

You can also count on Biden's student loan cancellation executive order to only make matters worse for military recruitment.

Many college students join ROTC programs in order to pay for college and avoid student debt. Even more significant, many surveys show that 70% or more of all enlistments into our voluntary armed services is motivated by the opportunity for education benefits under the GI bill. 

I can assure you that the cancellation of student loans (and expectation that this is just the first step of more to come) will do nothing to help military recruitment.

Do liberals understand that cancelling student loan debt may eventually lead to the need to reinstate the military draft? It is an unintended consequence that should not be ignored.

We live in a world where little makes sense any more.

Men are not necessarily men.

Women may be men.

Men may be women.

Men may even become pregnant.

Weird people are called normal and normal people are called weird.

Whites cannot wear their hair in dreadlocks and blacks cannot open Mexican restaurants or they risk being accused of "cultural appropriation".

To add to all of this our military leaders seem more concerned with potential micro aggressions (asking someone about their Mom and Dad) than macro aggressions (threats from China, Russia, Iran and other enemies).

What is next?

Might I suggest prayer?