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U.S. Air Force leadership remained silent when asked if Fox News Digital supported the various wake-up programs being taught to cadets.
Fox News Digital reported this week that the Air Force Academy (AFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has endorsed an Awakened initiative promoting specific gender ideologies. For example, during one of its diversity trainings, the academy instructed students to use gendered language and refrain from using the words “mom” and “dad.”
But Fox News Digital, after asking Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, a former senior fellow at the far-left think tank Center for American Progress, and AFA Superintendent Lt. There was no reaction. A request for comment asked whether Kendall and Clark approved the initiative, whether they believed it was consistent with their expectations of the Air Force, and whether they would reconsider supporting the program.
Clarke briefly referred to the report in a statement Thursday afternoon, saying the program was taken out of context and using blanket language would help the Air Force create a “more effective combat force.” Stated.
Air Force Academy diversity training instructs cadets to use language ‘includes all genders’, removes ‘mom and dad’
“The briefing focused on respect for others and our warfighting imperative to leverage diverse perspectives to solve our nation’s most difficult national security problems. Our strategic competitors are: “We’re doing the opposite,” Clark said. will provide.”
However, according to presentation slides obtained by Fox News Digital, in the diversity training in question, the cadets used “human-centered” language, taking into account that many do not have mothers and fathers. It was clearly stated that you should. The slide also states that cadets should be “color conscious.”
Air Force Academy promotes fellowship to ban ‘cisgender’ men: ‘This program is not for you’
“Some families are headed by a single parent, grandparents, foster parents, two mothers, two fathers, etc. Think ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mother and father.'” the presentation said. “Please use all gendered words. Instead of ‘man’ use either ‘general person’ or ‘everyone’, ‘partner’ and ‘boyfriend or girlfriend’.”
“It’s not ‘colour-blind’ or ‘color blind,’ it’s color-conscious,” he adds. “We see colors/patterns and worthy people for their uniqueness.”
A separate report on Friday revealed that the AFA encouraged students to apply for “gender minority” fellowships. The AFA said “cisgender” men should not apply for recruitment.
The Brooke Owens Fellowship is a nine-week aerospace internship for women and “gender minorities,” according to an email obtained by Fox News Digital. A spin-off of her program, the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, offers similar opportunities to black cadets.
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“If you are a cisgender woman, transgender woman, nonbinary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or other gender minority, this program is for you. It’s a thing,” Brooke Owens said in her application. Fellowship status. “If you’re a cisgender man, this program isn’t for you…but I encourage you to check out our spin-off program.”