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The Tuskeegee Airmen are a good focus for study because they trained and fought differently from the rest of the Air Corps. They did not shoot down many German aircraft compared to other groups, but they were very effective at defending their bombers. I think it's up to military historians to figure out if losing friendly bombers to kill enemy pilots was a good tradeoff or not, but I will say that I had the good fortune to hear a number of bomber veterans (all white, incidentally) give an impromptu talk and my impression is they regarded the Tuskeegee airmen very highly indeed. As you'd expect from the bomber pilots who were being sacrificed. The Tuskeegee Airmen earned a place in the history class regardless of any DEI considerations.Did Trump actually say to stop teaching that part of the history though? The EOs don’t go into anywhere near that micro level of detail. What I suspect is some smartass DEI hire just trying to make him look bad by doing this and then telling the press, with a smug “See, Orange Man Bad!”
My personal opinion is the trainers were reqauired to spend X amount of time on "DEI Outreach" or something and said, "Well, let's tell the idiots in charge this stuff we're doing anyway counts as 'DEI.'"
That's fine, until an order comes down to stop all DEI efforts and suddenly a legitimate subject is on the chopping block. I think this is just one of those annoying glitches that happens when you do something good.
And of course, it is absurd to think Trump personally singled out the Tuskeegee Airmen. It's just another reason to hate journalists.