The Air Force Joins the Other Branches of Military and Removes Website References of Pioneering Female Pilots and More

The Air Force Times has reported thsat they have identified at least a dozen pages on the WWII-era Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot, including biographies, photos, museum exhibits, a video and a commentary that are nono longer featured online.

This is all a part of an effort to whitewash the history of the American Military including removing World War II Medal of Honor recipients, references to the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training, just s few of the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content.

Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI. A family of those that instructed the code talkers actually lives in Alamogordo and is shaken by this attack on thr historical record and the contributions of the Native American people to the US Military establishment. 

When asked about the missing pages, Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot replied in a statement: "As Secretary [Pete] Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department. ... We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms."

The crackdown on DEI initiatives at the Pentagon has been broad, ranging from a ban on recruiting transgender troops; a move stayed by a court this week,  to removing vast troves of documents and images from its website but does thst make us a better people and a better military? Time will tell but history has never been kind to those that attempt to erase a perspective of the past and spin history to their vision for advantage. 

"(DEI) is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the services' core warfighting mission," said Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot.

Yahoo News reports that since President Trump's election win, several major US corporations including Google, Meta, Amazon, John Deere and McDonalds have either entirely scrapped or dramatically scaled back their DEI programs.

The number of companies on the S&P 500 that used the words "diversity, equity and inclusion" in company filings had fallen nearly 60 percent compared to 2024.

The American Civil Liberties Union says Trump's policies have taken a "'shock and awe' approach that upends longstanding, bipartisan federal policy meant to open doors that had been unfairly closed."

One Trump order rescinds Executive Order 11246, a cornerstone of equal opportunity policy for federal contractors that has been in place since 1965 under the Johnson administration, without offering any replacement framework. This abrupt shift abandons a measure that has helped dismantle entrenched race and sex segregation in high-paying industries historically closed to women and Black and Brown workers. It also leaves contractors scrambling to navigate a complex regulatory environment, including federal anti-discrimination laws like Title VII and other laws mandating federal contractors take affirmative action with respect to veterans and disabled workers — all of which remain in place. 

As former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush referred to the  phrase of "a city on a hill" which comes from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in Mathew 5:14, where he states, "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill that cannot be hidden", these measures by the Trump Administration delve us into darkness. 

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