Air Force Facing Criticism Over Preferential Treatment for Female Special Operations Recruit
This feeds right into the narrative critics have launched for years that the military would be forced for political reasons to drop standards to allow more females into combat arms and special operations career fields:
The Air Force Special Operations Command’s handling of news that a female special warfare candidate received preferential treatment in the training pipeline has sparked a fierce backlash and proven accurate the warnings of a 2016 report that called for transparency in the military’s integration of women into special operations forces.
Last week, a letter written by an anonymous special tactics airman emerged detailing how a female special tactics officer candidate quit the challenging selection process and training pipeline multiple times, only to be reinstated by the leadership of AFSOC and the 24th Special Operations Wing. (……..)
Since then, details have emerged that cast more doubt on AFSOC’s handling of the situation. On Thursday, Air Force Times reported that the trainee herself protested the training standards being lowered for her.
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You can read more at the link, but I am all for women in special forces, but it shouldn’t be because of special treatment. This just devalues the accomplishments of the women who do eventually make the cut.
Glad to see the military is not all hung up on outdated concepts such as “equality” and are replacing it with forward-thinking new ideas such as “equity”.
Equity leaves behind the natural unfairness of equal opportunity and promotes equal outcome. That is truly fair.
I’m not saying make it easy for her to pass… but somewhere out there is an equitable standard that will allow her to pass. And that standard is flexible enough to accommodate any differently abled aspect from strength to diligence.
And that standard is easier to find once we leave our sexism and racism behind us.
Equity makes everyone a winner. Equality only rewards the smart and hardworking… a very small fraction of society.
The guy who doesn’t like to run? With equitable testing, he can be special forces.
The hood rat that failed the inequitable IQ test? He is a genius if you use a more equitable scale. Special forces.
And the blind retard with the club foot has a place with the operators if social justice opens that door the bigots hold closed.
I think there is nothing but joy to see the American military embrace this.
…and I think I speak for all of our Chinese and Russian brothers and sisters.
The American military is lost….