Air Education and Training Command clarified changes to basic training after a course with lessons on the Tuskegee Airmen was ...
The military and other agencies have scrambled to comply with President Trump's sweeping executive order barring DEI programs ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
with its materials on World War II-era Black and female pilots intact but diversity, equity and inclusion components removed. The Air Force originally halted its basic military training course on ...
The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit and their all-Black 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss ...
After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold during WWII.
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...
− a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to fly during World War II − was also pulled from basic training curriculum, the outlet reported. The Tuskegee Airmen, an active ...
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses ... or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump ...
Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American troops to receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during WWII ... Baker took basic training at Fort Wolters, Texas, which from the start ...