The Air Force has reinstated a course on the first Black pilots unit after it was yanked to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning DEI in the federal government.
The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, including Louisiana.
A basic training course that included a video about the famed World War II Black aviators was shut down last week in response to President Trump's DEI ban.
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.
The Air Force pulled the course for review last week following the Trump administration's sweeping order barring diversity programs.
Newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed Sunday in a social media post that the U.S. Air Force will continue teaching about the famed Tuskegee Airmen.In a statement posted Sunday afternoon,
Hegseth stated on X hat any decisions to eliminate the Tuskegee Airmen training videos were "immediately reversed."
The Air Force is resuming its boot camp lessons about trailblazing Black and female World War II pilots after the material was flagged for review following President Donald Trump's order to cancel all diversity efforts in the military.
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen’s service in World War II is inspiring: When skilled African American pilots, grounded because of their race, finally won the opportunity to serve their country, they fought the Nazis heroically.
The Air Force said it would no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen or WASPs after Trump issued an executive order barring diversity programs.
The U.S. Air Force resumed a course using training material that referred to the Tuskegee Airmen after the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives