GOV/MIL UK Air Force chief of recruitment quits over exclusion of white males

MinnesotaSmith

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Indicates IMO part of why there was no chance Europeans were ever going to intervene directly in the Ukraine fracas. They can't; they've gutshot their militaries with "woke" as well as weenie budgets for forever.


UK Air Force chief of recruitment quits over exclusion of white males

JAZZ SHAW Aug 17, 2022

"With constant worries about new wars breaking out around the world, military recruitment is back in the spotlight in many countries, particularly in the western alliance. This is particularly true in Great Britain, where the ranks of the army and air force have been depleted through attrition. The Royal Air Force is having more trouble than the other branches, however. New “diversity” mandates for the Air Force put in place by Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston have made it almost impossible for the RAF to reach its recruiting goals. The alleged policy in question states that job offers will not be made to white males. This has led the RAF’s head of recruitment to resign, claiming that the targets are “impossible” and the policy is endangering national security. But RAF spokesmen are refuting the claim.

he head of recruitment for the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, a senior female officer, has reportedly resigned in protest of a diversity policy critics say has set “impossible” targets and jeopardized U.K. national security.
White male applicants are being excluded from job offers in the RAF under diversity guidelines set by Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, Sky News reported. Sources who spoke to the outlet complained that diversity targets set by air force leadership have led to hiring restrictions that are threatening military preparedness, comparing the situation to the pre-World War II era.
“Then you look at the head of the RAF and he’s prepared to break the operational requirement of the air force just to meet diversity [targets],” one source said.

There was an official policy change, but it dealt with “goals” in terms of diversity. Recruiters were told to aim for an increase in the ratio of female recruits joining all of the armed forces to 30% by 2030. The RAF set a more ambitious goal, calling for 40% of new recruits to be women by the end of the decade. But the policy didn’t specifically say that no white men could be enlisted. It did, however, set a goal of 20% of all recruits being “non-whites” by 2030.

The now-former head of recruiting claims that the policy was more unofficial in nature, but just as serious. She said that she was “pressured” to “pause extending job offers to white male applicants” and make up the difference with female and minority applicants. But they simply weren’t getting enough qualified applicants who were not white males to reach the existing goals.

A spokesman for the RAF told reporters that the claim was untrue, but sounded rather vague about the details. They said, “There is no pause in Royal Air Force recruitment and no new policy with regards to meeting in-year recruitment requirements.” That statement could refer to what is being claimed by the departing head of recruitment, but it could also simply be a reference to the total number of recruits they were seeking.

Are those target figures even realistic? A quick look at the UK’s own racial diversity statistics shows that Great Britain doesn’t have a very diverse population. Nearly nine out of ten Brits (87%) are white. So getting the Air Force to the point where a quarter of their recruits are minorities is going to be a challenge. The breakdown between men and women is fairly even, but the British culture hasn’t historically seen significant numbers of women seeking military careers.

Cultural change in any country is an evolutionary process that plays out over time. While it has accelerated rapidly in the United States over the past half-century, change has clearly been far slower in the United Kingdom. And you can’t make changes like that take place simply by issuing a memo. It has to happen organically. It sounds as if the leadership in the RAF tried to push this through using unofficial channels and got caught when a high-ranking officer complained about it."
 

Doc1

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Western Europe has been committing cultural suicide since shortly after WWII. It has accelerated greatly in the past ten years or so.

Militaries have been becoming ever more sophisticated over time. None of the branches - and especially more technical branches like the Air Force and Navy - have much use for unintelligent ground pounders who need to know little more than cleaning their rifle. This isn't WWII. Even the infantry in advanced countries is more technically-oriented than civilians understand.

Potential recruits who can't meet the intelligence and physical requirements are now often shoved through and reduce the effectiveness of the entire branch or unit.

This can only end badly.

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MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
Not just the Brits:


Woke' Military Policies To Blame For Recruitment Crisis, Servicemembers Say
BY TYLER DURDEN

TUESDAY, AUG 16, 2022
Authored by J.M. Phelps via The Epoch Times

"The U.S. Army is expected to fall nearly 40,000 troops short of its recruiting goals over the next two years. Fiscal year 2022 is expected to miss the mark by 10,000 troops, while the number in fiscal year 2023 could reach 28,000. These figures mean that this year is on track to be the Army’s worst recruiting year in almost 50 years.


The Army plans to circumvent the problem by offering $1 billion for its recruiting program and placing more emphasis on the use of its reserve units.

The Epoch Times reached out to the U.S. Army Recruiting Command for comment, and Maj. Charles Spears of the Combined Arms Center replied to various inquiries about the state of recruiting. Spears offered several reasons for the Army’s recruiting challenges in the years ahead.

First, he said, “only 23 percent of American youth are qualified to serve without a waiver, [noting that] obesity, addiction, medical, and behavioral health are the top disqualifiers for service.”

The Army is also competing with corporate America, he said, adding that “social media’s virtual public square shapes the values and perceptions of American youth, which is increasingly unfamiliar with the benefits of Army service.”

According to Spears, the American population is “increasingly disconnected” from serving in the Army and military service, Spears said. “Oftentimes, influencers [like parents, teachers, and coaches] do not recommend military service.” He also added that “the share of youth who have seriously considered military service is at a historic low of nine percent.”

Finally, Spears said, “the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited the ability of recruiters to interact with prospects in person, [and] also exacerbated academic and physical fitness challenges, limiting the pool of qualified applicants.” As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, there has been a nine percent decrease in Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores as well as increased applicate obesity.

In addition to these factors, servicemembers have expressed other concerns that they say have contributed to the recruitment crisis.

Army Boots on the Ground

The Epoch Times spoke to an active-duty Army soldier with over 15 years of service on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals. He is gravely alarmed about the Army falling short on recruitment numbers.

“In the past,” he said, “the Army targeted a specific demographic of people based on their values, [and these recruits] were patriots and loved America.” In today’s general population, he doesn’t see the same interest in patriotism. “Much of the country doesn’t love America like it use to,” he said. “And with a military no longer upholding the values, the oaths, or the creeds it once did, what kind of new recruits should we expect [to join the Army]?” he asked.

From a macro perspective, we had a significant breach of trust in the last election.” By oath, he said, the military swears to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But the U.S. military has said nothing about the previous election, according to the soldier. “I’m not saying there is a final answer, but as defenders of the Constitution, they owed open and transparent conversation to the force and to the American people,” he said.

Instead, he said, they happily encourage mandated vaccines, back the transgender issue, and speak out in opposition to the Supreme Court of the United States in regard to Roe v. Wade—all of which are very political.

In his opinion, “we now have a Department of Defense [DoD] that has taken various political positions that are very much opposed to the heart of America.”

All the while, he said, the size of battalions is shrinking. “Some are less than two-thirds of where they need to be,” he said. And many of those who remain are not “usable deployables.”

He said, “Much of America is missing the fact that the Army is intentionally kicking people out in a precarious way that it knows is unnecessary, because the data shows that it’s unnecessary.” He is under the impression that “our military is intentionally being weakened.”

Rather than watching the military “decay,” he said, “military leadership needs to take action for the good of the America people.” But he’s not convinced this will happen, because “for the most part, the higher-ups are cowards and they lack the personal courage to take the actions needed to put an end to this sad state of affairs.”

As recruiting woes mount and solutions appear scant for the U.S. Army, service members of the nation’s other military branches are equally concerned.

Read more here..."
 

Squid

Veteran Member
The woke leaders will be shocked when their limited but very diverse is our strength military is over run and routed by a uncaring unwoke brutish enemy.

When political leaders forget what is the real purpose of the military is, it is up
to military leaders to remind them. When military leaders forget what the purpose of the military is it is time to prepare.

I heard in a historic reference a French women once exclaim that while France was raising their young men in the 30s to become ‘gentleman’ and polite Germany was teaching their young men to
be tough and competitive. This will work out as well for western societies.
 

Zagdid

Veteran Member
Napoléon Bonaparte

“A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.”​

― Napoleon Bonaparte

 

CaryC

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Makes me wonder who flew the planes in the Battle of Britian? Night raids into Germany/Berlin?

I mean I see on TV (TeeVee) where it was white guys, but hey it's a propaganda move by white supremist, to make people think the white English won the battle. And I might include I think the casualty rate was around 60%.
 

jed turtle

a brother in the Lord
All by design. Corrupt and water down one’s dominant race/culture and soon you no longer have a country Or real men dedicated to fight or die trying to preserve it. All necessary steps/phases of the development of a one world “civilization” under the control of one person. We‘ve come a long way baby...
 

Elza

Veteran Member
Also not discounting the Tuskegee Airmen but they flew in Southern Europe and not out of England.
They were some of the best pilots in the air. Bomber crews requested the 332nd to be their escorts. It is claimed that they never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft. BUT: They weren't accepted "jus' cuz they be black" like they are today. The requirements were uber tough and they either passed or got bounced. Black or no black.
 

CaryC

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They were some of the best pilots in the air. Bomber crews requested the 332nd to be their escorts. It is claimed that they never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft. BUT: They weren't accepted "jus' cuz they be black" like they are today. The requirements were uber tough and they either passed or got bounced. Black or no black.
One of the originals was from the town south of us.

Along with a bunch of others that were bad. LOL
 

PghPanther

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They were some of the best pilots in the air. Bomber crews requested the 332nd to be their escorts. It is claimed that they never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft. BUT: They weren't accepted "jus' cuz they be black" like they are today. The requirements were uber tough and they either passed or got bounced. Black or no black.

They give them the easiest assignments to minimize bomber losses....................there was a lot of AA focus on making sure they were shinning examples for the future.
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Indicates IMO part of why there was no chance Europeans were ever going to intervene directly in the Ukraine fracas. They can't; they've gutshot their militaries with "woke" as well as weenie budgets for forever.


UK Air Force chief of recruitment quits over exclusion of white males

JAZZ SHAW Aug 17, 2022

"With constant worries about new wars breaking out around the world, military recruitment is back in the spotlight in many countries, particularly in the western alliance. This is particularly true in Great Britain, where the ranks of the army and air force have been depleted through attrition. The Royal Air Force is having more trouble than the other branches, however. New “diversity” mandates for the Air Force put in place by Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston have made it almost impossible for the RAF to reach its recruiting goals. The alleged policy in question states that job offers will not be made to white males. This has led the RAF’s head of recruitment to resign, claiming that the targets are “impossible” and the policy is endangering national security. But RAF spokesmen are refuting the claim.

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Enoch Powell must be howling in utter anguish across the moors!!
 

Doc1

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Just as a side note, my (deceased) son, Alex, was a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, with two tours in Iraq. Long before that, I was a simple Rifleman in a South African Commando unit. Note that the South African Commandos weren't like the British Special Boat Service commandos or our Special Forces. They were somewhat analogous to our own National Guard.

We often compared notes and he showed me some of their training material. It wasn't genius-level stuff, but was far more sophisticated than what I experienced. I also had the opportunity to interact with some of his buddies when they were on leave. I watched them carefully and one could tell than not all of them were really sharp, but most of them were. I know that dynamic and the sharper guys tend to pull a little more weight for the less capable guys on ops (as long as they like them).

I think that's been the small unit dynamic since the Roman legions and it's a good thing. The problem you will get is when most of a unit is comprised of slower guys and there aren't enough sharp guys to make up any deficiencies.

Historically, most advanced country's militaries did try to get the best and the brightest of the available manpower. Even in WW1 and WW2 the US military was giving IQ and aptitude tests. To be frank, a lot of the dumber guys got shuffled off to the infantry, but back then, it was a simpler infantry.

My son's unit had to know how to call in fire missions, do some fairly sophisticated math and handle advanced land nav. They had to master a variety of analogue field computers and also had to be proficient is a wide variety of weapons and advanced first aid. Additionally, their PE requirements were fairly grueling. Units like that - and even more advanced units - are the last place you want quota and affirmative action hires.

Sadly, I'm sure the deficiencies will play out in our next land war.

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Wyominglarry

Veteran Member
I am sure some of the old timers will remember the term "McNamara's Morons". I had one of those guys in my platoon. He should of been assigned to KP duty or something in camp, but we were always short in our company and so one day this new guy shows up and I met my first Mac's Moron. When we were in boot we got a comic book for the instruction manual on how to take care of our M16s. Really was written for people even with low IQs to understand. Anyway this guy could not figure out how to put the bolt back into the carrier and back into the receiver. He had to been shown this in boot, but here he was in the bush and he still could not figure it out. Usually we went out for 10-30 days on patrol (Central Highlands) and on the third day he stood up in a firefight and got a bullet in his head. He told me as he was about to stand up. That he wanted to see who was shooting at us.
I fear our military will be full of Mac's Morons in a few years and totally unable to fight.

 
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