An Air Force experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minorities failed after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results. Some officers even privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As part of the military-wide effort to promote diversity in the AF pilot ranks, the 19th Air Force command in Texas, “clustered” racial minorities/female trainees into one class - Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT) class 21-15 - that was dubbed “America’s Class” to determine if doing so would improve the pilots’ graduation rates.
It didn't. The effort failed to boost minority/women candidates’ success rates, but officers involved say they were ordered to engage in potentially unlawful discrimination by excluding white males from the class, documents show. (Exclusive: Daily Caller News Foundation 05/08/23) EXCLUSIVE: US Air Force Ran A Social Experiment To Graduate More Minority Pilots. It Didn’t Go As Planned | The Daily Caller
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