{"id":43143,"date":"2018-04-25T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43143"},"modified":"2018-04-25T01:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T04:04:35","slug":"column-does-the-air-force-encourage-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/column-does-the-air-force-encourage-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Does the Air Force Encourage Division?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/opinion\/2018\/04\/20\/poor-morale-stems-from-changes-in-air-force-culture\/\">column published<\/a> by the Air Force Times, US Air Force SSgt\u00a0Preston Haskell called the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen David Goldfein, &#8220;wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kind of a bold move, but he has an interesting point of view, including this tidbit on whether the Air Force values <strong>diversity<\/strong> over <strong>unity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A truly pervasive cultural phenomenon is plaguing our military, and that is one of political correctness. For example, one of my most cherished feelings I have about our military is how integrated and multifaceted we all are. I absolutely love that I work with people from almost every background, race and religion our nation has to offer. So why would the Air Force encourage division?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are allowed to be proud, and even proclaim that pride, in being black, Latino, homosexual, atheist or transgender, yet I cannot <!--more-->proclaim my pride in being a white, heterosexual, male Christian without serious reprimand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This division is encouraged and supported by the Air Force. The vast majority of the people I work with feel the same frustration that I do, regardless of their heritage or background. Political correctness is void of humanity; people lose their value as human beings as they digress into divisible statistics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if his perspective isn&#8217;t <em>factually<\/em> correct, the fact he <em>believes<\/em> it says something significant about the culture in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>If Airmen feel as though pride in <em>certain<\/em> skin colors, genders, sexual behaviors, and religious beliefs\u00a0is permitted &#8212; even encouraged &#8212; but pride in <em>other<\/em> skin colors, genders, sexual behaviors, and religious beliefs <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em>, has the Air Force created a <strong>&#8220;diverse&#8221;<\/strong> force &#8212; or a <strong>divided<\/strong> force?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a column published by the Air Force Times, US Air Force SSgt\u00a0Preston Haskell called the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen David Goldfein, &#8220;wrong.&#8221; Kind of a bold move, but he has an interesting point of view, including this tidbit on whether the Air Force values diversity over unity: A truly pervasive cultural phenomenon is plaguing our [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,20,96,219,5597,2362,442,2,6556,17,10,171,1278],"class_list":["post-43143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-atheism","tag-christian","tag-dadt","tag-david-goldfein","tag-diversity","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-preston-haskell","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43185,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143\/revisions\/43185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}