Alaska Watchman By Joel Davidson
Alaska-based airmen at both JBER and Eielson Air Force Base are undergoing systematic diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training sessions as part of a wider effort to fundamentally reshape traditional U.S. military culture.
According to the Eielson Base website, the installation launched a DEI program earlier this year with the aim to promote a “culture of diversity and inclusion.”
Pacific Air Forces Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Officer Tony Cruz met with base supervisors in late May to help them train airmen in better “understanding different perspectives.” He used simulated scenarios during the sessions.
DEI dogma has also made considerable inroads into the U.S. Air Force Academy, where junior cadets are now being targeted in order to transform military leadership in the decades ahead.
“An individual gets to engage with an avatar but behind the avatar there is a learning specialist which is a real person that will interact with you over scripts and scenarios that have been written based on real experiences in the Air Force,” Cruz was quoted in the Eielson article. “Once they’re done, we start unpacking the event with the individual, and people start sharing their own perspectives and opinions…
