Air Force Academy employs DEI enforcers, says alumnus
The Air Force Academy employs a cadre of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) enforcers who report to “a separate chain of command,” an alumnus and former Space Force commander said Saturday.
‘They’d be happy to turn me in’
Former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeier was discharged in 2021 after voicing criticism of DEI ideology in the military. Over the weekend, he told “Fox and Friends Saturday” host Joey Jones that Space Force members are willing to turn each other in for disloyalty to DEI ideology.
“A fellow commander informed me that they’re aware of my kind of politics and that they’d be happy to turn me into the base commander if I continued to privately criticize our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” Lohmeier said. “But this problem has grown far beyond what I experienced, personally and professionally in the military workplace.”
Special uniforms for DEI enforcers
The former commander added that at the Air Force Academy, a special DEI enforcement troop polices the cadets and reports to a different command.
“My own alma mater, the U.S. Air Force Academy, has diversity and inclusion cadet officers who wear a special insignia within their cadet squadrons, they wear purple braided rope over the shoulders and they report to a separate chain of command other than their military chain of command, relating to diversity and inclusion issues,” he continued. “It reminds one of Soviet political commissars that have been established both in the Soviet Union and in other Marxist revolutionary efforts throughout the last century.”
‘Eyes and ears’ programs
Lohmeier co-authored a recently published study on DEI initiatives in the military which found that military academies have “eyes and ears programs” that train and appoint cadets “to report overheard private conversations that challenge DEI precepts.”
“Unfortunately for the American people and for all of the men and women in uniform, it’s been considered for a number of years now to be politically partisan to speak up against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” Lohmeier told Jones. “And of course, anyone who looks into this matter knows it shouldn’t necessarily be considered a partisan issue. I wasn’t interested in being politically partisan while I wore the uniform of the country and was in command of a space force unit, but of course, senior military leaders, especially under the current administration, decided that because of the climate of fear that we had created for ourselves they ought to treat my criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as partisan and, quote unquote, hold me accountable for speaking out against it.”
