19th AF Commander Hopes Pilot Height Waivers Can Increase Air Force Diversity

[rangerrebew]

19th AF Commander Hopes Pilot Height Waivers Can Increase Air Force Diversity
11/17/2019

​—Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory


Nineteenth Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Craig Wills’ recent push to better publicize pilot height waivers aims to make the service’s population of aviators more diverse, he told Air Force Magazine in a Nov. 14 interview.

“The reason for now is that we want to get the word out because we want to have more female aviators, we want to have more aviators from... underrepresented groups, and we want to make sure that our Air Force looks like our nation to the max[imum] extent because we think that that leads to a more combat-capable force,” he said.

USAF rules currently stipulate that pilots must be between 5’4” and 6’5” when standing, and have “a sitting height of 34-40 inches,” according to a Nov. 5 Air Education and Training Command release.

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2019/November%202019/19th-AF-Commander-Hopes-Pilot-Height-Waivers-Can-Increase-Air-Force-Diversity.aspx

[rangerrebew]

Silly me, I would have thought skill to be more important than diversity.

[jpsb]

I hope our new PC Air Force can fight.

[GtHawk]

I hope our new PC Air Force can fight.

Well I certainly hope they don't come up.............short.

[sneakypete]

I can't speak for the rest of you,but I can't find words to describe how happy I am to discover that Diversity is the prime concern of a USAF General.

[sneakypete]

I hope our new PC Air Force can fight.

@jpsb

I'm hoping they know how to service and fly airplanes.

[Smokin Joe]

@jpsb

I'm hoping they know how to service and fly airplanes.

I'm hoping they can see over the instrument panel....

[Fishrrman]

Don't worry, Joe.
They'll give 'em telephone books to sit on.
(wait... how thick are telephone books any more....?)

[Smokin Joe]

Don't worry, Joe.
They'll give 'em telephone books to sit on.
(wait... how thick are telephone books any more....?)

I don't think you could get a tall enough stack that was stable.

Better just go with boxes....less weight than the Thomas Register or unabridged dictionaries...

[LegalAmerican]

Good grief.  Look what diversity has done for America!  Destroying it.  Celler/hart act 1965. 

We need 100% Americans...no loyalty to any other nation. Muslim soldiers killed our own men, while being in American uniforms.

[Smokin Joe]

Good grief.  Look what diversity has done for America!  Destroying it.  Celler/hart act 1965. 

We need 100% Americans...no loyalty to any other nation. Muslim soldiers killed our own men, while being in American uniforms.

It's more like so this: 
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can fly, too....

[LegalAmerican]

I found this below. Interesting theory. "The white man sees no race".  I didn't write it! Things to ponder. Nidal Hassan.
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Because the military has been compromised.

The military has every race from every country in it....that WEAKENS US.

 Rome made the same mistake....thinking ANYONE WOULD BE a Roman soldier and not act in their own peoples interests.

Muslims, Mexicans, Koreans, Chinese, African....et al....this is not what our AMERICAN MILITARY should look like.

 China, Korea, Africa....no other country has this nonsense in their military.....they know better.

 Only dumbed down Europeans think you can fill our military and police with 3rd worlders who have NO CONNECTION to America to fight our wars for the Europeans who built this country.

 Omar said she wanted to get rid of WESTERN IMPERIALISM....she means white people. Our military has been 3rd world for a long time....and then Obama decided trannies would work just as hard as a white man. We need to see this for what it is...a race war..and we are losing because white people refuse to see race.
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[Smokin Joe]

I found this below. Interesting theory. "The white man sees no race".  I didn't write it! Things to ponder. Nidal Hassan.
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Because the military has been compromised.

The military has every race from every country in it....that WEAKENS US.

 Rome made the same mistake....thinking ANYONE WOULD BE a Roman soldier and not act in their own peoples interests.

Muslims, Mexicans, Koreans, Chinese, African....et al....this is not what our AMERICAN MILITARY should look like.

 China, Korea, Africa....no other country has this nonsense in their military.....they know better.

 Only dumbed down Europeans think you can fill our military and police with 3rd worlders who have NO CONNECTION to America to fight our wars for the Europeans who built this country.

 Omar said she wanted to get rid of WESTERN IMPERIALISM....she means white people. Our military has been 3rd world for a long time....and then Obama decided trannies would work just as hard as a white man. We need to see this for what it is...a race war..and we are losing because white people refuse to see race.
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Height waivers, folks. So short people can fly, too....

[Wingnut]

Hey, Castro can apply now!

[sneakypete]

Height waivers, folks. So short people can fly, too....

@Smokin Joe

Actually,I think it is so tall people can fly jet fighter-bombers. They really don't have much room inside them.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Actually,I think it is so tall people can fly jet fighter-bombers. They really don't have much room inside them.

Does that mean they get hi-top cockpit canopies? Or is it low-rider ejection seats?

[sneakypete]

Does that mean they get hi-top cockpit canopies? Or is it low-rider ejection seats?

@Smokin Joe

I am guessing they will be on flight status,get flight pay,and be fast-tracked for promotion,without ever having to fly.