First all-Black crew flies JSTARS surveillance mission

[rangerrebew]

First all-Black crew flies JSTARS surveillance mission
By
Ed Adamczyk
 

Feb. 22 (UPI) -- An E-8C Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System exercise included a 33-person, all-Black flight crew for the first time, the U.S. Air Force said.

U.S. Air Force and Army personnel from the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Air Control Wing, the active-duty 461st Air Control Wing and the Army's 138th Military Intelligence Company, a group known as Team JSTARS, flew from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., on a training mission on Friday.
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Capt. Dewey McRae, who said he'd long attempted to organize a crew such as this, said the opportunity was used to commemorate Black History Month.

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/02/22/jstars-surveillance-mission-black-crew/7371614022764/

[rangerrebew]

Didn't this used to be called segregation? 

[skeeter]

How was the data they collected, was it better or worse?

[SZonian]

 

[SZonian]

How was the data they collected, was it better or worse?

It was a "training mission"...would be interesting to see the training reports/assessments or if it was really just a boondoggle simply to "make history".

[sneakypete]

Didn't this used to be called segregation? 

@rangerrebew

Hit beez ok win de bruthas does hit. Hit thin beez juztize!

[GtHawk]

So let me see if I have this right, this whole thing was just a stunt pulled by a Black officer for Black History month, kind of insulting if you ask me. Does it mean that these 'Black' personnel didn't do a capable job in a mixed crew setting? Did the 'Man' hold them back from shining until they were just the Bruthas and Sistas making up the crew? Funny how it's always the minorities that are really the racists now.

[rangerrebew]

  Funny how it's always the minorities that are really the racists now.

Don't forget, everything is racist now including things like:  Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, COVID, mathematics.  The term racist now means nothing to anyone except the media trying to shag down a story.