Rep. Dan Crenshaw Weighs In on Female Combat Control Controversy
Mil & Intel
By Matt White | January 07, 2022
A controversy among the Air Force’s elite ground combat troops broke into public view Friday, Jan. 7, when a Texas congressman and a three-star Air Force general publicized a series of accusations surrounding a female airman training to be the first woman to complete the service’s combat control training pipeline.
A memo-style letter began circulating Wednesday among combat controllers, known as CCTs, and others in the Air Force’s special operations community. The letter detailed allegations that a female candidate training to be a special tactics officer — the officer equivalent to the all-enlisted CCT career field — had performed poorly and even quit the training, but that high-ranking officers had intervened to keep the student eligible in the pipeline.
The letter described a pattern of “preferential treatment” for the student and alleged that “standards are being lowered” for CCT students in general to allow women to pass, specifically naming the commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, as one of the officers involved. Slife is a career-long helicopter pilot.
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