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struggle4progress

(122,256 posts)
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 12:59 AM Sunday

Anti-DEI purges are wiping out stories of my Air Force service. It's un-American censorship.

Jane Zhang
Sat, March 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM EDT

... Jessica "STING" Peterson, a 42-year-old flight test engineer who has worked with the Air Force for nearly 20 years, first as a civil servant and later as a contractor. In February, Peterson found out that many articles highlighting her accomplishments or written by her would be removed following orders in a memo from the Office of the Secretary of Defense about the removal of content related to DEI from Department of Defense websites ...

I've been a flight test engineer for nearly 20 years, and it's been amazing. We're the bridge between design engineers like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman who are designing the system, and users — the warfighters and pilots — who will use the system ...

For most of my career, the gender divide hasn't been that big of a deal to me, which is one of the reasons that the removal of content about me has been so shocking.

In articles written about women, even if the focus wasn't on someone being a woman, there was often a side note about their gender and the things they had to overcome because it was unique, making them susceptible to now being removed ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-anti-dei-purges-wiping-090201008.html

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