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The Air Force Has Updated its Song to Be Gender-Neutral
military.com ^ | Feb. 27, 2020 | Oriana Pawlyk

Posted on 02/28/2020 11:49:30 AM PST by PROCON

The U.S. Air Force is changing its song to be gender-neutral as the service grows more diverse and adds more women across its ranks.

Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein made the announcement Thursday during the Air Warfare Symposium in Florida, alongside Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright.

Goldfein said the change applies to the third verse of the U.S. Air Force Song, sometimes known as "Wild Blue Yonder," which is traditionally sung at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and often performed independently of the other verses.

~~~SNIP~~~

Verse III is now:

Here's a toast to the host

Of those who love the vastness of the sky,

To a friend we send a message of the brave who serve on high.

We drink to those who gave their all of old,

Then down we roar to score the rainbow's pot of gold.

A toast to the host of those we boast, the U.S. Air Force!

The old version went, "A toast to the host of the men we boast."


(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genderneutral; song; usairforce
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To: fr_freak

I understand your position. I take solace in the fact that when a previous CSAF pushed to get the term “airman” changed because there are females serving, he got an earful from the females, most of whom said, “I am proud to be an Airman, leave it alone!”.


61 posted on 02/28/2020 1:27:07 PM PST by jagusafr
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To: mowowie
She was arrested at a Boston straight pride rally a few months back for violence.

Why wasn't she fired for bringing undue notriority to the company then? No wait let me guess.

62 posted on 02/28/2020 1:28:49 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: PROCON

we’ll have a gay all time....

even the flintstone’s theme stays the same...


63 posted on 02/28/2020 1:28:59 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Well, that’s not very inclusive. What about Foreshippersons and Aftshippersons?


64 posted on 02/28/2020 1:30:47 PM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: PROCON

He may be a good guy, I don’t know anything about him...BUT HE WORKS WITH DENTISTS!!!!


65 posted on 02/28/2020 1:31:41 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I think I would agree with you, though never having served in a combat function myself.


66 posted on 02/28/2020 1:33:20 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: rlmorel
Aren't you simply revealing too much about yourself?

CMSAF's have my full respect period.

67 posted on 02/28/2020 1:35:41 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: PROCON

I get SO bummed being associated with the USAF when I hear of things like this.


68 posted on 02/28/2020 1:43:39 PM PST by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How about TransFUBAR?????


69 posted on 02/28/2020 1:56:22 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: rlmorel
This CMSAF has not seen a dental lab in 18 years.
He served as a Professional Military Education instructor and has held various senior enlisted positions while serving at squadron, group, wing, Task-Force and Numbered Air Force levels.
I also noticed that he has since 2013 Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institute with a 2010 Master Certificate in Project Management, Villanova University

I was PMP certified at Verizon but it lapsed after I retired. That is World Class Program and Project management professional knowledge. Cool Beans!

70 posted on 02/28/2020 1:56:22 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: PROCON

In other news, the last line of John Magee’s High Flight has been changed to “Put out my hand and touched the face of Allah.”


71 posted on 02/28/2020 2:01:38 PM PST by oldbill
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To: higgmeister

I was joking...it apparently is where he started out...


72 posted on 02/28/2020 2:07:57 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: higgmeister

Really, it was a joke.


73 posted on 02/28/2020 2:08:41 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: mowowie

Where words can mean anything they can also mean nothing.

Someone should ask the fruit what are “they” going to do next week when the libgods change it again.


74 posted on 02/28/2020 2:11:10 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: ducttape45
I get SO bummed being associated with the USAF when I hear of things like this.

It's not so bad. According to Springer.com:

Of the countries included in our study, unions for military personnel exist in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and The Netherlands.
But you're right, it's disheartening.
75 posted on 02/28/2020 2:37:14 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: dakine

And, there it is. I attended, and graduated from, three colleges. To this day I have no idea what any of their school songs are.


76 posted on 02/28/2020 2:39:12 PM PST by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
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To: rlmorel

Well, I did look up your Master Chief of the Navy and he is a total warrior, from starting in Weapons to Intelligence up to DIA.


77 posted on 02/28/2020 2:43:38 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: originalbuckeye

Your prerogative...


78 posted on 02/28/2020 2:51:11 PM PST by dakine
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To: TADSLOS
Back when MEN actually won wars....

Buck up, homes. Those days are gone. Forever.


79 posted on 02/28/2020 2:53:14 PM PST by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
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To: dakine
It's the principle, not the specific act.
One day idiots change a word to a song to be sex “neutral”, the next day, lowering standards as well as providing special accommodations to individuals with vaginas or surgically altered necrovaginas so that females/males on HRTs can pass certain combat/special forces training, oh wait....
80 posted on 02/28/2020 2:57:59 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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