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EBB: Air Force reinstates course with Tuskegee Airmen video after outcry

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(Military Times) The Air Force is reinstating a basic training class Monday that was suspended last week for revisions, with its materials on World War II-era Black and female pilots intact but diversity, equity and inclusion components removed.

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