In a post on X Sunday, Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt called the decision to pause teaching the videos “malicious compliance.”

The US Air Force will continue to teach about its first black pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, in its basic training, following a review about what to prohibit under President Donald Trump's ban on diversity,

DEI throughout the U.S. government and the U.S. military. New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was sworn in on Friday, has made eliminating DEI from the military a top priority. Reuters reported on Saturday that the video about the Tuskegee Airmen as well as another about civilian women pilots trained by the U.