President Trump’s anti-DEI sentiment didn’t spare Santa Barbara County, with Vandenberg Area Drive Base issuing a press release on its social media channels that will probably be reviewing and eradicating posts to “align with the President’s govt orders” and the Division of Protection’s (DoD) priorities. A memorandum authored by Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell was issued to all DoD businesses on February 26, ordering them to take away all “information and have articles, pictures, and movies that promote Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI).”
A spokesperson for Vandenberg was clear that it is a necessary order from very excessive up the meals chain. The directive cites a March 5 deadline to take away all DEI-related content material, however “it’s a big, time-consuming activity for individuals with full-time jobs,” the Vandenberg spokesperson stated. The memorandum applies to all DoD parts, together with the U.S. Navy, Military, Marines, and different affiliated entities.
If businesses can not take away the required content material by the deadline, the memorandum orders them to quickly take away all content material posted between January 20, 2021 and January 19, 2025 — when former President Joe Biden was in workplace — “till the content material is totally reviewed and DEI content material eliminated.”
As of Friday afternoon, a search of Vandenberg’s X account yielded one publish with the phrase “range” that went up beneath the Biden administration. The February 2023 publish knowledgeable the general public of Vandenberg’s “Inspiring Change” range panel to honor Black Historical past month. 4 different posts from Vandenberg’s “Variety Day,” additionally appeared within the search from the years 2013, 2014, and 2016.
Vandenberg’s X account doesn’t have any posts containing the phrases “fairness,” “inclusion,” or “DEI.”
Vandenberg could have extra data on what number of posts had been deleted after the March 5 deadline.
