Air Force Academy Football Team Celebrates Historic WWII Doolittle Raid on Japan; Leftists Predictably Go Crazy
Air Force Academy to field awesome uniforms for the Navy-Air Force football game this fall; the best part is the reaction by out-of-touch anti-war nincompoops
Posted by James Nault Monday, August 28, 2023 at 09:03pm 26 Comments
We have been tracking a number of disturbing issues at the service academies, such as CRT instruction, Our Study: Critical Race Theories Have “Established a Beachhead at the Military Service Academies”, the fact that the service academies continue to use race as a factor in admissions, even after the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions case, which outlawed such use at civilian colleges as unconstitutional, The Supreme Court Should Apply Its Affirmative Action Ruling to Military Academies, and the spread of “woke” ideologies, West Point Alum Warns the School is Going Woke.
Last December we even held an online seminar with Air Force Academy grad Matthew Lohmeier, a former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel squadron commander who was fired, forced to resign, and and subjected to an Inspector General investigation within the Pentagon after publishing his bestselling book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, which tore the lid off the military’s obsession with racist and radical “woke” ideologies.
The seminar we held, which is definitely worth watching, and was entitled Saving the Military Service Academies from Wokeness, can be viewed here:
Well after all that negativity, I finally have some good news to report: The Air Force Academy’s football team is going to be honoring the historic Doolittle raid on Tokyo during World War II with special football uniforms this year.
From Breitbart News: ‘War Crimes’: Leftists Attack Air Force Football for Uniforms Honoring 1942 Doolittle Raiders:
On Tuesday, Air Force Football revealed its new uniforms, which feature a tribute to the Doolittle Raid…
The Doolittle Raid, commanded by Air Force hero Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off on April 18, 1942, with 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers flown by 80 airmen to deliver their payload to the Greater Tokyo area and a few other Japanese cities. The raid was launched only four months after the sneak attack at Pearl [Harbor].
The airmen, though, knew that the raid could be a suicide mission because the planes did not have enough fuel to get back to their carriers. The pilots and crew knew that if they survived their bomb runs, they would have to ditch their planes in hostile territory because they could not get back.
Yet, they went anyway…
Of course, all 16 planes were lost, three U.S. airmen died during the raid, and eight were captured, with four of them dying in a Japanese POW prison. The rest escaped back to the U.S. after ditching their planes in Japanese-controlled Chinese territory and evading Japanese capture.
Lt. Col. Doolittle was awarded the Medal of Honor and was promoted straight to brigadier general for leading the raid.
I have personally always found the Doolittle Raid to be one of the highlights of World War II and literally one of the most heroic events in United States history. A couple of movie clips help to illustrate why:
First from the movie Pearl Harbor, with Doolittle (played by Alec Baldwin) explaining what he would do if his plane was damaged over Japan:
Next, from the movie Midway, with Doolittle (played by Aaron Eckhart) explaining that they have been ordered to launch despite being “too far” away from Japan (see also Dennis Quaid as Admiral “Bull” Halsey):
If you don’t realize how amazing this raid was, and honor the memory of it, there is something seriously wrong with your wiring. Having spent an entire seven month deployment aboard USS Forrestal (CV-59), I can tell you that aircraft carrier operations are fraught with danger for Navy aircraft, never mind Army aircraft. And the fact that they actually hit Tokyo….
So I was extremely pleasantly surprised when I heard that the Air Force Academy was going to honor the Doolittle Raiders with special football uniforms when they play the Naval Academy on October 21, 2023. Check it out:
“You have struck the hardest blow of the war directly at the enemy’s heart. You have made history.”
THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS pic.twitter.com/Vd4aHhv0jw
— Air Force Football (@AF_Football) August 15, 2023
Of course, left-wingers are in a tizzy, because war is bad, or something:
Delete this. Do better!
— Jonathan (@iampangean) August 18, 2023
Equating football to a literal war is a very bad thing.
— New Nature Boy (@net_elephant) August 18, 2023
This is awful taste.
— jake in salt lake (@trashpandamagoo) August 18, 2023
I’m saving this for when it’s inevitably deleted. Just an awe-inspiring lack of awareness. pic.twitter.com/VZ9nGCnI8y
— Nuttle (@NuttleNews) August 18, 2023
….. oh my god who approved this
— grapes (@bravegrapes) August 18, 2023
These comments are so bad they almost seem like self-parody, but I’ll be chuckling about them as I watch the game.
On the good side, I particularly like this comment, which is spot on:
I find it so funny how people post their opposing opinions on something like this. It’s interesting how few realize that we are allowed to openly express these opinions because of the people, such as the Doolittle Raiders, who put their lives on the line for this country.
— Coach H (@Coach_H_009) August 18, 2023