Washington – references to the honorary recipient of the Honorary Medal, the Gay Aircraft Enola, which dropped the atomic bomb to Japan and the first women who underwent maritime infantry training, belong to tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for removal when the Department of Defense works Clean the diversity, justice and the content of inclusionAccording to the database obtained by the Associated Press.
The database, which has been confirmed by American officials and published by AP, contains over 26,000 photos that were marked for removal in each military ward. But the final sum can be much higher.
One of the officials, who spoke provided anonymity to provide details that were not made public, said that purge could remove a total of 100,000 photos or posts, considering social media pages and other websites, which are also designated for Dei content. The official said it was not clear if the database was finalized.
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The Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSth gave the military until Wednesday to remove content that emphasizes the efforts of diversity in his ranks Executive Order of President Donald Trump Completion of these programs throughout the entire federal government.
The huge majority of the pentagon is directed to women and minorities, including significant milestones made in the army. It also removes a immense number of posts that mention different months commemorating – such as those for people and women and women Latin.
But the database review also emphasizes The confusion that swirled among the agencies about what to remove in accordance with Trump’s order.
Aircraft and fish designs are marked
In some cases, the photos seemed to mean removal simply because their file contained the word “gay”, including members of the website with this name and the image of the B-29 enola Gay aircraft, which abandoned the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan during World War II.
A few photos of the project of the Army of Engineers in California were marked for removal, apparently because the local engineer in the photo had the surname Gay. The list included a photo of army biologists, apparently, because it was mentioned that they record data about fish – including their weight, size, hatching and gender.
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In addition, some photos of Tuskegee pilots, nation The first black military pilots which served in the segregated unit of World War II, were listed in the database, but can probably be protected due to historical content.
The Air Force briefly removed new training courses recruit Trump’s order. This attracted anger in the White House because of “malicious compliance”, and the air force quickly reversed the removal.
Many photos listed in the database have already been removed. Others were still evident on Thursday and it is not clear whether they would be removed at some point or remain allowed, including images of historical significance Tuskegee pilots.
When asked about the database, Pentagon spokesman, John Ullyot, said in the statement: “We are satisfied with rapid compliance with the department with the department with directive Removing Dei content from all platforms. In infrequent cases, in which the content is removed, which is beyond the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we properly instruct components. “
He noticed that HegeSeth stated that “Dei was dead” and that efforts to place one group before another through the Dei programs eroded camaraderie and threatens the execution of mission.
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Some paintings have not disappeared
In some cases, the removal was partial. . Home in the post Entitled “Women’s History Month: All-Female Crew supports Warfighters.” But at least one of the photos in this collection about the C-17 team could be accessed. AND shot from the corps of army engineers The entitled “Pioneer engineering remembered during the black history” was removed.
Other photos marked in the database, but still evident on Thursday included photos of the Air Service of World War II and one of the American Air Force Jeanna Leavitt, the first fighter pilot in the country.
The image of the then PFC was still evident. Christina Fuentes Montenegro becomes one of the The first three women complete the infantry training battalion of marine infantry and the image of the sea corps of World War II Medal of honor recipient PFC. Harold Gonsalves.
It was unclear why some other photos were deleted, such as a photo of the maritime body entitled “Dead sequence, that the rival from them lift the bar to a pound” or a picture of the national guard website called “Minnesota Brothers Reunite in Kuwait”.
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Why the database?
The database of 26,000 photos was created to adapt to federal archival regulations, so if the services are asked in the future, they can show how they warn the law, said the US clerk. But it can be arduous to make sure that the content has been archived, because the duty of each image was the obligation of each unit.
In many cases, employees make screenshots on the pages marked for removal, but it would be arduous to restore them if this decision was made, according to another official who, like others, said, provided anonymity to provide additional details that were not public.
The clerk of the maritime corps said that each of his photos in the database “was either removed or will be deleted.” Marines move as speedy as possible, but as in the case of the rest of the army, very few civilian employees or contractors in the Pentagon can delete the content.
Only one civilian defense is available in the sea corps. The sea body estimates that the person identified at least 10,000 photos and stories to remove online, and after a further review of 3600 of them was removed. The sum does not have more than 1,600 social networking sites that have not yet been addressed.
Many of these pages of social media were groups of military support or units created years ago and left inactive. Nobody still has administrative privileges to enter and change the content.
The sea official said that the service passes through each site and obtains new administrative qualifications so that it could make changes.
On February 26, the Pentagon ordered all military services to spend countless hours by experiencing many posts on the site, photos, articles and films to remove all mention of this “Promote diversity, justice and inclusion. “
If they could not do it until Wednesday, they were told to “temporarily remove from public display” all content published during four years of biden administration.
