{"id":375076,"date":"2026-09-02T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/former-air-force-secretary-says-climate-of-fear-is-unprecedented\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:00:12","slug":"former-air-force-secretary-says-climate-of-fear-is-unprecedented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/former-air-force-secretary-says-climate-of-fear-is-unprecedented\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Air Force Secretary says climate of fear is unprecedented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/FDG7rx3AazQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Former Air Force Secretary says climate of fear is unprecedented\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FDG7rx3AazQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Frank Kendall, former Air Force Secretary, told CNN that Army officers are being blocked from promotion over perceived ties to DEI, particularly minority and female candidates, and that the current climate of fear in the military is unlike anything he&#8217;s seen in his career. #cnn #airforce #frankkendall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Kendall, former Air Force Secretary, told CNN that Army officers are being blocked from promotion over perceived ties to DEI, particularly minority and female candidates, and that the current climate of fear in the military is unlike anything he&#8217;s seen in his career. #cnn #airforce #frankkendall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-375076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Air Force Secretary says climate of fear is unprecedented | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Former Air Force Secretary says climate of fear is unprecedented for free, here on News ISC. 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