03/19/2025

Amid DE&I Purge, DOD Says it 'Mistakenly Removed' Jackie Robinson Content from Website

A tribute to his Army service was scrubbed from a DOD website

The Pentagon said Wednesday that in "rare cases" it may have deliberately or mistakenly removed some webpages in efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion content after a tribute to Jackie Robinson's Army service was suddenly scrubbed from a Department of Defense's (DOD) website.

A DOD official told ABC News that the Robinson webpage, among other content recently removed from Pentagon websites, was "mistakenly removed" due to the search terms used to scrub DE&I terms from platforms.

The official said Robinson's page and others that were unpublished, including content honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay, the Navajo Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and the Marines at Iwo Jima, would be republished. 

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