[jazusamo]

It looks like the 0bama administrations social experiments will now include quotas of black officers in the military.

[FlingWingFlyer]

OMG!!!!!!!!! “White men”!!! What has this world come to? We’re doomed! Especially if they’re STRAIGHT, WHITE MEN!!!

[MasterGunner01]

Dear U.S. Army, in case the people in DC have forgotten their Basic Leadership 101: You LEAD people and you MANAGE things. Notice that race has nothing to do with this. The last thing to do is apply affirmative action quotas to combat arms. If you do, you are going to kill a lot of good soldiers. Guess what? If your actions result in this, troopers have ways of getting you back.

There was one particularly dangerous and arrogant battalion commander for the 4th Bn, 47th Inf. Regt., 9th Inf. Div. in Vietnam. He was a loudmouth and a coward whose idea was leading his battalion from a command chopper at 3,000 feet. Guess what? The troops in contact figured that 5.56 or 7.62 bullet holes in aluminum look pretty much alike. So, his command chopper was always getting flak patches. The troops had a fund for the first guy that could shoot him down. This is the real world and not some exercise a West Point. There are no second place winners here.

[Chgogal]

if the CO is an Allen West, then hell yes! If the CO is an Obama, then hell no!

[onedoug]

I sure knew a lot of highly capable black leaders in Vietnam. But we were drafting back then.

[rey]

Ann Coulter’s piece:

Would IT Kill You TO Hire More Blacks? Yes!
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter082814.php3

IN this piece she notes how hiring quotas lower the standards which affect our safety. This also happened when the Navy pushed for women combat pilots. The very first one they pushed through dies in a carrier landing. To her credit, she veered off to save those on ship.

[DirtyPigpen]

They said blacks make up 13% of the US population. So, 13% of the officers should be black.

[virgil]

All I can say is don’t go in the military. You’ll end up cannon fodder for sake of social engineering.

[goodnesswins]

The US ARMY has “sociologists?”.....well...there’s the problem

[JSDude1]

Oh boy this is just the sort of social engineering that our armed forced lacked that we just NEEDED! I hate Obama.

[Doc91678]

So what’s wrong? We have an affirmative action president, why not affirmative action military officers.

[dfwgator]

Operation “Get Behind the Darkies.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrh5YOQHvFw

[VeniVidiVici]

“It certainly is a problem for several reasons,” Col. Irving Smith, director of sociology at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told USA Today. “First we are a public institution. And as a public institution we certainly have more of a responsibility to our nation than a private company to reflect it...

Oh gag me with a freaking spoon. A colonel who is a director of sociology. I suppose he also supports more white folk in Equal Opportunity positions?

The army has more of a concern of diversity than warfighting capabilities? That doesn't surprise me.

[Secret Agent Man]

i wish they were more worried that too many incompetents, or too many political careerists, or too many yes-men were running the armed forces.

pc idiocy. run amok.

[Rummyfan]

“It certainly is a problem for several reasons,” Col. Irving Smith, director of sociology at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...

Um, no, it's not.

[Amagi]

Affirmative Action military.
What could go wrong?

[SuziQ]

It’s a VOLUNTEER organization. If Black men are not volunteering, it’s no one’s fault but their own, if there are more white officers than black officers. Sounds like and excellent opportunity to start ‘recruiting’ young black men while in their middle school years, before the street has gotten hold of them.

[CodeToad]

10% of Army officers are black.

12.5% of the population is black.

Less than 1% of blacks graduate college, a requirement to be an officer.

Seems like blacks are over-represented as it is.