Posted on 05/25/2015 5:11:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The rarest of Americans today is one simply believing themselves to be ‘American” without some one-upmanship/victimhood qualifier attached.
I thought the over representation largely went away with the all volunteer forces.
My understanding was that blacks were slightly over-represented in the Army during Vietnam era, but slightly under-represented in the combat arms.
I second your comments!
I’d wonder about the stats for the two world wars . . .and D Day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
And the Civil War . . .
Let’s see how “disproportional” the numbers really are
Thank you, Sir!
I’m not trying to belittle their service and sacrifice for their country, but now it seems with everything they invented in ancient egypt, they also invented memorial day. Like blacks were the first to ever decorate graves of soldiers.
Your opening sentence was likely echoed by most everybody reading it. Thanks for saying what needed to be said.
It did, at least those who die seem to be white and/or mostly Hispanic from what I can tell, according to pictures of the men.
When I was at Benning in the 80s, blacks were definitely highly represented in the drill cadre, but that wasn’t the case once I got out of basic and AIT.
The over representation is in support units, not in combat deaths, even in the Vietnam war, the black male age group was just barely under represented.
In Special Operations, they account for only about 1.5%, and when the San Diego Union did their report on that, it was across the board, all Special Ops units, all branches.
I understood the group that has always been over-represented in the US military was Southern whites of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
I have no idea if that is true.
Whiskey Rebellion....
In Special Operations, they account for only about 1.5%
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They cannot swim. Heavier bone density. I understand they flunk the swim tests.
Here is a way that someone could make an argument about Vietnam, since in Vietnam blacks died at a higher rate than they were percentage of in-country.
88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian, 10.6%
(275,000) were black, 1.0% belonged to other races
86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (including Hispanics)
12.5% (7,241) were black.
1.2% belonged to other races
170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2%) of whom died there.
86.8% of the men who were KIA were Caucasian
12.1% (5,711) were black; 1.1% belonged to other races.
14.6% (1,530) of non-combat deaths were black
34% of blacks who enlisted volunteered for the combat arms.
Overall, blacks suffered 12.5% of the deaths in Vietnam when the percentage
of blacks of military age was 13.5% of the population.
http://www.mrfa.org/vnstats.htm
I am really tired of hearing over and over again how (blacks, gays, muslims, etc.) helped build and sacrifice for this country. The lion’s share of the work and sacrifice came from from white Europeans who emigrated and assimilated. This dividing of people into different groups is killing the country. Rewriting history doesn’t make something true, although a generation of poorly educated and highly indoctrinated Americans believe the lie.
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