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To: Libloather

If diversity is so great, why did the Armed Forces used to teach unit cohesion?


2 posted on 02/07/2016 1:34:10 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
If diversity is so great, why did the Armed Forces used to teach unit cohesion?

Bings to mind sitting in the enlisted men's club at NOB Norfolk in (about) 1962, with a black shipmate from Chicago. A TV was showing some of the violence against civil rights marchers. He said (something on the order of) "There's a lot of your people here, and a lot of my people, and we're getting along OK". I think my answer was "That's because we're all blue". I served with a few whites and a few blacks who had "attitudes" but most of of us got along.

17 posted on 02/07/2016 7:44:12 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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