[Wallace T.]

More nonsense from the Austin (Un-)American Statesman, the most liberal daily newspaper in Texas. The actual fact is that the military is drawing from families with incomes in the $30-200K range, in other words, the middle class. White Americans are overrepresented in military combat units relative to their proportion of the population, and blacks significantly underrepresented.

However, liberals have never held truth or accuracy in high regard.

[bnelson44]

Right on!

One of the problems we have recruiting from the inner city schools is that the students don't pass the entrance tests to get in the Army. In other words, they are not getting an education in inner city schools. So we are recuiting from schools in the burbs.

I know a number of honors students who are headed for Iraq, by the way.

[RobbyS]

The guy doesn't realize that the quality of men in Iraq is better than the men who landed at Normandy. Healthier , smarter, stronger and even better educated.

[Mogollon]

White Americans are overrepresented in military combat units relative to their proportion of the population, and blacks significantly underrepresented

Yep. Same statistics showed up after the Viet Nam war where middle class and upper middle-class whites were over represented and blacks and the poor were under-represented in the war in spite of what the rat newspapers and Dan Rather told us. Bill Burketts book "Stolen Valor" gives a good summary of the statistics.