[NeonKnight]

"...the backbone of the US Army has always been the white working class...

Depends on how you define "always." Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white. The United States Armed Forces are color blind. The rest of the country could learn from them.

[STONEWALLS]

“Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white...”

....that may be true, but it won’t matter...the US is headed for tribal war which will fracture the country along racial and ethnic lines....see Thomas Chittum’s “Civil war Two: The Coming Breakup of America”
http://www.timebomb2000.com/misc/CWII.pdf

[cpdiii]

Depends on how you define "always." Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white. The United States Armed Forces are color blind. The rest of the country could learn from them.

That needed repeating.