While I think Travis did a piss poor job of explaining himself I have to add that our armed forces are composed *mostly* of kids from lower income families who use it as a means to get money for college. This is why blacks are overrepresented as a % of our military as compared to their % in the population at large. The army--->college thing is good until we go to war. I know several black females who have used the military as a means to get an education and join the middle middle class. It's a shame that our PC Clintonistas allowed these fine young women to be put in serious harms way. I hope she's not somebody's mommy either :(. I hope that PC-ism Clintonistas haven't allowed our military to be degraded to the point of being cannon fodder :(.
My remarks were stupid and incredibly badly timed. There will be time later to discuss the wisdom of sending under-trained support troops into chaotic combat areas with no front lines and enemy all around later, when this war is over.