[Pharmboy]

I recently saw a review (sorry--but I can't remember where) of statistics on who serves where in the military along with mortality rates by race from Vietnam through the Gulf War. Everything you said in your post was totally supported by those stats.

One fact that stands out in my mind is the very small percentage of minorities in special forces.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"One fact that stands out in my mind is the very small percentage of minorities in special forces."

When I was in SF, there were LOTS of minorities- Hawaiians, Samoans, Guamanians, Tennessee ridge-runners and bootleggers, some Eastern Europeans, even a veteran of the Foreign legion or two.

There were some black professional soldiers- who met the standards that everyone else had to meet.

Since then, there has been aggressive recruiting for "minorities"- now defined almost exclusively as "black".