I guess they'll come in handy if the troops are ever deployed to Baltimore or Detroit.
Posted on 08/07/2015 5:47:33 PM PDT by lowbridge
Elite units in the military are by and large both white and male. Pentagon officials, however, are hoping for a major demographic shift, citing the benefits of diversity in terms of increasing operational capacity. Data provided by each individual service to USA Today illustrates current disparities, which are most prominent in units like the Navy SEALs and the Army’s Green Berets. For instance, in the Army, blacks comprised 17 percent of the force in 2013, a figure slightly higher than their representation in the overall population.
As the ranks start climbing, the numbers shift. Blacks amount to only 9.4 percent of officers in the military. In the Navy SEALs, just 2 percent are black, while Native Americans make up about 4 percent, or 99 SEALs. Only 5.6 percent of enlisted Green Berets are black. But in the Air Force, among para-rescuers, the number drops even further down to .6 percent.
The Pentagon considers this to be a problem. “We don’t know where we will find ourselves in the future,” said Army Col. Michael Copenhaver. “One thing is for sure: We will find ourselves around the globe. And around the globe you have different cultural backgrounds everywhere. Having that kind of a diverse force can only increase your operational capability.”
Copenhaver wrote a paper in 2014 arguing that integrating minorities into Special Operations Forces would help address national security threats because those minorities would have specific knowledge of culture in a given deployment area.
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I guess they'll come in handy if the troops are ever deployed to Baltimore or Detroit.
Active Duty ping.
There are too many blacks playing football.
There are too many blacks in jail.
There are two many blacks not supporting their children.
I wonder how many Black defendants ask for Black public defenders.
Seriously...? ?
It seems that they are trying to imitate the ill-fitting and often oversized garb that inmates in prison are suited up with, compliments of our tax dollars.
That's absurd. If they need an Urdu speaker he can head to the Defense Language Institute.
The real reason for this is to dilute Special Forces with unqualified plants who will encourage division and undermine force loyalty.
Sigh, I would have expected this from the Onion.
A diverse military won’t make a damn bit of difference in foreign countries or cultures. As far as they’re concerned, we’re all American. I doubt Ahmed Mohammad Maguillicutty spends a lot of time thinking about hyphenated Americans.
Are you kidding..?
These are not urban professors, these will be lads PROUD to demonstrate they know NOTHING about Africa, etc.
Beat-boxing on the Q-course..?
I GUESS you know what you’re getting yourself into..!!!
Good luck on the swim test, btw.
...did I forget to say, "left handed"?
...any other preferred victims groups I left out?
Half breed mooselimb, weenie.
Of course this fag don’t like white bad asses.
The fact that I am white and my last name is of German origin makes me no more able to relate to modern Germans than some other American from another background.
Well that explains packing all those white guys on one old helicopter and sending it into harm's way . . . . Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says
There’s more to it that they forget about with that style. Low riding prison gear means “I’m available”.
Ferals get pissed when they learn that.
OK...I can see where a hispanic Special Forces soldier could be helpful in a country where knowing the Spanish language and culture would be helpful...
I'm not sure where blacks fit into this scenario, Africains look at black Americans as Americans...
How many blacks know the cultural nuances of African countries?
They obviously want a sleeper enemy agent on each mission.
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