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 he wants us the lowering standards just to meet minority quotas. Not to mention the fact that minorities must volunteer to be considered.
LOL. Good one!
Yup. Stalin had his political commissars in every regiment too.
Old gig.
Do they walk around with their pants like that, or is it just went they’re standing around do they let it fall that far?
Fire anyone over a Capt. or Maj. Any actual brass still working for Barry was put there to destroy us.
Then hold hearings on national TV with all the Brass Barry purged about why.
Obama will be prosecuted and arrested. It will happen. He is a dictator and he has violated our laws and constitution. This will happen.
YO YO YO
special forces comes to baltiomo? Deetroyt????
GMTA ping...
a scarey GMTA ping at that
We need more transgendered Muslims in Special Forces.
Such was the case of the 7th SFG, which was loaded with Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics before the GWOT.
When will some of the now serving General publicly resign in protest over this stupidity? I am guessing they won’t want to loose any benefits, which they wouldn’t anyway. No guts in the top brass.
Special forces have to swim.
Does Obie know you have photos of his boyfriends in waiting??
The Navy Seals are around 70% Black.
I know because I watched an episode of JAG and there was a Seal team working in Beirut and nearly all of them were Black.
But of course they never led. They stayed behind the group, shooting anyone who ran the opposite direction.
Suspect the "diversity officer" will be the same sort of political enforcer. No more Stars and Bars tattoos on the forearms of any SF operators...
GOD SAVE US FROM THE FIEND!!!!
water.....SEALS and PJ’s...ya need to swim very very well. Other SOF, not so much....
unless the language is actually Spanish as spoken in Spain. then they would not fit in so well, sort of like the Cajuns speaking their patoi in Paris.
And I got that from an ‘hispanic’ master sergeant I knew in the Army who married a lady from Spain and she made him learn proper Castilian Spanish. he grew up learning his “spanish” in Texas
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