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Obama Pentagon: Too Many White Males in Special Forces
freedomoutpost.com ^ | august 7, 2015 | jonah bennett

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; obama; obamamisanthrope; obamamisogyny; obamaracist; pentagon; rop; specialforces
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To: lowbridge
Reality to Obama Pentagon...


41 posted on 08/07/2015 6:15:05 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Regulator

Diversity officer = Zampolit.


42 posted on 08/07/2015 6:17:26 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

We need more transgendered Muslims —

Let’s just transgender ALL the muslims!


43 posted on 08/07/2015 6:17:58 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: lowbridge

We’ve had too many white males for Presidents, they told us, and that’s how they foisted Obama onto us.


44 posted on 08/07/2015 6:20:02 PM PDT by mbrfl (fightingmad)
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To: Popman; lowbridge
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.

I guess they are looking forward to the day when Special Forces will have to invade US InterCitys. That is the only place that I can see where “minorities would have specific knowledge of culture in a given deployment area.”

45 posted on 08/07/2015 6:24:56 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: lowbridge

Sorry but we don’t need any affirmative action special forces members. We need the best and the brightest for the job regardless of race. No handicapping or putting a guy in the position ahead of another JUST because of his race.


46 posted on 08/07/2015 6:25:24 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: gaijin

LMAO .....


47 posted on 08/07/2015 6:25:40 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Pontiac

Can you say “Special Forces Crips” and “Special Forces Bloods”


48 posted on 08/07/2015 6:27:42 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: lowbridge

The military welcomes any and all volunteers and then test them to see if they have the aptitude and attitude to serve. Very few black volunteer for Special Operations and even fewer qualify. Ergo, Special Operations does not reflect the same ratio of minority distribution as the general population. The reason that other agencies of the government are over represented by Black is because qualifications are ignored. That improves the election chances for Democrat politicians.


49 posted on 08/07/2015 6:28:30 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Theoria

Will Muslim SEALS be “Seals of the Prophet”?


50 posted on 08/07/2015 6:29:19 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: yarddog

‘I know because I watched an episode of JAG ——”

Good one . :-)

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51 posted on 08/07/2015 6:30:48 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lowbridge

Well tell that racist that most of the blacks are being aborted!


52 posted on 08/07/2015 6:35:55 PM PDT by Lopeover (My vote is valuable, you must earn it.)
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To: lowbridge

Elite means elite, you measure up, you make it. Affirmative action means you pass all phases and meet the requirements needed to lead. No funky political appointments ever. You have to earn it not just get assigned to it. Its not the BSA, although this administration would like it to be.


53 posted on 08/07/2015 6:41:16 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: grey_whiskers
4 eyes, has to wear glasses. You left out differently vision-abled.

Eh? What's that you say?

and wha...?

"They're not that special of a group, YET? .. COMPARED TO THE OTHERS."

hey, do you have to yell that loud? I'm not entirely deaf, I'll have you know, sir.

54 posted on 08/07/2015 6:41:18 PM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: lowbridge
Nothing keeps minorities from applying.
Granted, the whole discipline for striking a superior does tend to render certain demographics more likely to be booted out if they don't get the message after time in the brig...err stockade.
55 posted on 08/07/2015 6:42:21 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Most of these women look like those plastic blowup dolls that antisocial freaks love to play with. Mouths set in just the right position.


56 posted on 08/07/2015 6:42:51 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Popman
Can you say “Special Forces Crips” and “Special Forces Bloods”

Yes and they have enlisted in the services with the specific intent of getting military training so that they could train fellow gang members after their enlistment.

So much so in fact that the military actually established rules that forbid enlistment of recruits with gang tattoos.

57 posted on 08/07/2015 6:44:13 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Mears

I have a Nephew who was a JAG Colonel for the Air Force. I was sure he would make General but he resigned a year or so ago. He is one of the two smartest people I have ever personally known. He is a genius.

I used to kid him about why he didn’t fly around in his F-15 like Harm Rabb did his F-14. Of course Rabb actually was a pilot.

Of course he will make more as a lawyer and he is getting out of a sinking ship. Possibly.


58 posted on 08/07/2015 6:46:11 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

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?

It’s a fit fit thing. Size I mean...and
With their propensity for a bulbous posterior resulting from free range feed syndrome the slippage point is precarious and therefore far more unforgiving when bipedal hasty motivation is necessary.


59 posted on 08/07/2015 6:47:17 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: mbrfl

I only learned Obama’s middle name was “Hussein” the day he was first inaugurated. - No. I’ve never voted for him. Never.


60 posted on 08/07/2015 6:48:57 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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