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 saw a question on one of the History Channel shows about special forces. In the middle of the show the posted a question with four choices. Which U.S. Special Forces receives the most difficult training?
The answers were not the Seals, or the Green Berets, nor the Rangers. the correct one was the Air Force PJs.
Afraid whites will rebel one day against the govt. Also concerned they will take the side of the American citizen. Nwo
“I have a Nephew who was a JAG Colonel for the Air Force.”
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I’m sure that the family is quite proud of him.
I know I would be.
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(Sum of the IQ’s in the picture)*Pi < Room temperature
Marine Recon, too.
I was a Recon Platoon Commander back in the early 70's. I had one black Marine in my platoon. He was definitely not ghetto. He was really just like all the other troops. Swam well, too.
Recon was volunteer-only back then. Probably still is. Can't see affirmative-action working very well there.
Blacks are underrepresented in any front line combat unit. That’s why they are also underrepresented among those killed in action.
I knew the kid was a genius when he was only around 9 years old. I made a pact with him that if either of us ever became a millionaire he would give the other a hundred thousand dollars.
I think he is well on his way but since he has a wife and children I will not hold him to it, even if I could. Still I would not be surprised if one day he gives me $100,000.
It’s lonely out here on the right tail.
;-)
Yes...it is.
Hated that show.
Also known as “Shake and Bake” Commandos by the other S.F.
Difficult is subjective. A case could be made that the Silent Service in fact is the most exclusive branch, but of course there too, very few blacks. Some females now, the first one was cashiered out after being caught copulating with the senior enlisted man.
A lifetime ago I was assigned in an MI detachment on Taiwan. Makeup included 2 mainland born Chinese Americans, 1 each 2d generation Chinese and Japanese, and the balance white Americans (sorry, if you're a numbers guy - no Hispanic or Black Americans). Only 2 of us (both white) had not gone through Monterey language institute. Most of us had some issues with local culture but liked the people and their society/history etc., the differences we could laugh off, as did our counterparts & the 2 native born guys.
The ONE member of the det. who had constant problems with the locals was the American born Chinese translator...once busted for beating a Taipei bus with his umbrella while shouting "animals!". So much for racial advantages in dealing with the reality of "the old country".
And...
The Chinese considered us all to be European anyway.
Are missions going to operate on CPT.
An effort was made a few years back to try and get more blacks in the special forces but the one big thing that held many back was the requirement to swim. Very simply put, most blacks can’t swim.
BTW, blacks are also way underrepresented in infantry, intelligence, and aviation as well. They tend toward supply clerk and administrative type MOSs.
I just don’t know what to say anymore...
The video was blocked by NBC on copyright grounds, but here's the transcript, from (old!) SNL. A spoof episode of The World At War documentary series on WW II, The Walker Brigade:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78kwalker.phtml
It gets worse every time I wake up.
Let them all take permanent point.
Either those boys have really short legs or they are retarded and can’t wear pants.
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