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 Armys 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 dont 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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Riiiight - let’s get some black lesbians in there.
Probably so...
I hear ya...
Bingo, and with their weapons and equipment on. A big factor in low % of blacks in these organizations.
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:
Obama knows white SOF won’t fire on white American civilians, and that won’t help him execute his plans.
Uh, I think most dogs can naturally swim, there Chief...
but I dunno how much a dog can carry while it's, ah, dog-paddling.
I think you're gonna have to think of some other way to get all the supplies across there, Chief.
Maybe the dogs could swim back and forth, and ferry over little loads at a time, for a while?
Hell of a way to run a railroad though, if you ask me.
Slowly they turned, clattering walker hobble, by clattering , woops I mean, step by step...
I guess they are looking forward to the day when Special Forces will have to invade US InterCitys.
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That reminded me...
Why are there ZERO news articles about Jade Helm? Is the Obama regime squelching any reports by the news media?
You can bet that NYT, LAT, MSNBC and the rest of the MSM are on daily conference calls with the Obama administration about what is and is not covered in the news.
I may be paranoid but those people are my enemies (and yours even if you dont know it).
too many half breeds in the white house.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he left so he didn’t have to accept having an angry token boss; once merit was tossed aside for race/gender a lot of Anglos were put in untenable positions. If they had leverage they were OK, but if they were in situations where results weren’t critical (any government work, including the military) they were screwed.
Kara Hultgreen broke the glass ceiling on BJ Clinton’s watch by showing us women could be carrier pilots...then she died crashing her plane.
There are too many canines in Special Forces. We need more kittens! (and moose)
That's interesting...
I'm sure Obama will fast track his gangbangers in under the guise of discrimination...
By all means, we need more stupid, uneducated, physically deficient, and mediocre people in our nation’s SPECOPS.
Maybe because too many black men are chicken $%*%?????
So you think they have a clue about how asinine they look?? Nahhhhh
Heh. Yeah. Funny about that: national/racial solidarity everywhere else is deep and intense.
Something the professional diversicrats in the U.S. are utterly clueless about.
...can somebody clone the moose, while I work at trying to clone myself with the kittens?
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