Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black

USA Today | Tom Squitieri

[Centurion2000]

Interesting statistics ....

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[strider44]

Don't know if this has been posted before. The stats are valid though. My aviation brigade had maybe 3 black pilots out of about 100. In all the special forces units across branches, the number of blacks is very low. Those that have been in the military know that some racism exists. You hear the typical stereotypes wispered - too lazy, undisciplined, don't want to be around so many other white soldiers...The problem is that this is even being brought up in the first place. There's zero room for this kind of crap within the ranks of SF, let alone the services as a whole. One good reason for going to war is it distracts people from this PC tripe.

[Cacophonous]

I don't doubt that these are true. Could you cite the source and study for these?

[strider44]

I don't know that much about MOS designations in the Navy. I assume that each type of ship needs the same types of sailors whether or not its primary mission is combat or support. I would be interested in knowing the breakdown of submarine to surface. I've heard not too many blacks go with submarines. Who knows. I do know that the SEALs are almost exclusively white.

[xrp]

Lord...this has only been posted at least 3 times already. The conventional wisdom is...if it seems like a popular topic, it has already been posted. TRY SEARCHING FIRST.

[strider44]

You'd have to check the article, it was posted on WND. I speak from 8 years of active duty experience when I add my $.02 of what I saw being in a combat arms branch.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The reasons for the racial divide are unclear, but several theories have emerged, including lingering racism in some quarters of the military and a tendency among black recruits to choose jobs that help them find work in the civilian sector

Racism? lets see you take an A.S.V.A.B. test when you first sign up to evaluate where best your skills can serve you go through boot camp and throught the various schools after boot camp to sharpen those skills and these skills mostly draw off the information derived from how well your A.S.V.A.B. turned out if your just an enlisted man you know what your going to do almost from the time you talk to your recruiter [ of course recruiter sometimes will promise things he has no control over. ]

For instance after my A.S.V.A.B i had 3 choices of schools [B T.]Boiler Tech [M M.] Machinist Mate. [G M.] Gunners Mate i knew i wasnt going to spend my life in the military so for me it was a toss up between BT and MM i chose BT because the skills i learned transfered directly to what ive been doing in civilian life and still am doing there was nothing racist about it !

The choice these people make are their own .

Bringing racism into it is just another ploy to discredit our armed services .

[strider44]

Sorry, I did a cursory search, and didn't notice the article while posting some other thoughts. You don't have to get excited about it.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

troops disproportionately white

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Lord...this has only been posted at least 3 times already. The conventional wisdom is...if it seems like a popular topic, it has already been posted. TRY SEARCHING FIRST

It also helps when people use the true headline and dont change it to spice it up.

[strider44]

"Bringing racism into it is just another ploy to discredit our armed services."

I'm not trying to discredit our armed services, I dedicated 8 years of my life to them. I merely state a fact - racism exist in the Army. I heard the word n*gger used dozens of times. Blacks hang out with blacks and the whites with whites, at least on the enlisted level. The racism went both ways too, the young black soldiers threw around racial slurs too. It's just a fact.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LMBO looks like an echo chamber in that link

[strider44]

Thanks for the link.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I'm not trying to discredit our armed services

EASY big boy i wasnt refering to you i was refering to the article at the bottom of it the paragraph that ends it .

As far as i can see you made no comment your comment block is empty!

[tracer]

Such was the case when I went through boot camp at GLakes in 1969.....

[Frohickey]

* Of the Army's 45,586 enlisted combat infantryman, 10.6% are black.

Thats it? This country of 280+ million is relying on 45,586 infantrymen?!!!