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powerlifter54 wrote:Don't worry. They will be Commissary Officers, Supply Officers, and Medical Service Corps types. For some reason they avoid any real combat or combat support role.

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:Don't worry. They will be Commissary Officers, Supply Officers, and Medical Service Corps types. For some reason they avoid any real combat or combat support role.

Women or blacks?

Leaving out the five ambiguous cases (mixed or unknown), minorities have suffered only 20 percent of the military deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom, despite making up 38 percent of the 20 to 24 year olds in 2008. Per capita, Non-Hispanic whites have been 2.47 times as likely as minorities to die in Afghanistan.

It is wrong to say that minorities are disproportionately bearing the burden. Whites are indeed slightly under-represented in today's active-duty military as a whole: They make up 64.2 percent of the force, compared with 69.1 percent of the U.S. population. (The reserve components are somewhat whiter.) But whites are slightly over-represented among the dead, at 70.9 percent.

Conversely, African-Americans are notably over-represented in the military as a whole. They make up 19.1 percent of the active-duty force, and a staggering 24 percent of the Army, as opposed to just 12.1 percent of the population. But blacks are not significantly over-represented among the dead of this global war: They make up only 12.4 percent.

The reason for this discrepancy, say experts, is that although blacks sign up in greater numbers, they cluster pragmatically in noncombat units whose training in mechanics, electronics, and logistics translates well into civilian careers upon leaving uniform. "The proportion of blacks to whites is very much smaller in the combat arms than in other branches," said retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, former commandant of the Army War College and a noted author. He added that Special Forces and aviation units have the smallest percentage of minorities of all segments of the military.

powerlifter54 wrote:

Special Forces ... have the smallest percentage of minorities of all segments of the military.

johno wrote:...four years of West Point, and half of these women can't make a proper fist.

johno wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:

Special Forces ... have the smallest percentage of minorities of all segments of the military.

I blame the Swim Test.

DARTH wrote:I wonder how many better, more patriotic, more warrior souled candidates did not get into the USMA because these bitches got the appointments?


If your allegiance is not 100% to the Constitution, you should never be commissioned. You want people on your team that are all about the team.