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Let;s hear it for ignorance!
From an article on aggressive tactics my military recruiters.
Bollocks. The majority of people in Army combat units are white. Minorities tend to join for job skill training and college opportunities, whites more for the adventure and experience. I state this as a former infantryman. Every infantry unit I was in had more white guys than other races. But our support units looked like the bloody UN.
So yes, decry the overly aggressive recruiters who are crossing far too many lines in trying to fill the ranks, but don't play the damn race card when it isn't warranted.
Nancy Carroll didn't know schools were giving military recruiters her family's contact information until a recruiter called her 17-year-old granddaughter.
That didn't sit well with Carroll, who believes recruiters unfairly target minority students. So she joined activists across the country who are urging families to notify schools that they don't want their children's contact information given out.
"People of color who go into the military are put on the front line," said the 67-year-old Carroll, who is black.
Bollocks. The majority of people in Army combat units are white. Minorities tend to join for job skill training and college opportunities, whites more for the adventure and experience. I state this as a former infantryman. Every infantry unit I was in had more white guys than other races. But our support units looked like the bloody UN.
So yes, decry the overly aggressive recruiters who are crossing far too many lines in trying to fill the ranks, but don't play the damn race card when it isn't warranted.
The other sure thing...
The last I heard of anybody talking about reinstating a draft in Congress, it was Rep. Rangel, democrat from New York.
Re: The other sure thing...
We're not up for another major push into, say, Syria or Iran, non-US troops in Iraq are not a sure bet, and we're down in recruitment. About 40% this year.
We may never see a Viet Nam style draft, but if we keep expanding our military mission and reducing troop numbers, *something* has to give. Either we leave the places we're occupying, so an even worse job than we're doing now, hire mercenaries, or draft civillians.
No matter how hard Bush keeps chanting that victory is near, the Iraqi forces are not up to defending Iraq from much. Acording to US soldiers who work with them, the Iraqis keep running away. The insurgency isn't anywhere near defeated either.
Both of those problems mean we need more US troops out there, and we're not getting a huge rush of patriots clammoring to enlist.
Re: The other sure thing...