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Military sees big decline in black enlistees
Boston Globe ^ | October 7, 2007 | Joseph Williams and Kevin Baron

Posted on 10/07/2007 8:26:55 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: Khepera
Between fiscal 2000 and 2005, white applicants declined by more than 10 percent. Hispanic applicants dropped by almost 7 percent.

Thankfully, Hispanics, unlike some other groups have not refused the call of their nation in need.

61 posted on 10/07/2007 12:05:44 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Nat Turner

Ding, DIng, Ding. Me too. The last guy I wanted to serve was lil Billy. I lot of folks bailed out under Billy.

Now they just get laid off.......

The bad newz is that the SOBs signature is on my retirement paperwork.....


62 posted on 10/07/2007 12:07:44 PM PDT by ASOC (Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
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To: Tzimisce

So blacks are racist against Americans.

Got it.

Some blacks dont think they are Americans... I keep asking them to leave this wilderness of North America and depart from the blue eyed devils but they balk at my invitation.< /sarcasm off>

..unfortunately lot of my fellow blacks are hopeless moonbats...

63 posted on 10/07/2007 12:44:22 PM PDT by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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To: MNJohnnie

People of the professional, perpetual, victim mentality always need somebody else to blame for their failures and never look at themselves. :0)


64 posted on 10/07/2007 1:09:14 PM PDT by seemoAR (Absolute power corrupts absolutely)
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To: jgilbert63

I left in August 2001, after seeing us through yet one more Inspection. Came back after 9-11, too. I will have a VERY difficult decision if Hitlery wins in 2008. I want to continue supporting the war, but can’t imagine doing so under “her” as my CINC.


65 posted on 10/07/2007 1:58:51 PM PDT by ODC-GIRL (Proudly serving our Nation's Homeland Defense)
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To: OCCASparky; Khepera
The ASVAB. Currently, Army applicants only need to cut a 31 vaiverable to 26. Navy is 35, Marines is 32, and Air Force is 36.

I know a Russian immigrant (enlisted man) who aced it.

66 posted on 10/07/2007 2:04:14 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: OCCASparky

I was curious, dug out my DA 1811 ‘physical data and aptitude test score upon release from active duty’.
Apparently they weren’t using asvab back then, that block is filled with dashes and the other side, titled ACB-73 scores is filled in:
CO=123,FA=133,EL=123,OF=128,GM=125,MM=112,CL=147,ST=126,GT=147,SC=130.

How would that translate today? I signed up for armor BTW, wound up as a Scout, then a FAC track driver for the Airdales and finally a FA fire direction computer using slipsticks and firing tables!


67 posted on 10/07/2007 2:33:48 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: Khepera
No, not jail, it is because DBM and Dems have politicized the military and made it “uncool” to be a member. Anyone in the service or wanting to be is tacitly on Bush’s side (and doing his evil budding - so they say).

It is worse than during or after Viet Nam. There should be a reckoning, but somehow I doubt it will happen since DBM won’t change and Republicans in office are gutless. Just want to get along.

68 posted on 10/07/2007 2:40:15 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: mountn man
When Rangel introduced the draft bill the MSM began touting that
the Bush admin wanted to bring back the draft. When it was a Dem that
introduced the bill all along. I despise the MSM..
69 posted on 10/07/2007 2:49:43 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I saw on MSM somewhere that the race pimps - Sharpton, Jackson et-al have been pushing big-time in the black communities to dissuade young blacks from enlisting in the military.


70 posted on 10/07/2007 2:52:16 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

This is the headline that you will not see after Hitlery is elected, because the MSM will try to suppress it.

“Military sees big decline in all enlistees & reenlistments.”

That same thing will happen all over again when the Clintons gain power over the military. Experienced officers and NCOs left the military in droves. Others were forced out due to political correctness.


71 posted on 10/07/2007 2:56:23 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

72 posted on 10/07/2007 2:58:09 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I thought charlie rangel said it was all black or some such sh**!


73 posted on 10/07/2007 2:59:26 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: KoRn

My white, middle class, educated son joined the Army last month. About 1/4 of the recruits at his swearing in ceremony were black. A few of them were re-enlisting.


74 posted on 10/07/2007 3:00:54 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

“But civil-rights leaders complained about the disproportionately high casualty rate among black soldiers, arguing that the Pentagon was drafting young black men and sending them directly into combat.”

This is a fairy tale, actually a lie kept alive by the media and civil rights whores. And as you can see, this reporter made no efforts to check the validity of the claim and wrote it as if it was absolute fact.


75 posted on 10/07/2007 3:02:55 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: KeyLargo
You would not belive the effects in 1992 on major contracts. Even people working these contracts voted for Clinton, and 2 years later found themselves out of work.

Some folks do not have the capacity to understand their importance.

76 posted on 10/07/2007 3:04:02 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Puppage

I take it to mean that people like to prove their abilities, and since alot of people have really high abilities, they sometimes need help proving them.

Some people go to college, N.O.L.S., study music, or join the military. That’s all.


77 posted on 10/07/2007 3:17:00 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: seemoAR
People of the professional, perpetual, victim mentality always need somebody else to blame for their failures and never look at themselves. :0)

So good it needs to be posted 2xs.

78 posted on 10/08/2007 2:42:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/ vrs the "Worse than Watergate Congress")
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To: Unknowing
or join the military. That’s all.

And, white people?

79 posted on 10/08/2007 4:34:56 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

Yes.


80 posted on 10/08/2007 6:59:28 AM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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