Posted on 09/13/2014 6:14:56 AM PDT by pabianice
The U.S. Army launched a new recruiting video at the All-American Bowl -- it's largest recruiting event -- aimed at piquing the interests of minority recruits into joining the Army's officer corps.
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New Marine Corps ads target women, minorities to join as officers
The Marine Corps has launched a multimedia advertising campaign aimed at encouraging more women and minorities to join as officers and ending a decades-old stereotype that the Corps is the domain of white men.
[For Command Sgt. Maj. Marilyn Washington, the top soldier with the 1st Signal Brigade headquartered at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, the inauguration has historic timing as well. U.S. Army photo]
Black military leaders express pride, not surprise, at progress
STUTTGART, Germany — Anthony Jackson recalls the encounter like it was yesterday.
WASHINGTON — Command of the Army's combat battalions and brigades — its pipeline to top leadership — is virtually devoid of black officers, according to interviews, documents and data obtained by USA Today.
The lack of black officers who lead infantry, armor and field artillery battalions and brigades — there are no black colonels at the brigade level this year — threatens the Army's effectiveness, disconnects it from American society and deprives black officers of the principal route to top Army posts, according to officers and military sociologists. Fewer than 10 percent of the active-duty Army's officers are black compared with 18 percent of its enlisted men, according to the Army.
The problem is most acute in its main combat units: infantry, armor and artillery. In 2014, there was not a single black colonel among those 25 brigades, the Army's main fighting unit of about 4,000 soldiers. Brigades consist of three to four battalions of 800 to 1,000 soldiers led by lieutenant colonels. Just one of those 78 battalions is scheduled to be led by a black officer in 2015.
believe me, the Army gives less than a sh8 about skin color, if you are competent, the job is yours, if you ain’t, you ain’t
Wasn’t Colin Powell selected in that manner?
Why does such a thing exist?
In the Soviet Union, they were called Political Commissars.
This is 0'Mugaube's military now. Straight White men need not apply.
Black senior leaders were bitching about this when I was a cadet in the early 2000s. I’m sure the bitching goes much farther back than that. I still don’t GAS.
How I wish that were so.
Colon Powell was an affirmative action promotion. Maybe we need to double the size of the army do we can have more brigades and, ergo, more command slots available. New headline. DEMOCRATS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACKS BY DOWNSIZING THE ARMY.
It is shameful that racist insist on always pointing out that blacks are not keeping up with the rest of the world.
Allen West should be a Flag Officer. A GWB failure IMHO.
Time for Affirmative Action in the Officer Corps and to do away with racist Merit selection.
I believe the current army sgt major is a shirker who happens to be black who spent the GWOT going thru schools and then voila the second black president comes along and suddenly he steps into that role.
There is also a lack of red heads, midgets and paraplegics in leadership positions, so what?
Allen West should be SecDef. Let him handle it.
Affirmative Action for blacks and women has also been in effect to some extent, at least for the desk officers. Affirmative action IS in effect for homosexuals all through the system.
Or President!!!
So now I don’t just look at my doctor and wonder “affirmative action?”....I have to do the same with my CO? Or with *his* CO?
No kidding. That certainly wasn't my experience for 25 years in uniform. Minority quotas for promotions and schools were common and it showed.
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