Oh dear god, really people? We are a VOLUNTEER army. When I was a recruiter, most of the black students and applicants I would talk to were not interested in the army. They felt it was not their gig, and occasionally I'd encounter one that said he didn't want to fight 'the white man's war'. Which is fine, you don't have to.
My point is, they are not there because they do not want to be, period. They don't have to join, no one is forcing them to. And when they do join, they seem to stay away from the combat MOS's in my experience. Not a bad thing, just my observation.
That is what happens when you have an all-volunteer force. When I was a platoon sergeant in an infantry company, we had a black first sergeant. He was one of the only black men in the company and he had made it there based off merit, not some quota.
My current boss in a staff section is a black infantry branch major. Once again, not many of those because not a lot of black men want to do that.
Now logistics and commo MOS's on brigade staff, I'm hard pressed to find a white senior NCO or warrant. Does that mean we need to have more whites in those positions?
To any senior officers reading this: Stop messing with something that isn't broke. All this fricking social engineering has gotten us away from our primary purpose as an army, which is to fight and win the nation's wars, PERIOD.
