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re: Tell me, is my view on the draft really THAT crazy?
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:55 am to NHTIGER
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:55 am to NHTIGER
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86% of the Americans killed in Vietnam, when there was a draft, were white males.
Yes, there has always been that inaccurate perception that minority kids died in outsized numbers in Vietnam - minority kids actually died at a slightly lower rate than their percentage of the military-aged male population of the time.
The difference is far more pronounced now, though, for a lot of reasons. It was not something I necessarily expected before I was in - to see how lily-white a lot of infantry and special operations units are now. It is arguably counter-productive when going into a place like Iraq or northern Africa or Latin America.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 10:28 am to AbuTheMonkey
Most the black recon Marines I've met were actually immigrants from Africa as opposed to just black kids from America. Does anyone else think that's odd? Of course I've only met a few anyway. :insertracistjokeaboutswimminghere:
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