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re: Tell me, is my view on the draft really THAT crazy?
Posted on 6/5/14 at 10:46 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 6/5/14 at 10:46 pm to AbuTheMonkey
[quote] Take a look at an in-depth study of the KIA and WIA from Iraq and Afghanistan some time. About 85% are white males,[/quote]
86% of the Americans killed in Vietnam, when there was a draft, were white males.
86% of the Americans killed in Vietnam, when there was a draft, were white males.
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.
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