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re: Tell me, is my view on the draft really THAT crazy?
Posted on 6/5/14 at 11:48 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 6/5/14 at 11:48 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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No, and in fact, you'd want the opposite. You don't want the uneducated and ignorant fighting in modern combat.
In both the Army and Marines, there is a general trend in that, the closer you get to the line, the soldiers become gradually more intelligent and come from slightly wealthier backgrounds. Take a look at an in-depth study of the KIA and WIA from Iraq and Afghanistan some time. About 85% are white males, the vast majority of which are middle class...they only comprise about 32% percent of the military-aged population in the U.S. and about 58% of the military-aged males.
What does the race and socio-economic status of a person's parents have to do with intelligence?
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Posted on 6/5/14 at 11:49 pm to trackfan
I don't know about race but socioeconomic status certainly plays a role.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:50 am to trackfan
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What does the race and socio-economic status of a person's parents have to do with intelligence?
There is no correlation with race but there certainly is with socioeconomic status.
There is this perception propogated by folks like Charlie Rangel out there that we are sending poor and marginalized minority kids to do our fighting and dying in these wars, when in fact, the exact opposite is true. Both statistically and anecdotally the combat arms branches of the Army and Marines have an over-representation of middle class white kids.
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