Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

No Easy Day: The Navy SEALs, at 85 percent White, Biggest Threat is Diversity

PK Note: Post on Paul "Bear" Bryant is coming tomorrow.


BUD/S Training for Navy SEALs: Where's the diversity?
Big news today is that Mark Owen (a pseudonym to protect his identity), the author of No Easy Day – which tells the story of the Navy SEALs team that took out Osama Bin Laden – didn't want their action to help re-elect Mein Obama [New York Times, September 2, 2012]:

It is only after the George W. Bush presidency that the author begins complaining about the slow-moving “Washington machine” that members of the SEALs found frustrating. That irritation mounts in 2011, when the SEALs anxiously awaited their signal to raid Abbottabad, but this account is determined to steer clear of serious politics or leave itself open to election-season manipulation. The worst it has to say about President Obama is that none of the fighters who caught bin Laden wanted to help re-elect him, and that he never followed through on a promise to invite them to the White House for a beer.

The Navy SEALs are, of course, the best soldiers, fighters, and warriors our nation produces. Unfortunately, they are "too white" for the current leadership of Black-Run America (BRA). What’s important to note here is that the following article nails the exact number, the threshold, required for an organization to be deemed "too white" (SEALs reach out to increase diversity, Navy Times, April 18, 2012):
The Navy’s special warfare community has grown in size over the past few years but still remains overwhelmingly white. It’s a statistic officials are working hard to change.
Today’s force of SEALs and SWCCs, or special warfare combatant-craft crewmen, is roughly 85 percent white, according to Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, Calif. That’s much higher than the Navy overall — which in 2010 was about 64 percent white, according to the Defense Manpower Data Center — and is also out of whack with the cultural environments in which today’s SEALs operate.
That gap remains despite concerted efforts by Naval Special Warfare Command to seek more minority candidates and expand its overall recruiting pitch to get more SEALs and SWCCs to fill the larger force mandated by Congress. But as the community grew in size, the command also beefed up standards and requirements during the 26-week SEAL Qualification Training, causing graduation rates to drop across all ethnicities.
“Where we stand today is, we have more work to do,” said Capt. Duncan Smith, a SEAL who heads Naval Special Warfare Command’s recruiting directorate.
“We absolutely have a need for operational diversity. For us to train with our special operations partner nations, our mission is more easily accomplished if we have people with the cultural and racial identities that allow us to create lasting relationships to better understand our partner forces,” Smith said.
But recent years’ efforts, which included tailoring marketing to minorities and reaching out to historically black colleges and universities, fell flat in attracting more minorities to the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course and follow-on SQT.
So the command is casting the net wide again, getting outside help to market to minority populations and taking a more coherent look at targeting communities with potential minority candidates — not just blacks.
A recent directive from Rear Adm. Sean Pybus, head of Naval Special Warfare Command, expanded the range of targeted minorities to young men of Asian and Arab descent, as well as Hispanics.
“We are moving the needle, but it is a slow process. It takes time,” Smith said.
Recent efforts to reach more blacks helped to better understand the community, he said.

“We have really learned or developed a template that allows us to better understand ... a culture that we may not have been heavily engaged in,” he said. “So we built a road map on how to build trust ... and respect in the minority communities.”

Don’t expect to see quotas, however.
“We have no numeric goal for diversity. This is not a quota-based operation,” Smith said. “This is really just wanting to make progress and to better prepare our force to conduct overseas operations.”

Recruiting and marketing efforts are being stepped up in San Diego and Norfolk, Va., where SEALs and SWCCs have joined in local swim programs geared toward children and young adults, as well as in Detroit and Dearborn, Mich., home to large concentrations of blacks and Arab-Americans. The swim programs provide community service and show that swimming skills can be taught to those who never swam in a pool or in the ocean.

This year, the command also extended its reach by participating in nine of the NFL’s regional scouting combines, where prospective players show off their skills.
“As it turns out, what got you here, with your opportunity with the NFL, is a lot about what makes the SEAL program successful,” Pybus told one group at a session supported by members of Naval Special Warfare Group 2. Several SEALs joined in the visits, meeting athletes and sharing their stories, including a SEAL lieutenant who had played college football before enlisting in the Navy.
Nearly 100 of the 1,900 athletes, about 80 percent of whom were minorities, asked for more information about naval special warfare or becoming a SEAL, Smith said, adding, “that is a pool of 100 young talented men. That right there is success for us.”
Of course, the entire military is "too white" (Lawmakers: Military falling behind on diversity, Marine Corp Times, March 6, 2012), so going to NFL combines to recruit for potential officers or minority-members to fulfill the desire of finding qualified Black – and Brown– candidates makes sense. Just don't check their Wonderlic scores.

Dick Couch, a former Navy SEAL and author of The Warrior Elite: The Forging of Class 228 and numerous other books on Special Forces and the SEALs, told Brian Lamb of C-SPAN this about the need for diversity and Black candidates in a politically incorrect interview that broaches taboo subjects like human biodiversity:
LAMB: I noticed in all the video we see, and most of the film, you see almost no minorities. You see one or two, but most of them are white boys. 
COUCH: Yes, that is an issue. I think it has to do with water skills.
Within the SEALs, it’s how many kids played in the swimming pool when they were growing up, and how many played in the fire hydrant out in the street. Those water skills almost have to be taught at a very young age to be comfortable in the water.

A secondary thing is with a lot of black men, they have very dense muscle mass, so they’re very negatively buoyant in the water. And this can be very challenging when you’re asked to perform in the water. 
And they stress them in the pool. They tie their hands and feet together, and they have to be able to grab a bite of air and deal with that. And if you’re very negatively buoyant, it does create challenges. 
LAMB: Is it an issue that’s talked about? 
COUCH: Yes. I mean, how do we get more of these good black kids to come into BUD/S and to get through BUD/S?
And it’s the same in Army Special Forces and the same in our Ranger regiment. We just don’t have as many minorities as we would like. 
No organization, not even the vaunted Navy SEALs, are free of criticism if they dare neglect to do everything possible to include enough Black participants.

It should be obvious that Mein Obama didn't invite the SEALs who liquidated Osama Bin Laden to drop by the White House for a celebratory beer for one simple reason: they were all-white and weren't representative of the type of Navy SEALs that are needed in BRA.

85 percent is "too white" in the eyes of BRA -- let that be known for any organization, company, club or vocation that requires a specialized skill, that the Navy SEALs are under assault for being "too white."

Friday, February 24, 2012

Act of Valor: "Time" Magazine Brags About Obama and Military's War on White Navy SEALs

What the Obama Administration wants the face of the Navy SEALs to be: non-white
Sometimes you read an article or watch a news show and hear something that puts everything into a clear focus. Today at Vdare.com, I published an article on the new Navy SEALs movie Act of Valor. The title selected for it was perfect Act of Valor - Act of Treason: Obama Imposes Affirmative Action on Navy SEALS.  Here is my favorite line:


Currently, any member of the Navy SEALs deserves respect and gratitude. They went through hell to attain the right to be called a SEAL. Through merit alone, they attained this honor. 

But in Obama’s America, merit doesn't matter (does content of character even matter?) when compared to the sacred goal ofinclusion, diversity and increasing the number of people of color employed. 

So, if you check out Act of Valor in theaters, realize that the greatest threat that the Navy SEALs face comes, not from “terrorists”, but from those pushing diversity, inclusion, and the lowering of standards to create a racially-correct outcome. 
Being “nearly all” white in Obama’s America isn't an “act of valor”—it’s an act of treason.


In June of this year, a book I'm almost afraid to put out will be published: SBPDL III: Obama's War on White America. For a long time, there has been a war waged by the federal government on the historic majority population (founding population) in America. Barack Obama just put a Black face on it. Peter Brimelow has an article by Paul Kersey on Eric "My People" Holder's personal war with the Department of Justice on those states that dare pass voter identification laws.

Through these actions, the war on white America becomes obvious. But it was an article published today at Yahoo.com that illustrates the purely mindset of those behind what we have dubbed Black-Run America (BRA). Let's roll the ugliness (Navy Seeking More SEALS, Time, Mark Thompson):


In nature, most seals are black, with relatively few white ones. The Navy's SEALs have exactly the opposite problem -- they're overwhelmingly white, with hardly any blacks. So they're trying to do something about it. 
It's a fundamental challenge in a democracy with an all-volunteer force: recruits may be drawn from all segments of society, but elite military units -- and none is more elite these days than the SEALs, following their dispatch of Osama bin Laden last May -- tend to draw from small pools of talent. For the SEALs, that includes athletic young men who are smart and good in the water. For whatever reason, that has led to an overwhelmingly white SEAL force. (PHOTOS: Navy SEALs in Action)Say the SEALs: 
Gaps exist in minority representation in both officer and enlisted ranks for Special Warfare operators. Diverse officers represent only ten percent of the officer pool (for example, African Americansrepresent less than 2% of SEAL officers). Diverse enlisted SEALs account for less than twenty percent of the total SEAL enlisted population. Naval Special Warfare is committed to fielding a force that represents the demographics of the nation it serves. This contract initiative seeks effective strategies to introduce high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds to the opportunities available in Naval Special Warfare. (PHOTOS: A History of Special Ops) 
The SEALs are considering hiring help to attract thousands of "minority males in the 16–24 year-old target age range" to become SEALs. "This contract will create a mechanism to enhance Naval Special Warfare's ability to conduct outreach, raise awareness, mentor, and increase self-selection to a career as a SEAL within minority communities," a recently-posted draft contract solicitation says. 
The Navy isn't seeking only black SEALs: "Challenges for minority recruitment also exist in the Hispanic, Asian Pacific Islander (API), Native American, and Arab American populations among others," the announcement notes. "Given shifting demographics, these gaps in representation need to be corrected to ensure continued access. There are sustainment, societal, educational, and operational drawbacks to failing to correct this disparity." 
Ain't that the truth. U.S. special operators have long acknowledged they face challenges mixing in with foreign populations because they look so American. The SEALs acknowledge as much: "Traditional SEAL Team demographics will not support some of the emerging mission elements that will be required," it says.
Two pictures highlight the challenge:
 
On the cover of the latest issue of Newsweek are 10 SEALs. All of them appear to be Caucasian. That's the reality. 
But when you go to the SEALs' recruiting website, there are only two SEALs. Both of them appear to be African-American. That's the desire. 
The basic building block of the SEAL force is the one in four young men who completes Basic Underwater Demolition /SEAL training (BUD/S). The SEAL community has spent a lot of time figuring out a way to predict who can succeed as a SEAL. Research shows that succeeding in the BUD/S course is the key indicator of an "HPC" -- High Potential Candidate. "However, there remains an unfulfilled requirement to find significant numbers of minority HPCs and to arrange the necessary encounters and mentoring with NSW representatives that will lead to self-selection of more of these candidates," the contract solicitation notes. "The intent of this Statement of Work is to facilitate solution to this requirement gap through targeted awareness and mentoring efforts aimed at the minority high potential candidates for Naval Special Warfare." 
So the SEALs want a contractor who will work through "athletic, peer group, academic and administrative entities" to inform minority youth about SEAL opportunities.
One of the most popular entries at SBPDL was the one published a day after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I asked the question of just who would be cast in the SEALs Team 6 movie glorifying this killing: judging by what the US Military wants as the new criteria for its SEAL teams (non-white faces), the answer should any non-white actor.

With this article from Time magazine, we learn that the lily-white Navy SEALs aren't qualified anymore to defend our nation. Instead, this is where we'll search for SEALs in the future:


The SEALs’ proposed hunting map:
2.1.3.1 Western Region:
San Diego Metropolitan to promote awareness to Hispanic, African American, Arab American, Middle Eastern, and Asian-Pacific Islander high potential candidates.
Los Angeles Metropolitan to promote awareness to Hispanic, African American, Arab American, Asian-Pacific Islander, and African and Middle Eastern immigrant high potential candidates.
2.1.3.2 Mid-Atlantic Region:
Norfolk / Tidewater Virginia Metropolitan to promote awareness to African American and Hispanic high potential candidates.
Baltimore / Washington DC Corridor to promote awareness to African American, Hispanic, Arab American, and Asian-Pacific Islander high potential candidates.
2.1.3.3 Northeastern Region:
New York City / Newark NJ Metropolitan to promote awareness to African American, Hispanic, Arab American, Asian-Pacific Islander, and African and Middle Eastern immigrant high potential candidates.
2.1.3.4 Southeastern Region:
Miami Metropolitan to promote awareness to African American and Hispanic high potential candidates.
2.1.3.5 Midwestern Region:
Detroit Metropolitan to promote awareness to African American, Hispanic, and Arab American, and Middle Eastern high potential candidates.
2.1.3.6 Southwestern Region:
Houston Metropolitan to promote awareness to African American, Hispanic, and Asian-Pacific Islander high potential candidates.
An act of valor in BRA is simple: white people need to just accept their displacement, especially when you consider the lily-white Navy SEALs, an organization that represents the ultimate expression of manliness left in America. 


Sadly, it was the goal of the Navy SEALs and the US Military in 2001 to diversify the SEALs, just as it was the goal of the US Air Force in the mid-90s to find more Black fighter pilots. 


The War against white America has been going on for a long, long time. Obama and Holder just put a Blackface on it.

Merit has no place in BRA. Sadly, white people no longer have any place in the Navy SEALs. 

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hero of the Day: The 600 Black people involved in the Townsville Massacre of World War II

The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they've gone
They're off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way?

- Metallica 

All 600 Black Townsville Mutineers are heroes of the day in BRA: Black Captain America's
Black History Month. Another month where Crusading White Pedagogues, always desirous of an uplifting Black tale (or is that Red?) to tell, rely on the few sturdy oldie but goldies to get through the shortest month of the year.

From the depths of history has emerged a story that fits the narrative of Black-Run America (BRA) perfectly, and illustrates an example of courage under fire for all races of America to unite around. Covered up for decades, the story of racial insurrection - by the good guys, oppressed Black people - against evil bigots - evil white men, like the ones who discriminated against Omar Thronton - is the perfect story to make into a thrilling movie for release in February 2013.

Just in time for Black History Month. Unlike the Freeman Field Mutiny (instigated by future Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, the famous Tuskegee Airmen who turned his guns on his own city), this story is one that is accidentally surfacing in a time where "the Blacks" who machined gunned their white officers will probably be awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor:
An Australian historian has uncovered hidden documents which reveal that African American troops used machine guns to attack their white officers in a siege on a US base in north Queensland in 1942.
Information about the Townsville mutiny has never been released to the public.
But the story began to come to light when James Cook University's Ray Holyoak first began researching why US congressman Lyndon B Johnson visited Townsville for three days back in 1942.
What he discovered was evidence detailing one of the biggest uprisings within the US military.
"For 70 years there's been a rumour in Townsville that there was a mutiny among African-American servicemen. In the last year and a half I've found the primary documentation evidence that that did occur in 1942," Mr Holyoak told AM.

During World War II, Townsville was a crucial base for campaigns into the Pacific, including the Battle of the Coral Sea.
About 600 African-American troops were brought to the city to help build airfields.
Mr Holyoak says these troops, from the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers, were stationed at a base on the city's western outskirts known as Kelso.
This was the site for a large-scale siege lasting eight hours, which was sparked by racial taunts and violence.
"After some serial abuse by two white US officers, there was several ringleaders and they decided to machine gun the tents of the white officers," Mr Holyoak said.
He has uncovered several documents hidden in the archives of the Queensland Police and Townsville Brigade detailing what happened that night.
According to the findings, the soldiers took to the machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons and fired into tents where their white counterparts were drinking.
More than 700 rounds were fired.
At least one person was killed and dozens severely injured, and Australian troops were called in to roadblock the rioters.
Mr Holyoak also discovered a report written by Robert Sherrod, a US journalist who was embedded with the troops.
It never made it to the press, but was handed to Lyndon B Johnson at a Townsville hotel and eventually filed away into the National Archives and Records Administration.
"I think at the time, it was certainly suppressed. Both the Australian and the US government would not have wanted the details of this coming out. The racial policies at the time really discluded [sic] people of colour," Mr Holyoak says.
Both the Australian Defence Department and the Australian War Memorial say it could take months to research the incident, and say they have no details readily available for public release.
But Townsville historian Dr Dorothy Gibson-Wilde says the findings validate 70-year-old rumours.
"Anytime it was raised, people usually sort of said, 'Oh you know, no that can't be true. Nobody's heard about that', and in fact it must have been kept pretty quiet from the rest of the town," she said.
Mr Holyoak will spend the next two years researching the sentences handed out to both the officers and the mutineers involved, and why the information has been kept secret for so long.
 Marvel Comic re-launched the origins of Captain America in 2002 with Truth: Red, White, and Blue, the re-visioned story of how a Black man, Isaiah Bradley, was the first Captain America. A key component of that story was a rumored mass-killing of Black soldiers - who were engaged in insurrection - in Mississippi, though that story is just one of many told by Black people to confirm racism, well, everywhere (didn't you know the circled "K" on the Snapple bottle means it was bottled by the KKK!!?!!).

This story of the Townsville massacre is real, and in BRA, it is considered an act of valor, a heroic reminder that bigotry, racism, and intolerance can only be confronted and gunned down with the pull of trigger.

Just ask Omar Thornton.

Expect more on this story soon at VDare. But just like the Tuskegee Airmen who were lauded with a Presidential Gold Medal when the story of "never losing a bomber" blew up in their face, the tale of the Townsville Mutiny will soon be researched and packaged as a heroic victory over both German Nazism abroad and the American-version at home.

Omar Thornton was only carrying on in the proud tradition of the Townsville mutineers.

For BRA to endure, the narrative needs new heroes. How many movies and documentaries can be found in the story of what happened in the land down under back in 1942, that for some reason, has been covered up until an inquisitive PhD decided to investigate in 2010?

Or could this story provide insight into the insidious origins of BRA, a totalitarian ideology whose acceptance would never have occurred were the news of a huge San Domingo (read about the Haitian Revolution) Rebellion told to Americans during World War II?

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Something Wicked this Way Comes: The NFL Honors that Enduring Lie, The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen: A enduring fabrication that must be shot down
Note: All this week will be # posts. Even if Detroit burns to the ground; even if a violent Mahogany Mob occupies and terrorizes Philadelphia for three days; even if Eric "My Holder" People enlists the dwindling percentage of enlisted Black members of the US Military to help close the racial gap in learning (one of the primary reasons that the percentage of enlisted Black members of the military has deteriorated: 40 percent of "The Blacks" can't pass the entrance exam); even if... well, you get the picture. Okay, we might have one article one article on sports. Just one. Promise.

A good friend of mine, Luke Darren, who assisted me on a piece at Vdare, has finally come up the primary slogan for SBPDL. One of the slogans is SBPDL: Fight Back.

But the moniker for SBPDL needs to be something fundamental, something elemental: SBPDL: Because truth has a racial bias. More on this in the coming weeks.

One of the books I'd like to write is a take-off on the misnamed Lies my Teacher Told Me. It would simply be called Lies my Teacher Told Me About Black-Run America (or Lies My Teacher Told Me About Black History, but you get the picture). It would discuss purported inventions by Black people, and give reasons for various laws that were passed in more civilized times. More importantly, it would target the myths that are continually trotted out to paralyze people from pointing out the failures of the Black community now, by showcasing the discrimination that Black people faced once upon a time.

Black people can't be held accountable for their actions now, when they were once barred from playing in Major League Baseball or segregated into all-Black flying units like the Tuskegee Airmen. It is important that in every aspect of a white person's life that they constantly be bombarded with reminders of their ancestors (and nations) past racism, so they are incapable of voicing opposition to the ever-tightening vise of Black-Run America (BRA).

I've been working on a long article on the myth of Tuskegee Airmen (one of the foundational myths of BRA, much like the Rosa Park incident and the Edmund Pettis Bridge moment in Selma) that will be published elsewhere, but today realized a pernicious new maneuver by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) to have us believe that these Red Tails single-handily defeated the Axis Powers due to their superior aviation skills.

Much like Major League Baseball (MLB) has mandated that each year Jackie Robinson Day be commemorated (when every player on every team must wear a jersey with Robinson's jersey number 42, which has been retired in his honor by ever team) to constantly remind people America and baseball's racist past, the National Football League (NFL) has done something so silly and sanctimonious that it will surely become a yearly tradition: The Tuskegee Airmen were trotted out at a slew of NFL games to show that Black people can be trained to fly a plane (now clap, because though Black people make up less than 2 percent of Air Force pilots - and most major airline pilots - now, they beat Germany by themselves back in 1941-1945!) and are the only people worthy of remembering from those who served in the US Military during World War II:
The Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American military pilots who flew in World War II, are being honored on the 70th anniversary of their service with a special tribute during three NFL games held on November 13th, 2011 -- Veterans Day Weekend -- in conjunction with the upcoming release of the motion picture Red Tails from Lucasfilm Ltd. 

The Dallas Cowboys, the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets will host Veterans Day Weekend games which feature salutes to the Tuskegee Airmen, including sideline interviews with some of the original veteran World War II pilots, and on-field tributes to these American heroes. 

An all-black combat unit created at the Tuskegee Institute in 1941, the Tuskegee Airmen pilots faced unimaginable challenges: fierce discrimination, outdated training equipment, and their performance was scrutinized by government officials who believed they would fail. Despite these obstacles, the Tuskegee Airmen persevered and earned an impressive combat record in World War II. They flew more than 15,000 sorties on more than 1,500 missions throughout North Africa and Europe. They won three Distinguished Unit Citations and earned 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, 744 Air Medals and several Silver Stars and Purple Hearts. 

In addition, stars from the upcoming movie Red Tails, an action adventure film that celebrates the bravery of the Tuskegee Airmen, will be attending pre-game tailgate events and performing at select games. These include Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, Elijah Kelley, Tristan Wilds, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael B. Jordan and Gerald Mc Raney. Red Tails opens in theaters on January 20, 2012.
 Sigh. Soon a Paul Kersey article will be published that begins the assault - with the sturdy ally of veracity on my side - on the Tuskegee Airmen myth. Have your fun NFL placating a lie. One thing no one ever points out is how condescending it is to continue to honor this group of people, when hundreds of thousands of white men were trained to fly on other Army Air Bases. Do the DWLs in charge of education consider it a major accomplishment that so many Black people (reports state that roughly 445 of 996 trained at Tuskegee over a five-year time period saw action overseas) were capable of flying? Despite massive recruiting efforts, why are so few Black people capable of flying in our military now?

I can remember teachers telling all sorts of weird and unbelievable stories about the Tuskegee Airmen (modern day Gods descended down from Mt. Olympus in the eyes of DWLs and constantly indoctrinated by BRA) that sounded incredulous to my young ears. That they never lost a bomber; that no plane was shot down or any airmen was killed; that they found Amelia Earhart; that they were the original pilots selected for NASA's Mercury team; etc.

Sadly, the latter two are untrue. Worse, so are the rest. For 60 years the lie persisted that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a plane as they escorted US bombers over Germany. This lie was happily by teachers across the country and repeated at ceremonies honoring the surviving Red Tails. One of the foundational stories of BRA is nothing more than a lie, told so that succeeding generations of  children question why there are so few Black pilots now, when their legendary war record was so sterling (also having people question why, if they never lost a bomber, why segregation ever existed since their martial skills were second-to-none):
At least 25 bombers being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen over Europe during World War II were shot down by enemy aircraft, according to a new Air Force report.

The report contradicts the legend that the famed black aviators never lost a plane to fire from enemy aircraft. But historian William Holton said the discovery of lost bombers doesn't tarnish the unit's record.
"It's impossible not to lose bombers," said Holton, national historian for Tuskegee Airmen Inc.

The report released Wednesday was based on after-mission reports filed by both the bomber units and Tuskegee fighter groups, as well as missing air crew records and witness testimony, said Daniel Haulman, a historian at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery.

The tally includes only cases where planes were shot down by enemy aircraft, Haulman said. No one disputed the airmen lost some planes to anti-aircraft guns and other fire from the ground.

The 25 planes were shot down on five days: June 9, July 12, July 18 and July 20, 1944 and March 24, 1945, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.
The real inconvenient truth is that Black people have been able to claim they were part of this legendary band of aviators (and garner awards and speaking engagements) without anyone ever questioning said claim because of the moral authority that BRA grants to the Tuskegee Airmen:

Tuskegee Airman Robert A. Decatur often spoke in public about being one of only about 960 black pilots who escorted the all-white crews of bombers over Europe, how he inscribed his plane in Latin with the slogan "Through Adversity, to the Stars," and how one of the characters in a 1995 HBO movie about the black pilots was based on him.

"If you remember the scene in The Tuskegee Airmen where the pilot, played by Laurence Fishburne, landed in a field where convicts were working, the pilot stepped out of the plane and one of the convicts said, 'My God, he's colored.' That pilot was Robert Decatur," he told an audience during Martin Luther King Day observances this year at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Because of his stories of heroism, the Arkansas chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen is named in his honor.
But his death last month in Titusville at age 88 did not lay to rest the contention of fellow Tuskegee Airmen that Decatur's legendary life was largely his own creation.

"He included himself as one of those heroes, and he wasn't," said John Gay, president of the Orlando chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., an association created in 1972 to honor the first black pilots trained in Tuskegee, Ala., during World War II.

Decatur's embellishments were repeated over the years in articles ranging from a 2004 cover story in Onyx magazine to an Aug. 22 obituary in the Orlando Sentinel.

The record shows that Decatur was a Tuskegee cadet in 1944 but did not complete pilot training. He did not graduate from flying school and never flew in combat. He was not portrayed by Laurence Fishburne.

"Mr. Decatur was not the model for the character, nor were the six or seven others who have claimed to be over these last 14 years," said Joan Williams, whose late husband, Robert, wrote the movie's screenplay and based much of it on his experiences as a Tuskegee pilot.

The impersonation of war heroes is so prevalent that Congress passed the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 to crack down on men who gave themselves medals they never earned. To many of these men, the glory of their imaginations makes up for shortcomings in their lives.

"The more you exaggerate, the more acclaim you get, and the more acclaim you get, the better it feels," said Alan Keck, an Orlando psychologist.
How many Black men like Decatur have been able to lie and profit off of this BRA myth? Why is the need for the Tuskegee Airmen myth of near invincibility so vital to the official - and incredibly patronizing - story of Black people being capable of aviation training? Just check out this article that details the uproar in the Tuskegee Airmen community over the news of their discredited reputation as perfect warriors of the air:
In 1996 or 1997, Holton said, he heard a white fighter pilot complain that the Red Tails weren't perfect -- every fighter group lost bombers. 

That angered Holton, who wanted to prove the man wrong. But he waited until 2003 to begin research. He felt no rush, he said, and wanted to wait for the Red Tails' 60th anniversary in 2004. 

He figured proving the record correct would make a big splash at the group's convention in Nebraska.
But Holton said he found that World War II bomber and pilot reports showed five bombers under Tuskegee protection were shot down by German fighters. 

"I expected some flak," said Holton, who presented the information at the convention. "I just didn't expect the magnitude." 

Ron Brewington, 61, a broadcast journalist who has long been fascinated by the Red Tails and serves as the group's spokesman, said Holton was told to keep the news to himself until it could be verified.
Remember: Stars and Stripes has deemed white males too valorous; Real American Heroes are invariably almost all white in today's military. Parading around a lie in the form of the Tuskegee Airmen to induce white guilt is a wonder tactic; unlike their false war record, the story of the Tuskegee Airmen never misses bombing young minds into a veritable mush of guilt that will accept and tolerate any lie told to further the objectives of BRA.

We told you that truth has a racial bias.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

"Real American Heroes: Part Two": Black-Run America (BRA) is at War with the United States Military

Laying in bed the other night, I found myself laughing at the thought of an article someone had sent me. It was from 2002 and dealt with the United States military, specifically the Navy SEALs and other US Special Forces like the Rangers and Green Berets, and the lack of Black people in these prestigious organizations.

Real American Heroes: An Army Ranger unit that BRA seeks to replace with Alvin Greene's
How can we possible maintain the security of the United States when our Special Forces are all white? And the pilots in the United States Air Force and Navy? Don't you know that the Tuskegee Airmen were single-handily responsible for the fall of Nazi-controlled Europe in 1945?

Real American Heroes is one of my favorite posts. Back in 2009, the film G.I. Joe came out and three of the five primary members of that fictional Special Forces organization were Black people. The reality is that a Black face in any of the Special Forces in the real US military is about as rare as a white point guard on a Historical Black College and University (HBCU) basketball team.

This was documented in one of the more popular posts here, The Inevitable SEALs Team 6 Movie glorifying the Osama Killing: How many Blacks will be cast?

I've pointed out that the United States military newspaper Stars and Stripes recently lamented that not enough Black soldiers have been found to profile as 'valorous' during the War on Terror campaign.

I've pointed out that the Naval Academy has lowered academic standards to admit more Black cadets. I've pointed out that the Coast Guard Academy has lowered standards and codified the discrimination against white applicants (much as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has done to potential white applicants for Federal Government employment).

A Black Air Force General attacked the Air Force pilots for being "too white" and proclaimed the most important objective (ahead of protecting the air for American supremacy) should be getting more Black pilots in the air. The Air Force Academy has pledged to bring more diversity to Colorado Spring, for having a student enrollment that is 71 percent white is seen as a horrifying representation of 2011 America:
The Air Force Academy has a plan and a $1 million budget to make the school more diverse, but no numerical goal that describes what diverse looks like.

Adding more cadets from minorities groups to the academy’s population has been a goal for years. The Board of Visitors, the school’s oversight body, was told Friday that the school has a new plan, which includes diversity training for employees, stepping up minority recruitment and training “inclusion ambassadors” who will promote diversity at the academy.

“The good thing is we’re doing something about it,” said Lt. Gen. Mike Gould, academy superintendent.
The academy’s student body is 71 percent white, which is similar to its sister academies for Navy and Army, and close to the national population average.

But the academy wants to see gains in the number of black and Hispanic cadets on the campus, who make up a combined 16 percent of the student body, well below their share of the national population.
But the Air Force is staying away from quotas.

“Metrics have always been a tough thing for all the services,” Lt. Gen. Darrell Jones, an Air Force personnel officer from the Pentagon told the board, which advises Congress and President Obama on academy matters.
The Air Force put money into the academy program this year, adding $1 million to the program in 2011 – doubling the academy’s diversity budget. Much of the cash is being spent on recruiting in black, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods. The idea is that attracting more minority applicants will gradually grow the academy’s minority population.

Still, some board members fear that the program lacks clear goals because it doesn’t set racial quotas.

“Not having those objectives and goals is hurting us,” said board member Alfredo Sandoval, a 1982 academy graduate who is a managing partner of the Private Investment Group.

Jones said numbers alone, though, won’t do the job.

“The goal is to have a diverse population find success in the military,” he said.
Remember that United States Marine Corps has decided that "The Few, The Proud, The Marines," is too inclusive of a statement and gone Full Negro in trying to recruit Blacks:
The Marine Corps has come a long way since it allowed its first African-American recruits into a segregated boot camp in 1942, but the service lags far behind where it should be today in diversifying its ranks, the commandant said Tuesday during a visit to San Diego.

Gen. James Amos paid tribute to those pioneering Marines who broke the color barrier in the Corps after training at Montford Point in North Carolina during a speech at the convention of the National Naval Officers Association, an organization that represents minority officers in the sea services. 

Amos outlined plans to highlight the legacy of the Montford Point Marines in the history of the tradition-bound Corps, and to improve recruitment and retention of a more diverse pool of Marines. But he introduced his unscripted “from the heart” talk with about 500 officers by saying he was dismayed by the lack of diversity in the Corps, particularly among officers.

“We’re failing,” in this mission, Amos said. “We’re not the face of society.”

About 10 percent of the Corps is African-American, versus about 12 percent of the U.S. population, Amos said. Among the 2010 crop of 1,703 newly minted Marine lieutenants, only 60, or 3.5 percent, were African-American.

This year that percentage should be up to 5 percent, or about even with the percentage of eligible males, Amos said. He credited the change to efforts by Marines such as Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey. In June, Bailey gave up his dual position overseeing the Recruiting Command at Quantico, Va., and the recruit depot in San Diego to lead the 1st Marine Division — the first African-American to do so.

The Corps has a reputation for attracting a predominance of southern white men, along with Latinos who appreciate its macho culture, though those stereotypes are less true today.

Retired Navy Capt. Anthony Barnes, president of the naval association, said the disappointing level of diversity in the Marine Corps is no surprise, but he is optimistic about where the Corps is headed.
“The first thing to do is identify the shortcomings,” he said. “If the top guy is not committed and he doesn’t communicate that commitment, then the organization has no chance.”
How did we ever win a war without disproportional Black representation in the Marines, the US Air Force, and within the US Special Forces? how? Also remember that an independent study of the United States military officer corps, authorized by Congress,  determined that our senior military officers are "too white" and "too male."

Black-Run America (BRA) is real. Very real. The Intelligence Agencies have been deemed "too white"... as has the United States Missile Command. Defending this country takes a back-seat to the employment and promotion of Black people. Even in the United States Special Forces.

Dwayne Johnson, Hollywood's vision for the US Special Forces
What was that article that had me laughing the other night? It was this one from 2002 on the United States Navy SEALs and the over zealous drive to add more Black people to its ranks:

Special forces have always prided themselves on how hard it is to become a member. For some black SEALs, Rangers and Green Berets, staying is tougher than getting in. 

With special forces having become the face of the U.S. military in the Afghan war, leaders are sensitive to the fact that those faces are overwhelmingly white, and they are recruiting in minority neighborhoods.

The problem, some say, is the attitudes black recruits face once inside.

"It was like being the only black in a Harley Davidson gang, as out of place as you can be," said retired Lt. Jake Zweig of his short, tumultuous stay in the SEALs. "It was horrendous."

The SEALs have acknowledged "pockets of racial insensitivity" and have appointed a minority recruitment chief with authority to veto bigoted candidates.

The crux, all agree, is the elitism that defines the "special" in special forces.

"SEALs are very sensitive about lowering standards and letting in people who are not up to the standards of what a special forces warrior should be," said Lt. Cmdr. Darryn James, a spokesman for Navy Special Warfare.

Such talk riles Army Brig. Gen. Remo Butler, a Ranger who is now the highest-ranking black soldier in special forces.

"That's code for 'You're not quite as smart, you're here because you're getting a break somewhere,'" said Butler, who heads Special Operations Command-South in Puerto Rico.

The armed services are often held out as standard-bearers for integration. Blacks -- 13 percent of the U.S. population -- make up 20 percent of the military. But they are less than 4 percent of special forces.

Army and Navy special forces recruiters are working in minority neighborhoods with an eye toward racial integration.

The Tampa, Fla.-based command for all military special operations is publishing recruiting pamphlets that for the first time prominently feature minorities. It also is sending "motivator" teams that include black and Hispanic special forces success stories into minority neighborhoods.

Navy special warfare, the whitest of special ops branches -- just 2.5 percent of SEALs are black -- has appointed a black civilian known for diversifying medical schools to head minority recruitment.

Special forces don't sign up civilians themselves. Instead, they are encouraging minorities to join the military with the goal of working their way into the elite ranks.

Special forces are on display more than ever in the Afghan war and so is their nearly all-white makeup. Integration comes slowly. "It has been a challenge," said Lt. Cmdr. Edie Rosenthal, speaking for Special Operations Command.

One recent tack has been to accept a candidate conditionally even if he fails one requirement, as long as he is thought capable of meeting the standard with more training.

That applies especially to swimming, where some blacks fare poorly. SEALs candidates must swim 500 yards in 121/2 minutes.

"I wouldn't want to be next to a guy who's 'not sure' he knows how to swim across a flowing jungle river," said retired Army Maj. Andy Messing, who is white.

Messing says any difference -- being black, Hispanic, Jewish or even overtly religious -- exacerbates existing tensions in the grinding training regimen for special forces.

Bill Leftwich, who was the top Defense Department diversity official in the Clinton administration, said a military career is tough enough by itself and some blacks don't want to take on the added burden of dealing with racial attitudes in the special forces.

"Folks ask, 'What degree of difficulty do I want to add to my career, do I really want more than there already is now?'" said Leftwich, who is black.

The latest recruitment efforts have been guided by a 1999 Rand Institute study, commissioned by Congress, that found that most black troops worry they will come across racism in the special forces. The report did not address whether those concerns are justified.

 The problem, according to retired SEALs Capt. Everett Greene, is keeping blacks once they are in. "The deck is somewhat stacked against them."

Greene retired in 2000 after a long public battle to get a rear admiral promotion, which he says was thwarted by racism. The Navy says Greene was denied his promotion because of a sexual harassment charge, even though he was exonerated in a court martial.

Greene became the first commissioned black SEAL officer in 1970. Thirty years later, when he retired, there were just nine others, and only one other captain.

Jake Zweig initially rebuffed admonishments from friends that he would face racism.

"I knew you take a lot of extra punishment, but that was just normal for SEALs, I thought," he said.
But soon there were nudges of harassment, some subtle, others less so, Zweig said. His portable radio mysteriously switched stations from hip-hop to country whenever he looked away. He endured "gangstah" gibes from instructors. An officer shouted "Stop thief!" at a black sailor jogging.

When he suggested more aggressive recruitment among minority sailors, Zweig said an officer retorted sharply: "What ... do you want us to do, lower the standards, so more of y'all can make it in?"
Zweig filed a complaint.

A Navy investigator confirmed Zweig's account of the meeting but concluded the remark was a misunderstanding and "not racial in nature." The report expressed sympathy for the view that "any change in training is seen as an eroding of the standards."

Rear Adm. Eric Olson, the top SEAL, concluded there was no systemic racism, but "pockets of racial insensitivity." Zweig, now 29, ended his three years in the SEALs last year and is now studying law.
Olson has since hired Warren Lockette, a black geneticist who led integration efforts at two Midwestern medical schools, to help bring more blacks into SEALs.

Lockette, who has authority to reject candidates who might be prejudiced, says focusing on recruiting blacks alone will not do the job -- SEALs recruiters need to consider the attitudes of white applicants as well.

Read that last line: a Black geneticist -- a civilian -- was given ultimate authority to reject candidates who might be prejudiced in a bid to get more Black people into the SEALs. That was in 2002. That was what Black-Run America represented nine years ago. Now? Well, just look at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

We already know what happens when an organization goes 365Black; just look at the United States Postal Service (USPS). We already know what happens when other Federal government agencies decided to employ disproportionate Black employees.

Falling asleep the other night - silently laughing to myself - I slipped into a deep slumber knowing that the United States of America was protected by such innovative thinking by our military higher-ups. The primary objective is no longer protecting America's interest or in promoting and recruiting the best, the brightest and most meritorious to our service academies, US Special Forces, and Officer Corps; the primary objective is advancing Black people into every level of the United States military.

Somewhere, as you read this, generals in the Chinese military and members of Chinese intelligence are laughing as well.

Sure, some retired members of the military might question the fact that "diversity" is now the primary objective of the United States military and the designated enemy is the white males who volunteer disproportionately to defend the country. But to attain any level of seniority within the officer corps means selling out to the concept of BRA.

Chinese generals are laughing right now.

I finally found myself drifting to sleep, but not before thinking about those brave men who were shot down over Afghanistan in that terrible tragedy where 30 Americans (mostly white Navy SEALS) died. For no reason, really.

Those were Real American Heroes. They deserve better than to have a Black geneticist like Warren Lockette decide their fate as a Navy SEAL, for we all know that merely being white is enough to have you deemed "prejudiced"in BRA.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

'Stars and Stripes' claims: "White people too Valorous"

Stars and Stripes publishes story bemoaning lack of Black military heroes
We write about the military a lot here. From G.I. Joe to Top Gun, from SEALs Team 6 to discussing articles that claim the officers of the United States Military are “too white,” we point out how our military has been completely swamped with the pernicious infection known as Black-Run America (BRA).
 
Always remember this quote, and you’ll understand the thinking pervasive in the highest echelons of not only the military, but in corporations, academic institutions and the government in America:
Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
--Gen. George Casey, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Meet the Press, Nov. 8
A reader sent this article in from The Stars and Stripes newspaper that tragically captures the concept of BRA and how Steve Sailer’s sardonic post that “Congress prepared a study for the military that too many white men die in combat” has far more truth in it then even he could imagine.'
 
Stars and Stripes has actually published a cover-story asking, “Why do blacks (sic) receive fewer valor medals?” (Why aren’t there more profiles of black heroes?):
There aren’t a lot of black faces in this year’s Heroes special section. Unfortunately, that’s not a surprise.

Every year, we try to present a diverse selection of battlefield stories, to best reflect the makeup of the military. We seek representatives from each of the services. And we want to make sure that every hero we feature isn’t a white male.

And, in most respects, this section succeeds in that. We rarely have to search for Hispanic troops to profile. We’ve had trouble finding women, but that’s not unexpected given the Defense Department’s prohibition against women in combat.

But finding African-Americans who have received valor awards has often been difficult. It has meant scouring other newspapers and blogs looking specifically for black heroes. It has meant tactless last-minute calls to public affairs officers asking for help identifying “troops with heroic stories, but they have to be black.”

Since we began publishing the Heroes special section seven years ago, we have included profiles of 21 black servicemembers and veterans — just over 10 percent of the total stories.

This year, we tried to figure out if there’s a reason why those stories of extraordinary heroism by African American troops seem hard for us to find.

The Defense Department does not track racial data on valor awards, and has no central database of all the troops who have received those honors. So there is no empirical way to determine whether black servicemembers receive proportionally fewer valor awards than their counterparts.

But broad demographic shifts in the military over the last decade suggest that one of the main reasons we’ve seen fewer battlefield awards for African-Americans is because there are fewer African-Americans on the battlefield.

According to figures from the Defense Manpower Data Center, today there are more than 241,000 African-American active-duty troops in the four services, and nearly 130,000 more in the Guard and Reserve.

But those numbers have dropped significantly in recent years. In 2000, one out of every four soldiers was African-American. In 2010, it was less than one in five. The Marine Corps saw the proportion of blacks drop from nearly 16 percent to about 10 percent over the same span.

Moreover, even fewer blacks are serving in front-line positions, in the kind of combat units where most valor awards are earned.

In 1994, blacks comprised nearly 25 percent of all Army infantry units. By 2009, that figure had dropped to 10 percent. Today, there are four times more blacks serving in administrative or supply positions in the Army than in infantry posts, according to service statistics. Marine Corps statistics show similar trends.

“That doesn’t surprise me at all,” said Edwin Dorn, an assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s and now a professor of public policy at the University of Texas. “That’s in line with trends we’ve seen in the past. In an ideal world, you’d like the distribution of [racial] groups to be close to the rest of the military, but that’s the ideal.”

Why are fewer African-Americans electing to serve in combat units? Dorn said it’s a combination of factors, most pointing toward why many African-Americans are drawn to the military in the first place.

“Some of it has to do with racial trends in society,” he said. “[African-Americans] join the military because they see it as a place they can get a leg up, with more opportunity than the civilian economy. So they think about it as a career, or think about the kind of jobs that can translate into a civilian job later on.”

That means gravitating to administrative jobs that provide a long-term career track or are easier to translate into resume-friendly job skills.

John Sibley Butler, author of several books on race in the military, said the overall decline in the number of blacks in the military is not unexpected, given that college enrollments among African-Americans have increased in the last 20 years. That has brought the military’s racial composition closer to the country at large.

There’s also a long-held perception inside the black community that more minorities were forced to the front lines during the Vietnam War than their white counterparts, Butler noted.

African-Americans comprised roughly a third of Army combat infantry ranks during that conflict, according to Butler’s research. Thus, parents who have encouraged their children to join the military in the last 20 years have also pushed them to seek jobs outside of combat specialties.

“So, while Vietnam was fought disproportionately by blacks,” Butler said, today’s wars “are being fought disproportionately by whites.”

In fact, only about 9 percent of the troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been black, even though they make up more than 17 percent of the total active-duty force. In contrast, Hispanics make up roughly 10 percent of the active-duty force and 10 percent of the deaths from the current wars.

Andre Sayles, director of the Army’s Diversity Strategy and Integration office, said the decline in the proportion of African-Americans serving in combat roles has raised eyebrows within military circles. Numerous service-wide studies – including a recent report from the Military Leadership Diversity Commission – have noted the falling combat numbers as a potential area of concern.

“If we are to maintain an all-volunteer army, we must consider all the factors, to include any barriers that may impact lack of African-American service in the combat arms branches,” he said in a statement to Stars and Stripes.

But those are just the statistical explanations. Tyrone Williams, chief operating officer at the outreach group Black Veterans for Social Justice, asserted that African-American troops are receiving fewer valor awards because of lingering racism in the military.

“There is still some institutional racism out there,” he said. “It’s better than in the past, but we still see a lot of bad paper for black veterans, more bad discharges or mistakes with paperwork than with white veterans. It’s still a problem.”

Williams can’t point to any hard data, but he said veterans he works with believe that blacks have to work harder to get recognition and receive services from the military.
And because issuance of a valor award depends entirely on recommendations from commanding officers, the process is vulnerable to human biases.

So the medals problem could be due to hidden prejudice against black servicemembers. And it could be due to shifting demographics.

And it could be, as Williams noted, “that you just need some better sources to find the ones that are out there.”
Medal problems could be due to a hidden prejudice against black service members? Really? Just as racism is blame for the fact that less than two percent of the Air Force fighter pilots are Black? Racism is obviously the culprit behind the United States Special Forces being a haven and refuge from affirmative action policies, thus attracting only the best and reflecting a much different military then the one Gen. Casey would strive to portray.
 
Those enlisting for the United States military happen to be primarily white, and those capable of passing the entrance exam tend to be white (and those failing tend to overwhelmingly Black) which could be a reason that so few Black people have the opportunity to be heroes:
Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the military fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can’t answer basic math, science and reading questions.

The report by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don’t get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. The study, released exclusively to The Associated Press on Tuesday, comes on top of Pentagon data that shows 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don’t qualify for the military because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school.

This is the first time ever that the U.S. Army has released this test data publicly, said Amy Wilkins with The Education Trust, a Washington, D.C.-based children’s advocacy group. She said the organization worked with the U.S. Army to get raw data on test takers from the past five years.

The Education Trust study shows wide disparities in scores among white and minority students. Nearly 40 percent of black students and 30 percent of Hispanics don’t pass, compared to 16 percent of whites.

Nearly 40 percent of black students and 30 percent of Hispanics don’t pass, compared to 16 percent of whites.

Recruits must score at least in the 31st percentile on the first stage of the three-hour test to get into the Army or the Marines. Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard recruits must have higher scores.

The average score for blacks is 38 and for Hispanics is 44, compared to whites’ average score of 55. The scores reflect the similar racial gaps on other standardized exams.

Nearly 40 percent of black students and 30 percent of Hispanics don’t pass, compared to 16 percent of whites.
But don’t worry, the United States Missile Defense Agency (just like the Intelligence agencies) is committed to promoting a diversity that a paucity of battlefield heroes can’t provide:

We're Diverse and Mission-Ready

Standing at the forefront of one of the most technologically complex and challenging national defense programs is an exciting place to be. As the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), my goal is to develop and implement initiatives that foster a highly skilled workforce that can help us accomplish our mission.

One of our biggest priorities is to recruit qualified applicants for positions across the engineering, science and acquisition management career fields. Competing successfully for technically qualified applicants in all career areas, at all proficiency levels — from entry–level to the most experienced — is fundamental to our recruitment and retention goals. Our mission depends on our ability to develop future leaders by ensuring they have the skills and competencies needed to excel.

Another priority at MDA is the diversity of our workforce. We approach it as a composite of individual characteristics, experiences and abilities that are consistent with the Agency’s core values. Our inclusive workforce consists of a balanced cross-section of individuals working in various disciplines. Together, they enable us to advance all facets of our engineering and acquisition responsibilities. By ensuring that our recruitment philosophy complements our retention and development programs, we are able to maximize individual strengths and combine them for the collective good of our organization.

Now, we’d like to invite you to explore our programs for yourself. If you have the talent, skills and commitment to be a part of our team and share in the many planned accomplishments we intend to deliver, we look forward to bringing you on board. Take this opportunity to launch your career with MDA.

Sincerely,
Patrick J. O’Reilly
Lieutenant General, US Army
Director
Missile Defense Agency
A nation that frets over the lack of opportunity for Black people to be placed in military conflicts that will present the chance for them to become Real American Heroes – when 40 percent of Black applicants to the military can’t pass the entrance exam – is fucked; Fucked in ways that that word doesn’t accurately encapsulate.

Then again, the Naval and Coast Guard Academies have lowered qualifications in a furious bid to augment the Black enrollment at both formerly prestigious institutions, so you just have to wonder how many Chinese generals are laughing at us right now. 
White people in America are little more than Flavius Aëtius, the Roman General who was imprisoned and only released to put down Attila the Hun. When that task was complete, he was killed, no longer of any use to the dying Republic.
 

You should begin to see why Hollywood is called upon to provide Black Fictional Images that constantly depict heroic acts perpetrated by Black actors that have no basis in reality.
 

That SEALs Team 6 movie of the Osama killing is going to be hilariously inaccurate, just as any war movie made over the last 30 years that shows Black actors portraying “heroes” happens to be. Courtesy of Stars and Stripes, we are painfully aware that the only heroes being produced in our current military engagements are “too white” for the tastes of those in power in BRA.
 

Whites dying protecting a flag that no longer represents them is of little concern to Black-Run America; that not enough Black heroes are being produced, and far too many Alvin Greene’s, is the real travesty of our current military engagements.