Army battling decline in black recruits

From The Telegraph, 8/5/05: http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/ 12310705.htm

Army battling decline in black recruits

BY RICHARD WHITTLE

The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - (KRT) -

The Iraq war is drying up at least part of a pool of recruits the Army has relied upon for decades: black Americans.

The Army has long enjoyed a special relationship with black Americans, who have filled its ranks at rates far beyond their share of the population since the draft was abolished in 1973.

But in a trend compounding the Army's recruiting woes, those days may be over.

'A lot of black kids, they don't want to be in it,' said DeTorrian Rhone, 18, who recently graduated high school.

He talked to Army recruiters but decided to go to Texas Southern University instead.

'Most of the kids say they don't want to fight for a country that's pickin' on other countries,' he said.

'I don't want to fight because this (Iraq) war was stupid, it wasted money. Army people are getting killed for nothing, and we should have stayed in our own business.'

Wake up Harry, you're dreaming again...

Considering 90% of Blacks voted Democratic ticket and hence they believe the liberal spin on our venture into Iraq, it would be expected a majority of blacks (youth are impressionistic as it is already) would bail out.

As to war itself, I've a friend who spent 15 years in the Army reserves. When Bill Clinton was in office, my friends unit was activated and he had to spend a subtantial amount of time in Bosnia. Wasn't even really a war, nothiing like Iraq, and as soon as he could, he bailed. He had enough. He never really thought his unit would ever get activated. I don't recall how he managed to miss out on our first venture into Iraq.

So it is with a lot of people, especially those in the Reserves. Initially, they believe they'll never really see any active duty. Then, when they do, they drop a big turd and bail out first opportunity. It doesn't matter in the least about the justification of our military's presence in Iraq. Just mention active duty, regardless of where, and most American's turn yellow and run.

That's why Osama attacked New York. He knew Amreican's were mostly yellow and didn't expect someone like Bush to be in office.

Thank God for George W. Bush.

They're not bailing out. They've crossed over and became Republicans.

And Osama thanks George W. Bush, too.

Huh?

Osama didn't know who won the 2000 presidential race?

There are some parents in Ohio right now who might disagree with you.

Mitchell Holman

$14 million = amount spent by the GOP Congress to investigate 9/11 $70 million = amount spent by the GOP Congress to investigate Clinton Easy to see where Republican priorities lie........

Maybe they should hire some Mexicans or illegal aliens.

So are the rest of your friends cowards as well?

They are.

If you're an illegal alien and join the U.S. military, you and your family get citizenship. We've had two families in my town get citizenship that way. One U.S. soldier who was a Mexican citizen was killed in Afghanistan and received his citizenship posthumously.

Just as Rome did in its dying days, the U.S. is recruiting mercenaries from outside its borders to serve in the military:

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands - By jogging at sunset on the white sands of a palm-fringed beach here, 17-year-old Audrey O. Bricia is doing more than toning up for her next try in this island's Miss Philippines contest. She is getting in shape for United States Army boot camp.

To gain an edge on the competition for enlistment, she reserved a seat two days in advance to take Army's aptitude test on a recent Saturday morning here. Safely ensconced in her seat, she watched an Army recruiter turn away 10 latecomers, all new high school graduates.

'I am scared about Iraq, but I am going to have to give something in return for those benefits I want,' said Ms. Bricia, a daughter of Filipino immigrants whose ambition is to attend nursing school in California.

the west, Army recruiters are scouring the Pacific, looking for high school graduates to enlist at a time when the Iraq war is turning off many candidates in the States.

The Army has found fertile ground in the poverty pockets of the Pacific. The per capita income is $8,000 in American Samoa, $12,500 in the Northern Marianas and $21,000 in Guam, all United States territories. In the Marshalls and Micronesia, former trust territories, per capita incomes are about $2,000.

rofl What a complete dupe.

LMAO! Ever do standup?

First of all, an illegal alien and a resident alien are not the same. A person must be a resident to join the military. Citizenship is not required. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/ enlstandards_2.htm Secondly, resident soldiers go through the same process of gaining citizenship as everyone else, only with a new act that expedites the process. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/ aacitizen1.htm And third, the family members of that soldier are not entitled to an expedited process of gaining citizenship. The only exception to this rule are SPOUSES that reside overseas with the soldier. (on the same page as the previous link)

Not Mexicans specifically, but they do hire armed foreign nationals for 'security' positions. Some of them make really good money. It's shameful to see us hiring foreigners at $200,000 per year just to be goons. We're not that rich a nation. But what hell, it's not Chimpboy and friends' money.

Took 2 years for Hillary to finally turn over subpeoned documents...

The Clintons' did everything they could to drag out investigations. If Bush spent as much effort utilizing the delaying tactics of the Clinton era, quite likely the legal costs would be more similar. Then, on the last day of Clinton's tenure, Clinton pardon's criminals in exchange for $500,000.00 in donations.

Bill Clinton's contempt for the judicial system got him barred from practicing law.

Irronically, fully hallf of the Clinton legal problems were the result of activities of the 1st lady, not the President. How many times in the history of our country has that ocurred?