Comment on Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt doesn’t favor white people. Where did you get that hogwash? Conservatives are more duty bound and well love the country. So yes, they serve in the military at a higher rate. White people are more likely to to combat arms.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Ok sorry, I must have misunderstood. All I know is, despite my ASVAN I didn’t actually get a choice of MOS
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Now if this is a topic that interest you. I’ll try to dig up the old study I read. It’s fascinating why groups join the military. Many whites join for “adventure” and that’s why they go into combat roles. Wealthy families are highly represented in combat arms and especially special forces.
Black people join for careers and job skills. They go to non-combat units. Who wants to do 20 years in infantry ?
Good study. Explains why you see the breakdown in certain mos classifications and why special forces is so white and wealthy.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Hmm yes very interesting. I’d like to read that. It sounds almost as if you could make some careful inferences about US society as a whole based on observations of the military.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I still owe you the study that I am referencing, I have to find it. This is a newer study that appears to be referencing it but I can’t get the search to work properly to find it. I will try tomorrow.
However, blacks are also more army to learn skills that are transferable to the civilian labor force. However, blacks are also more likely than whites to seek to stay in the army for a career because they feel the army is a more color-blind employer than they are likely to find in the civilian world. (Segal and Verdugo 1994, 628)
Barriers to Minority Participation in Special Operations Forces subseguently cites the results of the Youth Attitude Tracking Study (YATS) as evidence of relatively lower interest in combat related occupations by minorities.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA384108.pdf
The other article that I need to find talks about Special forces having a higher amount of rich, white kids seeking adventure. Combat arms are the same, a bunch of white kids wanting to blow things up for a few years.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That means you didn’t score very high or there wasn’t very much available when you enlisted.