Reply #30: That is from 10 years of experience and operational experience with the Army and Navy

[wmbrew0206]

If you want a better write up of the actual demographic of the military force as a whole:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:qt4g2j-nLToJ:prhome.defense.gov/MPP/ACCESSION%2520POLICY/PopRep2008/summary/chap5.pdf+racial+percentages+of+the+marine+corps+force+as+a+whole&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShtUxjrnEMkXJRRuYS2d2EYz-a3y8VVhPZmpKSaw8msM_9H2qfz57kROvfyM-MFPEIb50DhFevgj5bE4G385WPdyJG2aiSa-Hx2eGDWlUFA46NnMjBrLd3THufEJGu7uDaF1BJN&sig=AHIEtbSbadrYboGjyNENhjhkbEncQbzPoA

More demographic info:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:JK399IS3B9MJ:www.defense.gov/news/Dec2005/d20051213mythfact.pdf+demographics+of+military+recruits+from+rural+vs+urban+areas&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg7hQuPBwE7CesVEB8Y_6W3EwsH1cKgkr0sBlAHpB_3FBTLQSMnYsnArjE70xumfuB0cRGF4Ho-newvRb4BNaNVXJ0uVbwOFcyTgqSuTSbCtyRbgjLm0QVzJqibjHXfZ8G2Aj3I&sig=AHIEtbTp1ii5B3Hk0racbnrVOYLJw0up5A


Your article lost a lot of credibility with the line: "Very few enlisted soldiers ever go on to become officers." That is just BS. If the author had said, "As a percentage, very few...." that would have had a lot more credibility. The Marine Corps and the Army have a lot of Mustang Officers and encourage a promising young enlist men and women to apply for commissioning programs. Not a lot of statistical breaks outs in that article and just a lot of observations, instead of hard numbers.

Again, can you find me another organization that is as representative of the US as the US military?

Either way, please keeping calling the military a bunch of racists, homophobes. It does a lot to help us Democrats in the force to say that Democrats don't hate the military.