Monday, February 27, 2012

Racial Quotas For The US Navy SEALs?

The homepage of the SEALs' recruiting website. Navy

Navy Seeking More Minority SEALs -- CNN

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.

Say the SEALs:

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My Comment
: Is the US Navy's SEAL training program favored in selecting whites? Will standards be made different for other different ethnic groups? Is this wise? Fair?

I have a hundred and one questions .... but really no answers with the exception that the Navy wants a more ethnically diverse US Navy SEAL program.

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