On a muggy Tuesday afternoon in August, Staff Sgt. Justin McDonald, a U.S. Army soldier with the Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion, was piloting a government-issued Dodge minivan through northeast New Jersey, giving me a tour of his sector, when a man suddenly appeared in the road. He was tall and sinewy, wearing a bright red do-rag, and he had a pistol tucked into his waistband. Or at least that’s what I discerned through the fabric of his dirty white tank top. It could’ve been a water gun, or a banana. Whatever it was, he was clutching it with one hand while motioning for us to stop with the other.
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WNU Editor: The military cannot compete in an economy that has near zero unemployment, and better opportunities. On the bright note .... most of the soldiers that they do recruit are individuals who want to be a soldier .... not necessarily those who want a job and/or a way out of their neighborhood.
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To the editor;I used to know a Russian who was a former Lt.Col.in the Soviet army.He fought in Afghanistan, ironically his son became Sargent in the 82nd airborne and also fought in Afghanistan (Russians make good Americans)I asked him on his return from a welcome home ceremony what the makeup of the troops . Without hesitation he said while the career men had a good minority representation the rank and file soldiers were 95 percent white. Most news articles like this are misleading.
Andrew,
Yup
The Soviet rank and file was mostly white.
Same as today, but the officer corp has become more "white".
You believe the unemployment numbers?
Mark,
I just posted a link on World News Briefs that US homelessness is at a 7 year high. So the answer is yes and no .... and it is all dependent on where you live.
http://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2015-Demographics-Report.pdf
If that is the trend then it is of the last 3 tears or so, because this was hashed through here in the last 5 years.
The "functional" unemployment is far higher.
People who could work.
And (or "so") even the unions sell out their members for cheap foreign workers.
Sad
We are coming off the bad Bamster years.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate
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