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News from the future:
Sixty years after President Yourchoice desegregated the military, senior gay officers are still rare, particularly among the highest ranks.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered recruits make up about 17 percent of the total force, yet just 9 percent of all officers. That fraction falls to less than 6 percent for general officers with one to four stars, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Associated Press.
The rarity of GLBT in the top ranks is apparent in one startling statistic: Only one of the 38 four-star generals or admirals serving as of May was a self-identified member of the community. And just 20 have ever gained four-star rank - one in the Army, two in the Air Force and seventeen in the Navy, according to the Pentagon.
I don't disagree with your points - I share most of them - but I think there is more good than bad in this article. Run by AP, this put into many people's minds what we all know; the difference between minority numbers in 2008 is a function of individual choices of those minorities and the general population's characteristics of the nation they come from, not some racist element or culture in the military that some think exists. As a matter of fact, the most racist portions of the military I run into are those who work in areas that mirror the "DNA of the Month Club" mentality of the civilian Grievance Industry they get their intellectual poison from.
More people need to know that. I know it, you know it, but some of the Boomers who are running things still think that it is still 1971 - and it isn't - folks coming out of boot camp were born in 1990.
So sure, you can nit pic some of the article, but on average - I think it works for the larger good of broadening the argument.
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