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There are so many different factors and influences going into racial and gender makeup of the military that any kind of far-reaching analysis that isn't a damned peer-reviewed journal is probably going to have a healthy dose of oversimplified hot takes. Here are some quick facts devoid of the "why" The Army is the most racially diverse, except in E1-E4 range. Navy has that at drat near half minorities, but their numbers drop off very fast as you move up the ranks. The Army has the most minority officers across all grades. The Air Force is the least racially diverse. (The Air Force skews officer-heavy compared to other branches, and officers skew white.) Diversity in the enlisted forces hasn't seen a radical change in the last 20 years, but minority officers have decidedly grown in ratio and stuck around from 1995 to now. Marines and Navy are less likely to be married. Across the force, women are less likely to be married than men. The Air Force leads the way in dual-military marriages, as well as in enlisted divorces. Marines are a very white, male branch. This has some neat stuff to pick through: http://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2014-Demographics-Report.pdf
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Blind Rasputin posted:Is that still a minority in the military too? I guess officers are technically a minority
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There's a difference between being hated and being a minority
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mlmp08 posted:There are so many different factors and influences going into racial and gender makeup of the military that any kind of far-reaching analysis that isn't a damned peer-reviewed journal is probably going to have a healthy dose of oversimplified hot takes. im sure the dod has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to figure out why black dudes seem to prefer to do non-combat arms jobs. those hundreds of millions of dollars had to have produced 1 public academic paper.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:im sure the dod has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to figure out why black dudes seem to prefer to do non-combat arms jobs. those hundreds of millions of dollars had to have produced 1 public academic paper. The dod doing research on things like that often ends in guys like Grossman outright faking all thier data and crying "national security/secrets" when called on it.
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LMAO dude just unloads into his friend
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:two_finger.gif 
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Well I certainly hope the guy up front who got blasted apologized to the shooter. 
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 Here's a look at the spring's hottest new fashion trends straight from the joint FIN/US/NOR-mechanized forces exercise: cover your armor in fir tree branches, until it looks like a suspiciously flat and wide tree.
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 7 "Sir, why is that tree moving?" "that's clearly a hedge, private."
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May 4, 2017 12:46
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Missionary Positron posted:
 I don't even wanna imagine how much of a pain in the rear end doing that must've been.
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aphid_licker posted:
Guy must be barking mad after doing that.
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Looks dope, but I have to imagine it does gently caress all when they look at the heat sig coming from your giant diesel engine?
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Missionary Positron posted:
LOL someone's been watchin the OG Red Dawn 
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Beastie posted:Looks dope, but I have to imagine it does gently caress all when they look at the heat sig coming from your giant diesel engine? Yup. Day or night I always used the TIS, that thing would glow like a motherfucker out the back/side.
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Duke Chin posted:
No one expects the entish inquisition.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txooHvssic4 F35s going through the Mach loop in a very sunny Wales.
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One more fashion shot: I had no idea the MGS Stryker variant was still in use.
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Missionary Positron posted:One more fashion shot: What? I just see a tree protecting it's valued 2nd Amendment right
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https://instagram.com/p/BTpyqk8FFGK/ Following Pat McNamara (former Delta Force) on Instagram continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.
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Missionary Positron posted:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Yup. Day or night I always used the TIS, that thing would glow like a motherfucker out the back/side. but it wouldnt be easy to identify with the human eye, which is the point of doing that. a lot of things glow in the thermals(not as hot as an engine grate, but hot enough to clutter the image), but there aren't a lot of straight lines in nature. no matter how good the optics on an m1 are, they still only offer the gunner a pinhole view of the world. if the tc isn't standing up and scanning, then hes also only getting a pinhole view of the world. i dont think anyone would do that in a real war but it is exactly the kind of stupid poo poo that officers make you do during training. like bring an extra pair of boots and cammies to the field, drink water out of the water buffalo or setup hf antennas.
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Fashion tanks are back... in video form! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXUSs1Qz4zs
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Man the Finns have a weird mix of equipment.
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MA-Horus posted:Man the Finns have a weird mix of equipment. Their army is the Iran of Northern Europe when it comes to equipment. A hodgepodge mix of Russian, Swedish and German gear to a large extent, with some domestic stuff like the Patria AMV. Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 6, 2017 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Their army is the Iran of Northern Europe when it comes to equipment. A hodgepodge mix of Russian, Swedish and German gear to a large extent, with some domestic stuff like the Patria AMV. Most of the Russian vehicles/armor have been axed/are in the process of being axed. The only yuge outlier is the fleet of BMP-2s, which was modernized and operates alongside CV9030s. Russian SPGs are also being replaced with Korean K-9s. No idea why the armored brigades are still using MTLBs, tho.
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The Finnish battle rifle, the Rk 62, is pretty neat. It's an AK-47... except kinda different!
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I wonder if the dude who was blown out of the bmp was alive and alert enough to enjoy the flight into the air.
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I wonder if we're on some kind of watchlist for viewing all these videos. 
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In your heart, you know the answer to that question.
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Missionary Positron posted:Most of the Russian vehicles/armor have been axed/are in the process of being axed. The only yuge outlier is the fleet of BMP-2s, which was modernized and operates alongside CV9030s. Russian SPGs are also being replaced with Korean K-9s. I like that the system has this automated ammo-buddy system on the same chassis, with a totally non-phallic resupplying process. That reminds me to check out some of those South Korean masturbatory mass-howitzer barrage videos.
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That was a huge explosion, why did it go up like that? Did it detonate all the 30mm or something?
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Richard Bong posted:That was a huge explosion, why did it go up like that? Did it detonate all the 30mm or something? The sparkly secondary explosions are ammunition and/or propellant cooking off. I think that the BMP series all have lateral fuel tanks and that might have been what made the initial detonation more spectacular, but that's an educated guess on my part. The explosion 'rate' isn't consistent with ammunition but neither is it 'dirty' enough to be fuel so eh? Either way those dudes in the BMP are toast.
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ded posted:I wonder if the dude who was blown out of the bmp was alive and alert enough to enjoy the flight into the air. That dude was most definitely a stringy meat husk at that point so, nah, he probably wasn't hearing r Kelly tunes at that point womp womp
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