Join the SEALs, travel to exotic distant lands. . . bumper sticker
Do you want to travel to exotic lands, meet new and interesting locals, and then kill them? Are you a minority?
Of course, if you want to do the above (with the locals), I imagine that makes you a minority. But the minority the Navy is looking for is those of the racial variety:
Those minority communities of Detroit, Miami and the area from Atlanta to North Carolina’s Research Triangle are the Navy’s latest hopes to find and recruit young men with diversified backgrounds and the physical stamina and desire to undergo the famously rigorous training it takes to become a Navy SEAL.
Random picture of two SEALs, one of whom is a minority
The force today is about 85 percent white, much higher than the Navy overall, so the Coronado, Calif.-based Naval Special Warfare Command wants to broaden the look of the community and draw in men of different ethnicities and races that more reflect U.S. society. Doing so, officials have said, would enable its forces to blend into foreign places where they may operate and help build relationships with allies.
The diversity effort, part of a June 22 request for proposals issued by NSWC, extends to the community of SWCCs, the special warfare combatant-craft crewmen who man gunboats and operate with SEALs.
BUD/S is the hardest training the Navy can throw at a recruit. We had better not water it down just to get Sailors of a certain look. It’ll get people killed. . .
I would think that if ‘people of diversity’ wanted to be a SEAL they would have tried out by now.
I hope we are not setting them up – the SEALs – for failure. (Ie: mandating diversity numbers.)
This whole ‘diversity’ thing is such a can of worms. There’s nothing wrong with outreach or targeted recruiting, as long as standards remain high.
The Marines are going through something similar regarding women in combat MOSs.
Nothing against non-whites or women. If they can do the job, more power to ‘em. But special ops and combat are places where political correctness can get people killed and cause missions to fail.
It’s not worth it.
I am with you Tim. I like diversity, but not forced diversity. . .
Although Navy One, I think you would have to agree, the current administration has done many things we know are destined to fail…the left does that all the time; you weren’t around during the last ‘Democrat’ administration…Hillary Clinton was in charge of socially changing the military and it’s ‘diversity’ programs…she did much damage that needed to be addressed when they left…and the loss of 90,000 active duty members doesn’t do much to advance the strength of our military, does it??k
In the 80′s the Marines believed they did not have enough minority NCO’s. They had meritorious boards where the majority of people promoted from them were minorities. The started calling the guys promoted “quota Cpl’s”. I was oblivious and paid no attention to any of this until I went TAD and roomed with a couple of dark green Marines, they were the ones telling me about it and would even joke with the other black guys about it and call each other quota Cpl. I hope we never get to a ” Qoata SEAL” just to keep someones tally sheet looking all PC.