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Often forgotten about "subsidization" of one group to another - which area is more likely to have higher participation in the military and armed forces, and dea

Often forgotten about "subsidization" of one group to another - which area is more likely to have higher participation in the military and armed forces, and deaths in foreign conflict zones?

rootusrootus 5y ago
Judging by the racial makeup of the military, probably inner city neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of military participation.
kasey_junk 5y ago
The military doesn’t track deaths in combat zones by race. They do track participation: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military Per those numbers whites/blacks/Hispanics are more represented in the military than similar civilian occupations. There is a higher percentage of Hispanic and black women in the military that might lower combat death numbers but there are a lot less high level black & Hispanic high level officers to make up for that. It’s a long way of saying there isn’t good data on this but the US military is an extremely diverse group especially at the enlisted level.
- remarkEon 5y ago
  The diversity of the military respective to the civilian population is not uniform (no pun intended). There are significant racial differences between services, and branches within services (e.g. infantry versus a combat support branch like quartermaster). It's very difficult to find accurate public data on this subject, but "the military is extremely diverse" is not as clear cut a statement as many seem to think it is.
  - kasey_junk 5y ago
    Sure. The document I listed shows a pretty outsized portion of the marines & Air Force are white. But the fact remains the military is more diverse than the civilian work force. Which given no other data implies we can rule out arguments that military service is a particularly interesting form of sacrifice for the USA in racial dimensions.

Often forgotten about "subsidization" of one group to another - which area is more likely to have higher participation in the military and armed forces, and deaths in foreign conflict zones?

rootusrootus 5y ago

Judging by the racial makeup of the military, probably inner city neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of military participation.

kasey_junk 5y ago

The military doesn’t track deaths in combat zones by race. They do track participation: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military Per those numbers whites/blacks/Hispanics are more represented in the military than similar civilian occupations. There is a higher percentage of Hispanic and black women in the military that might lower combat death numbers but there are a lot less high level black & Hispanic high level officers to make up for that. It’s a long way of saying there isn’t good data on this but the US military is an extremely diverse group especially at the enlisted level.

remarkEon 5y ago
The diversity of the military respective to the civilian population is not uniform (no pun intended). There are significant racial differences between services, and branches within services (e.g. infantry versus a combat support branch like quartermaster). It's very difficult to find accurate public data on this subject, but "the military is extremely diverse" is not as clear cut a statement as many seem to think it is.
- kasey_junk 5y ago
  Sure. The document I listed shows a pretty outsized portion of the marines & Air Force are white. But the fact remains the military is more diverse than the civilian work force. Which given no other data implies we can rule out arguments that military service is a particularly interesting form of sacrifice for the USA in racial dimensions.