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Military personnel—especially Black women— spilled the tea about military life on Generation Z’s playground—TikTok—despite the organization’s endeavors to enlist this generation to combat one of its historically lowest recruitment turnouts. A Wall Street Journal 2023 study found that the U.S. Army is 15,000 short of its expected 65,000 recruits and the Navy is 10,000 short […]
When the military offers an appeal to those who don't have much due to structural limitations and institutional racism, the options to escape those circumstances remain blurred.
You often feel totally lost when your partner tells you about his day. You have to stop him at every other sentence so he can explain some term or jargon he just used. He certainly doesn’t tell you any stories to which you can relate.
Vogue Profiles Women Who Are Establishing A New Order When It Comes To Being Natural In The Military
In March of 2014, the United States Army issued new hair regulations that were quickly summed up as “racially bias,” due to the ban on “twists, dreadlocks, afros and braids” — styles unique to natural African American women — while deployed. In August of that same year, the military revised those regulations to include a larger […]
Sheila Moore is a proud Marine and mother of two girls who has done two tours in Afghanistan, and is currently an Aviation Supply Specialist. Read her story here.
There was a time when African Americans were thought to lack the intelligence, skill, courage and patriotism necessary in order to serve in the United States military. But no one expected that an elite group of military airmen would go down in history for their heroism during World War II. Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, […]
(The Loop 21) — When Takia Mitchell heard that Barack Obama had signed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she called her brother. “I was just so happy, I couldn’t believe it,” she said. Mitchell is one of the 14,000 servicemembers who have been discharged because of their sexuality over the 17 years Don’t Ask […]
(Hattiesburg American)–A new report provides some disturbing news not only for our economy but also our military and the defense of the United States. The report, by The Education Trust, said nearly 25 percent of those who try to join the Army can’t pass its entrance exam. It’s an indictment not only of the nation’s […]
(Washington Post) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to stop enforcement of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy while a lower court hears a challenge to the Pentagon’s ban on gays and lesbians serving openly. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is preparing to hear legal arguments in a case […]