Military Becoming Increasingly Hereditary
11th January 2020
The New York Times, of course, think’s this is a SCARY THING.
Of course, anybody who works at the NYT would die of mortification if one of their offspring decided to join the military.
Black recruits tend to be the children of blacks who served. A 1994 book about recruiting by Moskos made the point that even by then there were a lot of two or three generation black families in the Army (less so in other branches), typically specializing not in combat but in supply paperwork jobs that could then transition to a civilian government job, with an ideal path of collecting two nice pensions. It’s a pretty sensible way to go through life.
Maybe that’s how Trump got black unemployment figures so low.