Pyrpolizer wrote:Paphitis wrote:
The Americans are trained to NATO standards and are a professional military that actually attracts some of America's finest talent into careers that are long term and fulfilling with great salary packages and benefits - from free medical, cheap home loans, cheap utilities and tax benefits.
The US Army is NOT a conscript military like Russia's or what you are use to in Cyprus.
Nothing is left to chance with the US Military. The Military is 100% professional, unlike Russia's which isn't. Hence why you see massive casualties because these young Russian kids are being sent to their deaths, as they simply do not possess the level of training US personnel receive.
If the US did that there would be such a backlash. The US people have no stomach for sending young Americans to their graves. So utmost care is taken to bring everyone home alive.
You live in the US for almost a year, and you still have illusions of how the US military is made up. VAST MAJORITY is blacks, Hispanics and trash of the lowest possible educational or financial level.
You should spend more time studying the people of the place you live...
The permanent military personnel all over the World is like that. Conscripts + reservists joining the permanent personnel is the best mix one can ever have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/p ... rship.html
Some 43 percent of the 1.3 million men and women on active duty in the United States military are people of color.https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-fr ... n-problem/As for your other illusion about the so called "NATO standard" this training is all about planning and carrying out of joint NATO operations. The military standard training is the same everywhere in the world. What differs slightly is the training of special forces.
Not True.
The people of colour are proportionate to population which is a very good thing. You talk as though the people of colour in the USA are somehow of lower intelect and status in the USA. That is a falsehood. people of colour in America, are equals, and they are forging great success and many of them do well at school, develop high powered careers, vocations and also achieve academic excellence. Granted, there are many also of lower economic status but that doesn't make a poor kid of colour of less intellect. So many times, these kids do very well at school.
And you call them trash. The US Military is a professional institution. To get in, you undergo a rather rigorous selection process. Not only that, you need to be a clean skin with no misdemeanors or criminal convictions. And you are security vetted as you will hold a security clearance. That's vetting by CIA, NSA and FBI. If you have dirt and skeletons in the closet, they will find it.
So they are not trash at all. A career in the US military is highly sort after by people of all walks of life. The benefits of joining are second to none. And all recruits are usually fresh out of school or university.
Not only that, but in the USA, I would be considered a person of colour. But I have experienced no discrimination in the US at all. On the contrary, I have been helped and assisted firstly to get sponsored in the US, probably because of my background which tilts towards people of similar workplace experience to me, in particular if you served the US Military which pretty much guarantees you a red carpet and the best mentoring they can muster.
The system is built to assist people that have served America (which I haven't), but because people such as this proliferate, it has been advantageous to me.
There is nothing at all wrong with people of colour. American Government is a non discriminatory institution at all levels - they even had a person of Colour as POTUS. And not once have I been disadvantaged for being a person of Greek or Cypriot heritage.
When I started out in Australia at HMAS Creswell, I clearly remember the bastardry we all went though and the many speeches we had to endure by Chief Young. One time he said, "so this is it? The top 1% of Australia is apparently before me here, wanting to be officers and all I see is trash, and maggots. God help Australia" He was screaming this from the top of his lungs, and we were friggin scared alright.
And on and on the insults went. We were the top 1% academically. Actually, probably the top 5% would be more accurate. But we were being degraded, insulted and broken down. That was his job. To grind us all down into the dirt so that we learn and understand our place in the chain.
The average socio economic status of most of us would have been low. But at the age of 21, what do you expect? Wall street investors we were not. Probably not even wise with our money - as all we were interested in at the time is our threads, having a good time, cars (even just to buy and maintain one), girls, girls and more girls. maybe some alcohol etc etc you get the picture.
But we were all clean-skins. Raised in decent working class families and so on.
Today, I fly with people of colour all they time. As a FO that I am at this time, they are usually Captains, and half the time from the US Military - Army, Navy and USAF having flown all sorts of exotic stuff from Black Hawks, to Apaches, Vipers to Hornets, Galaxy to Osprey and so on and so on. We have equal opportunity in the US. You are not judged by the colour of your skin.
You are such a Cypriot Villager who has no idea.
