External Contractors Should Not Recruit Minorities for SEALs

Special Forces, in all branches of the military, have always been fully staffed. It is all completely voluntary and a lot more people volunteer each year than can actually make the grade. There are no promises or special considerations made. Perhaps that has something to do with the lack of diversity? The people doing the job now do it because they want to, not because they were recruited and offered some kind of special deal.

Special Forces operators do not need to "blend in." They slip in, unnoticed, do their jobs, and slip out. No one knows they were there until they count the bodies.

I say, leave well enough alone. If the people who are volunteering now are getting the job done, that's all that matters. Do not lower the entry standards to make it more diverse for political correct reasons. That is just plain stupid!

And I thought the government was trying to be above the color of a man's skin. Obviously, not.

great another job position given away to affirmative action
FY uncle sham your a dirty POS
why on earth do you pick people for color
why cant we try and pick people for ability that alone is hard enough........

Seals dont mix with foreign populations. They kick down doors and hid in the shadows. Green Berets mix with foreign populations. Smells like affirmative action #$%$ excuse to get more people of color in front of better qualified white people.

SEALs are strictly a volunteer force, they aren't recruited. If you want to be a SEAL and are currently in the Navy, you can apply if you are amongst the specific rates that they happen to be looking for. Nothing to do with race.

Are they going to get the same pay as the Military person does? Cause they'll never get a "Contractor" for that cheap.

When I was in the Marine Corps, I got paid $1.34 an hr when Federal minimum wage was $3.00 to $4.00 an hr.

I don't think any "Contractor" will sign up for less than $100.00 an hr or more.

Had a Cousin over in Iraq that was a Security Contractor making $50,000 a month.

And if they're going to use defense money, it'd be better spent supplying real military people with better gear.

The truth of the matter is that within the services, troops do not desire the commitment and lifestyle of a special operations unit. I think that this new approach to identify good candidates and nurture them is the sign of a more mature and cutting edge force. Rest assured that every one that wears a special operations unit badge has earned it through and through.

Aw fer cryin' out loud.............To be a SEAL, you have to be in excellent health, good teeth, and related qualifications.........and you must endure the most rigorous training ever conceived of in the human mind. In the event you cannot endure this training, you are simply not a SEAL ---- Period !!! End of conversation !!!!

I had my opportunity, as all enlisted men do, to go for SEALs in the late '60s......and knew G.D. well I did NOT at the time have the level of maturity or determination required to make the grade, so did not waste my time or the Navy money trying.

And once again, not about who's the most qualified, but what color you are. Black as usual..

Frankly, if any recommended applicants were to "slip through" the vetting process, they would not outlast the rigorous training process. Still, any finances directed at recruiting might better be targeted at co-opting the positive media depictions of SEALS!

Well obama has brough us gays in the military what did you expect ?

C'mon folks, I'm white but I thought the Tukeegee Airmen already proved the point. Military training is just that regardless of race. I had no problem that my wingman was black, and I have no problem with this. If subordination is present or committment is relevent, that individual won't make the cut, period, but the involvement of outside contractors? Give me domestic command for 6 months prior and all questions would be answered.

Also since the Military is 60% black, why are there not more blacks in the SeALs?

Maybe they don't want to do the harsh training? I know that some should be able to hack it. Maybe it's just not worth it to them?

Perpetual racism.

We cant have to many white people or we'll be racist, so we have to pick a bunch of people who aren't white just because they aren't white therefore ignoring all of the white people that might of been a thousand times better than that minority, sure the minority could also be 1000 times better than one of the white applicants but we'll never know now because we had to bring race into this, again, and we cant be racist so we'll be racist to stop the racism.

Leave the Seals alone!!!

Socializing the Seals now. Either you got it or you don't.

maybe its because blacks are not suited for seals mentaly,if it does not have anything to do with a ball they just do not get it

Maybe they need to have Military race limits at Recruitment levels. 20% whites, 20% black, 20% Asian, 20% Hispanic and 20% Gay. When a level is reached then they can only recruit for the others until they are all equaled.

And then add racial benefits like since white folks can't jump, they get to wear springs on their boots, and since black folks can't swim, they get to wear water wings to help them.

Haha, not everyone is created equal. Or we'd all be super stars.

In 2012 sickens me minorities are not amongst Seals, and is a race issue with recruiters. History has proven to discriminate against those not white in US military service is wrong move. Not all Americans wanting to protect US are white.

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