How often do you see minorities in US Special forces?

Question

Not asking for any names or anything but whenever I see a movie about a US Navy SEAL and whenever I see a show based on the US special forces, all of them are White. I know there are some Hispanics in the Special Forces but do know that Hispanic is an ethnicity, they can be Blonde hair and blue eyes or pure dark skin.

I was wondering, are there such things as Blacks or Asians in the Special Forces? It is a thought that has been bugging me for a while now, because I mean come on, a Black American US Navy SEAL, I would love to think about that idea.

Answer 1

Some races tend towards physical attributes that make it harder for them to qualify for some special operations units. Blacks, for example, tend to have stronger and denser bones than than whites, and denser muscles. Those physical characteristics makes it difficult for them to swim on the surface. One would expect that to eliminate them from the Navy SEAL program. However, SEALs don't spend all their lives on the surface of the water. As one guy put it, "Swimming only gets you there. It's what you an do on the ground than makes you operational." So there are blacks serving on teams. Hispanics, Asians, as well as other races (including whites) have other characteristics that might make some evolutions difficult. But one thing you learn is that in special warfare you really don't have many limits other than those you impose on yourself.



Numbers? No idea. There aren't a lot. Don't know why. One poster suggested they go for support roles. If they want combat roles, perhaps they go Army or Marines. I know a few. It never occurred to me to ask.

Answer 2

They are not getting "special treatment" because they are not being allowed to do things that any other religion cannot do. The schools are granting concessions and scheduling breaks to accommodate their religious needs where the schools had or were going to have a break anyway. Because if you're going to have a 15 minute break -- and it matters to one group when it happens but doesn't matter to any other group when it happens -- then it does not harm to accommodate them. And in the San Diego case, any other religion can pray at the same time -- no special treatment. As for George Mason -- the students are using a space already set aside for spiritual practice. And the separation is not being forced by the school, it's entirely the choice of the practitioners. As for UMich-Dearborn, that's arguably an unconstitutional use of public funds to pay for religious accommodation that no other religions is getting. But I haven't checked the facts of that case, so I don't know the details to do a proper analysis. But consider that in Dearborn, the Arabic/Muslim population is over 30% of the total student population.

Answer 3

jeepers has it right. out of all of the spec ops guys ive met/worked with i can literally count on one hand the ones that were minorities.



does it really matter though what color someones skin is? as long as their mission gets accomplished, who cares if its a team of all whites, all blacks, or every color of the rainbow?



i get the sense that you're one of those people that complains constantly about equality and blah blah blah, but you're really just looking for people with your own skin color in certain jobs so you can use it as some sort of bragging rights, even though its THEIR accomplishment, not yours...





btw seals are special operations, not special forces. special forces is a specific special operations force (you probably know them as the "green berets"). special operations is the blanket term that covers all other SOFs (and force recon never was and isnt special operations).

Answer 4

Not very much.



Most minorities enlist for support mos's, not for combat arms.



But there are all races in spec ops, just the majority are white.



It has nothing to do with ability, its more of a socioeconomic factor, with those enlisting, seeking a job that directly transfers to a civilian employment.

Answer 5

Of course there are. The military is color blind, in spec ops is so tough that they're happy with anybody that can complete the training. There was just as many minorities in my unit than there were white guys.

Answer 6

They take who ever can make the cut off and get thur the training. It has nothing to do with the color of any trainees skin. Good luck with the worrying about the skin color of the others around you.

Answer 7

The team I was on I was there were two blacks, one hispanic, one oriental and two native americans and I was the only white.

Answer 8

Are you a racist, bigot?!



Montel Williams was a SEAL!

Answer 9

well their has to be but who cares