Tag: ROTC
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Profiles for People of Color in the U.S. Military 2020-2021
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At the end of 2020, the Defense Department’s Diversity and Inclusion Board released a report aimed at identifying ways to improve racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S. military. Among the report’s findings: The enlisted ranks of the active and reserve military were “slightly more racially and ethnically diverse than its U.S. civilian counterparts.” But not the officer corps. Furthermore, it ...
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From Student Debtor to Soldier
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How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military. Anna Attie / In These Times - When James Gardner got injured playing basketball as a DePaul University ...
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The Missing Link in the Gun Debate
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Greta Zarro - America is up in arms about guns. If last month’s “March for Our Lives,” which attracted over one million marchers nationwide, is any indication, we’ve got a serious problem with gun ...
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America's Child Soldiers
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Ann Jones - Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect kids worldwide from being ...
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The Militarization of Catholic Jesuit University Education
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Robert Graf - Not Your (Grand) Father’s Military St. Ignatius surrenders his weapons St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, became a “soldier of Christ,” laying down his worldly ...
