Originally Posted by
Hangarshuffle
Wiki up the present guys in charge of all aspects of the military and a clique emerges, a cabal. Think some recognise this and want change, better diversity that reflects us all.
Don't say they cant do it - WW2s Bomber Command intake says differently.
WW2 Bomber Command were expendable.
Eton, Marlborough, Stowe plus others were seen as supposdly providing the officer corp.
Problem with that is by limiting intake you draw from the same shallow gene pool and ignore those who have better ideas because they are not the establishment.
A USCG/USN/USMC recuiter I knew in LA said some of his best recruits were people who had grown up in gang territory. He couldn't recruit direct if they were in gangs but some of the people he recruited were ones who hadn't been drawn in through a mixture of courage / cunning.
He viewed it that if you could survive 5-6 teen years in Gang territory in LA then you had a bit of backbone, couple of years in, USMC especially, then you could survive in any hell hole in the world.