{"id":23000,"date":"2011-04-19T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:09:55","slug":"mfsos-ed-oskar-castro-racist-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23000","title":{"rendered":"MFSO’s ED Oskar Castro, racist tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

TSO sent us these links to Military Families Speak Out’s new executive director, Oskar Castro. To demonstrate that he has a keen grasp of military strategy, he tells the braindead how counterinsurgencies are fought<\/a>;<\/p>\n

They send in the elite troops — they send in the Navy Seals, the Marine Corps, the Green Berets, the Army Rangers. They send in these folk, who are overwhelmingly white men, not even women of course. They go in and they make the early mess.<\/p>\n

But who comes back to the front line to maintain what these folks have done, or to continue moving, and it\u2019s overwhelmingly people of color, poor people, African American, poor white. Latinos are overwhelmingly represented in combat positions, even though they\u2019re under-represented in the military. So almost 18 percent of them who are in the military are in combat positions. And there\u2019s a lot to say about that culturally and economically; you get more pay if you\u2019re in those more dangerous roles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So i guess there are no white men who aren’t in SpecOps, huh? And apparently SpecOps weeds out the brown people. And how exactly do they “make the early mess”?<\/p>\n

Castro goes on to explain why shouldn’t allow yourself to be recruited by the evil military recruiters; <\/p>\n

Between The Lines: You said 65 percent of those who sign up don\u2019t get the benefits they thought they were entitled to, like $50,000 for college, because they don\u2019t fulfill all the requirements necessary, and military recruiters never tell them about those things. But is it spelled out in the contract, and it\u2019s just that recruiters verbally are less than honest?<\/p>\n

Oskar Castro: It\u2019s in the small print. It\u2019s part of military regulations that enable that. And in order to get even the full $50,000, they say “up to $50,000,” some recruiters say, “You\u2019re going to get $50,000, I guarantee it.” They won\u2019t put it in writing. But they\u2019re not told that in order to do that they also have to qualify for the Army Navy College Fund and very few people will qualify for the Army Navy College Fund and have the right test scores in order to get the full $50,000, and leave the military under honorable conditions, and serve the full four years. So, yeah, it\u2019s in the fine print; military recruiters don\u2019t usually read the fine print. You\u2019d be challenged even to get a military enlistment contract for your parents to read. Why would you want your parents to read that? Just sign, you know.<\/p>\n

Between The Lines: And what percentage don\u2019t get honorable discharges and what percent don\u2019t serve their full hitch? You said both these things prevent enlistees from getting their benefits.<\/p>\n

Oskar Castro: It\u2019s about 20-25 percent, I believe, who get discharged under less than honorable conditions. And therefore, even though they\u2019ve put $1,200 of their hard-earned money into the GI package deal, they don\u2019t get that back, they don\u2019t get anything they might have accumulated in terms of the matching of the funds, so if you\u2019re booted out of the military under a bad conduct discharge, other than honorable, even a general discharge, you don\u2019t get the money for college. You have to get an honorable discharge. Otherwise, you don\u2019t get anything at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, you read that right. Oskar says that 20-25% of enlistees don’t finish their commitment to the military with honorable discharges. And 65% of total recruits don’t qualify for education benefits after they’ve fulfilled their enlistment commitments. Who is the lying sack of shit now? Is that how you combat what you claim is massive disinformation – by pulling bogus statistics out of your ass?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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