This is an interesting report...
I think that most African Americans who can go into combat duty might not be able to due to a criminal histories...
Remember when the military kicked out recruits a few years back because of that issue alone in the mid to late 90's...
Then they class them out of being able to use the "high tech weaponry" that they have out there... No way are they gonna pay to train some "negro" to drive a $gazillion dollar humvee to only get it blown up over a landmine... There just too many good white boys to do that...
This goes not to say that black folks cannot fight, but what's the incentive? I know my uncle who went to Vietnam twice had to sleep in a ditch from the Viet-cong... Why do that when you can sleep in a fairly warm corner of a jail cell with Bubba/Bubbaette?
But different war, different time, newer and deadlier weapons...
Oh well...