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Okay, so here is what I want to know... What rock has this guy been living under for the past few decades? The military has, for as long as I've been aware of it, had a large number of non-White people in it. It's been, for the most part, one of the best ways for non-White people to get ahead in life. I had plans to join the military after I graduated college - but kidney stones rendered me unfit for service, and that was the end of that.

And there have always been a decent number of women in the military. Mainly because modern militaries have a number of functions other than simply fighting. While private military contracting companies are a thing, it's not as if the various branches of the United States' Armed Forces have contracted out everything outside of being on the front lines.

But more to the point, there's nothing "woke" (regardless of how badly on bastardizes the definition) about the military being a place of opportunity everyone who enlists, including people who are something other than White men. Why shouldn't the military draw from all of the various demographic groups that make up the United States as a whole?

It's interesting that the profile picture for "end wokeness" says: "I support the former things." Maybe they're hankering for the days in which minorities were given the dirty and dangerous jobs that White soldiers didn't want to do. Or when servicemen regarded women in uniform as "comfort women," there to cater to their sexual desires. There's a reason why that garbage came to an end: the nation started realizing that mistreating those who volunteered to serve was a bad idea.