Encourage minorities to join elite forces

Many elite commando units, including the Navy SEALs, lack diversity — a concern for military officials as the nation’s forces prepare to handle future threats.

Trying out for special operations units is something that people in the military choose to do. There are only a small number of people in each race who even try out. Once you try out, there are even fewer of any race who decide to stick with it.

Some people fail to advance in the training, and others choose to leave on their own because it just isn’t worth it to them. You have to be a special kind of crazy to want to be special operations forces.

Bruce Leroy

For this line of work, you either meet the qualifications and standards or you don’t. The team is no stronger than the weakest link. Being politically correct has no place in special operations forces.

Joe Mosby

Some people seem to be saying minorities lack the mental capacity to be in these units. Instead, the lack of diversity could be about a lack of desire to do the job.

Tisha Tutein

Let them try out. If they make it, great. If they don’t, that’s OK, too. I’m a woman, and even if I were the best female athlete in the world, I know my limitations. I would never try to be a SEAL.

How do high-level military officials even know whether minorities are interested in joining the SEALs or other such groups? Not everyone, regardless of color, can do certain jobs.

Holly Hilpert

The real question is, how many minorities applied for SEAL training?

Don’t use quotas, instead of qualifications, to achieve racial diversity goals.

Bill Buckley