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Chapter 8:

Race/Ethnicity

The racial/ethnic composition of deployed enlisted personnel, shown in Table 8.3, indicated only small differences between deployed personnel and the Total Force. Among enlisted personnel, the racial/ethnic mix of deployed personnel duplicated that of all enlisted personnel. This distribution varied little among the three locations. For officers, there was a small, but consistent overrepresentation of Whites among deployed officers, and a corresponding underrepresentation of minority officers. Nearly 84 percent of deployed officers were White, as were active duty officers. Among minority officers, the greatest degree of underrepresentation occurred for Blacks (6 percent versus 8 percent). As is the case for gender, representation of racial/ethnic groups among deployed members was closely related to the occupations that were deployed, as discussed in the following section.

Table 8.3. Race/Ethnicity of FY 2000 Deployed Active Component Enlisted Personnel
and Commissioned Officers by Location Compared to Total Force (Percent)

Race/Ethnicity

Deployed

Total Force

Kosovo

Bosnia

Persian Gulf

All Locations

ENLISTED

White

64.5

61.4

64.7

63.9

62.5

Black

21.6

23.6

18.9

21.0

22.4

Hispanic

7.9

8.3

9.7

8.7

9.0

Other

6.1

6.8

6.6

6.5

6.0

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

OFFICERS

White

82.6

82.5

85.7

83.6

83.8

Black

5.8

6.4

6.4

6.2

8.1

Hispanic

3.7

4.3

3.4

3.7

3.9

Other

7.9

6.9

4.5

6.6

4.3

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
Also see Appendix Tables B-25 (Active Enlisted by Race/Ethnicity, Service and Gender), B-34 (Active Officers by Race/Ethnicity and Service), F-1 (Deployed Active Enlisted by Location, Race/Ethnicity, Service, and Gender), and F-6 (Deployed Active Officers by Location, Race/Ethnicity, Service, and Gender).

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