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For decades, the U.S. military has worked to create a force that mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of the American population. Now, a congressionally charted commission has reported that while the Pentagon has achieved that goal in the lower ranks, the story is much different the higher you go up the officer ladder.
According to the report, “the demographic composition of the officer corps is far from representative of the American population, and … officers are much less demographically diverse than the enlisted troops they lead.” The Military Leadership Diversity Commission also found that “with some exceptions, racial and ethnic minorities and women are underrepresented among senior noncommissioned officers”. (Read the full report.)
The report says that while non-Hispanic whites make up 66 percent of the U.S. population, they comprise 77 percent of active duty officers. Similarly, blacks account for 12 percent of the U.S. population but represent just 8 percent of active duty officers. When it comes to Hispanic Americans, which make up 15 percent of the U.S. population, they number only 5 percent of the officer corps.
At the general officer rank — or so-called flag officers in the Navy — the level of military diversity diminishes considerably. As of 2009, the Army was the most diverse service, with minorities making up roughly 10 percent of its generals. In the other services, the minority general- or flag-officer population was 9 percent in the Marine Corps, 6 percent in the Navy, and 5 percent in the Air Force. Gender diversity among U.S. military officers also diverges from levels seen in the nation’s population. Fifty-one percent of Americans are women, but they account for 16 percent of uniformed officers.
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