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91 of rig its I1 1i 11 0 re 1- ie ty Ile le I I I 1 I 01 8 OPERATION DESERT STORM THE MILITARY Saturday January 26 1991 Fort Worth Star -Telegram i Section A Page 5: i 1 4' Officer rps is i Work war More blacks giving the orders t's mix to push I is li 0 ft ic i i increasing xl increasingly integrated '1 dr Powell to top i -( 4 BY NIICHAEL WHITELEY officials in other branches concede e- l' ant colonels and 932 cl BY RON I IUTCIIESON captains Fort Worth Star-Telegram that their record for putting blacks 253 admirals Port Worth Star-Telegram Washington Bureau i it- t- Three of the Navy' 1 t--) They have lived and died as in top positions is less commend- are black The Navy has 34 black Iv HI en WASNGTON Colin I 4 i Io bl America hidden heroes a captains 169 commanders 469 le Powell the calm media savvy 4 i 4 4 1 But until the post Vietnam push i 4 Of the 20600 pilots in the Air lieutenant commanders 1034 lieu-- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of to balance the share of blacks in Force 301 are black The Navy tenants and 487 lieutenants junio I Staff has a simple explanation for a command with those on oasts of successes th dying which boasts its in at- grade li his rise to the top of the US military -t--e" I battlefield they were seldom in tracting blacks to its aviation and Not until the Korean War did 4 i hierarchy "4it -x i charge Now their role is shifting submarine programs has 230 Afri- whites and blacks fight side by side t- ''The real story is that I climbed 1 can American pilots about 2 per But there are numerous accounts of 0 I climbed well and I climbed i Most visibly the war is being di- 4 --)-mm-L -m' rectey Army en on owe cent of the 12000-plus serving black unsung heroes in wars before hard" he told a group of black jour- A Cohn Powell Dr Charles Moskos a military nalists shortly after his appointment fr' '5---c---r--- the first African-American chair- sociologist at Northwestern Univer to the post "I climbed over the cliff -e-----7-11: re man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sity gave one but always on the backs of the con- i Blacks make up more than I 1 per 7 "We're getting a whole When Theodore Roosevelt took a n- tributions of those who went be '1 i ir cent of the Army's officer corps 55 from his Wash fore" --'1 's I -1 percent of the officer pool in the Air bunch Of intelligent ington political career to join the brief 1898 hiatus i n- Powell's ascent has reached diz- i Force 51 percent in the Marine i zying new heights with the onset of '1- I Corps and 4 percent in the Navy young people who Spanish-American War it was a reg- 1 iment of black Army soldiers and Operation Desert Storm a military While blacks make up 124 per- think there's campaign that has made the quiet i t1 cent of the US population and 25 not the Rough Riders who captured something for them in San Juan's Kettle Hill le reserved four-star general a familiar VV- 1i i percent of the forces in America's and widely admired media pres- 1 I Desert Storm operations military a career in the They were ordered to stop and ty ence i officials and historians say their military The biggest step aside on the apex and then they were told to charge in behind Roosei Powell's performance under fire 0o numbers in military leadersip ro hles vett" Moskos said le ---7 both in the battle zone and in it have improved significantly in re- boost to bringing in Historians say the all black 9th i 1 front of inquisitive reporters has cent years minorities has been and 10th Cavalry units the "Buffalo won near-unanimous praise and Associated Press Army officials say the black share th le fueled talk of a possible spot on a Gen Colin Powell has been praised for his actions under pressure ofleadership is up from less than 10 er tremendous soliders" were largely responsible PP for taming the nation's western i presidential ticket percent in 1985 in part because of upward mobility frontier during the 19th century Some political analysts tout Pow- "You've got to remember that Ei- South Bronx His career has taken a minority advertising program that Moskos said blacks also have h' ell as a potential Dwight Eisen- senhower went through a protracted him to posts in Colorado Kansas spent 8 cents of every dollar last year played a significant role in the mili- i hower a military hero who was war in which people invested a great Alabama and Georgia as well as two On media vendors considered disad- Li Col Joseph Allred tary since the Korean War when the I propelled by a grateful nation into deal of passion This isn't the same stints in Vietnam where he was vantaged Army spokesman Armed Forces were integrated But 1 the White House kind of war" he said wounded by a punfi stick booby As of October the Army counted they also have taken note of the In another sign of Powell's new- Powell for his part consistently trap among its black officers 27 generals difficulties of moving into leader- found prominence the military downplays any talk of politics De- Powell 53 became the first black 206 colonels 551 lieutenant cola- Blacks in the Air Force include I ship i leader's likeness has joined card- spite his long association with Re- and the youngest chairman of the nets 1633 majors and 4590 cap- three generals 107 colonels 341 One-fourth of all the nation's i board cutouts of President Bush and publicans the general's political af- Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 after tains an Army spokesman said Af- lieutenant colonels 1151 majors men entered the service dur- bshiao Madonna on Washington streets filiation is unknown Powell has serving as President Ronald rican-Americans accounted for and 2838 captains ing the peacetime draft before Viet- 3 where tourists can pay to be photo- acknowledged that in the early Reagan's national security adviser 9993 officers in all said the spokes- The Air Force set military pre- nam he said That dropped to 19 graphed next to the lifelike icons 1960s his Volkswagen sported an As the highest ranking and most vis- man Lt Col Joseph Allred cedent in September when it pro- percent during the war and has held "Colin Powell is a talented guy "All The Way With LBJ" bumper ible black in the military Powell "We steady since re getting a whole bunch of This is an opportunity to show that sticker makes a conscious effort to serve as intelligent young people who think moted a 48-year-old black woman The imbalance in the force in the to the world" said George Edwards "Some people see me as a political a role model there's something for them in a ea- to brigadier general Marcelite i I Persian Gulf region is one of social III' a political scientist at Texas figure sometimes but I really am In an interview with black-owned reer in the military" Allred said Harris whose 25-year career was in I class as well as race Moskos said University and author of a not" he told The Washington Post Ebony magazine the general de- "The biggest boost to bringing in maintenance control was named new book on presidential populari- in 1989 "I've never wanted to leave scribed the kind of reaction he hopes minorities has been their tremen- vice commander of the Oklahoma "We'll have a lot of working-class City Air Logistics Center at Tinker whites and blacks in the war" he ty- the military" to evoke in black teen-agers dous upward mobility" said "But that's what the volunteer Air Force Base But although Edwards does not The son ofJamaican immigrants "Hey look at that dude He came Comparisons are difficult be- force is all about Essentially the rule out a political career for Powell Powell joined the Army in 1958 af- out of the South Bronx If he got out cause the services present their The Marine Corps has no black upper-middle classes have excused he rejects the Eisenhower analogy ter a childhood in Harlem and the why can't numbers in differing fashions but generals 243 colonels 466 lieuten- themselves from fighting" 1 i' i 1 7- t- 111 1AO: 1 11 i 4 4 11 WWI 11 "111 'I 1 -t i -f--L''' N' II 0 a I 1'1 27 44 ii 112 111111 4 4 1 Lkible' 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responsible for taming the nation's western frontier during the 19th century Moskos said blacks also have played a significant role in the military since the Korean War when the Armed Forces were integrated But they also have taken note of the difficulties of moving into leadership One-fourth of all the nation's black men entered the service during the peacetime draft before Vietnam he said That dropped to 19 percent during the war and has held steady since The imbalance in the force in Persian Gulf region is one of social class as well as race Moskos said "We'll have a lot of working-class whites and blacks in the war" he said "But that's what the volunteer force is all about Essentially the upper-middle classes have excused themselves from fighting".