[lbo-talk] blacks shun military

[Michael Smith]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:04 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> 
> > I don't know why the Navy is so much lower than the other branches.
> 
> Isn't the Navy the snootiest of the branches?

It is. But maybe Dr Johnson's observation has something 
to do with it too: 

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance 
enough to get himself into a jail; for being 
in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance 
of being drowned. A man in a jail has more 
room, better food, and commonly better company."