Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on The Transformation of the US Military. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page research paper that discusses minorities, women and gays in the military. Today’s all-volunteer US military has a demographical profile that is quite different from that of the past. The transformation of the US military that has occurred in recent decades encompasses not only changes in the ways in which the American forces operate, but it has also served as a vehicle for social change as it has integrated both minorities and women into its ranks, affording increased opportunities for both of these sectors of the population. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khgaymil.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
occurred in recent decades encompasses not only changes in the ways in which the American forces operate, but it has also served as a vehicle for social change as it
has integrated both minorities and women into its ranks, affording increased opportunities for both of these sectors of the population. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that
"colored people would be given the right to serve" in the military and it was in 1948 that President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order that made the US
military the nations "first major institution to abolish segregation and tackle racial integration" as its standard operating procedure (Boyd 88). As this suggests, long before the Civil Rights era of
the 1960s focused attention on the problems of racial inequality in the US, the armed forces were well on their way to becoming one segment of American society that rewarded
ability, regardless of racial or ethnic factors. Particularly since the inception of the all-volunteer force in 1973, the US military has been viewed as a "pioneer in equal opportunity"
among the countrys foremost institutions (Quester and Gilroy 111). In the years leading up to the all-volunteer force, the American military was predominantly male and white and the Gates Commission,
which examined the issued of all-volunteer force in 1970 had relative little to say about women in the services, as they comprised only 2 percent the armed forces (Quester
and Gilroy 111). At this time, black enlisted service personnel already had higher than average reenlistment rates. In 1972, African American enlisted men comprised 12.6 of the total armed
services, with 2.3 percent African American offices. By 1980, black representation in the services had stabilized at between 22 and 23 percent (Quester and Gilroy 111). The Navy was
...