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Naval Academy
Naval Academy struggles to recruit blacksPublished 03/04/07
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The Class of 2008, exercising in 2004, accurately illustrates the Naval Academy’s difficulties in recruiting a brigade that looks like the enlisted ranks they will lead and the nation they will defend.
In Annapolis, the Naval Academy's most recent class started out in July with 1,215 members. Of that total, only 77 described themselves as at least partly African American.
That means slightly more than 6 percent of the class is black. And the numbers are worse at West Point and at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. One prominent congressman, Rep. E. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee and on the Naval...
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