The Few, The Proud, The Minorities

Abstract

The Marine Corps has a history of refuting orders that it feels will negatively impact the effectiveness of its combat lethality. This attitude is a derivative of the hyper-masculine culture that the predominantly white male organization perpetuates. The culture of the Marine Corps harbors bias that results in natural segregation of the "in group" and "out group." This is visibly and statistically identifiable amongst the senior officer ranks (O4-O10) in the Marine Corps where African Americans make up 4.8% of this population and women account for 6.4% of the population.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 2021
Accession Number
AD1177941

Entities

People

  • Ketric D Buffin

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Education
  • Leadership
  • Literature Surveys
  • Marine Corps
  • New York
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Second World War
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Task Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

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  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Strategic Security Studies