The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that causes painful razor bumps and scarring to be kicked out of the service -- an issue that disproportionately affects Black men.
I mean this is why I served. I knew I didn’t have a home once I turned 18. No one in my family or extended family had been to college. Poor kid from a shitty school, I had no idea how to make it happen. So before I turned 18 I emancipated and shipped out. What I found was one of the most diverse workforce in the US, because its comprised of almost exclusively poor people from all across the US.
I mean this is why I served. I knew I didn’t have a home once I turned 18. No one in my family or extended family had been to college. Poor kid from a shitty school, I had no idea how to make it happen. So before I turned 18 I emancipated and shipped out. What I found was one of the most diverse workforce in the US, because its comprised of almost exclusively poor people from all across the US.