MFSO’s ED Oskar Castro, racist tool

TSO sent us these links to Military Families Speak Out’s new executive director, Oskar Castro. To demonstrate that he has a keen grasp of military strategy, he tells the braindead how counterinsurgencies are fought;

They send in the elite troops — they send in the Navy Seals, the Marine Corps, the Green Berets, the Army Rangers. They send in these folk, who are overwhelmingly white men, not even women of course. They go in and they make the early mess.

But who comes back to the front line to maintain what these folks have done, or to continue moving, and it’s overwhelmingly people of color, poor people, African American, poor white. Latinos are overwhelmingly represented in combat positions, even though they’re under-represented in the military. So almost 18 percent of them who are in the military are in combat positions. And there’s a lot to say about that culturally and economically; you get more pay if you’re in those more dangerous roles.

So i guess there are no white men who aren’t in SpecOps, huh? And apparently SpecOps weeds out the brown people. And how exactly do they “make the early mess”?

Castro goes on to explain why shouldn’t allow yourself to be recruited by the evil military recruiters;

Between The Lines: You said 65 percent of those who sign up don’t get the benefits they thought they were entitled to, like $50,000 for college, because they don’t fulfill all the requirements necessary, and military recruiters never tell them about those things. But is it spelled out in the contract, and it’s just that recruiters verbally are less than honest?

Oskar Castro: It’s in the small print. It’s part of military regulations that enable that. And in order to get even the full $50,000, they say “up to $50,000,” some recruiters say, “You’re going to get $50,000, I guarantee it.” They won’t put it in writing. But they’re not told that in order to do that they also have to qualify for the Army Navy College Fund and very few people will qualify for the Army Navy College Fund and have the right test scores in order to get the full $50,000, and leave the military under honorable conditions, and serve the full four years. So, yeah, it’s in the fine print; military recruiters don’t usually read the fine print. You’d be challenged even to get a military enlistment contract for your parents to read. Why would you want your parents to read that? Just sign, you know.

Between The Lines: And what percentage don’t get honorable discharges and what percent don’t serve their full hitch? You said both these things prevent enlistees from getting their benefits.

Oskar Castro: It’s about 20-25 percent, I believe, who get discharged under less than honorable conditions. And therefore, even though they’ve put $1,200 of their hard-earned money into the GI package deal, they don’t get that back, they don’t get anything they might have accumulated in terms of the matching of the funds, so if you’re booted out of the military under a bad conduct discharge, other than honorable, even a general discharge, you don’t get the money for college. You have to get an honorable discharge. Otherwise, you don’t get anything at all.

Yes, you read that right. Oskar says that 20-25% of enlistees don’t finish their commitment to the military with honorable discharges. And 65% of total recruits don’t qualify for education benefits after they’ve fulfilled their enlistment commitments. Who is the lying sack of shit now? Is that how you combat what you claim is massive disinformation – by pulling bogus statistics out of your ass?

Category: Antiwar crowd, Military issues