Re: More Asian-Pacific Americans Serve in DoD

Yea, they can serve, lose an arm and a leg and die for the US, but when they go back home, they're portrayed as whiny sexless cowardly shrimps by Hollywood. Countless tours of gallant duty crossed out by a faceless script writer's pen. They would have been better off serving the PLA! :/

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More Asian-Pacific Americans Serve in DoD
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060510_5078.html ~Rudi
Williams American Forces Press Service

HONOLULU, May 10, 2006 - While the Defense Department doesn't have as
many Asian-Pacific Americans in some grades of its civilian work force
as it would like, their numbers in military service are strong, a top
defense operations research analyst said here May 8.

Robin H. Woo, of the Defense Manpower Data Center, presented a 10-year
overview of DoD's Asian-Pacific American demographic profiles during
the department's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month observance.

Woo said U.S. Census Bureau statistics provide the baseline DoD uses
to determine whether Asian-Pacific Americans are fairly represented in
the department's military and civilian work force. Over the last 10
years, he said, the number of Asian-Pacific Americans in DoD has grown
from 6.7 million to 9.5 million.

In December 2005, Asian-Pacific Americans represented 4.4 percent of
the U.S. population. In DoD, 4.7 percent of the active duty force and
5.9 percent of the department's civilian work force was Asian-Pacific
American.

And while 35 percent of Asian-Pacific Americans on active duty was of
Filipino descent in the December 2005 snapshot, Filipino-Americans
made up only 18 percent of Asian-Pacific Americans in the United
States.

Pacific Islanders -- Polynesians, Micronesians, Guamanians,
Melanesians and others -- have strong representation in the military.
They make up 6.7 percent of Asian-Pacific Americans in the United
States and 11.8 percent of Asian-Pacific Americans on active duty.

East Asians - Chinese, Japanese and Korean - make up 40.1 percent of
Asian-Pacific Americans in the U.S. population, and 25.5 percent of
Asian-Pacific Americans active duty officers and 12.1 percent of
personnel the enlisted side.

The number of Asian-Pacific American women on active duty has doubled
from 5,200 in 1995 to more than 10,500, Woo said, and the male
Asian-Pacific American component of the active duty force saw a
40-percent increase in the same period. Overall, he added, the number
of Asian-Pacific Americans on active duty grew by 47.5 percent over
the last 10 years, with an 80-percent gain in the commissioned officer
ranks.

"This is at the same time that the military overall has shrunk by 9.5
percent," Woo noted. Though DoD enlisted strength fell by 130,000 over
that period, the enlisted ranks included 16,700 more Asian-Pacific
Americans in 2005 than in 1995. While Asian-Pacific Americans
represented 4.2 percent of military commissioned officers in December
2005, they made up 6.5 percent of health care officers but only 2.9
percent of tactical operations officers.

However, Woo pointed out, Asian-Pacific American representation in
commissioned tactical operations positions rose from 1.6 percent to
2.9 percent over the last 10 years.

The enlisted ranks also showed greater-than-expected Asian-Pacific
American representation in the health care occupations compared to
combat arms. But those in enlisted tactical operations specialties
rose from 2.1 percent to 3.6 percent between December 1995 and
December 2005, Woo noted.

In December 2005, Asian-Pacific Americans were 5.9 percent of the DoD
federal civilian work force across all pay scales -- 8.2 percent of
the professional occupations, 8.2 percent of people in the clerical
fields, and 6.4 percent of the department's blue-collar workers.

Woo said that while Asian-Pacific representation is high in the lower
third of the General Schedule pay scale - 8.5 percent of DoD's GS-1
through GS-5 employees, Asian-Pacific Americans constitute only 2.9
percent of employees in the scale's highest grade, GS-15. The
statistical expectation, he said, would be 5.6 percent. Twenty-two
Asian-Pacific Americans serve in DoD's senior executive service.

Related Site:

Defense Manpower Data Center [
http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/

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