were any black men in charge or soliders in the korean war?
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The Korean War (1950 to 1953) was the last American conflict involving segregated units of the arced forces, i.e. the US Army. 3 American infantry divisions -- the 25th, the 2nd, and the 3rd -- contained black combat units during 1950/51.\n\nAmong the 25th Division's 3 infantry regiments was the Army's last black 24th Infantry, the largest black unit to serve in Korea. (The 24th Infantry was also the Army's only 3-bn regiment in action during initial weeks of the war. Other American regiments 1st committed to action from peacetime occupation duty in Japan contained only 2 bns.) Accompanied by the black 159th Field Arty bn and the black 77th Engineer Combat Co, the 24th Infantry arrived in the Korean Combat Zone beginning 7-13. On 7-20 the 24th's 3rd Bn, reinforced by a battery of the 159th and a platoon of the 77th, was the 1st 25th Division element to go into action at Yechon. In an extraordinary 2-day action hailed around the world as the US' initial Korean War victory, the reinforced bn drove the enemy from the town and recaptured it at a cost of 2 Americans killed and 10 wounded in action to at least 258 enemy dead.\n\nSubsequently, the 24th Regimental Combat Team:\n\nHeld the most vital part of the Pusan Perimeter Aug/Sep, taking and retaking Battle Mountain 19 times in 30 days \nLed portions or 25th Division's breakout and advance westnorthward to the outskirts of Seoul mid-Sep \nAdvanced in North Korea to within a few miles of the Yalu River during late Nov, and then staged a fighting withdrawal as the Chinese entered the war astride the Chongehon River and in the vicinity of Kunuri \nCrossed the Han River near Seoul with 2 other 25th Division regiments on 3-7-51 (an important part of what UN Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway characterized years later as "the most successful single action fought by troops under my command during either World War II in Europe, or in Korea") \nCrossed the Hantan River northeast of Seoul alone 4-11 in the face of determined resistance from a superior enemy occupying the commanding terrain \nStormed the heights above Mando and ejected the enemy from fortified positions with a bayonet charge and hand-to-hand fighting with hand grenades, mid-Sept 1951. \nDuring early Aug 1950, the 9th Infantry Regiment's black 3rd Bn and the black 503rd Field Arty Bn arrived in Korea with other 2nd Division elements. Initially, the black bn, a black arty battery, a tank company, and a company of engineers were detached and withheld front frontline action and assigned to guard an airfield near Pohang. In early Sep heavy combat losses among the 9th Inf's 2 white bns led to the assignment of some 200 black soldiers as individual replacements, a practice heartily endorsed by the regimental commander, Col. Charles C. Sloane Jr. During mid-Sept, having been introduced gradually to combat action near Pohang and elsewhere, the 3rd Bn rejoined in time to strengthen the 9INF in attempting to break out from the Pusan Perimeter.\n\nDuring late Nov the last segregated 24th Division (on the right of the 25th Division) and the 1st integrating 9INF (on the left of the 2nd Division) advanced in northernmost North Korea side-by-side astride the Chongchon River. On 11-25, hit more heavily (than the 24th, the hardest hit of the 25th Division's regiments) by the Chinese, the 9INF fought extraordinarily well as 2 integrated and 1 segregated bn, the latter temporarily reinforced 2 nights running by 2 rifle companies separated from the 24th's fighting 2nd Bn. By the night of 11-29 the 9INF had been reduced to some 600 effectives as had its sister 38th Infantry. On the morning of 11-30, these 600, spearheading the 2nd Division's desperate attempt to withdraw south from Kunuri, surrounded by the enemy, were virtually wiped out and the 2nd Division was effectively destroyed. But a rebuilt 9Inf, thoroughly integrated, thereafter acquitted itself well in action after action
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Truman was in office during the Korean War. Eisenhower was the president after Truman.
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The First South Carolina Volunteer - African Descent (SCV) was an out growth of the famed "Hunter's Regiment" and is credited as the first regiment of colored soldiers mustered into Federal service during the Civil War.\n\nAlso, the men of Company "A", First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, is given credit as the first colored soldiers to engage the enemy.
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I am a proud member of "Army Brats of America", and with my service bretheren, we stand.\n\nOk, both of my parents were volunteer officers in Vietnam.  I was raised in Okinawa, Japan for a few years and even after my father got out, he was a paramedic and the environment was very similar. My mother had to resign when I was born due to a now changed policy of "femaile officers will not be mothers".\n\nHow I was affected:  I thought everyone moved every three years.  I though there was no difference between white, black, and asian kids and was confused by those who did (33 years later, it just pisses me off).  I knew that if you pulled on enough green legs, one of them would turn out to be your father.  The list goes on.\n\nI worried about my father more as a paramedic/firefighter than when he was a soldier.. for good reason!!  But, overall, military children can be (depends on the parent) very confident, integrates into new areas easily, makes friends fast, respectfull (especially parents who make sure the child does not think their parent's rank belongs to them), athletic, healthy, may even speak mulitple languages, and have a sense of duty above that of other kids.\n\nNow, that is not a universal constant... With humans, nothing is.  But I do know, many of my soldiers, myself included, are "military brats". We just feel at home here.
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Because although the militaries signed an armistice, the governments never concluded the war.  Technically, both north Korea and south Korea are still at war.
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This is from memory so it's probably not complete, sorry.\nEngland, Spain, Barbary Coast States, Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Viet Nam, Iraq.\n\nNorth Korea (US was part of UN forces).
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To my knowledge, it is not true that Asians owned black slaves.  On the contrary, Asia has a long history of venerating Black people as their Gods.  Many of their Buddhist Statues are of Black African men.  Please check the links below.  Also genetics now proves that the first Chinese were Black African.\nIn terms of slavery in general many white europeans owned other whites as slaves, both in europe and in the New World (America).  This fact is not taught in history class.  But the fact remains that many whites were captured by other whites for "indentured servitude", a.k.a. slavery.  Check the history.  \nhttp://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/white_slavery.htm
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The U.S. Military was one of the first workplaces to treat African Americans with respect and become fully integrated.\n\nThe reason is simple. In the military your desire is to be surrounded by the best, period. Descrimination in the military against better qualified minorities just gets troop killed.\n\nWhen life or death decisions are being made, a meritocracy is the only way to go.
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I hope this helps:\n\n\nThe American troops likeliest to fight and die in a war against Iraq are disproportionately white, not black, military statistics show — contradicting a belief widely held since the early days of the Vietnam War. \n\nIn a little-publicized trend, black recruits have gravitated toward non-combat jobs that provide marketable skills for post-military careers, while white soldiers are over-represented in front-line combat forces.\n\nThe tilt toward white combat troops is recognized by many senior commanders and a small group of scholars who study the military.\n\n"If anybody should be complaining about battlefield deaths, it is poor, rural whites," says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University in Illinois.\n\nWhen Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called recently for the return of a military draft, he evoked images of inequality raised during the early years of the Vietnam War, when black soldiers died at rates much greater than their share of the U.S. population. \n\nThough Rangel is right that blacks and lower-income Americans still serve in disproportionate numbers, that fact misses another significant trend. While blacks are 20% of the military — compared with 12% of the U.S. population — they make up a far smaller percentage of troops in combat jobs on the front line.\n\nIn a host of high-risk slots — from Army commandos to Navy and Air Force fighter pilots — blacks constitute less than 5% of the force, statistics show.\n\nBlacks, especially in the enlisted ranks, tend to be disproportionately drawn to non-combat fields such as unit administration and communications. They are underrepresented in jobs shooting rifles or dropping bombs. \n\nExamples:\n\nOf the Army's 45,586 enlisted combat infantryman, 10.6% are black. \n\nOf the Air Force's 12,000 pilots, 245, or about 2%, are black. \n\nIn the Navy, 2.5% of the pilots are black. \n\nSenior Air Force officials say they are troubled by the number of black pilots and plan to do better.\n\nThe Army's enlisted Green Berets are among the least diverse groups in the military. Only 196 of the Army's 4,278 enlisted Green Berets — fewer than 5% — are black. \n\nThe reasons for the racial divide are unclear, but several theories have emerged, including lingering racism in some quarters of the military and a tendency among black recruits to choose jobs that help them find work in the civilian sector.
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Charles Rangel of New York.\n\n"Rangel, a veteran of the Korean War who has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription in the past, has said the all-volunteer military disproportionately puts the burden of war on minorities and lower-income families."\n\nThe Heritage Foundation has proven this to be false. Military members come from all social and economic backgrounds:\n\n"The poor are enlisting at demonstrably lower rates since 9/11. Specifically, the percentage of recruits from the poorest one-fifth of American neighborhoods declined from 18% in 1999 to 13.7% in 2005. The reverse is true for recruits from the wealthiest one-fifth of neighborhoods. They are now overrepresented, accounting for 22.8% of all recruits. "\n\nSee also "Who Bears the Burden? Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Recruits Before and After 9/11" by Tim Kane, Ph.D.\n\n\nwww.heritage.org
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He was in a few episodes of the first series but he was written out (possibly because it was discovered that in actual fact not one Black surgeon saw action during the Korean War!)
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Military leaders labeled African Americans "unfit for fighting." They said blacks were cowards, they would not fight at night, had bad judgment when under pressure, couldn't be trusted and weren't smart enough to follow orders correctly.
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The Marines are the only fighting unit we have left.  Though I was in the Army I was in charge of two Marine platoons at Fort Lee and was impressed, hell no I was in awe!  A Afro American who was either a civilian or a member of the Army asked  another Afro American (Marine) how many brothers were in his company ending it with brother.  The Marine said we don't have any blacks and I am not your damn brother, they are motioning to a gaggle of Marines who could have been a poster for the UN, (white, yellow, brown).  The questioner looked as if someone slapped him silly I know as I looked the same.  It was so hot we went to a heat warning to unblouse our boots and walk not run or march.  They ran for three blocks before I caught them.  The mess Sergeant told the E-1 and 2's they could only have one glass of milk and the gunny ripped the screen door off and chased him down the street. A Army company marched through a Stop sign  and even though we had right-away I ordered a halt and they halted but when the Army marched by the Marines beat the shit out of them.  When the MPs came I told them my version which made the Marine adopt me.  No, not brained washed TRAINED and Motivated.  That is why they get more kills with less casualties.  Airborne!!\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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korean war = stalemate.\n\nsome say we won because we kileld alot of the enemy, some say we lost because we didnt finish our goal, some say we tied because there was no ending.\n\nsee.
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Alot of info. you are wanting... Vietnam combat -yes 1965 president L.B.J. (Johnson), a democrat. Korean conflict (War) started under under Truman, a democrat (the first part of this question is unclear). Troops were pulled out of Korea in 1953 under Eisenhower. The Spanish-American war was actually the 19Th century, began in 1898 and ended about a year later. Intelligent questions deserve intelligent answers. deserving of points?
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"Joseph Ranger, a free man of color who enlisted in Virginia's navy in 1776, served on four ships during the American Revolution. He, like many other African Americans, devoted his life to the United States, only to be thrust into the most dangerous situations by the same organization he was so readily willing to defend. Most of the blacks who served in the Revolutionary navy were, for the most part, orderlies or ordinary seamen. A few fortunate African Americans were able to work their way up to pilots, but this was extremely rare."\n\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_n1_v61/ai_20787857
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In the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Korea which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Korea was divided in two, with the Soviet Union controlling the area north of the 38th parallel and the United States in control south of the 38th parallel. The Korean people were not consulted by either power prior to this division. While virtually all Koreans welcomed liberation from Japanese imperial rule, they objected to the reimposition of foreign rule over the peninsula. The Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea. This led in 1948 to the establishment of separate governments in the north and south, each claiming to be the legitimate government of all of Korea.[citation needed]\n\nGrowing tensions between the governments in the north and south and border skirmishes eventually led to a civil war called the Korean War. On June 25, 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army attacked across the 38th Parallel in a move to reunify the peninsula under their political system. The war continued until July 27, 1953, when the United Nations Command, the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers signed the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has separated the North and South ever since\n\nSince its birth in the 1950's. Soviets, Kim Il Song, China major palyers.