re: #233 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

White-only US officers on top of it, I believe. There was no room for advancement of men of color until (theoretically) 1950, when military desegregation began in earnest.

The issue of the Filipino soldiers was finally rectified a couple years ago.

So we’re a little slow. Look how long Galileo had to wait. (I remember we made things right for the surviving Navy Phillipino mess stewards a while back. The white-only officer corps must have been off-and-on. We had a famous case of the West Point cadet who was screwed over after the Civil War War of Northern Aggresion Late Misunderstanding.)