weref the k.i.a.'s african-american and i became a problem in the word cannon fodder was being used to i will tell you, that was not the situation. what it was his african-americans generally preferred and went to the combat arms. .hat is where you got your rank you chance of making rank pretty fast. second, those were the elite units of the army at the time and yes a lot of us were gung ho. we were predominate to airborne units in the other reason was we wanted the chance to prove that we were good and would fight for our country and we did. the downside was that it was time to give out the metals, that is when i began to get into trouble. blacks are not getting the metals and that is one of the issues with my caps on. i was confronting a captain as stifel medically as i can -- i was confronting a captain as democratically as i could. why andsome black ncos we recommended this guy in this and nothing ever became of it, so that was the basis of my confrontation with a captain and of course, i requested