latina x the officers were still white men that couldn't understand the cultural context and lived experiences of their own troops. we also have to stop talking about this issue as if it's one that can be addressed through personal or individual achievement and behavioral corrects, to talk about this disparity to really understand it. we have to talk about economic. we have to talk about the poverty draft. we have to talk about how many of our top brass and elected officials are in bed with corporate war profiteers and the way that that shapes the leadership priority in my own district, we have two military bases and not a single public hospital. we have a crumbling bridges and infrastructure. but our only robust federal jobs and scholarship program requires you to carry a gun for the government and our incumbent is a woman who sits on the foreign affairs committee but has never had a real job outside of politics in her life, has already taken almost half a million from corporate lobbyists