Talk:Carl Epting Mundy Jr.

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Yeah, Mundy was in the "60 Minutes" TV show back in the early 90's when he was the Commandant of the Marines (a FULL GENERAL at the time), and he said that minorities couldn't shoot, navigate or swim as well as their white counterparts. 60 Minutes did a piece on discrimination in the military at a time when Bruce Yamashita was suing the Marine Corp for discrimination. It was recorded all on TV. I guess you can say that Mundy is a guy that says what is on his mind: He calls it like he sees it. Apparently, Sen. Inouye and the old WWII veterans from the 442nd Regional Combat Team weren't too thrilled about what Mundy said on TV.

You can read all about it in the following internet webpages: http://www.house.gov/list/speech/as00_faleomavaega/sp_asia.html http://starbulletin.com/2003/04/20/news/story5.html

Also, Yamashita has a book out titled, Fighting Tradition: A Marine's Journey to Justice, which discusses his experiences as a marine. I haven't read the book yet, but plan to check it out from the library.

What I can't understand is if the non-whites were so incompetent as Mundy claims, then why did his generation of Marines get their butt's kicked by the Vietnamese and the Koreans during the Vietnamese and Korean conflicts.

[edit] Controversy?

Jumping through Wikilinks, I read at the Ira Hayes entry that Mundy apparently, at one point, was interpreted as saying that non-whites didn't make good Marines (that's not exactly what it says, but I think it's a somewhat acceptable approximation). If he made racist comments while he was occupying one of the country's top military post, it would seem that would be worthy of inclusion. If it's just something stupid he said back when he was a lieutenant, it's probably best left in the past. So, I'm curious. Anyone have more information on this? Stilgar135 04:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)