4 - The Black Vault

THE BDM CORPORATION
CHAPTER 5 ENDNOTES
1. All statistics in this section are taken from David Cortright,
Soldiers in Revolt (Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday,
1975), pp. 201-219. Cortright quotes heavily from The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, The Search fo"
Military Justice, 1971; the Congressional Black Cau'cus Report, 1971;
and Department of Defense, Report of the Task Force on the Administration
of Military Justice, 1972. The narrative portions of this section
are based on the personal experiences of a BDM analyst who was a
1975 graduate of the Defense 'ace Relations Institute and spent one
year as a Race Relations/Equal Opportunity Officer.
2. Report of the Task Force, in Cortright, p. 206.
3. Cortright, Soldiers in Revolt, pp. 206-207
4. Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss, Chance and Circumstance
(New York: Vintage Books, 1978), p. 9.
5. Gilbert Badillo and G. David Curry, "The Social Incidence of Vietnam
Casualties: Social Class or Race?" in Armed Forces and Society, Vol.
2 (Spring, 1976), p. 402
6. Figure 5-4, Ibid.
7. Baskir aro-. Strauss, Chance and Circumst2nce, p. 8.
8. Department of the Army Letter, Office of the Judge Advocate General
(:;arold E. Parker, BG, Asst. JAG for Military Law) to Col. Robert H.
Duey, SJA, HQ, MACV. dated 25 September 1968.
9. Department of the Army, Fact Sheet, Staff Judge Advocate, United
States Army Vietnam, dated 3 October 1968, Subject: "Civil Rights and
Industrial Relations."
10. MACV IG, "Racial Relations Vietnam--1971," 16 January 1971.
11. M1ACIG, "Lessons Learned: Racially Oriented Incidents," 17 September
1971.
12. MACIG "Inquiry Into Alleged Racial Incidents," 3 January 1972.
13. Ibid., p. 3.
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