Protect our Defenders, when they came out with the report, found that the Air Force was 71 percent more likely to have Black airmen face court-martial than Whites; Army was 61 percent; Navy was 40 percent; the Marine Corps was 32 percent.
Speier discusses racial disparities in court-martial rates among military branches.
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