[Bob]

It is not high -- mainly because it takes three to four years after high school to get that degree. A more meaningful statistic would be to examine the percentage of the military aged 30 to 40, and compare that to the general population aged 30 to 40.

Can anyone give us the percentages adjusted for age?

I wouldn't expect that the college-graduate percentage would increase all that much. The time and deployment demands in the military would prevent getting a degree in the normal civilian time-frame. I'd be willing to bet that the 'some college' percentage is quite high, though.

[No Truce With Kings]

"I wouldn't expect that the college-graduate percentage would increase all that much. The time and deployment demands in the military would prevent getting a degree in the normal civilian time-frame."

You would be surprised how many do have college degrees. I picked 30-40 to emphasize career military. All officers have college degrees. Many senior NCOs do, too, now -- you don't get promoted as easily if you do not, and up-or-out applies to NCOs as well as officers.

In the 1990s I worked with soldiers from Fort Hood on computer stuff (I was the civilian consultant that -- as they put it -- flew in, made a lot of noise, ate their food, crapped all over, and few out again). I was amazed at how educated our military was -- even the enlisted and NCOs. It wasn't the 1970s Army I had known in ROTC.