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To: OldPossum
Regarding your post 48, you can be assured that the upper class and wealthy, and, I might add, the educated, do not join anymore and the military services are poorer for it.

From what I can tell, the military services are chuck full of high school graduates and the very young (18-20 or so), and the very few college graduates in the officer corps.

There is, however, real statistical data that refutes "what you can tell".

The demographics of the Army closely parallel the demographics of the country at large -- by race, education, income level, etc.

People like Cong. Charles Rangel -- who's been pushing for a draft -- are responsible for the notion that the demographics of the armed services are skewed toward the poor and uneducated. But...it's...just...not...true.

88 posted on 02/09/2012 7:28:12 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01

OK, I’m willing to be educated. Show me that statistical data that refuses what I noted.


89 posted on 02/09/2012 7:41:04 PM PST by OldPossum (ou)
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