Who serves in US Military

1. “American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high-school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18 to 24 years old [in the general population].”

2. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in the military service.”

3. “The facts do not support the belief that many American soldiers volunteer because society offers them few opportunities. The average enlisted person or officer could have had lucrative career opportunities in the private sector.”

If the report has one significant ideological point to make, it’s that military participation has a huge patriotic/service component that is commonly overlooked, especially in portions of the country where military representation is far below average. (In the Northeast, for instance, the recruit-to-population ratio is just 0.73, compared to 1.19 in the South.)

https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/who-serves-the-us-military-the-demographics-enlisted-troops-and-officers

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dflea

Gaybob sure is a crying little bitch.

CuntWaffle

creepycoug

Nice try. Your "call out" was selective, inapposite and did nothing to impugn or really even challeng the original claim. And you had to resort to your usual rhetorical device of changing the argument.

Nobody was buying the logical man of the decade routine anyway Private OBK. You're as biased as Hondo. Maybe moreso.

GrundleStiltzkin

USMChawk

Most enlisted do one term and get out. They may take some college courses during that time but there’s no time to earn a degree. Those who stay in and do earn a degree can then become officers and are then no longer representing the enlisted ranks. I’d like to see the numbers of all current and former enlisted who at some point got their bachelors degree and compare that to those who didn’t serve.

creepycoug

Yep. Makes sense.

I hope you know that it wasn't my intent to offend in this thread. It was a general point I was making, and then someone turned that into "dumb and poor," which wasn't what I said, nor was it my point.

And you point about officers was the reason I posted that particular graphic from the Pew research article. The officer ranks is a whole different demographic.

TurdBomber

ISAFNRC!

BennyBeaver

TYFYS

SFGbob

They have no better options and the US Government only maintains their level of Defense spending in part, in order to give these people with “no better options” something to do.

But you weren’t calling them dumb and poor when you specifically called out their household income as support for your claim.

What a fucking Kunt

SFGbob

Own your elitist bullshit Coug

creepycoug

Baaaaaaaaaaack track.

Somebody got their feelings hurt. And is really making up a bunch of shit.

Own your shit Private OBK. Quote it or fuck off. And spare me the "I know what you were really thinking" shit. You don't know shit.

Quote where I said they were poor. Of course, you went on to demonstrate that a lot of them are, but we also know that I had you bleeding in your crotch well before that came up. Because I can quote where I said there were a multitude of reasons for why particular people enlist after high school.

Quote were I said the US Government only maintains their level of defense spending in part ... to give these people something to do. Quote it.

You can't, because you're only baaaaack tracking to save face. You started this thread and wound up arguing against your own position in the process.

You also a lyin' mother fucker, too, if there ever was one.

creepycoug

LebamDawg

What do you call a Frenchman that was killed defending his country?

Don't know - never happened

SFGbob

What a fucking Kunt. Yeah I'm sure you said this because you weren't trying to claim they were poor therefore had no other options.

A few observations. With 19% coming from income levels up to $38,344, I probably can just rest my case. With another 21% coming from income levels under $50,000, I rest it more.

Why do you think that you being a lying Kunt hurts my feelings?

SFGbob

I think we spend too much on it. I also think in some respects it serves as a social program. It is a place for legions and legions of kids coming out of high school with no better options to land.

Right here you fucking lying worthless piece of shit. I await your three thousand word salad of bullshit response.

USMChawk

This is the tug, there’s no hurt feelings here.

There are a lot of people who join because they don’t have the next stage of their life planned and there’s those who join because they’ve always wanted to. For some the military offers training and a future, for others their big take away is the boundaries they never got from their parents. And there’s the fucktards who always make the headlines and perpetuate stereotypes.

creepycoug

And likely everything in between. Apparently Bob thinks that means poor and dumb. I don't.

creepycoug

Another spirited effort. Sadly, for you, the gallery can read.

That quote doesn't say what you said it said.

You were challenged to quote it, and you failed. Again.

creepycoug

What a fucking Kunt. Yeah I'm sure you said this because you weren't trying to claim they were poor therefore had no other options.

This has been explained. I'm sorry you're stupid.

And just in case you forgot the sequence of events, it went like this (I'll keep it short because of your attention span):

I wrote what I wrote.

You read my mind and argued what I really meant was something more than what I wrote.

You got sandy and tried to convince everybody what you read in my mind is a myth.

In the process you established that what you read in my mind is kinda true as it turns out.

I pointed that out.

Now we're back to you reading my mind.

BennyBeaver

TYFYS