Oh and to throw more kindling onto the political bonfire.
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In summary, the additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) support the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight differences are that wartime U.S. military enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers.
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Nat...y/cda06-09.cfm
Full report with graphs and all that crap