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[Ilya Somin]

As Prof. John Bickers pointed out, the table on officers' educational attainment that I linked to in my last post is in fact a table on reserve officers. 

The educational attainment levels of active-duty officers are even higher, and can be found here:

http://www.dod.mil/prhome/poprep2004/officers/education.html

Ilya Somin
Assistant Professor of Law
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22201
ph: 703-993-8069
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e-mail: isomin at gmu.edu
Website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~isomin/
SSRN Page: http://ssrn.com/author=333339


----- Original Message -----
From: Ilya Somin <isomin at gmu.edu>
Date: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: RE: Public university investigatingstudentsforsteppingonHamasandHezbollah fla...

> It is not true that people join the military do so primarily 
> because of "limited job opportunities," at least in the sense that 
> those limits are more severe than those facing civilians. Over 99% 
> of 18-24 year recruits in the military have high school diplomas, 
> compared to 80% of civilians in the same age group:
> 
> http://www.dod.mil/prhome/poprep2004/enlisted_accessions/education.html
> 
> Figure 2.5 at the above link shows that this is true of the 
> military's black and Hispanic enlistees (who also have close to 
> 99% HS diploma rates), as well as the white ones. 
> 
> So the military is drawing almost no personnel from the part of 
> the civilian population with the most limited opportunities.
> 
> This table shows that almost 70% of military officers have college 
> degrees, and 17% have graduate degrees, both rates vastly higher 
> than among civilians:
> 
> http://www.dod.mil/prhome/poprep2004/reserve_officers/education.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ilya Somin
> Assistant Professor of Law
> George Mason University School of Law
> 3301 Fairfax Dr.
> Arlington, VA 22201
> ph: 703-993-8069
> fax: 703-993-8202
> e-mail: isomin at gmu.edu
> Website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~isomin/
> SSRN Page: http://ssrn.com/author=333339
> 
> 
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