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white Boy:
^ they could start rappimng and be millionares  ;)

Woodrow:

--- Quote from: Citizen Kain on January 29, 2005, 07:34:26 AM ---What else do you expect with high school dropouts in Iraq  :-*

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You do realize that you need at least a high school diploma to be in the military.

The result being that the general military population is more educated than the general population.

Matrix Heart:

--- Quote from: Woodrow on January 29, 2005, 10:53:28 AM ---
--- Quote from: Citizen Kain on January 29, 2005, 07:34:26 AM ---What else do you expect with high school dropouts in Iraq  :-*

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You do realize that you need at least a high school diploma to be in the military.

The result being that the general military population is more educated than the general population.

--- End quote ---

Wrong again...you forgot about this link.

Nonetheless, under pressure to sign up about 80,000 soldiers a year, the Army two years ago increased its share of nongraduates, from 5% to 10% of recruits. The Navy did likewise.

http://www.armedforcescareers.com/articles/article22.html

Each of the services strictly limit the number of high school dropouts (which includes GED holders) who can enlist each year. This is because years of military enlistment statistics have shown that this category of enlistees fail to complete their entire first term of military service at about twice the rate of those with a high school diploma or those with college credits.

The Air Force is the most strict on this matter. The Air Force allows less than one percent of annual enlistments to be recruits without a high school diploma. The Marines have the next highest standards. No more than five percent of Marine recruits can be GED-holders. The Army allows no more than ten percent each year, and the Navy limits GED enlistments to no more than five to ten percent each year.

There are always many, many more GED-holders who want to enlist than there are available slots, so -- even to be considered -- a GED holder must score much higher on the ASVAB, than a high school diploma recruit.

However, if a recruit has 15 or more college credits, he/she is in the exact same enlistment category as a high school diploma holder.

Woodrow:
So the Army strictly limits the number of G.E.D. holders it allows in?

Your point?

Matrix Heart:

--- Quote from: Woodrow on January 29, 2005, 11:42:19 AM ---So the Army strictly limits the number of G.E.D. holders it allows in?

Your point?

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(which includes GED holders)

read it again they are still high school dropouts

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