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Old 10-05-2011, 13:15   #2
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Originally Posted by Badger52 View Post
That is staggering. Assuming they're just running the math w/o discriminating among "service-eligible" folks, compare with 12.5% for the World War II years. That's alot of load without alot of load distribution.
That's the key take away, compared with WW II where there was a draft. Nowadays for every 10 hopefuls that walk into a recruiters office...there's probably only 3-5 that are actually eligible...and two of them will probably need a waiver for something.
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