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...its called irony... like when you see someone that drives an S Class using foodstamps
your point? someone needs to take a math class
150,000 tropps in iraq / 300,000,000 people in the US = .05% of population
1,112,684 current active duty / 300,000,000 = .37%
1,250,00 total individuals have served / 300,000,000 = .41% of population
versus
3 kids / 435 house or rep = .68%
3 kids / 535 (house+senate)= .56%
and, iirc... its 5 senators that have military kids.... seems to me to be an accurate demographic
**edit**
i was only able to locate 2 senators i could confirm are veterans, Ralph Regula and Jim Webb. so 2/535= .37%, the same as active duty population vs total pop
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Hella poor people go to west point ect ect
you know what the hardest part about liking linkin park is? telling your parrents your gay.
its called irony... like when you see someone that drives an S Class using foodstamps
your point? someone needs to take a math class
150,000 tropps in iraq / 300,000,000 people in the US = .05% of population
1,112,684 current active duty / 300,000,000 = .37%
1,250,00 total individuals have served / 300,000,000 = .41% of population
versus
3 kids / 435 house or rep = .68%
3 kids / 535 (house+senate)= .56%
and, iirc... its 5 senators that have military kids.... seems to me to be an accurate demographic
**edit**
i was only able to locate 2 senators i could confirm are veterans, Ralph Regula and Jim Webb. so 2/535= .37%, the same as active duty population vs total pop
you know what the hardest part about liking linkin park is? telling your parrents your gay.
its called irony... like when you see someone that drives an S Class using foodstamps
your point? someone needs to take a math class
150,000 tropps in iraq / 300,000,000 people in the US = .05% of population
1,112,684 current active duty / 300,000,000 = .37%
1,250,00 total individuals have served / 300,000,000 = .41% of population
versus
3 kids / 435 house or rep = .68%
3 kids / 535 (house+senate)= .56%
and, iirc... its 5 senators that have military kids.... seems to me to be an accurate demographic
**edit**
i was only able to locate 2 senators i could confirm are veterans, Ralph Regula and Jim Webb. so 2/535= .37%, the same as active duty population vs total pop
but read away young one...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110302528.html
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Hella poor people go to west point ect ect
you know what the hardest part about liking linkin park is? telling your parrents your gay.
its called irony... like when you see someone that drives an S Class using foodstamps
your point? someone needs to take a math class
150,000 tropps in iraq / 300,000,000 people in the US = .05% of population
1,112,684 current active duty / 300,000,000 = .37%
1,250,00 total individuals have served / 300,000,000 = .41% of population
versus
3 kids / 435 house or rep = .68%
3 kids / 535 (house+senate)= .56%
and, iirc... its 5 senators that have military kids.... seems to me to be an accurate demographic
**edit**
i was only able to locate 2 senators i could confirm are veterans, Ralph Regula and Jim Webb. so 2/535= .37%, the same as active duty population vs total pop
you know what the hardest part about liking linkin park is? telling your parrents your gay.
its called irony... like when you see someone that drives an S Class using foodstamps
your point? someone needs to take a math class
150,000 tropps in iraq / 300,000,000 people in the US = .05% of population
1,112,684 current active duty / 300,000,000 = .37%
1,250,00 total individuals have served / 300,000,000 = .41% of population
versus
3 kids / 435 house or rep = .68%
3 kids / 535 (house+senate)= .56%
and, iirc... its 5 senators that have military kids.... seems to me to be an accurate demographic
**edit**
i was only able to locate 2 senators i could confirm are veterans, Ralph Regula and Jim Webb. so 2/535= .37%, the same as active duty population vs total pop
good show.
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lets look at this article you posted...
Originally Posted by liberal media
More than 44 percent of U.S. military recruits come from rural areas
Originally Posted by more liberal media
Many of today's recruits are financially strapped, with nearly half coming from lower-middle-class to poor households, according to new Pentagon data based on Zip codes and census estimates of mean household income. Nearly two-thirds of Army recruits in 2004 came from counties in which median household income is below the U.S. median.
Originally Posted by duh
In fiscal 2005, the Army took in its least qualified group of recruits in a decade, as measured by educational level and test results.
Originally Posted by damn this is a long article
Tucked into the Piedmont foothills of southern Virginia, where jobs in the local economy are scarce as NASCAR fans are plentiful
Originally Posted by even more liberal crap
<more bleeding heart garbage about poor people who live in the south continuing to follow in the footsteps of their deadbeat parents>... the end
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that means 56% are not.
Originally Posted by article
Regionally, most enlistees come from the South (40 percent) and West (24 percent).
Originally Posted by article
with nearly half coming from lower-middle-class to poor households,
Originally Posted by article
14 percent come from major cities.
these are from
Originally Posted by article
Pentagon figures show
Originally Posted by you
yeah but kids are just dumber in general these days, as you demonstrate daily.
Guess i'm stupid
Originally Posted by you
nothing in the last 2 pages supports your arguments other than pointing out that Martinsville is a poor town.
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When I joined the Army, my mom was poor, but my grandparents were/are millionaires...offered to pay my way to the college of my choosing.
A customer of mine was in the **** in Iraq...his mother is loaded.
I knew dudes that didn't have a pot to **** in before they enlisted...remember, it's voluntary military..and loved the Army.
The point is this: anyone of those soldiers...that volunteered...are twice, nay, three times the man of many of us here.
And anyone that denegrates that fact is weak.
A customer of mine was in the **** in Iraq...his mother is loaded.
I knew dudes that didn't have a pot to **** in before they enlisted...remember, it's voluntary military..and loved the Army.
The point is this: anyone of those soldiers...that volunteered...are twice, nay, three times the man of many of us here.
And anyone that denegrates that fact is weak.
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When I joined the Army, my mom was poor, but my grandparents were/are millionaires...offered to pay my way to the college of my choosing.
A customer of mine was in the **** in Iraq...his mother is loaded.
I knew dudes that didn't have a pot to **** in before they enlisted...remember, it's voluntary military..and loved the Army.
The point is this: anyone of those soldiers...that volunteered...are twice, nay, three times the man of many of us here.
And anyone that denegrates that fact is weak.
A customer of mine was in the **** in Iraq...his mother is loaded.
I knew dudes that didn't have a pot to **** in before they enlisted...remember, it's voluntary military..and loved the Army.
The point is this: anyone of those soldiers...that volunteered...are twice, nay, three times the man of many of us here.
And anyone that denegrates that fact is weak.
and paul right, but the south doesn't exactly hold ground against the rest of the world...
http://wealth.mongabay.com/tables/10...zip_codes.html
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