Military Mirrors a Working-Class America. David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes.
by Halbfinger, David M; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 10Environment. Publisher: New York Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Demographic surveys | Draft | Military service -- Voluntary | Pluralism (Social sciences) | Recruiting and enlistment | Social classes | United States -- Armed Forces -- Minorities | Vietnamese War (1957-1975)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "They left small towns and inner cities, looking for a way out and up, or fled the anonymity of the suburbs, hoping to find themselves. They joined the all-volunteer military, gaining a free education or a marketable skill or just the discipline they knew they would need to get through life. As the United States engages in its first major land war in a decade, the soldiers, sailors, pilots and others who are risking, and now giving, their lives in Iraq represent a slice of a broad swath of American society--but by no means all of it. Of the 28 servicemen killed who have been identified so far, 20 were white, 5 black, 3 Hispanic--proportions that nearly mirror those of the military as a whole. But just one was from a well-to-do family, and with the exception of a Naval academy alumnus, just one had graduated from an elite college or university." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article presents the demographic makeup of the United States military.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Military Mirrors a Working-Class America, March 30, 2003; pp. A1+.
"They left small towns and inner cities, looking for a way out and up, or fled the anonymity of the suburbs, hoping to find themselves. They joined the all-volunteer military, gaining a free education or a marketable skill or just the discipline they knew they would need to get through life. As the United States engages in its first major land war in a decade, the soldiers, sailors, pilots and others who are risking, and now giving, their lives in Iraq represent a slice of a broad swath of American society--but by no means all of it. Of the 28 servicemen killed who have been identified so far, 20 were white, 5 black, 3 Hispanic--proportions that nearly mirror those of the military as a whole. But just one was from a well-to-do family, and with the exception of a Naval academy alumnus, just one had graduated from an elite college or university." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article presents the demographic makeup of the United States military.
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