https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/army-max-enlistment-marijuana-restrictions
After missing its recruitment target by 25% in 2022, the US army has changed its approach to attracting more people into the forces, including targeting more gen Z applicants.
However, the average age of recruits has been increasing, with analysts at the Rand Corp in 2023 recommending an increase in the maximum enlisted age as older recruits are “of higher quality, more focused, and more motivated, as well as being ready to ship to basic training more quickly”.
Can we do a study on what enlistment by income bracket looks like? I’m sure we won’t discover anything dodgy
TBH, it is interesting, which quintile provides desk jockeys and which quintile provides cannon fodder.
Any study by a group other than these guys? The heritage foundation are a hugely Trump supporting Republican think tank.
Yeah I’m hip, just pulled the first chart I saw but there was a lot of discourse here because of this statistic after Graham Platnerification and how libs like to handwash committing warcrimes because they “had to pay for college” or some other BS