John Noonan, co-founder of the milblog OP-FOR, writes in National Review that the elite universities are doing their best to see to it that the ranks of America’s all-volunteer military contain few if any of their graduates.
"At Harvard, cadets are forbidden from drilling on campus grounds, the same grounds where George Washington drilled the Continental Army. At Yale, Air Force ROTC cadets are forced to endure a two-hour round-trip drive to the University of Connecticut to attend aerospace-science classes. Dartmouth’s refusal to offer its ROTC cadets even token support was enough for U.S. Army Cadet Command to substantially cut funding to the college’s tiny ROTC detachment."
Which reminds me of this recent speech by a Marine Corps general.
Nevertheless, as a Heritage Foundation study released last fall shows, the war on terror has attracted volunteers across the income range and, so far anyway, despite no draft, isn’t a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.
"The household income of recruits generally matches the income distribution of the American population. There are slightly higher proportions of recruits from the middle class and slightly lower proportions from low-income brackets. However, the proportion of high-income recruits rose to a disproportionately high level after the war on terrorism began, as did the proportion of highly educated enlistees."
Noonan posts today on the hate mail his NR article generated.
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