Im skeptical of the data because it doesn't square with what you would see in real life. Maybe that's true for officer side of things but that just doesn't sound right for enlisted.
Also I havent seen the data in awhile, what does it consider middle class? Just because your family makes 100K a year doesnt mean youre going to college, had good formative education or are going to have any reasonable life prospects for yourself.
I think the understated thing as well in that data is how many poor people TRY to join and are disqualified from entering by things like, not being a US citizen, nonwaiverable low test scores(insanely common), crimes holding them back, weed. Like, sure they didn't join but it's not because of some collectivist thought, it's because the system failed so bad they cant even be the lowest most useless cog in the military.
Im skeptical of the data because it doesn't square with what you would see in real life. Maybe that's true for officer side of things but that just doesn't sound right for enlisted.
Also I havent seen the data in awhile, what does it consider middle class? Just because your family makes 100K a year doesnt mean youre going to college, had good formative education or are going to have any reasonable life prospects for yourself.
I think the understated thing as well in that data is how many poor people TRY to join and are disqualified from entering by things like, not being a US citizen, nonwaiverable low test scores(insanely common), crimes holding them back, weed. Like, sure they didn't join but it's not because of some collectivist thought, it's because the system failed so bad they cant even be the lowest most useless cog in the military.
oh no clue, that was some half remembered fact I have floating around in my head