Posted on 10/31/2005 7:33:51 PM PST by george76
The American public has more confidence in the military than in any other institution, according to a Gallup poll ...
Seventy-four percent of those surveyed in Gallup's 2005 confidence poll said they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the military - more than in a full range of other government, religious, economic, medical, business and news organizations.
This year's 74 percent confidence level exceeded that of all 15 institutions included in the 2005 survey.
Police ranked second, with 63 percent of responders expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them.
Organized religion rated third, with 53 percent of responders expressing high confidence, and banks rated a 49 percent high-confidence rate.
The Gallup organization noted that public trust in television news and newspapers reached an all-time low this year, with 28 percent of responders expressing high confidence in them.
(Excerpt) Read more at defenselink.mil ...
And rightly so!
I just knew this was true all along. That is why I have not been too concerned about the whacko libbers.
This is an awesome post. I'm printing this one too and sending it to Afghanistan. They will love to see that the U.S. Military has so much public support as opposed to MSM. Yippee!!!!
In the Department of Defense there are:
34 - four star generals/admirals
124 - three star generals/admirals
278 - two star generals/admirals
439 - one star generals/admirals
Throw in the U.S. Coast Guard and you have 900 generals and admirals on active duty today. This is roughly the same number of generals/admirals who were on active duty in WWII when our military was 12,000,000 strong.
Given that on any given year 15-20% of those generals/admirals will retire each year it doesn't take much figuring to realize that the number of generals calling for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign is laughable.
Yup, have that info already. Boy it's nice to have that info at your finger tips.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614810/posts?page=99#99
I was flamed. LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614810/posts?page=5#5
Like your Yale post BTW. :)
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