Does anyone know what sex these people are?
Maybe war scared the ladies.
Meaning....?????
“Does anyone know what sex these people are?”
I don’t know the current numbers but by 1986 the attrition rate for the class of 1980 was 40% female to 25% male for West Point graduates, 23% to 11% for the Air Force Academy, 32% to 24% for Naval Academy graduates that went into the Navy, and 57% to 27% for the Annapolis grads that went into the Marine Corp.
I would like to see the updated numbers.
We do know that after combat started following 9/11, the enlistment rates for women and blacks plummeted for the military in general.
What an ignorant and sexist statement.
Just what qualifications do you have to denigrate the women who serve our country with honor and pride and distinction?
Didn't scare our friends' daughter. She entered West Point in 1998, graduated in 2002, and went to Iraq in the summer of 2005. She was in the group that was the first to have their tour extended by four months, and she, thankfully, arrived home from Iraq just before Christmas. She finishes up her required five years this June, and will leave the Army to attend Med. School.
I think many just have so many other opportunities nowadays, that they don't feel the need to make the Army their career. Her older brother, on the other hand is an AF Academy graduate of 2000, and he's still in; going back to the Gulf in the summer. Their youngest brother is a recent Annapolis grad, and he's training to be a navigator. Great family!
It's not about being scared - it's about being a good mom. Many women leave the military when they have kids because deployments are hard on kids, especially when it's mom that's gone. Also a lot of military women marry military men. Imagine both being deployed at the same time and having kids... Please don't paint with a broad brush.