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The  ABC News headline reads

“Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam”.

That’s true, but it’s only part of the story.

A study by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don’t get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military.

Here’s the line that caught my eye.

The military exam results are also worrisome because the test is given to a limited pool of people:

Pentagon data shows that 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don’t even qualify to take the test because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school.

Doing the arithmetic, the military is drawing from a pool that only contains 5.75% of those aged 17 to 24.

Holy smokes …

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Tags: Crinminal records, Military, Unfit to serve

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