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I'm not gonna question your patriotism, just your sanity and intelligence. Just because you want to believe Kerry and his idea that our military is "dumb" doesn't make it so. 99.9 percent of the enlisted force have at least a high school education. 49.2 percent of officers have advanced or professional degrees; 39.4 percent have master's degrees; 8.5 percent have professional degrees; and 1.3 percent have doctorate degrees.



Of course I expected you to mischaracterise what I said King. And I'm sure Phlog won't be far behind you.
If you reread what I wrote, you may notice that at no point did I refer to military personnel as "dumb". Nor, for that matter, did Sen. Kerry in his remarks. That sort of non sequitur is typical of conservative arguments.
My point was that historically the rank and file of military combatants has always been made up primarily of people from lower class backgrounds, and people of limited educational and professional opportunities. That's not an insult... it's just a plain, simple fact my friend.
A High School diploma? The reason 99.9% of enlisted personnel have a diploma is because it's required . You should be asking yourself why the number isn't 100%! And anyone who's ever served in the military will tell you there's a long established caste system, and that the roster of high ranking officers contains a disproportionately high number of USMA, USNA, and USAFA grads.
You wanna play the statistics game? Let's go down the list of casualties and find out how many of those kids had advanced degrees in engineering, but decided to leave their lucrative careers in order to "defend freedom" in Iraq. Ya wanna? Get real.
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