These States Have The Highest (And Lowest) Enlistment Rates In America

PO1 Tony Holland: I am surprised that Georgia and South Carolina are listed. Those states are in the south....I went to Basic Training in the south: Ft. McClellan, Alabama; and I went to AIT in Ft. Gordon, Georgia.

Somehow, while others reading the piece might ne somewhat surprised, evidently, at the results, I'm not all that taken aback at the various levels from each state...somehow, it rather seems as I'd have expected it to be demographically, though as to why I have that reaction, I'd need to give the topic some more thought. good piece, though, as I'd said. There's something I'd read of the draft during WW2, some time ago, that it represented, sociologically, ...the great leveler", as I'd read. I only mention that as I've frequently been given to thinking that it should, perhaps, still be required, as part of a requisite necessity in modern society. I realize, of course, that it'd never happen, that such a period is long past now, sociologically.. The phrase was intended to imply that, regardless of socioeconomic background and/or level, basically, though, back then, only kales were drafted, regardless of debate now on insisting he same for females, that the draft somehow benefited society by taking male draftees irrespective of background, familial aspects, or their wants and/or wishes. My Mom's Dad, my paternal grandfather was actually drafted into USMC just before Iwo Jima, despite his being married with my Mom having been born shortly before then, my family never spoke about it, curiously, he never did either I'd gotten his records from NPRC in St. loipuis, as I'd been curious to find them, my family was rather taken aback I'd gotten his USMC file photo. He was only in a short while, it evidently hadn't been for him, I'd gathered he missed being him, and I'd read he'd been let go, for whatever reason, while he'd been at Parris Island, I gather, in retrospect, that he hadn't wanted to speak of it with all of us, he was rather dour and taciturn by nature, not given to much conversation, as I recall, I just figured the story migtpht interest all of you. The great leveler thing, I'd forgotten now where I'd read that, if I find it, I'll try to send it in also....

Sociologically interesting, certainly. .