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Military Finding It Hard To Recruit

Michelle Munn | Seattle Times | August 16, 2002

"Those findings are particularly troublesome, taken with the increase in the age of military personnel and the declining interest among high-school males in joining the military. Between 1980 and 1997, the average age of active-duty personnel increased from 25 to 27. And the percentage of high-school males who said they will "definitely" join the military declined from 12 percent in the mid-1980s to 8 percent."

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