Why is it the rich/well to do people in my area do not send their children off to war?

Question

The less educated and "out of work" people seem to make up the majority of the recruits. Why won't the very rich "AND Well educated pull their duty in the military?

Answer 1

because there are more less educated and out of work people. and by the way, people enlist of their own free will. in WWII the draft helped to keep people in skilled positions from volunteering. 99% of all officers are college grads and they are on the front line. it is a numbers thing more than anything else. why would you enlist when you daddy has you a trust fund. i enlisted and have wanted to do so since i was around ten. i spent four years in the US navy and traveled to many places and i loved it. lots of people do not appreciate what our military does or what they go through. i have meet country dumd and valedictorians in boot camp so i can say from experience it is not the dumdb and uneducated it is people who are willing to fight for this country. is that absolute? no, but it is pretty damn close.

Answer 2

Military service offers good training at entry level (no experience required) with a decent salary and good benefits for you and your dependents. This is why more lower and middle income people tend to enlist than the more affluent people. Rich people can afford to go to college without the GI Bill. Some inherit their jobs, too. They don't need to "pull their duty in the military". I'd rather they stayed out anyway. If they don't want to be there, I don't want them around. So don't try to make a class issue out of it.

As a general rule, nobody "sends their children off to war". Military service is voluntary. You have to be a legal adult (18 years old) to enlist without parental consent. I suppose you can say that enlistees who are 17 and have parental consent are "sent" off to the military by their parents.

People may enter the military less educated, but on average they leave the military with more education than the average civilian.

Answer 3

You do generalize.Actually a lot of well educated and rich are in the Service(s),not only because they feel indebted or genuinely obliged to the Society at Large,rather the Nation and Planet as well.And to get the Prestige,Honour.But what the Department of State determines in the Course of American interactions with the World is Militarily Over demanding,and by consequence on the Uniformed.On Field or Command.Still the Size of it,other Nations previously with that Primacy in the World have abused more and w. less Values on Scruples.
However,the percent of both social classes in the USA are what they are,so less of the Privileged class.
And still is Voluntary,not mandatory.

Answer 4

Actually the quality of individuals joining the Service has remained high and the numbers of relatively wealthy individuals enlisting has risen since the war started. See attached references.

One more thought for anyone who thinks that the military (any branch) wants or will take less intelligent individuals. I suggest you take the ASVAB. That is the standard entrance test to get in the service and see if you are qualified. Most college students will find getting a qualifying score difficult. Why? Well the military today only wants the very best because the tasks an infantry soldier does in combat (yes a common grunt) are more complex and challenging than anything you can imagine. Today's military really are the best and the brightest.

Answer 5

The rich also go, but since there are not a lot of "rich" families, not a lot of "rich" people are in the service.

The less educated make up a vast majority of recruits because a vast majority of jobs in the service do not require a great deal of education. Those folks with college degrees generally go into the service as an officer.

Answer 6

Well no one rich or poor sends their children off to war. A minor can't join. So it would be the Adult (who you call a child) who chooses to go to war.
Oh, and you might want to do a little research on the census in the Military. Oh wait, that would mean reading and facts, and you couldn't just spew this type of uneducated hate.
By the way, don't we have an all Volunteer Army???

Answer 7

None of what you say is true. No one "sends their children off to war." Everyone in the military is a volunteer. People in the military come from all walks of life. Pat Tillman was a multi-millionaire when he enlisted.
Virtually all of the officers are college graduates. They come from the service academies, schools with military connections, ROTC and so on. The percentage of high school graduates in the military is over 96%. In the general population, the percentage of high school graduates is about 72%. Military recruiters still get to choose the best and brightest applicants.

Answer 8

Erudite, you tire me!

Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat South Dakota has a son in the 101 Airborne Div who has pulled tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It is just your parents that never made you grow up and work for a living or be responsible

You are an inane pipsqueak

Ret. USAF SNCO,

Answer 9

Hun, First of all I didn't send my children off to war. They sent themselves, it was their choice not mine.
Do you tell your OVER age child what to do? My son's decided it was what they wanted and as a mom I supported them in their choice. I had one Marine son and I still have an Army son that I'm so proud of and always will be.
Ohhh by the way as you know I'm not rich but I'm far from poor. Your only poor when you have no family and friends cause with that I have all the gold in the world.

Answer 10

Where did you come up with the information for this finding, what statistics have you looked over, the military is a completly volunteer organazation that pulls into it some of the most privelaged and intelligent people the country has to offer.