"Special Relationship" Takes Cameo Role in "Iron Chef"
Not a moment too soon!
Army Times: A third of U.S. youth too fat, sickly to serve
Here's the Pentagon's breakdown of the ineligible population, according to the Times: Medical/physical problems, 35%. Illegal drug use, 18%. Mental Category V (the lowest 10% of the population), 9%. Too many dependents under age 18, 6%. Criminal record, 5%. Update at 1:06 p.m. ET: The Times reports that Education Secretary Arne Duncan and a group of retired military officers will issue a report on Thursday warning that the situation is so dire it amounts to a threat to national security.
Will the WH remedy entail accelerated deployment of military charter schools, liberally lubed with $4.3B Race To The Top incentives to reform young bodies and minds?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former superintendent of schools from Chicago, welcomes the foundation's involvement. "The more all of us are in the game of reform, the more all of us are pushing for dramatic improvement, the better," Duncan said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Stay tuned. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Mental Category V (the lowest 10% of the population), 9%.
Wow America only has 9% of the population in the bottom 10% Thats superb natural inteligence. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Corellating PS ed and military recruitment criteria since the Vietnam grinder
Table 2. Estimated Percentage of Draftees by Mental Group, by Race: FY 1966 Mental Group Whites Blacks Total I 7.6 0.3 6.7 II 32.1 3.3 28.8 III 34.6 18.2 32.8 IV 16.0 38.2 18.5 V 9.1 37.1 12.3 Source: R. de Neufville & C. Comer (1968). How good are our schools? Armed Forces Qualification Test Provides a Clue. American Education, p. 7.
Mental Group Whites Blacks Total I 7.6 0.3 6.7 II 32.1 3.3 28.8 III 34.6 18.2 32.8 IV 16.0 38.2 18.5 V 9.1 37.1 12.3
Source: R. de Neufville & C. Comer (1968). How good are our schools? Armed Forces Qualification Test Provides a Clue. American Education, p. 7.
"The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance," AFQT, CBO, 2007
Table 1. Scoring Categories for the Armed Forces Qualification Test AFQT Score (Percentile)a Category I 93-99 Category II 65-92 Category IIIA 50-64 Category IIIB 31-49 Category IV 10-30 Category V 1-9 Source: Congressional Budget Office. a. Individual scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) are measured in terms of the distribution of scores of a nationally representative sample of young people. For example, someone whose test results fall in the 72nd percentile of that distribution receives an AFQT score of 72 (and is in category II). Data from 1960 through the first half of 1973 indicate that new service members' AFQT scores were generally lower during the draft era than they have been under the all-volunteer force.(53) During the 1960-1973 period, 37 percent of male recruits scored in the top two categories, compared with 43 percent of male and female recruits in 2006 (see Figure 4).(54) In addition, 19 percent of draft-era recruits were in category IV, versus less than 2 percent last year.
AFQT Score (Percentile)a Category I 93-99
Category II 65-92
Category IIIA 50-64
Category IIIB 31-49
Category IV 10-30
Category V 1-9 Source: Congressional Budget Office.
a. Individual scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) are measured in terms of the distribution of scores of a nationally representative sample of young people. For example, someone whose test results fall in the 72nd percentile of that distribution receives an AFQT score of 72 (and is in category II).
Data from 1960 through the first half of 1973 indicate that new service members' AFQT scores were generally lower during the draft era than they have been under the all-volunteer force.(53) During the 1960-1973 period, 37 percent of male recruits scored in the top two categories, compared with 43 percent of male and female recruits in 2006 (see Figure 4).(54) In addition, 19 percent of draft-era recruits were in category IV, versus less than 2 percent last year.
ASVAB. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Description of "aptitude" across the feasible population of recruits hasn't seemingly budged --according to Army Times-- since 1966. However, 2006 figures at least suggest, as much as the Pentagon would like to integrate the forces the public school system simply can't provide qualified stock! damn. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
America only has 9% of the population in the bottom 10%
Similarly, the headline is spectacularly wrong: the study does not say that one third of kids are too fat or sickly, it says that one third of those rejected by the army are rejectyed because they are fact or sickly.
Not quite the same thing... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
There isn't a military grunt in the world who doesn't know where to get a joint for a friday night. I have ex-British army friends who tell me of rather good company wide parties where only the sergeant major and the officers were missing. And they were on very friendly terms with the US army cos at any time one would have what the other hadn't. keep to the Fen Causeway
Julia Child is dead, was dead to 99% of the population before she died and was (briefly) resurrected in a major motion picture by that ineffable medium of mediums Meryl Streep.
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Possibly that project was Phase VII of the BoBo Blueprint to Modernize The American Cultural Revolution. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
A third of U.S. youth too fat, sickly to serve
