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Study shows USAF makeup mostly white, male
Study shows USAF makeup mostly white, male
(EXCERPT) , By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, January 27, 2004 If you’re a 29-year-old white, male noncommissioned officer, married, and possess a high school diploma with some college education, the Air Force has a word for you: average. The Air Force Personnel Center has issued a quarterly demographics report on the service’s active-duty and civilian forces, with factors such as age, gender, race and education assigned percentages. But while more than 75 percent of the active-duty personnel reported themselves to be white and more than 80 percent of them male, diversity does exist. According to the report, 19.6 percent of the force is female. That equates to 73,074 of the 372,305 airmen on the active-duty rosters. Slightly less (18.2 percent) of the officer corps is female. There are currently 519 female pilots (3.8 percent). Blacks make up 15.6 percent of the force. Hispanics, liste... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 27 Jan 2004, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=20088 --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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