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FROM: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/feb/wk4/art01.htm From 1998 to 2003, four percent of recent high school graduates not enrolled in school had enlisted in the Armed Forces by the October when they were age 18. Non-Hispanic blacks—with an Armed Forces enlistment rate of 6.7 percent—were more... Sign in to see full entry.