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Debates about the racial representativeness of the U.S. military often fail to consider whether the racial composition of those who want to join the military reflects that of the general population. Using a sample of young men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article examines the effects of four different specifications of the independent variables race, poverty status, high school enrollment, age, and test score on an individual's enlistment intentions. The coefficient estimates were maximum likelihood estimates of a logistic regression model with an ordinal dependent variable. The results suggest that enlistment intentions depend heavily on intellectual achievement and poverty as well as race, and that models ignoring this may attribute false importance to the effects of race on intentions to enlist.

Although a number of researchers have examined active-force enlistment at both the aggregate and individual levels, relatively little work has been done on reserve enlistment motivations at the individual level. This study uses a log-linear model to profile the self-reported motivations of male U.S. Army Reserve recruits as a function of age, educational attainment, mental category, and plans to transfer to the active Army. The empirical results suggest that there are several differently motivated subgroups of Army Reserve recruits and that the Army Reserve may play a significant role in active-Army recruiting.

Self-reported motives for enlistment in the US Army Reserve are examined as a function of age, educational attainment & proficiency, & plans to transfer to the active Army, drawing on survey data obtained from 1,364 male recruits in 1987. Several differently motivated subgroups of reserve recruits are suggested: those of traditional college age & more intellectually gifted tend to join seeking money, primarily for college; this trend is most pronounced for the youngest high school graduate recruits. Older recruits or those less intellectualy predisposed joined for self-improvement or skills training. The youngest recruits joined largely to transfer to the active Army. 3 Tables. Adapted from the source document.