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Chapter 5:

Education

More Selected Reserve NPS recruits completed high school than was the case for their civilian peers (Table 5.6). Approximately 99 percent of FY 2001 Selected Reserve NPS accessions were in Tiers 1 (high school graduates) and 2 (alternative credentials), compared to 79 percent of 18- to 24-year-old civilians. In the Army Reserve, 90 percent of NPS enlistees were high school diploma graduates. This is an increase of 7 percentage points from FY 2000.Excluding those enlisted under the GED+ program, the USAR recruited 99 percent in Tier 1.

College experience refers to individuals who have completed at least one semester in junior college or a 4-year institution. The USNR had, by far, the highest proportion of accessions with college experience (26 percent), in part, due to college credit earned through the Navy's Tech Prep partnerships with selected community colleges. Tech Prep is a federally-funded educational program providing technical career training and job placement. The Navy has agreements with a number of community colleges that in turn work with feeder high schools. Qualified, interested students sign up while in their junior or senior year of high school. They complete college credit Tech Prep courses during high school. After graduation, they attend two semesters at a local community college while in the Navy's delayed entry program. Following recruit training, the enlistees complete technical training courses provided by the Navy; the community college counts the Navy training toward the requirements for an associates degree.

The percentage of 18- to 24-year-old civilians with college experience is much greater than even the 26 percent in the Naval Reserve. Since most enlisted occupations are generally comparable to civilian jobs not requiring college education, this should not be surprising.

Table 5.6. FY 2001 Selected Reserve Non-Prior Service Enlisted Accessions, by Education Tier and Component, and Civilians 18-24 Years Old (Percent)
Education Tier
Army National Guard1
Army Reserve
Naval Reserve
Marine Corps Reserve
Air National Guard
Air Force Reserve
Total DoD
18- to 24-Year-Old Civilians*
Tier 1:
Regular High School Graduate or Higher**
86.0
90.0 (99.3***)
97.5
96.9
80.7
94.2
88.5 (91.0***)
79.1
Tier 2:
GED, Alternative Credentials
12.5
8.5
0.8
3.0
17.4
2.2
10.0
Tier 3:
No Credentials
1.4
1.6
1.7
0.1
1.9
3.7
1.5
20.9
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
College Experience
(Part of Tier 1)2
2.8
5.5
25.6
3.1
6.4
3.8
5.1
46.7

Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
*Civilian percentages combine Tiers 1 and 2.
**Tier 1 includes members still in high school.
***Tier 1 data excluding GED+ participants from total accessions. GED+ is an experimental program enlisting up to 2,000 USAR applicants with a GED or no credential who have met special screening criteria for enlistment.
1 Army National Guard and Army Reserve data provided by Reserve Component Accession Policy. Data presented in this table may differ slightly from the data shown in appendix tables that are taken from DMDC's RCCPDS File.
2 These military data represent only Selected Reserve NPS enlisted accessions. Officers, who usually have college degrees, are not included. See Chapter 6 for a discussion of Reserve officers.
Also see Appendix Tables C-7 (Education by Component and Gender) and C-8 (Education by Component and Race/Ethnicity).

 

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