Table B-26.   FY 2003 Active Component Officer Accessions and Officer Corps by Age and Service with Civilian Comparison Groups
	SERVICE															CIVILIAN
	ARMY			NAVY			MARINE CORPS			AIR FORCE			TOTAL DoD			COLLEGE GRADUATES*
AGE	#	%		#	%		#	%		#	%		#	%		#	%
a.   FY 2003 Active Component Officer Accessions
17-20	6	0.09%		2	0.05%		0	0.00%		15	0.21%		23	0.12%		NA	NA
21	106	1.67%		87	2.11%		30	2.27%		130	1.85%		353	1.88%		97,903	0.64%
22	1,339	21.14%		1,000	24.25%		293	22.15%		1,376	19.58%		4,008	21.31%		457,588	2.99%
23	1,161	18.33%		670	16.25%		309	23.36%		1,194	16.99%		3,334	17.73%		793,965	5.19%
24	651	10.28%		325	7.88%		186	14.06%		597	8.49%		1,759	9.35%		982,320	6.42%
25	397	6.27%		225	5.46%		110	8.31%		434	6.18%		1,166	6.20%		941,765	6.15%
26	410	6.47%		253	6.14%		81	6.12%		380	5.41%		1,124	5.98%		1,052,409	6.88%
27	302	4.77%		208	5.04%		77	5.82%		330	4.70%		917	4.88%		1,078,111	7.05%
28	273	4.31%		189	4.58%		52	3.93%		324	4.61%		838	4.46%		1,131,460	7.39%
29	264	4.17%		183	4.44%		51	3.85%		311	4.43%		809	4.30%		1,074,976	7.02%
30	222	3.50%		159	3.86%		36	2.72%		243	3.46%		660	3.51%		1,190,636	7.78%
31	195	3.08%		174	4.22%		27	2.04%		225	3.20%		621	3.30%		1,247,280	8.15%
32	170	2.68%		110	2.67%		10	0.76%		183	2.60%		473	2.51%		1,355,126	8.86%
33	127	2.01%		105	2.55%		14	1.06%		202	2.87%		448	2.38%		1,366,408	8.93%
34	127	2.01%		107	2.60%		8	0.60%		202	2.87%		444	2.36%		1,256,778	8.21%
35	96	1.52%		81	1.96%		8	0.60%		181	2.58%		366	1.95%		1,276,471	8.34%
36+	486	7.67%		241	5.85%		26	1.97%		697	9.92%		1,450	7.71%		NA	NA
Unknown	2	0.03%		4	0.10%		5	0.38%		4	0.06%		15	0.08%		0	0.00%
TOTAL	6,334	100.00%		4,123	100.00%		1,323	100.00%		7,028	100.00%		18,808	100.00%		15,303,196	100.00%
b.   FY 2003 Active Component Officer Corps
17-19	2	0.00%		1	0.00%		0	0.00%		13	0.02%		16	0.01%		NA	NA
20-24	7,256	10.68%		5,045	9.46%		1,621	9.66%		7,057	9.58%		20,979	9.91%		2,150,045	5.12%
25-29	15,901	23.40%		11,549	21.66%		4,426	26.37%		16,408	22.28%		48,284	22.81%		4,779,229	11.37%
30-34	14,451	21.27%		11,680	21.90%		4,733	28.19%		16,101	21.86%		46,965	22.18%		5,585,145	13.29%
35-39	12,662	18.63%		9,905	18.58%		2,843	16.94%		14,002	19.01%		39,412	18.62%		5,623,442	13.38%
40-44	9,921	14.60%		8,215	15.41%		1,895	11.29%		11,215	15.23%		31,246	14.76%		5,766,463	13.72%
45-49	5,071	7.46%		4,624	8.67%		887	5.28%		5,994	8.14%		16,576	7.83%		5,687,917	13.54%
50+	2,677	3.94%		2,275	4.27%		378	2.25%		2,851	3.87%		8,181	3.86%		12,423,446	29.57%
Unknown	12	0.02%		29	0.05%		4	0.02%		2	0.00%		47	0.02%		0	0.00%
TOTAL	67,953	100.00%		53,323	100.00%		16,787	100.00%		73,643	100.00%		211,706	100.00%		42,015,686	100.00%
* Comparison group for officer accessions includes 21-35 year old college graduates in the non-institutional civilian population, October 2002-September 2003.
Comparison group for active component officer corps includes college graduates in the civilian workforce (21 years and older), September 2003.
Columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source:   Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File.