Table B-1.  FY 2005 NPS Active Component  Enlisted Accessions  by Age, Service, and Gender with Civilian Comparison Group
	SERVICE
	ARMY*			NAVY			MARINE CORPS			AIR FORCE			TOTAL DoD				17-35 YR OLD CIVILIANS
AGE	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total		Males	Females	Total
a.  Number
17	2,329	714	3,043	984	312	1,296	1,734	194	1,928	340	173	513	5,387	1,393	6,780		2,164,406	2,068,399	4,232,806
18	11,800	2,764	14,564	9,981	2,389	12,370	12,312	1,024	13,336	4,122	1,466	5,588	38,215	7,643	45,858		1,963,856	1,952,521	3,916,377
19	10,372	2,115	12,487	7,883	1,347	9,230	7,123	447	7,570	3,879	997	4,876	29,257	4,906	34,163		1,898,302	1,883,783	3,782,085
20	7,116	1,279	8,395	4,205	686	4,891	3,331	239	3,570	2,372	597	2,969	17,024	2,801	19,825		2,079,020	1,978,219	4,057,239
21	5,152	949	6,101	2,531	426	2,957	1,871	129	2,000	1,335	365	1,700	10,889	1,869	12,758		2,023,487	1,980,435	4,003,922
22	3,773	713	4,486	1,700	284	1,984	1,212	77	1,289	975	261	1,236	7,660	1,335	8,995		1,980,233	2,032,586	4,012,819
23	2,897	560	3,457	1,284	192	1,476	769	53	822	643	175	818	5,593	980	6,573		2,032,001	1,989,511	4,021,512
24	2,222	421	2,643	817	148	965	536	43	579	451	102	553	4,026	714	4,740		2,058,118	2,114,013	4,172,130
25+	6,763	1,385	8,148	2,185	375	2,560	865	56	921	672	167	839	10,485	1,983	12,468		21,523,365	21,729,931	43,253,295
TOTAL	52,424	10,900	63,324	31,570	6,159	37,729	29,753	2,262	32,015	14,789	4,303	19,092	128,536	23,624	152,160		37,722,787	37,729,398	75,452,185
b.  Percent
17	4.44%	6.55%	4.81%	3.12%	5.07%	3.44%	5.83%	8.58%	6.02%	2.30%	4.02%	2.69%	4.19%	5.90%	4.46%		5.74%	5.48%	5.61%
18	22.51%	25.36%	23.00%	31.62%	38.79%	32.79%	41.38%	45.27%	41.66%	27.87%	34.07%	29.27%	29.73%	32.35%	30.14%		5.21%	5.18%	5.19%
19	19.78%	19.40%	19.72%	24.97%	21.87%	24.46%	23.94%	19.76%	23.65%	26.23%	23.17%	25.54%	22.76%	20.77%	22.45%		5.03%	4.99%	5.01%
20	13.57%	11.73%	13.26%	13.32%	11.14%	12.96%	11.20%	10.57%	11.15%	16.04%	13.87%	15.55%	13.24%	11.86%	13.03%		5.51%	5.24%	5.38%
21	9.83%	8.71%	9.63%	8.02%	6.92%	7.84%	6.29%	5.70%	6.25%	9.03%	8.48%	8.90%	8.47%	7.91%	8.38%		5.36%	5.25%	5.31%
22	7.20%	6.54%	7.08%	5.38%	4.61%	5.26%	4.07%	3.40%	4.03%	6.59%	6.07%	6.47%	5.96%	5.65%	5.91%		5.25%	5.39%	5.32%
23	5.53%	5.14%	5.46%	4.07%	3.12%	3.91%	2.58%	2.34%	2.57%	4.35%	4.07%	4.28%	4.35%	4.15%	4.32%		5.39%	5.27%	5.33%
24	4.24%	3.86%	4.17%	2.59%	2.40%	2.56%	1.80%	1.90%	1.81%	3.05%	2.37%	2.90%	3.13%	3.02%	3.12%		5.46%	5.60%	5.53%
25+	12.90%	12.71%	12.87%	6.92%	6.09%	6.79%	2.91%	2.48%	2.88%	4.54%	3.88%	4.39%	8.16%	8.39%	8.19%		57.06%	57.59%	57.33%
TOTAL	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%		100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
* The Army's previously reported NPS accession achievement of 65,019 included three days of accessions in FY 2004 (September 28-30 2004), in conjunction with its FY 2005 recruiting calendar.
The number in this report accurately reflects NPS accessions from 1 October 2004 through 30 September 2005.
Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source:  Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File, October 2004-September 2005.