Table B-30.  FY 2005  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 2005 Active Component Officer Accessions
17-20	1	0.02%		2	0.06%		3	0.16%		1	0.02%		7	0.04%		NA	NA
21	111	1.70%		73	2.04%		21	1.09%		110	2.01%		315	1.80%		94,081	0.60%
22	1,514	23.23%		918	25.64%		299	15.50%		1,450	26.45%		4,181	23.88%		484,047	3.09%
23	1,167	17.91%		596	16.64%		367	19.03%		1,174	21.42%		3,304	18.87%		817,508	5.21%
24	543	8.33%		253	7.07%		303	15.71%		428	7.81%		1,527	8.72%		1,016,594	6.48%
25	370	5.68%		201	5.61%		194	10.06%		298	5.44%		1,063	6.07%		1,084,143	6.91%
26	407	6.25%		240	6.70%		165	8.55%		263	4.80%		1,075	6.14%		1,126,472	7.18%
27	317	4.86%		170	4.75%		152	7.88%		217	3.96%		856	4.89%		1,081,173	6.89%
28	233	3.58%		157	4.38%		127	6.58%		208	3.79%		725	4.14%		1,164,591	7.43%
29	212	3.25%		126	3.52%		95	4.92%		168	3.06%		601	3.43%		1,205,474	7.69%
30	223	3.42%		139	3.88%		45	2.33%		150	2.74%		557	3.18%		1,216,710	7.76%
31	177	2.72%		125	3.49%		39	2.02%		136	2.48%		477	2.72%		1,154,449	7.36%
32	168	2.58%		99	2.76%		30	1.56%		107	1.95%		404	2.31%		1,203,500	7.67%
33	154	2.36%		89	2.49%		11	0.57%		105	1.92%		359	2.05%		1,291,210	8.23%
34	137	2.10%		81	2.26%		14	0.73%		126	2.30%		358	2.04%		1,390,265	8.86%
35	112	1.72%		72	2.01%		7	0.36%		76	1.39%		267	1.52%		1,354,104	8.63%
36+	671	10.30%		240	6.70%		57	2.95%		461	8.41%		1,429	8.16%		NA	NA
Unknown	0	0.00%		0	0.00%		0	0.00%		4	0.07%		4	0.02%		0	NA
TOTAL	6,517	100.00%		3,581	100.00%		1,929	100.00%		5,482	100.00%		17,509	100.00%		15,684,321	100.00%
b.  FY 2005 Active Component Officer Corps
17-19	0	0.00%		0	0.00%		0	0.00%		0	0.00%		0	0.00%		NA	NA
20-24	7,569	10.98%		4,439	8.65%		1,838	10.89%		7,296	9.96%		21,142	10.05%		1,933,213	4.43%
25-29	15,663	22.72%		10,897	21.25%		4,278	25.35%		16,444	22.45%		47,282	22.48%		5,144,597	11.79%
30-34	14,108	20.47%		10,708	20.88%		4,343	25.73%		15,737	21.48%		44,896	21.34%		5,453,703	12.50%
35-39	12,782	18.54%		10,152	19.79%		3,263	19.33%		14,196	19.38%		40,393	19.20%		5,785,050	13.25%
40-44	10,584	15.35%		8,200	15.99%		1,950	11.55%		11,262	15.37%		31,996	15.21%		5,933,789	13.60%
45-49	5,377	7.80%		4,473	8.72%		860	5.10%		5,545	7.57%		16,255	7.73%		5,747,615	13.17%
50+	2,837	4.12%		2,406	4.69%		347	2.06%		2,769	3.78%		8,359	3.97%		13,647,160	31.27%
Unknown	12	0.02%		16	0.03%		0	0.00%		2	0.00%		30	0.01%		0	0.00%
TOTAL	68,932	100.00%		51,291	100.00%		16,879	100.00%		73,251	100.00%		210,353	100.00%		43,645,129	100.00%
* Comparison group for officer accessions includes 21-35 year old college graduates in the non-institutional civilian population, October 2004-September 2005.
Comparison group for active component officer corps includes college graduates in the civilian workforce (21 years and older), September 2005.
Columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source:  Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File.